Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-01-05

/. a-The train is nine
nours rirg to land slide near
Summer.
sewers weather At SAN Fran
cisco.
SAX Francisco, Jan. During
the past twenty-four hours severe
rain storm has prevailed here, &C
companied by heavy gale. The
shipping sustained considerable dam.
age. especially in the case of wooden
vessels. Many vessels bumped heav-
lily against the dock, damaging the
sides and sterns At the sea wall,
where the shipping received the full
force of the gale. much damage was
lone. fles snapped off, vessels
damned and bulkheads were crushed.
A number of vessels in the bay
dragged their anchors, but fortunate
~ escaped without serious damage.
The British iron vessels had taken
precautions against the storm, and
suffered comparatively little damage.
Several coasters were roughly han
dIei, and portions of the rigging
were Carried away. A large barge
and one small craft sunk during the
gale.
Death OF Pambetta.
PARIS, Jan. 1-Gambetta died at
an early hour this morning. at one
o'clock Gambetta had been much
worse and an Immediate crisis was
feared. Launelonque who left Gam
BETA at seven o'clock in the evening
was recalled at nine o'clock, a change
fosshe worse having occurred. Gam
q passed good night Saturday
tgHf, bit he suffered from fatigue
arising from confinement to his bed
for so long time Exterior infiam-
nation showed tendency to disap-
pear, nevertheless an operation was
believed to be necessary. Few, even
--of Gambetta's intimates expected his
death. 1t was known at half past
two A. n. that he was dying. He
was surrounded by despairing friends
and his state was helpless and hops
less.
BETTER Crop Prospect.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2-Reports
from various portions of the state in
dlcate that the extent of the recent
snow and rain storm is very general,
and crop prospects ara greatly i'm
proved.
Cannon Fired into a Church.
READING, Pa, Jan. Last night
the watch meeting of the evangelical
church was broken up by the dis
charge of cannon filed with stones
I'D powder, crushing the front wall
rof the building. No one was injured.
$4,000 Damages.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-Red Cloud
interviewed Teller to-day, complain
ing that the government, six years
ago, took over one hundred of his
horses, and he asked for $4,000
damages.
The star Route.
nNeToN, Jan. 2-Therc is
lew in, the star route case
The testimony concerns the Kearney
and Kent roates of Nebraska. In the
Dickson case Wells spoke for the
prosecution and Smith for Dickson,
after which the court adjourned.
AntI-Liquor In Missouri.
MCPHERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. 2-The
state legislature meets tomorrow.
The attendance will be large and the
session long. The members are
earnest on the subject of prohibition.
Lynched.
CS1RL-sroN, S. g. Jaa. 2-Dave
Roberts, negro in AbbeyvilIe jail,
charged with stealing and murder
Gus assault, was lynched last night.
Shot by n Mob.
RICHMOND Va, JAM PAT Taze-
we'll Court House, Saturday night, a |
mob entered the Jail and shot to |
death Bluford Smith, a negro con-
fined there for murder.
Hung Himself.
SALEx, Miss, Jan. Mayor Col |
ley, whose term of Office expired to-
day, hanged himself this afternoon.
Cause, i'll health and dependency.
A title over thirty years ago, Cal. |
ifornia was the principal mining |
field in the United States. About |
ten years later Nevada began to be
developed, and for a time was the
most important section for this in
dustry. At the lapse of another dec
ade Colorado began to show up, and |
since then has become a more i'm
portant field than either California
or Nevada are to-day. Since then,
Arizona, Dakota, and Utah have de-
veloped bullion-produciug qualities