Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-03
EASTERN.

ST. LoUIs, Mo-, Dec. IA dispatch
 from Dallas, Texas, says: Prominent railroad men connected with the Texas , system, who have just arrived from the , city of Mexico says that 1t IS stated
 there that the Mexican authorities are
 going to make claim on the United States at the approaching session of
 Congress for Galveston Island includ-
 ing Galveston City. It appears that
 the Mexican session of the Republic of Texas, Galveston bay which Is north of
 the island was taken as the southern
 boundary of the ceded territory and the
 Mexican claim is said to be prims facie
 good. It Is thought troublesome in
 ternational complications may grow ont of this claim.
 CINCINNATI. Dec. l.-1 esterday after
 noon at the Coliseum theatre in the 4th
 act of the play of Slocum, Frank Frayne
 in shooting the apple of the head of
 Lucy Slocum, personated by Miss Annie
 NOn Bhrein, missed the apple and shot
 Miss Yon Bhrein in the head. She died
 in l5 minutes. Frayne was arrested i'm
 medistely. The curtain fell and the
 play stopped. The audience supposed
 the girl was only slightly hurt. Frayne Il used a rifle 9 calibre and executing the
 backward shot the catch snap of the
 rifle was imperfect and slipped just as
 the hammer fell and blew the cartridge
 out backwards.
 OMAHA, Neb, Dec. Hast evenisg
 E. P. Shotwell, porter at the Occidental
 hotel got into an altercation with Hen-
 ry Eberling, butcher by trade, winch
 ended in provoking q street fight and
 finally Shotwell, who was getting badly punished, drew revolver and shot Eb-
 erling in the neck, intiicting probable
 fatal wound. Shotwell surrendered to the police.
 CLEVELAND, O., Dee. I.-Saturday
 night according to reports just received, ] the house of Israel D. Wagar, a wealthy | farmer at ROckfort near Cleveland was
 entered by burglars and twenty thous- and dollars worth notes, cash and | jewelry were taken. No clue to robbers
 the story having foolishly been kept
 from the papers.
 | NEW ORLEANS, December l.-The
 grand Jury has presented two indict-
 ments for forgery and publishing as true forged documents, against thirteen ! perpetrators of the late election frauds. ! Bail Is fixed at Sj0,OO0 in each case The names are withheld until all arrests are effected.
 nAsHISGToN, Dec. 2.-There have
 EefpahbIIiicashiS H'fa IIiahS aa.' IGTlng the past two weehs. Edmunds, Sherman, Allison. | kRsson, Kelley, Keller, Folger and ex- Governor Fenton, of New York, have | taken part in this conferences and q | definity line of policy has been marked | fA .1. tion on civil service reform, to which. the support of the administration is offered most cordially. The idea is that at the caucus the recommendations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury on the tax reduction as made ln the message and report shall be in corporated into the revenue blll pend ing m the Senate. It is hoped in this manner to unite the Republicans in Congress and direct the attention Of the party every where to these measures so that ln the new issues of factional duar- rels and local distuT bances in the party will be dropped.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-The total debt principal IS SS99, PA, ,0l5: interest, SlI.- lO0,05S; total. Sl,9l0,s24.O73. Cash in Treasury, S2S7, ,S67, ,l73; debt less cash. , Sl ,622, ,956, ,S99; decrease during the . month, S5,534, l4l; decrease Of debt since June 30tb, $65, ,957,j6I. Available assets cash in treasury. S2S7, ,s67, ,l73; bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Company's ! outstanding, SG4, ,622.5l2; in- ! .erest accrued and not yet paid sSl GA ISG. Interest paId b. |. $. Sj5.344. .GSl; { interest paid by Company's railway ' service, SI5,409, $50: by , ash payment of , per cent. net earnings z s655, l93; balance of interest paid by he United States, 59,279632
 WASHINGTON, Dec Stephen W. Dor ! ley furnished three column statement egarding Star Rout matters. He says i, le laid all facts before Garfield when ' he charges were first made asking that commission of Democrats be appoint d to investigate. The President favor U d the plan, but James and McVeach opposed 1t. They got the writer's state b nent put 1t Tn the hands of detectives | nd started the prosecutions. Dorsey D hen goes into details of the Star Route 2 uslness claiming that he merely took n he losing contracts of the hands of s thers, including his mother, to save u lmself from financial loss He rakes Ii brewster and the prosecution strongly.
 NEW YORK, Dec. IA Washington :. pecial has this: It is learned from aa lembers of Congress who are already A ere that 1t Is the intention of the Re !. ublicans to hold . caucus at both ends v | the capitol early in the session, per | aps next week, to arrange a pro v for the session. The main is- r ne will be the question of the tariff re- " uctlon or a revision. The unfinished | p election cases are to be left U the discretion of the Committee on ns' lections. NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The fines Wash Sc lgton special says: By wish of the Pres P lent, the Secretaries and heads of the vi 'yeral executive departments will with re old their annual reports until the Pres ft ent has submitted his message to Con m .ess. co NEW YORK, Dee. 2-The Worlds pr ashingtOn special says that the Presi- 0O ,nt's message and the report of the .cretary Of the Treasury were sub itted to the Cabinet at this afternoons of ssion and fully considered. The mes hr ge IS a column less in newspaper TT ace than the last one. The South 10 nerican troubles are treated in no ccInct review of what has been done We this government m the direction of dls c Rmlcable adjustment of the pend thi z difficulties between billigerents chl 'uchlng the tariff the President re go' Ws hls recommendations of last year pol at the existing laws need revision. mu congratulates Congress upon the ssage of a law for suppression of l lyGamy. There remain obstacles to tln overcome which the President hopes roa v disappear without the occasion for to l. | rr,,