Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-09-06
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Dispatches re ceived here state that the Bankers an,
 Merchants Telegraph Co. has been all sorbed by the Western Union and Una the latter company will at once tak charge of all the lines and property il the northwest. It IS stated that the con solldation of the Bankers aud Merchan. with the Baltimore k Ohio Postal Tele graph Co. has not turned out as favor able as was reported.
 Los ANGELES, Aug. 2S.-Last Sunda, the down stage between San Juan Ca pIstano and San Diego containing si, passengers, was overturned in s barran ca on the Las Flores ranch. The pas sengers escaped without serious injur les, but horses were killed outright while the driver, William Bates, was ia tally injured. He was brought back {, Santa Ana and died last night.
 COAL CENTRE, Pa, August 2S-Thirty four more coal miners were arrested thls morning by a special officer fol trespassing on the railroad company property. They were lodged in OdC Fellows Hall, and will be taken ts Washington jail in wagons this after noon. The wives of fifteen or twenty Of the prisoners appeared with babie: ID their arms this morning, and begged to be sent to jail with theIr husbands as they nothing tO live on but littl, corn meal Their request was not com | piled With. The citizens are indignant at the wholesale arrests which have ! been made without warrants, and it i. | quite probable that public meeting denouncing the action of the officers vii soon be called.
 Los ANGELES, August 2S.-The third trial of Andrew Hay for rape upon tho | person of Miss Barrows has been con, cluded tonight. The case went to iury l about S:30. They were out eleven min utes and returned with a verdict of | guilty. Hay will be sentenced on Thurs day. Miss Barrows attempted to shoot Hay in the postofiice the day after the outrage.
 BosToN, Aug. 29.-Reports from g; | points, covering the British provinces | New England and New York, indicate the hay crop, just harvested, as nearly 8 per cent less than that of last year Prices are higher than last year, when the crop was heavy in shipping counties Many farmers will have 10 either sell their stock or buy hay. Cattle will there. | fore be somewhat lower than they were one year ago. There Is a drought in northern and central New England, ex. tending south and west. Makers of but. ter and cheese in Vermont, and in the | great cheese sections of New York. state ! they will be much curtailed.
 DENVER, Aug. 2S-A Pueblo special to the Emancipation says: At 2 o'clock tonight street car man wGs stepped on the mesa by four men with cooked revolvers, who made the driver deliver the money m the boxes, amount ing to S3O. The driver, George Haas, was robbed of his watch, end three pas sengers iu the car were unmolested.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-Cable dis patches received in this city quote Call- fornia wheat on English market at thirty five shillIngs and SIX pence to thirty-sIx shIllings and quarter. As the lowest average price of English-grown wheat during the last one hundred years is thirty-six shillings, and as California grain has always ruled higher than Engllsh-grown wheat, the present prices show that tie average of the present year is below that of any year during the past century.
 DENIIsG, N. M., Aug. 29.-Daniel Bax- ter, a well known barkeeper of this place, died today from wound received few nights since Tn a difficulty with Frank Thurmond, one Of the proprietors of the Cabinet saloon. All the partIcu- lars are not learned, but it IS said both were under the influence of liquor and were quarreling over a game of billiards when, without any seeming provOcatIOn, Thurmond drew a small pen-knife. cut ting Baxter in the abdomen, InfiIcting a wound several inches in length.
 PARIs, August 29.-The official report ot the bombardment of Foo Chow Satur- day, received from Admiral Courbet, IS as follows:
 "Foo-CHow, Sunday morning, August 24-A good beginning has been made. We opened fire yesterday, and il four hours nine Chinese men-of-war and twelve junks were sunk and the krupp battery commanding the arsenal si- fenced Our loss IS six killed and twenty seven wounded. The fleet suf- fered no serious damage except that a boiler of a torpedo boat bursted. The Chinese losses are heavy. During the night the fleet was beset by burning wrecks and logs. The torpedo cutters will clear all this away today, and af- terward We lombard the arsenal. We shall not leave the river before the 29th or Both. The officers and men are ami mated with great ardOr. One of our torpedo boats sank a large Chinese cruiser. The vessels which took part ID the action were the Volta (which hoisted my flag, the Durgay, Truth, Triumphant, Villars, D'Estaing, Astic, Lyn and Viper, with two torpedo boats
 ST. PETERSBURG, August 29.-The ministry of marine has issued to several learned societies plan for . Russian Polar expedition.
 The idea is to lave several large par ties start for Jeanette Island and pro- ceed entirely on foot across the ice, ieav ing large depots of provisions in the rear. It is thought there are many islands north of Jeannette Island that can be utilized.
 LONDON, Aug. 2S.-The Paris cores pondent of the Times says: Ferry, m a private conversation, complained with much vehemence of the strictures of the Times regarding COurbet's conduct at Foo Chow. The French press, he said, showed not much spirit when the Eng lish bombarded Alexandria. The Eng fish press. by egging China on, Is siding against Europe, and the confidence lt gives the Chinese may next be turned against England. Commercial nations are naturally uneasy at our action, but once resolved on redress, We must deal blows which will tell. Ferry dIsayowed the policy of colonial conquest. My whole duty," he declared, ''is to finish the enterprise, originally ill-conceIved and Ill-managed. We want the peaceful occupation of Tonquin and want to en- force on China the respect she owes us, European interests need not be alarmed at this as We are acting for the civilized world"
 DENVER. Aug. 29.-The following is 6 ! list of the sufferers by the circus car fire now ID St. Luke's hospital in this city l.. E. Fairbanks, age 22, arms, legs and face tadly burned; Albert Borded' aged F, Logan. Kansas, arms and face badl! burned; Thomas Golden, l7, Detroit Mich. very badly burned on back and