Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-31

r run IS anticipated, there Is no excite ment Tn financial circles and confidence has been restored.
 LATEB.-The doors were thrown open it 2:3O o'clock, and the bank was crowd,
 ed, bus nearly as many were depOsiting
 ns drawing out.
 |. NEW YORK, May 24-A special from St. Johns says: The French brig Sen0rine went ashore at Grand Banks 2 on Friday and was total wreck in lj - minutes. Fifty-three passengers and
 nine of the crew were lost. The Senorine was caught in fig and the captain lost hls bearings, he making for this port, going slow. When It strnck the 3 widest disorder prevailed; officers and , crew making for the boats. leaving the
 passengers to care for themselves. One boat containing twenty passengers and some of the crew was swamped after 1t , got away from the steame: by the lurch- ing of of the vessel The screams of the
 women were heartrending; most of them
 sank immediately. Tke men struggled, but only few succeeded by catching
 floating spars, in keeping atioat. The
 captain was unable to maintain dis
 cipline among the passengers. Many
 clung tO the rigging after the first shock
 thinking the vessel would stand the
 strain and who thought to be picked up
 when the fog cleared, but when the
 vessel went to pieces they were lost.
 Only about twenty were saved.
 l PHILADELPHIA, Pa, 24-The fire at the Atlantic oIl wo. ks which began Inst
 night spread during the night, Is still
 sweeping over the w,-ks. A dozen ! Gfn ,t~a l being made to run off the oil ir .he
 tanks. The paraffine works, consisting
 of several brick buildings, have been
 destroyed; loss, S2O0,OO0.
 At noon fourteen tanks of oil were
 ablaze and several more in great danger. The flames spread over five acres and ! will likely continue to burn for some
 days. The fremen feel cOnfdt nt they
 can keep 1t confined to the oil now
 burning. Since a m. several explO-
 siOns have occurred. A change of wind
 may spread the flames. It is now said
 the loss will resch S6OO,000.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 2l.-A. H. Me | Donald, who came from Montana recent | ly, took a heavy dose of morphine early
 last evening and was found in his room
 an hour later by the landlady in an In- sensible condition. He was removed to the receiving hospital. He assigned no
 reason for taking poison, beyond mak- | ing the remark yesterday afternoon to the effect that be was tired of living | He remained m critical condition all night and at 9 o'clock this morning he died.
 | sylvania bank has opened and IS doing ! | deposits and no rush to secure fund,. | The stock all sold today several points above par.
 NEW YORK, May 26.-James D. Fish, ex-president of the Marine Bank was arrested tonight upon a warrant issued | by United States Commissioner Shields. | The warrant was issued upon au affidavit made before Commissioner Shields by Augustus Scribas, national | bank examiner. He depOsed that after careful examination he had discovered that President Fish had misapprOpristeG funds belonging to the bank tO the amount of S1,In,000.
 GREEN BAY, Wis, May 26.-StrOng's bank closed its doors this morning. No particulars. ERIE, Pa, May 26.-Pres't Brabender, of the defunct Erie county savlngs bank has returned to Erie. He admits that he and Cashier Petit lost Sl0OO0O in grain and oil speculatiOns. Brabender also admits that he took money out of the bank and pRId 1t to friends and left. He exOnerates the cashier. Brabender has assigned his private property valued at SlOO.OOO to creditors, but It will not pay them, and stock holders will probably l lose S2OO,OOO to S2JOOO0 Many will ie | ruined.
 PITTsBUEG, Pa, May 26.-Pennsyl- l vania bank closed its doors again at l2 l o'clock to-day and posted the following | notice on the door: MT Riddle, the | president and chief executive officer of | the bank, having become suddenly and | seriously i'll, and unable to communicate | with the board of directors It Is deemed | proper to close the bank under existing | circumstances until be sufficiently re- | covers tO be present at the adjustment | of it's affairs. By order of the board. | Officers placed in charge refuse tO per- init audience with any of the board. l There is great excitement.
 NEW YORK, May 26,-Fi4h, president | of the Marine bank who was arrested yes terday appeared at the U. S. commis- siOners's office this afternoon and plead l ed not guilty in applying money tO his | own use, belonging to the United States | bank. The court fixed bail at S30.GOO | and Fish p.o1uced bOndsmen for the | amount.
 WASHINGTON, May 26. A dis tinguished party left Washington at | noon for Annapolis. IL includes the | president of the Senate and Speaker of | of the House. members of the Senate l and House; committees of naval affairs | and appropriations, Admiral Porter, ] Lieutenant- General Sheridan, ministers | of England, Russia. Germany and | France and Maryland and members of l Congress.
 CALIENTE, Cal, May 26-A land slide l, eighty feet long and thirty feet deep C. ! cured near Tunnel Five about six | miles south of Callente. Work trains I with all tie force that can be worked | are at each end doing their utmost to | clear the track. It Is thought that 1t l will require from thirty SIX tO forty | eight hours to open the road.
 PORTLAND, May % Several months ago the town of Weston, Oregon, was | almost totally destroyed by fire. At ! that tune the fire was thought tO be the |  result of incendiarism. and facts have | recently come to light pointing strongly | to Isaac Sylvester and James DImmick . as the persons who started the fire. Syl- | vester has been arrested and charged . with arson, but Dimmick suddenly dis | appeared from the country. Sylvester !. was the proprietor of the hotel m Wes- 1, ton in which the fire originated. It IS | claimed that Sylvester paid DImmick a | certain sum to set fire to the hotel. The ! loss by fire reached nearly S2OO,GOO. | There is great public indignation ever | the disclosure. as many poor people l were rendered homeless by the fire ST. LouIs. May 26.-Mrs. Alexander ! Edmunds, living at l2 lO,South Compton l avenue. left her bed about 4;30 o'clock ! this morning and procured her husbands razor and returning to her bed room, ! she cut the throats of her three-months old baby and her four-year old daughter; then passing to the next room she drew the razor across the throat of her daugh- ter Emma. six years old, but dil not ! make a very deep wound. The child ] ' nh sh arraEa~H n fna