Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-11-15

Brooklyn exceeds that cast on tn
 state ticket nearly 4,000- Loves
 majority, .6SS.
 RETURNS FROM NEW YORK.
 NEW YORK, Nov 9.-The Su,
 says: Connected returns make nc
 material change in the majorities ir
 the State ticket. Plurality of the
 republican secretary of the state
 1S,O0O; Chapin, democratic, comp
 t;oller, 15,OO0 plurality; Maxwell
 treasure-, runs 5000 behind Chapin $
 rluralitles; other candidates range
 from 12 to 14,000-
 1 DISGUSTING TESTIMONY
 VIsALrA, Cal, Nov. 9.-In thc
 case of J. ". Marriott, cQarged with
 murdering his father-inlaw $. c.
 Johnson, which began yesterday,
 Mrs. Marriott, the defendants wife, testified to having told her husband on the morning he shot Johnson that her father made an attempt four years ago to seduce her, and of the final accomplishment of the deed on the sixth of March last, and of her fathers threats to kill her and her husband if she divulged the crime. When told of this her hus> band became frenzied and uncon- trollable. The testimony will pro- bably all be in to-day.
 ADOPT THE AMERICAN SCHEME.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9.-The councii of the empire sanctioned in principle tho Russo American scheme for the erection of grain ele~ vators and store houses throughout the empire.
 DECISION IN FAVOR OF c. P. R. R. co.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.-In case of Reginald Heber Cross, who while passing through sleeping car 10 feed his monkey in a baggage car was so violently ejected from the sleeper as to sustain severe injuries, and who brought suit against the Central Pacific railroad Co. for $5,000 damages, the jury returned verdict for the company.
 SHOT AND LYNCHED.
 TOMBSTONE, Nov 9-V. II. Igo, prominent stocGman, arrived here to-day and furnished the following particulars of a bloody but success ful fight between stockmen and a band of rustlers near Harshaw, on Tuesday last: A sIgn rider on Rich- ardsnn's ranch, on the Sonoita, dis covered that twenty-five head of cattle had been stolen from the range. He returned to the house and got three men to accompany him in pursuing the stolen cattle. They were found in a canyon near ranch, on the road to Har- shaw, Tn possession of two Mexicans and one American, who refused to give up the cattle, but consented to accompany their pursuers to the Smythc ranch, retaining their arms. When they arrived there the Amer ican rustler surrendered, but the Mexicans refused to yield, and the ball opened. The pursuing party got into an adobe house while the Mexicans inirenchcd themselves be- hind adjacent trees. There were one hundred shots exchanged as rapidly as Winchester rifles and six shooters could belch them forth. The elder of the two Mexicans was final ly shot through the heart, but raised up and fired three shots before he expired. The other one, although shot through the abdomen and in the thigh, made a rush for his horse amid perfect hailstorm of bullets, and succeeded in riding of, out died when he got to San Rafael ranch, a few miles distant The pursuers then started for Harshaw with the | American rustler who had surren- 1ered, for the purpose of giving him | B legal examination, but they soon with the report that their prisoner had got away. It IS sur missed that he may have become en> tangled in rope, the other end of | which was attached to some elevated | object.
 SHOT IN THE STREET.
 FL PAso, Tex., Nov. 9.-Late last night Mexican police officer was shot down on the streets of Paso del | Norte by man on horseback. The l officer is not expected to survive. Great excitement prevails Tn Paso | Tel Norte over the cowardly assassi- nation. The murderer escaped.
 THE HILL>sHARoN SCANDAL
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9-In the case today Miss Hill absolutely refused to give up pos- session of the alleged marriage cons tract until informed by the judge that unless she did it would be rul- ed out of evidence and be consider> ed as so much waste paper. Her Mir. Tyler, endeavored to persuade her she need have no fears as it will remain in custody of the court.
 Miss Hill-"Mr. Sharon knows all