Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-01

insurance Of SlS,uOO on her thlru hus- l bands life.
 SAN FRANCIsco. Feb. 2j.-A Bulletin | New York special, quoting from the l Times, thinks the acii of the sub ! treasury Is the init.al step which ihe ! yGJps H ment Is being forced to take to- ward putting tue currency ot the country on H silver basis. Silver will probably be accepted at the clearing house, be- cause If taken there ID settlement ot a balance, Ii woulC have to be taken at the sub-treasnry in payment of govern ment dues. There Is no right on the part of banks Co take it. IT there should be no other ecu se open to The govern ment bat to tender iJ, it would have tc be taken.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2j.-The Shipping Committee tLis morning took np the bill Co admit foreign bWltshlps to Amer ican registry, free uf duty, and voted three to SIX to report 1t adversely. Those voting for tue bill were Slocumi LnrocK- norton and Deu-t-r; negative. ImCley, Lang. Hunter, George, ONeI and Love; Dibhle dii Lot vote; Fmdley was
 NEw YORK. Feb. 2l.-Cbarles s. uifcheU. pugilist. the champion ct
 England, aIryei from Liverpool to-day. Ie will shortly again challenge Su.-
 ivan. whom he k ready Co confront tt Iry time. lie was met by a number Oi friends.
 SAN FRAxcIsco, Feb. 2j.-At 8 meeting of the directors of tae boaId Of trade and the chamber Of com nercp, pre-iiel over Ly Mayor Bartlett, held thIs afternoon, Co raise funds for the benefit of tue sufferers of tue Ono huois. a committee of prominent citizens va, appointed to receive sub scriptlGns.
 SAN FEASc1soo, Feb. 25.-Suit has bs n c1mmencel by speciul council f1r tie state and against tue Central Pacific
 railroad company Co recover SNt=jJ
 taxes. One for lS-J and proportlonate
 amount to each county according 60 re- -pective assessments levied upJn DOT
 tons of the road operated m them.
 Similar suits have been brought against
 tae Southern Pacific railroad, the Norih-
 un railway of Calf nIa, the Pacific
 ra lroaJ, the San Pablo and Tniare rail
 oad and the Stockton and Copperupoiis
 railroad.
 MrLNINGroS, \. C., Feb. 2j.-A Star special giving further particulars of the cyclone says: The storm came SO sud deply tha. the people were unable to e'- caDe from their houses. Buildings were blown into fragments. The bodies of the dead were terribly bruised and cut.
 The force oi the wind was so great that two millstones were moved huud-ed feet. Chickens and birds were found
 picked clean. Tie largest trees were uprooted and smaller ones stripped of
 their bark. At miduirht the sky wss a dazzling red Tue killed aud wOunr ed
 beIlat&H 4lnioat G5Knftsn7tiYe G5ntsn t9it8rs.n .nn"2i-
 ready g dead bodies have been found in
 Richmond county.
 BERLIN. Feb. 2J.-The Vassis,he Ga zette declares it uuVi-e Co reprint the comments of ilc American press on the Lasker incident for lear the editor won be imprisoned. Minister Sargcut's dig nifed course in iguou1g the attacks oI the German press Is much approved.
 PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 25.-A bill oi sale was filed yesterday iu the office o' the county clerk, of everything he.eto fore belonging Co the Mort Ewest NsH- Printing and Publishing company fo Nathan Cole, Sr., of St. Louis. Con sideratiOn of the sale Was the caucelling of three moftga es held by Eld Cole against tLe paper amounting to $lE9m and the payment Of SlG0 cas1.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2J.-Ry Dunn. a resolution appropriatiDg S50O,O0O for persons rendered destitute by overtl3ws of the Miss ssippi gIver aud tributaries
 Evans, from the committee on terri tories, reported a bill requiring gover- uors Of territories to be residents nf such territories two years before Gp- pointed.
 LONDON. Feb. 2G.- Shortly after one o'clock thIs morning terrible explosion occurred in the cloak room of the Nict0- ria railway station, London. The explo- sion undou ulttdly was dynamite. 4 large portion O.; the roof was blown of, and nearly all the glass m tue station was destroyed. Seven men were seat lo the hospital with severe injuries.
 LONDON. Feb 25 -COi Mrgrudie who critically examined the ruius thinks the explosion due not to gas but s9ma powerful compound. The report is cur rent that the package left in the cloak room was intended for u5e agmIsi fine House If Parliament tonight and that II exploded accidentally. The theory that the explosion was caused by dyua- mite gains further confirmation from the fact the greatest damage was done lsteraiiy; only two persons are injured and they shghtly. Tbe officials of the railway discredit the idea that the explosion was the result of private malice as the cost Cf material would deter a discharged servant from thus I. is generally attributed to persons who caused the explosion in tie station of the underground rm way some months ago. Clerks state that @ man deposited a heavy valiss last even ing and cautioned him to be careful with 1t; some time after the clerk heard 3 noise like an alarm.
 CLEyELASD. O.. Feb. 26.-Lieutenent Harbor. who brought back from Siberia the bodies of DeLOng and his comrades was given a public eceptiOn m Youngs- town, O., which vas attended by jWO persons.
 WAsHINGroS, Feb. 26.-When Dr. Nor 5in Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph company, appeared be- lore the subcommittee of the Senate on DOstoflices and post roads today, Sela- tor Hill asked that all contracts with the press association be laid before the com nittee. Dr. Green requested that the question as to furnishing the sub-cCm- nittee with contracts with railroad com Danies, cable companies and press asso- nations be referred tO the whole com nittee. He claimed that neither the nor the Senate had the power to require the witness to produce 'sid contracts, besides copies of them ,annot be made without tie conseu: of he board of directors, nor could they be produced without the consent Of other , rites to the contract. Dr. Green ,ie- lined tO furnish information concern ng receipts from the gold and stock tel l graph company from cable contracts, ! .tc. He said there was nothing in the | outrscts which he was not willing the ! should know, but he declir ed l O answer on general principles. The | inquiries were inquisi.oriaI in nature
 Senator lilll said: "You are a public | are you not: Congress las be right to legislate n the matter, has not.'
 "No, sir: not the least in the vorll," ! eplied Gwynn, counsel for Dr. Green.
 Senator Hill: "Do you deny the right | { Congress to regulate your interstate usInessg'
 Gwynn: -No; but congress has no ight to interfere with the mans cement [ our private business"
 Hill: II cannot agree with you on