Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-22

usurp the streets of America and beat and kill # necessary, all persons who accidentally incommode these anomalous exhibitions should receive attention. No other nation in the world toleHtes any such insult to its autonomy and authority but the United States. and 1t is absurd to call this nation while such things are possible"
 CLEVELAND, O., March 21.-Duncan c. Ross to-day sent Richard K Fox, Of New York, articles of agreement for the signature of John l.. Sullivan and Mer- win Thompson fight, prize-rIng rules. Accompanying this was S2,5OO guaI anteelng Thompson's signature.
 NEW YORK, March 2l.-The Sanitary inspector, accompanied by a squad of police made an unexpected raid last night on express wagons that carry meat into the city from New Jersey; l5O carcasses of "bOb" calves were seized and sent to the offal dock. The raid spread consternation among the express men.
 WASHINGTON, March 2l.-Last even ing President Arthur called upon Gen eral Grant, and they were closeted to- gether two hours.
 NEW YORK. March 21.-The friends of Carl SchurZ, headed by Jesse eoli=naD, propose to raise fund 10 the amount of S10O, coo for him.
 SAN FRANCISCO, March 21-An the Chinese habeas corpus cases have been tried in the United Stltes District Court. The number of cases tried 277, of which 20 Chinamen were reulanded; only out of the 70 returned to China; appealed their eases to the Circuit Court; went to Victoria; others to Honolulu, notwith- standing the law says when reInanded they must be returned to the country from whence they came. The custom house authorities deny having allowed any remsnded Chinese to go where they pleased out of this country.
 The hsrbOr commissioners adopted resolution allowing collectors and whaf- fingers who are members of the legisla- ture, leave of absence to attend the extra session.
 At the Worlds Fair Commission meeting last night, the secretary reported as follows: Petitions asking government and to the amount of S2, ,000,000 have received nine thousand signatures in thirteen days. With five exceptions, the governors of the respective States and Territories have appointed commissioners where they have had the power to do SO, and where they have not such power, favorable st- tentiOn of the legislature IS called to the matter.
 BOSTON, March 21.-In the Senate the civil serv1ce reform bill passed 15 to 9.
 DAYTON, Ohio, March 20-On January II, 1867, Christiana Kett, pretty girl eighteen years old, was murdered in her home on Oak street and no clue had ever been discovered to the murderer until yesterday, when her brother made a death-bed confession that her own mother had committed the deed. number of parties had been suspected, but no clue had ever pointed in this direction. The disclosure caused a pro- found sensation. As related by the sou. his mother on her death bed made q confession of her guilt. The murdered RIrl had gone away to call on lady friend and returned home an hour late. The mother, in ft of passion, st-ucA her with an ax-haDdle, crushing her skull. Appalled, at her crime. she smeared the dead girls face with gun powder and afterwards deported her self in such 8 manner as to entirely elude detection. Mental torture drove her from the scene of her crime and she roamed through the western cities and | finally died here several years ago She was sixty-four years old at her death and all of the family are dead but the son, who made this dying confession
 ALBANY. N. r., March 21-The Sen ate Committee on Public Health, which | bas been Investigating the adulieration | of food. reported to-day. They say they l have discovered wholesale, alarming edulterations dangerous to consumers and depreciating property in rural dis tricts. The imitation has been so dIs- guised as often to be only discovered by chemical analysis. Out of thirty sam- pies of butter purchased by the con- mittee in New York only ten had renu- inc cualIties. Bogus butter sells for 20 to 30 cents to laboring men; letter grades forty to forty-five cents. The cost of manufacture ranges from r. to IS cents; average If. Many dairy farm CTS have been driven out of business, and the consequent loss to the State ls estimated at from S500,000 tO S1,000000 yearly. The committee estimate that tD,WO,COO pounds of the product is sOld annually in the State, and the illegiti- mate business is breaking up our export butter trade, and can ba sold at IS cents less than natural butter.
 ST. LOUIS, March 20-rhree negroes named Lewis, Freeman and Anderson, boarded several freight trains near East St. Louis late last night and to-day and with drawn revOlvers ordered the con iuctors and brakemen to leave and robbed the cars. At noon posse from East St. Louis attacked the negroes SIX miles from the city. and after an ex- 'uange of shots the negroes were ar rested and jailed. Anderson received pig load Of buckshOt in the side and irm. Alderman Green was shot in the knees.
 WASHINGTON, March 21.-Ciyil Ser rice Commissioner Thorman leaves the 10th of April to superintend the exami- latlOns in Texas and Arkansas These will be the first examinations held in that iectiOn of the country. Examination at Galveston April 15, Austin IS, Dallas p, Little Rock 9.
 There seems to be 10 doubt that Col ,nel D. $. Stanley, Twenty-second in- sntry, will succeed General McKenz,e. |
 J. M. McGrew, formerly with the aud tor of the treasury department, and whose duty it was to audit the expenses 'f the Postoffice Department, was exam ned at his own request by the Springer in relation to the star route l He characterized as false he alleged statement of William Lilley hat he had paid witness St,000 to secure m expedition of service upon certain Outes. McGrew also denied having made the statement.
 The House Committee on Judiclary las ordered favorable report on Tuck ITS bill limiting the time for the present .tion of claim for back pay, or bounty ..