Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-17
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NEW FORK, Sept. l5.-At the dnnua
 meeting of the stockholders of the Tex.
 us Pacific Railroad, lS9,000 of the 220,OO(
 shares were voted upon and the follow ing board of directors elected: Jay Gould, w. J. Walters, Russell Sage, Jas
 F. Scott, W. c. Hall. J. $. Bond, Chas c. Baird, Fred Lanes, J. c. Brown, H M. Hoxie, R. $. Hayes, J. J. Eckert, 4 Hopkins, l.. II. Perkins, Jr., F. E Wheelock, D. Felsenheek and Geo. J Gould. The directors elected the fol lowing officers: Jay Gould, President E. $. Hayes, John C.. Brown, H. NJ HOxie, Nlce-Presldents. The annual re,
 port showed the assets, exclusive of
 road and line, S2,375, ,773; current liabi. lihes, S395,j62 The President stated that the eastern division of the road, from Shreveport to Fort Worth, 537 miles, was the only division completed at the commencement of this year and its operations were reported m full. The other divisions are still under construc- tion and are largely taken up with trans. portatiOn of material and no just state ment could be given.
 OMAHA, Sept. l3.-The American women's suffrage convention opened last night largely attended. Hon. F.. M. Correll, of Nebraska, presided. NJ. Bittenbender, the only lady-lswyer in Nebraska; Rev. W. E. Copeland, Presi- dent of the Omaha Womans Suffrage Association; Lucy Stone; D. Blackwell, Secretary of the American .Woman's Suffrage Association, and others ad- dressed the convention. Many promi- nent delegates were present, among them Susan B. Anthony.
 GALVESTON, Sept. 13-A Norwegian bark from Rotterdam for Galveston was wrecked near Corpus Christi and five of the crew drowned.
 PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 13-The Legis- lature will stand: Senate, 2S Republi- cans, Fusion, the latter being in Knox and Waldo counties. House, 56 Repub- hcans. g Fusion and doubtful.
 LEWISTON, Me, Sept. l3-The Jour- nal has returns from 29i towns which give Robe 6l,49i; Plaisted, 5l,s63: Robie's plurality, 9,632.
 CHICAGO, September Washington Hessing, to-day received letter from his father, A. c. Hessing, on his Mexi- can ranch, dated the 27th of August, the day after he was reported killed. Noble, who has been to HermOslllo to get money and supplies, had arrived all right. His nephew, who was subse- quently reported killed instead of Hessing, also writes showing the report to have been entirely untrue.
 BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 18th. - Forty seven cases to-day and one death. Quarantine agains. Matamoras raised to-day. At Pensacola twenty new cases and three deaths.
 BANGOR, MAINE, Sept. I3th.-The President has arrived and held a recep- tiOn. He IS much pleased with the victory.
 COLUMBIA Sept. 13th.-The Republi- can Convention organized by electing J. Lee, (coloredl Chairman and J. 5. Latte, (whlte) Secretary. A committee WAS appointed to confer with the Green packers to ascertain what concession they are willing to make to secure the support for the Greenback nominations. Adjourned.
 CREEDMooR, Sept. 13th.-In shooting range, all comos team match the British ri1eman carried of the prize their aggragate scores being l23 and the allowance of six points, shooting with military rifles. The prizes were cash and ranged from si0 to $30.
 CHICAGO, September 13.-A conference will be held here tomorrow among a number of prominent Republicans the nature of which has not transpired. James G. Blame, Commissioner Raum, Gen. Ben Harrison, Governor Porter and others will be present. All the leading Republicans of Illinois have been invited.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Elden is not i'll as reported.
 BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 1.-The river is flooding the northwestern part of the city and many families are forced to leave their houses. Thirty-one new cases of fever and three deaths, Mexi- cans. The sick are all doing well. The fever IS now at many ranches along the river. Assistance Is extended them. The quarantine against Matamoras has been 
 GALVESTON, Sept. 1.-The News Laredo special says: Yellow fever of the l most malignant type broke out at Mier. l Mexico, thirty-hve miles from this place. l The fever was brought from Matamoras. 1
 CHICAGO. Sept IA Hartford special l says; Nanderbilt's pair (Early Rose and 1 AldIne made mile yesterday over the 1 Charter Oak course in 2:l6ls without 1 skip or break, the best tune on record.