Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-23

| waved It trlumphRntly, when he wa struck by Frenchman. melee en | sued finally, and some English officer
 managed to separate the cOmbatants
 The Italian consul demanded satisfac E ton for the insult to the flag. SAN FRANCIsco, Feb. 16.-The CalIt r Washington special says: The bill ID
 troduced by Senator Miller of California
 to segregate the Deer Greek coal field, - Of Arizona and open theIa up tO settle , ment Is being Bntagonized by Commis @ sioner ot Indian Affairs Price. Miller, . bill provides for segregating and the
 sale of coal lands to the original locatOrs at S5 per acre. Commissioner Price desires 10 lease them to ArizonH D speculators, believing their use could
 be made c source of revenue on royalty
 of ten cents per ton. Prices proposi.
 tion IS very unpopular among Con- gressman whose attention has been called to it. Many representatives of
 the miners are pushing Miller's bill
 here.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 17.-The family of Albert Hammerling purchased some : ham, aud subsequently, were taken sick. Mir. Hammerling, his wife and three
 children and Mrs. HaEme-ing's sister
 were taken t. the college hospital,
 where the disease was pronounced
 trichinosis. Mrs. HammeFlIng died yes
 terday after suffering horribly. Other
 members of the family are in critical
 condition. The disease resulted from
 eating raw ham.
 | KINGSTON, N. Y, Feb. 16.-In Chich-
 esterville this evening a man named
 Avery killed his wife and then at
 tempted suicide. Avery is willing to go
 to prison for life, but has conscientious
 scruples about hanging. Avery and
 wife each were about twenty years of
 age.
 WHEELING, w. Va. Feb. 1.-The
 river is g. feet and stationary. The
 steamboat Stockdale passed last night at p. m. with provisions. The weather Is cool and cloudy.
 | PARzERsBURG, W. Va.. Feb 1.-The
 United States relief steamer Katie | Stockdale arrived at Parkersburg this morning loaded to the guards with 300 | tons of relief supplies and hundred tons of coal. The supply aboard cost S50,0O0 of the S75,000 appropriated and | the government has telegrlphed to the | fl 1oded towns on the boats route the
  | U00 m sums Of $500 to 5000 according to their necessities. The submerged city is slowly shaking of the waters and the devastation paralyZes description. Provisions are said to be plentifully SUD- piled but the people suffer from the cold weather.
 SHAwNEETowY, H., February I7.-l The river continues to rise steadily, but not so rapidly as yesterday. The gauge at o'clock marked 5i feet II inches. l rising hourly. Malarial fever IS begin lng Co appear. The current over the | levees is running at the rate of eight to | ten miles per hour through some streets. | The foundation of buildings are being | weakened. IL has clouded up again | and the sky IS raw and more rain Is ex- pected.
 Marietta, O., h hurricane wreck of | houses. The town Is gut.ed and demOr- | alIzed. There are no inhabitants except | m the second stories and not many of | them.
 Parkersburg will be able to assist Der | own sufferers; but the Restitution Of | smaller settlements Is heartrending.
 Belpre is a wreck and its principal | streets are entirely disappeared with | only few piles of brick 10 mark its location.
 A tow boat with tow. swung abreast | of the town of RavenswoOd and held the | houses from being swept away Saturday, | otherwise the town and all the inhAbi- tants would have been engulfed. The | w.res are down in all ':rections in this | town. The news goes to Baltimore and | from there Is transferred. This disar rangement interferes with all transmits sion oi news aud 1t is doubtful if tele- graphic matter can be sent after it | leaves here. The Stockdale leaves here with ten tons of freight to be distributed | by the relief committee at this point for sufferers below. Business has entirely | suspended.
 The loss at Parkersburg reaches one million dollars.
 PARKFRsBURG, Feb. 1.-The United | States relief boat Katie Stockdale, in charge of Col. Thos. Rae, of the Four teenth Infantry, and conveying one mil lion dollars worth of provisions to the flood sufferers arrived here at seven | o'clock this morning.
 The Stockdale lay at Marietta, Ohio, from midnight until morning and the inhabitants of that city were supplied with provisions, but are in bad necessity for clothing and bedding.
 The losses at Parkersburg reach one million dollars with more returns to come in.
 The Stockdale wIli proceed from here direct to IrontoD, three hundred and twenty-five miles west of Pittsburg.
 CAIRO, H., Feb. l7.-At six o'clock to- night Is 5O feet and rising slowly. There IS no suffering or distress yet. The smaller places between Cairo and Shaw neetown are in need. 4 fireman named Miller fell overheard from the steamer Jay Gould this afternoon and was drowned.
 PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 1.-The com mittce O; citizens raising funds for the sufferers by floods on the Ohio river col lected SlO,300.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The mayor re- ceived to-day for the Ohio flood sufferers S2,455. The Produce Exchange collec- ted Si.242.
 CHIcAGo. Feb. 16.-The promenade concert given at the First Regiment Armory by the JeffOrsOn Barracks band, under the auspices of the leading ladies benefit for the flood sufferers along the Ohio. Four thousand tickets were dis trlbuted among the business houses, with the request that they remit q dol lar on the return of tickets. The con- cert was largely attended and 1t IS believed that the returns will net over S3,000.
 LOUISVILLE Feb. 1.-The river fell one and one-half inches and Is still fall ing. The height reached at 9;3O last night was 46 feet inches. The weather Is cloudy and threatening.
 CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 1.-The river was falling at noon an inch an hour but is still two feet above the hitherto | unprecedented flood of last year. It | will require at least two days more to enable the railroads to ascertain the | location of tracks. \ four story brick | building on Central avenue near Second, | fell last night. The last family removed | from 1t yesterday afternoon. In all | submerged portions of the city where | where frame houses have been moved | from their positions, the owners are endeavoring to float them back to their l places The same thing is being done | at Newport, Ky. It IS threatening | rain.
 CmcAao, Feb. 1.-The subscriptions in this city for aid flood sufferers fOots up S2O,OOO.
 CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-The Supreme | Court of illinois has declared constitu- tional the Harper high Incense law, which provides a minimum annual license of $50 for saloons selling malt, and $500 for saloons selling spirituous or spirItu- ous and malt liquors
 PARIS. Feb. 1.-The Bey of Tunis has given M Roudaire authority to carry l out his scheme of transforming the Ss- l harl desert into an inland sea
 SAs FRANCISCO, Feb. IA. N. Towne, general manager of the Central Pacific | railroad, denies the truth of the report |