Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-29
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engineer Of tramWay company III Melbourne, has arrived in Chicago to study the cable system which they propose to introduce Tn the colony of Victoria.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.-Thomas T. Kline, who was a colonel in the famous "Buck Tail" regiment, of Pennsylvania volunteers, died of pneumonia here to- day.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The President left Washington last evening for New York for the purpose of attending private business, and also to attend re- ception given this afternoon by Stephen
 B. French. He will probably return to
 Washington tomorrow.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-General Grant, on leaving his home to-day, slipped upon the ice and fell 5eeeITlnggi pg ggis fff6YTeFFe ff6TeFF Frederick Grant, his son, says he had seen the surgeon who attended his father, but he was unable tO determine
 whether the injuries were dangerous. They say, hover, the limb will be para lyzed for the time beng.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 27-It has been learned that the Buffalo Invincibles pro pose 10 blow up the Canadian govern ment buildings. Interviews with prom inent Irish leaders disclosed the objects of the organization. James G. Muldoon, a lawyer, admitted he WAS president of the local branch, and said: "We will try to capture the Governor General of Can ada. He used to be an Irish landlord, and is fit subject for Us to wreak our vengeance upon. We have selected nine men sworn to do their duty when the order IS given"
 BOSTON, Dec. 27.-By the wIl of Geo. Oakes Clark his estate, valued at Sj00,- 900, IS left in trust for the benefit of bis family, and after their decease and their citations the estate IS bequeathed To Harvard College.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The adjutant of General Sheridan, referred to a tele- gram to Major General Pope, Fort Lesvenwarth, saying he thought the white boy Charley McComas, with band of Chiricahua Indians, is daily ex- pected to reach San Carlos agency.
 WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.-J. R. Dodge, sististiciBn of the agrIcultu,sl depart ment. has just completed the prelimi- nary estimates of the principal crops for 1883. It shows potatoes and all roots and oats of unusual luxuriance. or corn, the professor says the average yield per acre the present year IS nearly g bushels. which IS F. per cent less than the average yield for a series of years, or 1,55l, ,06S, ,S35, bushels as the whole corn crop grown III 1883; Tn Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime sots, and Dakota added to half that grown in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Iowa and Nebraska, would make 4DD0 0UO0 only fourth of the whole crop, SO that possible depreciation of forty per cent. on all of 1t would be equivalent to ten per cent. reduction. The yalue of the entire crop of wheat is as before ststed-slightly in excess 400,OO0.0OO bushels and the cotton products as shown by December's returns about six million bales. There will be another investigation after the close of the cot ton harvest and shipmets of large DOT. tion of the crop, when the precise results can be approached more nearly than has been possible hitherto.
 GALVESTON, Dec. 26.-A McDade spe- cial says: Last night at 12 o'clock Henry Pfeiffer, Wright McLemoOre and ThOs. McLemoOre were taken from a saloon here by fifty well masked men and car ried into the brush and hanged to a tree. 1had. McLemoore WIS under ar- rest, having been taken early in the evening on a charge of burglary pre- terred by >. J. Walker, of that town; the other two happened to be present when the lynchers arrived. Pfeitfer was under indictment for horse stealing in this
 IT. l.. e-.. .1 V.a of those hanged came to town and picked 8 quarrel with Tom Bishop and George Milton. A fight with shotguns and SIX shooters ensued, when Jack Bay ley and Asa Bayley were killed; Hay ward Bayley was badly wounded: the remaining three escaped Willis Griffin, an estimable young citizen of McDade, while assisting Milton and Bishop to de- lend themselves, was shot through the head and mortally wounded by the Bay ley party. Five cOrpses, the two Melee moores, two Bayleys and Pfeiffer are lying in the market house yet unclaimed !. It is thought that theIr friends will | come in tonight and the trouble be re- newed.
 GALVESTON, Dec. 26.-A Dallas special l says: Ulysses s. Grant, a son of William l Jesse Grant, relative of ex-President ! Grant was arrested today on a charge l nt burglary consisting of entering a house and purloining pistols which he l sold. He was remanded to | jail ID default of five hundred dollars | bail. This is the second time within a l lew months that be has been arrested | for stealing.
 PTTTsBURG, Dec. 26-The late storm | prostrsted wires in all directions, and | greatly delayed trains, but DO serious accidents are reported. At 2 o'clock he Monongahels river is rising rapidly, md reports are that the hesdwsters in-