Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-07
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The Secretary Of the Navy yesterday sent to Congress the preliminary report of the navy advis- ory board, recommending the completion of the monitors Puritan, Terror, Am phredite and Monadnock. He accompa- nied the report with message endors- ing the recommendations of the board.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Advices from { Cape Town to the Board of Health state that during the past two months 9,0OJ people have been stricken with small pox. 2,400 died.
 ALBANY, Jan. 2-The Legislature as sembled at noon, and Alfred c. Chapin was elected Speaker of the Assembly. 1 Governor Cleveland, in his message, op- poses the expenditure of large sums m the alteration of channels until the effect of the abolition of tolls is fully apparent. 1 He fsvOrs frequent vIsIts and most thorough examinations of prisons, and reform ID ,ivil service. He denOunces special legislation, which interferes with the administration of local government, and advocates strict economy of the ! public funds.
 HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 2-The State Legislature convened to-day, and John | E. Reyburn was chosen President of the ] Senate.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2.-The State ! Legislature meets Thursday. There will be a lively contest for the presiding l officers.
 COLUMBUS. O., Jan. 2.-1he Leglsla- 1 ture has convened, and the Governors message was read.
 HARRISBURG, January 3.-John E. Reyburn, Republican,, elected President of the Senate, is a henchman of Don Cameron's. Faunce, Democrat, chosen Speaker of the House, has been an ad- vocate Of measures to crush the rings Of Philadelphia.
 WHEELING, W. Va, January 3.-Re- turns from the special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Upde- graf in the Seventeenth Ohio distrIct, indicate the election of J. D. Taylor, Republican.
 RALEIGH, Jan. 3.--As thirty peniten- tiary convicts, mostly negroes. and two white guards were crossing the Iurka- zagee river on a flat boat Saturday morning, it sank. Only twelve of the convicts and one of the guards were saved
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, January 3.-There was a disastrous corhagratiOn this morning. The fire began in the unused grain elevator of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and spread rapidly, destroying the old passenger depot of the Hannibal and St. Joseph, two box cars, several flat cars loaded with lum- Der and number of frame houses. The elevator originally cost Sl00,0OO.
 MILwArKEE. Jan Especial prepara- tions are being made for big fight in the Legislature over the prohibition amendment. It Is reported that the liquor dealers have a powerful lobby es- abolished.
 Dgs MorSEs, January 3.-All the miners in the mines tributary to Des Moines, except two, and numbering so, stopped work because of the reduction of half a cent per bushel.
 HUNTSVILLE Ala, Jan. 3.-General Joseph Wheeler, Democrat, defeats Me Lellen, Independent, for the unexpired term of the Forty-sevsnth Congress by 20O0 majority.
 DENVER, Jan. 3-In the County Court vesterday Mrs. Augusta L. Taber obtained divorce from her husband, Lieut.. Gov. Tabor, on grounds of deser- tiop. The action was agreed to by the attorneys of both part-es. The alimony allowed is S25O,OOO.
 BAIRD. Jan. 3.-Thomss Jones and G O. S. Franks, of Colton Springs, met on the street. Frank with a shotgun and Jones with revolver. Both fired and both were instantly killed.