Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-04
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-Lleutenant Commander Gorringe, when asked by a representative of the Associated Press whether it was true that he had rendered his resignation as an officer Of the United States Navy, replied that he had done so, buc the President had not vet accepted 1t. He also added that he had had an interview with President Arthur, and the President said to him that he had not yet received his letter of resig- nation transmitted i-rousd the 5-s-e'H- " of the Navy, and consequently had taken no action in regard to fl. He would, however, be said, give the sub ject his early attention. Lieutenant Commander GOrnnCe. under these cir cumstances, says he does not recognize the validity of Secretary Chandier's &C., ceptauce of his resignation, and he therefore awaits the decision of the President
 Secretary Chandler said last night that Gorringe's resignation was accepted yes terday. He, the Secretary, had little more to say on the subject than was said in his letters to GorrinGe and the President He remarked that he re- garded GorrinCe us an excitable, irrit- able and msubordinate officer, who sought notoriety in assaiiing his superiors.
 DETROIT, Feb. 24.-Six ballots were taken to-day with no choice.
 Bosrov. Feb. 2L-GoveruOr Butler. in appointing the annual fast day for Massachusetts, exhorts ministers of the gospel not to discourse upon po- !itical topics, but to preach the divine word.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House have apparently given up all hope of acting at this session on the Nicaraguan Canal bill
 NEW YORK. Feb. 2L-James Redpath being interviewed as to number one, said: "There are not SIX men in Amerca who know who he Is. and they will not tell. He certainly Is not General Maca- daras. The general IS not the kind Of man who would be chosen for such work"
 VTcKsBURG, Feb 26.-The water on the Vicksburg. Shreveport and Pacific 1 railroad is fifreen inches over the track | between Delhi and Tallulah. It IS be- | lieved trains will stop tomorrow. The | Vicksburg x Menden railroad has re- | sumed traffic The Allawarra crevasse | is mile long, and the waters have l overflowed many plantations on lands l on the west side of Madison parish. Ash | ton crevasse, above Providence. k doing | serious damage in East Carol The levees on both sides of the river IS i'm perilled. The bridge across Bayou Pierre | is washed away.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-The The Fri | bune's Milwaukee special says: 4 lum | herman named Alfred Everson arrived to-day from Manistee, and reported thai on Sunday in a lumber camp near Glen COG. Mich, the cook mixed batch o biscuits with strychnine used to poiso1 wolves. He mistook the poison for bak ing powder. The biscuits were eaten by every man in the camp and seventy ouf of eighty men died in terrible agony. Nc physician and nobody familiar with an tidotes was at hand
 Ills, Feb. 27.-The
 water Is five feet higher than ever be
 fore. Several hundred houses hay,
 been swept away. Many people ar,
 suffering for shelter and food.
 | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The- grand jury has found an indictment against A
 B. Williams, the Star Route counse
 specially employed by Dorsey, on ;
 charge of recovering stolen goods base'
 upon his action as counsel for the par
 ties charged with having stolen a watcl
 and other valuables. Williams says,th'
 charges are absurd and are the out
 growth of the i'll will of the Departmen
 of Justice. Dorsey says an attempt vii be made to indict Col. Ingersoll upol the charge of defaming the Departmen of Justice. Williams thinks this idea not seriously entertained.
 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27.-Crevasse va
 ter Is rising on the railroad betwee
 Delta and Monroe. Trains will stO
 tomorrow. The levees above Wick.