Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-03
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 y TOMBSTONE, April 26-Muldoon ar $ rived here last night, and wrestling I contest between himself and [. C. Vii V son was at once arranged. The match will take place Sunday i ht; style v Grecio-ROman, best two ia three; wiu. f her to take sixty per cent. of tie receipts D The match excites a good deal Of inter- I est, as Wilson Is considered skillful D wrestler and is phenomenally strong D man.
 C,EgELAND, Ohio, April 24 - The
 Blanc caucus reassembled this morning before the convention and voted to sup s port compromise ticket for delegates at lsrge: Judge Foraker, Judge West, a Judge Ambler and Marcus I Hama
 torRker and Hanna are regarded as for
 sherman, the others are strong for I. Bialue. The convention was called to ] order at 9:45 this mOmIug. Committee on permanent organization reported for , permanent president, Hon. Wm Mc-
 Alnley, Jr., Of Stark county. He was l elected with applause. Mr. Mckinley
 was escorted to the chair by q commit ee ] and made a br;es an2 el quent spes cil.
 The names of Blaine, Sherman, Arthur,
 Grant, Lincoln, Edmunds and Garfield were voclferousiy applauded as named
 by the speaker.
 SAN FRANcIsco, April 24-During the
 course of the Sharon divorce ease th,s
 morning General Barnes made the fol
 lowing statement in order that he might
 be able 10 introduce the evidence of an
 expert cn handwriting: "We don't deny
 that Mir. Sharon's signature is there. but
 We do say that the writing of this con- | tract was written after the signature WAS
 signed, and we wish to prove this to the | court. We claim that this contract is a
 forgery of his signature. William Sha-
 ron, Nevada Is written on the first line
 of the first page We wish to show,
 also, that the plaintiff writes q very bold | hand, averaging about five words to | line, whereas this letter averages eleven words to the line" At the time of writ | ing the question as to whether the ex- pert testimony shall be taken or not had not been decided. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2L-H. M. True, ] | a witness n the Sharon trial, died lt | Santa Cruz last night, of ofpneumonia pro- |
 duced by a cold caught while here. True |
 was the mar who split open the Wells | conspiracy and was quite an important |
 witness in the case.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 24-John Wis
 Iuzil who was SO severely slashed with |
 razor Tn the hands cf his uncle Joseph |
 Wi>luZil, died at the receiving hospital | today. The body Is at the IaoFgUe.
 Joseph, at the time cut hIs own throat,
 from the effects ot which he died few
 days subsequently.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, April 24-Ths jury yesterday rendered verdict of suicide In the case of W. F. Lent who shot him self on Tuesday last
 CINCINNATI, April 2&-The American Oak leather tannery, occupying the square bounded by Kenner street, Me Lean avenue, Dalton and Florence streets, burned early this morning, ex- cepting the japanning depot. which WAS saved by the desperate work of the fire department. There were forty five thousand hides III the factory. The loss will reach S400.O00. Insurance S300,00 A portion of the tannery burned year ago. Four hundred people thrown out of employment.
 GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, April 2L- | | this morning and was called to order by William Livingstone, chairman pro tenn of the State central committee. Hon. R. G. Horr, of Saginaw, was called to the chair as temporary chairman.
 LONDON, April 2L-Appropos to the Arnold hoax, the Pail Mall Gazette eX- presses surprise that the Chicago r-I- bune, and leading literary men could l A..I- ..1 n gN Trr| ! bad taste, for genuine production ot l Matthew Arnold.
 SACRAMENTO, April 2t.-In the Is sembly this morning, CreT5Ou. member of the assembly from San Francisco, speaking on the question Of personal matters referred to the treatment he had received at the hands Of the House and tenderei his resignation, which , caused great confusion and excitement. The matter has been under advlsement
 LONDON, April 2L-The English gov. ernment has sent invitations for pro- posed conference regarding Egyptian affairs 10 all the powers which signed ' the treaty of Berlin. IL estimates that ' Egypt is now in need of fresh loan Of eight million pounds in order tO meet 1 most pressing requirements on 1t and ] points out the difficulty of devlsing { guarantee for such a loan, in as much as { all the resources of Egypt are already pledged. It proposes no solution of the { difficulty, but considers that the sup { pression of the Egyptian army would I effect large saving.
 KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 26-The Tribune has information inst in Russel county, Va, last Sunday, Geo. Gibson and his cousin, Wm. Gibson, Jouas Powers and Wayne Powers bought , bucket of brandy in the mountains and got into dispute abOut who had pmd , the most for It. Knives and pistols were drawn and Nm. Gibson was shot and ! killed. The other three built a ire over z bis body burning 1t to crisp. The , three murderers were jailed. With great , difficulty lynching was prevented. The , people are aroused and the murderers may yet be taken from jail and hanged.
 SAN FRASdsco, April 26-A Chron- ( icles Helena (Ark) special says: Mss i Davis while returning from neighoor- l ing plantation on horseback was brutal , ly assaulted by a negro named HenoeI- I son. Miss Davis failur- to return home i brought out a searching party with [ blood hounds. When she was found her , lace ana IlrOdI we're tub hilu bl uicDA ! and she was otherwise shOck1ngly mal- | treated. The bloOdhounds were imnce- | diately put on the track of Henderson [ who was found in a tree top. He re- $ fused to come down until several shots ( were fired at him. While the crowd was { discussing his mode Of death one of the ! men threw a moose around Henderson's neck, and he was slowly drawn mp over t a limb. When nearly unconscious he ! was lowered to the ground and allowed i to recover, than drawn up again. This was repeated seven times until finally Henderson became unconscious. One of the crowd then took a gun from Ir. Davis and fired both barrels into the dy ing wretch. '
 ST. LOUIS, April 26.-Adyices from s western Texas are to the effect that cat tie are suffering in large numbers and dying for want of water, the grass l drought having been very severe ln that T -a,E,,n UvriaTs of anfarDIllarS | ava