Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-20

mission Is S5,lJ0,0O0. The commission determined to recommend an app-opri- ate allowance of Si,123,0OO for the i'm prove ment of the river below Cairo.
 ROCHESTER, New York, August 1S.-- The great stallion race between Jerome, Eddy's Black Cloud and Santa Claus was won by the latter. Black Cloud took the first heat in 2:2l T.. The next three and race was won by Santa Claus, time of third heat 2:l9. No time given of other heats.
 CUMBERLAND, Md. August lS.-A coal mine, smouldering for some time, burst forth in tremendous blaze yes terday, shooting fifty feet m the air. There is great danger of the fire commu- nicating to the valley farm estate with thousands of tons of underlying coal
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, August l7.-Elec- ton returns from all but five counties, give Henry, DemOcrat) for Appellate clerk, forty-tWo thousand majority.
 OMAHA, Neb.. August IS-The Sioux chiefs have notified the authorities of the probability of a general outbreak. Agent McGillcudy, of Pine Ridge Res ervation, seems to be the object of cOm- plaint and Red Cloud the principal pro- moter of the dissatisfaction. The Sioux and their allies can bring into the field 4j10 warriors well mounted and armed.
 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, August 1S.-- Two new cases of yellow fever yesterday, seventeen Mexicans and four Americans, two Mexicans died and one American. There were eight deaths in Matamoras during the last twenty-hours and five new cases.
 BosToN, August l9.-The Greenback Convention nominated B. F. Butler for Governor. After the nomination of Butler the following were nominated: For Lieutenant Governor, Geo. DuttOn, of Springfield; Secretary of State, John Howes, of Worcester; Treasurer, George Foster, of Lynn; Attorney General, A. T.. Snow, of Athol; Auditor, Augustus F. Merchant. Power was given the State Central Committee tO fill vacancies that may occur m the State ticket. ResOlu- tions were passed that the Greenbackers in Maine should support Gov. Plaisted. Adjourned.
 PrTsBURG, August i9.-A most das-
 rdly and cold bloOded attempt to wreck tram was made last night at the first trestle this side of Allequeppi sta ton, on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad. At AllequePpi yesterday there was a picnic, which Was attended by some thousand or more men, women and children, filing half a dozen coaches On the return, the train, going at a rapid rate, when just before entering the first trestle the engineer discovered a large beam lying across the track, and the discovery was just III time to enable him to stop the train. Had his attention been attracted in another direction the tram would have been precipitated to the ground, a distance of forty feet, and with the precipitation there would have been a terrible loss of life. Who put the obstruction on the track, or the mo- tive, is of cour unknown.
 MASDpN, D. Jta, August 19.-A mur- der was tommitted near Fort Lincoln, Wednesday evening, Jacob book being beaten to death by three men for mOw- ing grass claimed by them. John Trum- bull, Charles Trumbull and Ira Trum- bull, the murderers, are lodged in jail with fair prospects of being lynched.
 TAYLoRvLLE, Ills, August l9.-The father of Miss Bond, recently outraged, has received letter purpOrting to be from a tramp who Was near by at the time of the deed and who says Clement Pettis and Montgomery, now in confne- ment on suspicion, are the guilty ones.
 Sr LOUIS, August 19.-A Republican special says that the late election in the ChIckasaw Indian Nation resulted m the reelection of Governor Overton by a large majorety. His election is regard el as a triumph of the law and order element of the Nation.
 NEW YORK, August l9.-The business failures of the past seven days, reported in New York are distributed as follows: Eastern States, l6; Western 2S; South l ern, l6; Middle, 20; Pacific States and Territories, l1.
 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, August 19.-l Thirty eght new cases and one death l from yellow fever yesterday. The fever l Is increasing among Americans The | disease seems to be on the increase in | Matamoras though the death rate is l more favorable, only three deaths there | yesterday.