Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-10-04
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that Ouu well tA LAS~ --SH gathered within ten miles or Fanalna' but there is no trustworthy information as to their designs. If the movement Is it will not extend beyond mere politics, as foreigners are supplied with an abundance of arms and can smother any attempted violence.
 ELKToN, Md, Oct. 1.-Iutelligence has been received here by telephone that caisson No. 9 of the Baltimore and Ono bridge, over the Susquehanna rlver at Frenchtown. sank at eIght o'clock this morning with twenty men under IL, seven or eight of whom are supposed to have been drowned. A bulletin dIs- played at the Telephone Exchange states that between six and nlne men are imprisoned in the caisson, sixty feet uuder water. Air IS being pumped ID, and there is 6 possibility of rescue being effected after the tide has gone down.
 WILMINGTON, Oct. IA special dated Elkton, I2;56 p. m., says: The seven men who were confined m the ealsSOn were rescued at the low tide, not ore be- ing in the least injured.
 WoopsHALL, Mass, Oct. l.-The Mer- ritt Wrecking Company have succeeded in raising the Tallapoosa sutficlently to remove her two miles towards Edgeman harbor. It appears probable that Tn . few days she will be got where she can be temporarily repaired.
 DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. I.-Mr. Blaine, accompanied by ex-GOvernOr Foster, y rEs Epf 2tpsIsg ySt the nddTSsa out home near Dayton. He was received by the Governor of the Home, General Patrick, and shown through the grounds. After repeated calls Mir. Blaine made a brief speech to the veterans.
 ROME. Oct. 1.-The reports of cholera in Italy for the past 24 hours show a to- tai of 433 fresh cases and 197 deaths, against 421 cases and 229 deaths for the preceding 24 hours. The total reported to-day includes l36 cases and 1J7 deaths in Naples, and 52 cases and 30 deaths in Genoa.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-The Chroni- cle's Rockford, Ills, special says: The conference of the Methodist ministers from this and adjoining States, after the close of their religious programme on Friday, in the evening attended a Blaine meeting almost in body. Most of the prominent preachers were on the stand and made political speeches, among them being Rev. Dr. Hatfield, n leading methodist divine of Illinois, and Rev. Dr. Bristol.
 SAN FRANCESCA, Oct. 1.-The Calls Washington special says: Reports are in circulation today that Levi Morton, at present United States Minister to France, had been selected to succeed Gresham, as Secretary of the Treasury. and that Gresham would retire within a day or two, and take the United States JudgshIp made vacant by the retire ment of Drummond. The statement IS made that the national committee was consulted and had approved of the ap- pOintment of Morton. It IS said that Morton, when rendered the place, posi- lively refused 1t for the short term of five months, and that arrangements
 were then made which will permit of bis remaining Tn the Cabinet in the event of Blaine's election.
 PARIS, Oct. IA son of O'DOnnoVan Rossa, who is Tn this city, boasts that he brought with him fifty thousand francs with which to buy dynamite to be sent to England.
 CHICAGO, Oct. IA hIdeous crime was committed hrre last night, almost un- paralleled in its atrocity. Michael Shay,
 living in a miserable hOvel. at 49 Clark street, went home during the night in a drunken state, and found his wife in bed with the body of dead infant to which she had given birth during the night. He beat his wife to death. When ar rested Shay was in such a sodden con ditlOn that nothing intelligent could be obtained from him.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 1-Delegates from Marin and Contra Costa counties to the joint senatorial convention met yesterday afternoon to nominate dem OcTatic candidate to succeed Senator W. B. English. John c. O'Brien. of Antioch, was nominated by exclamation.
 PROVIDENCE, Oct, I'm the races here today the most interesting event was the breaking of the stallion record of 2:l3sf made by Phallas last summer Maxey Cobb made mile without q skip in the following time: First quarter, 33; half mile. 1:0I; three quarters, l:}S; mile, 2:l3i l, lowering the record half e second.
 CARSON, NEv., Oct.,1-The interstate rifle match between picked military teams of Nevada and California, was won by the Nevada team by a score of SIP to S}9. The match was with military rifles at POO and 500 yards ranges, nine men comprising each team.
 LONDON, Oct, 1.-The petition of the Grand Duke of Hesse, for a divorce from Mme. KalemiIe, will be heard by seven judges of the supreme court at Darm- stadt, on October 18th. Mime. kalemine will oppose the petition. She has de- clined the allowance granted her by he grand duke, and refuses to compromise. If the divorce IS refused, the grand duke will abdicate. The Truth says that Queen Victoria desires that the divorce be granted SO as to enable the grand duke to marry tbe DGtchess of Albany.
 WAsHISGToS, Sept. 90 The majority report of the Springer committee on the United States Marshals' account Is made pubic. It is signed by the Democratic members of the committee, and says: "A stream never rises above its source, | and as long as thO-e who possess the | power of appointing these officials have | no appreciation of the true dignity of | the public service and regard offices only | as rewards to be bestowed upon their | most interruptions political allies, there | is not mach reason tO hope for any great | in the character of ou- appointed officers. The testimony be- lore the committee clearly shows that | 1tter inefliciency and criminal practices | have prevailed in many parts of this | branch of the public servIce for many | years past, and that the government has | been heavy loser thereby. There is a as also variety, in the testi- mony. The investigation reveals the unanimity with which these officers of almost every grade, and in several parts of the country. have plum lered the pubic treasury by false, fraud llent and fictitious charges, and yet the Tariety m ways and meens by which hey have worked theIr schemes. is equally curious and shows that they nave taxed their ingenuity to the ut- most to find modes of accomplishing 'ne unhallowed purpose, getting money hey were not entitled to. The have 'harged for arrests not made, fer work lot performed, for expenses not incurred. or guards not employed. They have rendered false accounts