Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-08
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 HALIFAx. Oct. 3l-This afternoon as the cage was being lowered at the west mine of the Canada Steel Company's works, near Londonderry, with the fol- lowing men, Richard Fl. Perry, Thomas VipOnd, Nathaniel Rushton, Oliver Rushton, Daniel Chisholm and John McInnes, tho gearing broke and the cage fell. IL was caught down the shaft and overturned, throwing out the men, who fell a distance of POO feet. The three first named were killed outright, two others fatally injured and the oGher one very seriously injured.
 BOSTON, Oct. 30.-Colonel Whipple. who went so New York to invite Blame to Boston, telegrapbs that the Republi- can Presidential car didate has consented to accept the hospitality of the Repub- licans of this city on Monday. Elabo- rate preparations will be made for a reception and the parade, winch was to have taken place tonight, will be post poned until Monday, when Blaine will review 1t.
 CITY OF MRxIco, Oct. 30.-Count Lan- geand, representing a British syndicate
 
 the Mexican National railroad company to advance sufficient capital to complete and equip the road, under the condition that the syndicate control the manage ment and receive certain freight rates for the transportation of corn over the road to Corpus Christi. The syndicate will contract with farmers along the railroad who wish to double or triple their production of corn, to purchase annually not less than l,5O0,OO0 tons or more than 3,0O0,OO0 tons. to be shipped to Europe for use in their distilleries. The object of the syndicate is to pro cure a sure supply of corn at fixed price and to be independent of corn speculators. They promise to furnish farmers with improved Ameri- can agricultural implements and 10 pay partly in advance for corn each year. The railroad company Is considering the project.
 CAIRO, Oct 3O.-The small pox is rag ing among the natives at Meravi and numbers of them are dying from di- sease. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-In the North | Pacific there are local rains and partly | cloudy weather; in the middle and | South Pacific, generally far weather. | BERLIN, Oct. 30.-A feature of the l elections in Germany has been an enorm- ous increase of the Social-Democratic | vote in Berlin and other cities. The | strength Of that party in the next Ger | man parliament will probably be double | | that in the last parliament It shows | the complete failure of the oppressive | measures undertaken for splitting the | | Rslchstag into many sections and ren- | ! ders the hopes of the government tor | attaining any great majority very im- | probable.
 ST. LOUIS, Oct 3O.--It is understood | ! in railroad circles that C.. W. Risline, of l ! the Trans Continental Association, is | S on to become traffic manager of the | | A. < r. and will have charge Jf the fast | | freight line of that road and the Atchi- | son, Topeka and Santa Fe and St Louis | and San Francisco roads. ROME, Oct. 3I.-The Pope is angry | at the reported speech of the Bishop of | Orrell, in Trenton, representing his holiness as having expressed the hope | ! that Ireland might soon become in ! dependent or the government or Eng land. The Pope has csbled his Bishop, | ! demanding an explanation.
 CINCISSATI, Ohio. Oct 3l.-The | United Utates grand jury has indicted | Lieutenant of Police Michael Mullen | and John Burke and PatrOlmen Rear | | ing and Cunningham on a charge that l by force. threats and intimidatIons they | prevented qualified voters from exer- | cising the rights of suffrage. This IS | based on arrest on the night of October | ! l3.h of a number of colored men who | were kept in the station house till after | the polls closed and dismissed without a charge preferred against them | PAEIs, Oct. 30.-An agitation is in | progress against the price of bread, meeting of bakers held yesterday to that they should reduce the price, re- fused by vote of 3tl to 2O4. | VNCENNEs, Ind, Oct. 3O.--LIncoln Keith, who was shot ID the head by Dick Atkinson at Edwardsport in this county, has since died. Atkinson rushed out of a saloon greatly excited and said he was going to kill some damned Democrat. As as Democratic the crowd of bystanders with the above result. Atkinson was arrested. The feeling Is intense and it IS feared that the mob may lynch him.
 SAN FRANCIsco, Oct. 30.-Wright Le- roy, the strangler of Nicholas Skerrett the capitalist, was sentenced this after noon by Judge Ferral, to be hanged in this city on December 10th.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30.-This eyen- ing's Post published an interview show ing that the standard time which the Central Pacific railroad will adopt at noon on Saturday next, November first, will also be adopted by all the courts, municipal officers and principal busi- ness establishments throughout the city.
 COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 30.-The sentence of Palmer, who was to have been exc cuted tomorrow in Cincmnati, has been indefinitely suspended by the supreme court allowing writ to be filed.
 SAN FRASCIsCo, Oct. 30-S. Selig, wholesale millinery dealer of this city, made an assignment to-day to Sol Haas for the benefit of hi5 creditors. LiSbil- ities S25,0OO, assets not definitely known, but they are believed to be about S20,- OOO. The principal creditors are in New York.
 DENVER, Col, Oct. 3O.- Rumors have reached here of the lyncbing by vigi- lantes of seventeen cattle thieves cap tured while in camp on Rock creek, m the Gore range of mountains, thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particu- lars are at present Obtsinable. The re- port is thought to be exaggerated.
 WAsHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30.-The commission of Hon. Hugh McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury was re- ceiyed at the department thIs morning. The Secretary did not visit the depart ment to-day. He Is expected here to- morrow morning, however, to take the oath of office and enter upon the dis , charge of his duties.
 ; PARrs, Oct. 30.-Ihe telegraph states that Prime Minister Ferry has accepted Euglands offer to mediate between China and France.
 UNION, \. H., Oct. 3O.-On Tuesday - evening Horace DelRnd of Brookfeld, ] aged Is years, chained himself to brush heap near his fathers house. then set the brush on fire and deliberately burned ! Ifrneaff fO da.fh Ills hnIv uaa 1,a