Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-12-11

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION

DAN KANCiSCo, iJ' U . Arrange
 mcnts for q Japanese migration t
 he Sandwich islands have been sue
 cessfully completed, inc cmigrant
 to oe provid' d wlih free passage bl
 the Hawaiian government. Employ
 mcni will be guaranteed them The,
 are to be returned home whenever i
 is desii ed that thsy do 90. The ob 1 ject If this arrana ement Is to pro
 cure profitable employment fo i Japanese N ho are at present in
 tinal a difficulty, owing 10 ehe low price of agricultural produce ant
 the dullness of trade in Japan. CHILD KILLED.
 Special to the HERALD.
 PRESCOTT, Dec. 7-The four>year-
 old child of Jose Brockman, an old
 resident of thls county, fell from a
 wagon to-day and the wheels passed over it's head, crushing il to pieces ACCUSED OF HARTRICIDE.
 HAMILTON, Ohio, Dec. 6-George
 Snyder, farmer aged 40, living neaI
 Darrtown, fifteen miles away, was
 put in jail sh ortly after midnight
 charged with the murder of his
 mother, Catherine Syndef, aged 76 years who has been missing from her home in this city, four weeks.
 Mrs. Snyder has a mortgage on her sons farm and went four weeks ago to collect the intrres'. He paid her $125. His story is that he started with her the next day t, the railroad station, when two robbers demanded her money and upon her refusal killed her and made him promise under the penalty of death 10 say noth ng about it. He said they buried the body, winch has been disinierred and found in her night clothes. The supposltion is that re Nlii,-d her iu his own house.
 wAsHIAGToN's MONUMENT.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-The long expected completion of the Wash> ington monument obelIsk, was ac- companicd this afternoon by setting in place the marble capstone and its pyramidal apex of aluminium. The ceremonies were few and simple. An elaborate celebration of the event being reserved for Washington Shortly after two o'clock Col. Thos- L. Casey, government englneer in charge, and his assistants Capt. Davis, U. x. A., and Bernard Green, civil engineer. together with masIer mechanic Mclaughlin and several workmen, standing on a mar TOW platform Luili around the step ping of !he marble reo f, near the summit, proceeded to set the cap~ l stone. IL weighs $500 pounds and | was suspended frGm quadrGpOn of i heavy joists, supported by he pla. .orm and towering forty feet above hem. As soon as the capstone Wa s ct, the American fl 2 was unfurled 'ver head and q salute of twenty>one guns fired by battery in he White House loi. far below. The sound i ieers also came up faintly from a rowd of spectators gathered around he base If the monument, while lumber Of invited guests were on he 5G0 feet of pln form and III the interior of the monument at the svel. Spontaneous they struck up he ".5iar Spangle Banner" ard other atriotic American songs. A steady ownpour of rain had given place q while previously to a brisk gale of lind, at this elevation blowing at the ate of about fifty five miles an hour, nd very few of the invited guests ared to avil themselves of the pliv~ ege of climbing & nearly perpendi> ular ladder from 800 f9ot platform } the dizzy height of 533 feet, from -hich three or four journalists and
 half dezen other adventurers limbsd and witnessed the setting Of le cap stone, and sub equsniiy ass ended to the pinnacle. Meanwhile le Washington Monument society. ,presented by Dr. Joseph Nj. Toner. lon. Horatio King, Gen. Wm. Mc- -ee Dunn, Daniel B Clark and F L. Harvey, secretary, held meeting ] the elevated platform, at the eight If 500 feet, and when the -tillory firing aunounced the setting the cap stone, tneA adopted solution offered by Gen Dunn, ) gra 'Ilatia- the An,crican , e pie n the rmpleiioi. If this enduring Ionument of our ation'~ gratitude the father ol hIs country. NmOng lose present to-d day at the comple- on oi the structure, was one master lechanic who laid the corner stone f this monument more than 36 ears ago, and the old watchman of le monument who had beeL contln 1 Fly employed Tn that capacity dur lg nearly lhe whole intervening The flagstaff top which is DO feet from ;he ground, thus dis laying the American colors at the reatest heighth on construction yer yet known in the world.