Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-27
News Items.

Des Molnes, loWa, IS Ddnkfupt anu hs employees are unpaid.
 The number of immigrants to this country tbIs year has decreased 36,OOO from last year.
 The new aqueduct for the extension of the New York water works will cost S2,5O0,OO0.
 The Alabama Legislature has a bill pending providIrg that persons carry ing concealed weapons shall weai a badge with the words. "I am armed"
 An oil refining firm of Cleveland has obtained judgment against the Lake Shore Road for s4 GOO for discrimination in freights and sl,00) for damages
 A Cleveland woman PrOmenaded the strtel sJr two hours with a card on her clrak reading: Former price, S2O; marked down to SIP to close out"
 A leakage in a gas pipe in Montreal mansion wus followed by an explosion winch seriously injured three servants and nearly wrecked the building.
 It has been dec:ded by Pennsylvania colrt that ics-credm comes under tue head of dress d victuals," and can therefore be lawfully sold there on Sur day.
 Miss Juliet COrson, who was one Of the first to make cooking schools sue cessfui, has been for some time past dis abled by R serious disease which has threatened her life.
 Kate Claxton's power to kindle flame appears to be as active as ever. Her l latest achievement was at Oil City, Pa, ! I,r-I. har sfa ta1 ra n Sea of Ice"
 Within a month the people ot this and neighboring States will have to face the problem of what to do with lOO,O0O workmen out of job, many of them with dependent fauihes.-N. |. Mail, | Dec. lltb.
 The Washington Star of December | l2th says: There are run CT, Hfioat that ihe Western Union Telegraph Company mean to give theIr employees an uncanny Christmas present ID the shape of a general reduction of wages.
 R)scoe Conkling is defendant m n suit at Washington. He loaned Sl0,OO0 to Mrs. Sarah J. Taylor on four city lots. and, after receiving i6.GO0, is endeavoriug 10 sell the the property for the balance duo. Mrs. Taylor has obtainei an 1T junction restraining the sale:
 | Tie Railroad Commissioners of Iowa have been at last reused to action con corning the oppression the farmers by the railroads. whose exorbitant charges for freight transportation are causing sach widesp cad distress, and are nov ing towar.l an iuves. igaion of the abu e.-Ch;cagJ Tnblre.
 There IS a perpl, king confusion m the reckoning of time Gt Pittsburg, Penn. or 8 venieen railroads center iDg there, $ \ Use Eastern standard time. nine operate on Central standard tune. Enl two run on local time. This neces- sitates the use of clocks with two dial, on whi:h railroad and local time are no rked.
 The synod controlling the Presby- ! te,ian Theological Semi ary ht COlum- bip, $. C., has decided against DF. Wuoirow's exp sitiOn If tine evolution theory, and r,quested him to resign. He dec incl to resign and was dismissed from the ProiessOrship, whereupon other resignations folio xed among the faculty.
 Ons tf the French spoilation claim ans. "Ui le" SilIs Savage. died in ths almshouse n Hsrgforl !, Conn, at the age of ei igh'y-nine. on the very day that tue United States Senate passel the b;ll referring these claims to the Colrt of Claims His claim originally amounted Sl75 GOO. but with interest added to several millions.
 G. r. nsteIa. who opened cigar and tobacco stand in the store recently vacated by l. Kaufman, near the Palace hotel, $ succeeding nicely Tn huIlding mp business for himself He keeps a good stock I goods and treats every body with prop consideration.
 Mike Tovey. Wells, Fargo & Co.'S mes ssuger, vas shot twice by Bill With crow, a saloon keeper at IIawtb, rne, New. receiving one flesh wound m the right thigh and more seiious one ID the left hip Cause Of the diff ,ulty, slight quarrel.
 Eugene \. E ker, Major of ibe Second Cavalv, iIed at Walia Walla, W. T.. at 9. m. Saturday The caus- was general debility. He WAS forty seven years o,d, and entered the dragJOn army ser-ice m 1852 He made record of the fir { class as an Indian fighter on every frontier. He com manded the oxpedi'ioa Tn 1870. when the P.egaus were entirely anuihilHted.