Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-31
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l to-day owing to a run on the reported absence of the president, Andrew Brown. Liabilities S400O0. A run has com menced on the Arkansas National bank at Hot Spaings, which IS understood to be in good condition. Great exclte- ment.
 NEW YORK, May 27.-Yesterday wis | it was made to Greystone for the pur- pose of verifying the report printed in a morning paper regarding the health or Mir. Tilden; after awaiting few min utes in the reception room Mr. Iilden hImself came in unannounced. He | said that the report of his failing health
 was pure fabrication and utterly with out foundation; that his health at the
 present was bett than 1t had been at any other time during the past year and
 that he had merely moved to GreystoDe
 for few days to personally oversee
 some improvements that he Is making
 on the place. He sHi | further that be
 expected to return to Grammarcy Park tomorrow.
 ST. LoUIs, May 27.-When the case of
 Prentice Teller, express robb T, was called m the crImiBal court this morn- ing his att 'rneys pronounced themselves
 as ready to proceed. The indictment
 was then read to the prisoner, and he
 was asked to plead. To the astonish- mept of the court Teller answered, without a moments hesitation, Guilty, your Honor" There was a sensation Succeeding this, but presently the judge, Van Wagoner, turned in his chair, or dered the prisoner to rise. and sentenced | him to five years Imprisonment III ii.e | pruitentiary. ThIs IS the iull penalty of the law for grand larceny.
 NEW YORK, May 27.-IBdividual schedules m tEe assignment of Fred
 erick ID. Grant and Jessl- G aut to
 James McNamie was filed in cOurt tp
 day. The schedules of Frederick ID. Grant shows the [. llnwirg debts;
 liabilities amount 10 S2,2l5 O66. made
 up as follows: Creditors. other then
 preferred, SS20,3OO; credit ITS prefrrr, d, l S2I3,966. Contingent liabilities. SlU.0OO;
 par value securities TT 'we1 from Grant x Ward Sl.l40. 800; assets nO-
 minally worth Sl99,OO3; actual worth
 unknown.
 NEW YORK, May 27.-President Fish
 now say, he did not mean to charge General Grant of being guilty of the
 knowledge of frauds m government contracts, but simply intended tO say that letters received from General Grant were of such tenOr as to warrant any one having confidence in representations
 made by War I. John ID. Fish says his father regarded General Grants posi- ton in regard to Wards transactions as similar to his own. Both of them were misled to the extent oi trusting entirely to what was said by Ward.
 NEW YORK. May 27.-A false rGmor
 was circulated here and probably in other cities this morning, that Secretary Lincoln was killed. The Secretary is at his desk m the war department to-day, in his usual health.
 WASHINGTON, May 26.-The Senate committee on public lands to-day de- cided to report the bills fOrfeitiDg land grants opposite the uncompleted DOT tions of the Northern Pacific main aud branch lines, and the Atlantic and Pa cific railroads. Senator Plumb thinks the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific will amount to l3.OOO,O0O acres. The Atlantic and Pacific 36,0O0000 acres. The bill further provides that all lieu lands hereafter selected. if occupied by bona fde settlers shall be sold at Sl 25 per acre for l6O acres.
 NEW YORK, May 26-The West Side bank claims that it will shortly resume. Nothing is known of the whereabouts of the defaulting teller, Hitckley.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-Harry l.. l Wells and Martha Wilson, arrested for l perjury in the Sharon divorce case were | today released from custody on filing | bonds tU the amount of S5.OO0
 WASHINGTON, May 26.-The Depart | ment of State having been informed | that the Chinese Government proposed | to enter a silk loom in operation, as an I exhibit at the New Orleans exposition, the question arose whether the Testric- ton act did not prohibit landing opera tives on the ground that they were la bOrers. The question was referred to the treasury department and Secretary | FOlger to-day informed the Secretary of State to let these Chinese operatives be admitted without mo,estatioD, with tEe m ieTstauding they will not stay in the country logger than necessary to dis play exhibits.
 NEW YORK. May 26.-Ths bondsnen of Jas. D. FIsh appeared b fore Com missioner Shields this atteIn on and qualified in the following amounts: Jas. E. Ward, of Ward S Cox, Havana Steamship C., Sl5,OOO; Francis c. Reid. lawyer, S7,j00; and David Herseh, t b. baccO manufactures, S7 500. Fish then took his departure accompanied by h's friends.
 WAsHINGroS, May 26.-Nr. Holman of Indiaua, from the committee ou ap propriatiOns, reported the legislative appropriation bill, and was placed on sl |. ..s ! S20. .736. .S76. Last years bill appropriated S20.6lS.6SG. The estimates this y-ar were S2I,j7j.JG2. The bill provides for a secoud assistant secretary of the iu- terror at $500 Ter anumn; 10 dditiOnal principal examiners in the pension office at S2.0OO each; lj0 special ex- aminers m the pension office gt Sl,6JO each; g additional clerks In the sixth auditors office, and 10 additional clerks in tue second auditors office. It also reduces the clerical and copyist force in the pension office 270, sbOiishes the assay office at St. Louis, and reduces the number of internal revenue districts from S3 to 6. Further, 1t CO tains a clause which prohibits the payment of salaries to private secretaries of sena- tors
 II ! , who was found unconscious in his room together with the dead body of Wm. H. Morgenstern, from the effects of asphyxiation by gas ou last Friday, died at the receivslg hospital last night.
 At the club meetings last night for the election of delegates to Stockton, the resolutions were adopted stating that the sense of the meeting is that Stephen J. Field is not and never has been our choice for President.
 NEW YORK, May PA representative of the Associated Press called on coun- sel for General Grant to learn if they knew what letter J. ID. Fry referred to in his published statement when he said he had two letters from the General re- ferTing to government contracts and the profits therein. It was learned that prior to July II, 1882, Fish had sent a paper to Grant and one to the Lincoln bank, with a note asking that the paper be discounted. MT. James, being called On by Seward, said he answered the nafa of EiGh nc failOUS. sT will cubr,s4 l