Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-01
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., ing JOnn helth was sentenced to lmprl, II onment for life for somplicIty in tn
 Bisbee murder About ten minute
 since his body was cut down from Q tel, e graph pole at the edge of town, and n DOW at the nlorgue awaiting the cOrC l, ner's inquest. Shortly before O'clOc U about one hundred men. principall t miners from the Contention and Gran, s Central mines, which had been shu
 down, went to the courthouse. Select
 ing seven of their number from Blsbee , | they went to the door leading to the jai i, and rapped for edmittance, the re mainder of the crowd staying outside
 It was sbout the hour when breakfast t . brought to the prisoners and the l iailOr, Billy Ward, thinking Il
 was a man with food, opened
 the door without looking to see who his
 visitors were. Instantly be was covered
 with weapons, and demand was made
 of him for tue keys of the jail Seem 2
 resistance was useless he quietly gave them mp and party proceeded to enter
 Helth's cell. aud unsnacklinR him and
 brought him into the corridor of tue
 Jail. It was the first intention to hang
 him to the bannister of the stairs lead
 ing to the second story, but this plan
 was abandoned and the crowd started
 for the telegraph line at the lower edge
 of town. At the door of the court house
 they were met by Sheriff Ward, who,
 throwing up his hands, exclaimed with
 show of authority, "Stop this! You have
 got to stop this right hereF Before be
 could realize what had happened he
 was picked up and thrown down the
 steps, and the crowd proceeded with the
 prisoner down Toughnut street until
 reaching a certain place selected for
 the execution. The trip from jail to the point mentioned was made on a run,
 Heith keeping in the lead. Arriving at
 the place Heith pulled a handkerchief
 from his pocket, and said, Boys, you l are hanging an innocent man, and you
 will find 1t out before those other men | (referrlng to Dowd and pals sentenced
 to be hanged on the 2Sth of Marcb) are | hung. Tie this handkerchief over my | eyes. I am not afraid to die. l have | one favor to ask, that you wlll not
 mutilate my body by shooting into 1t | after I am hung" His eyes were | bandaged us desired, and in a moment his body was dangling at the end of a rope from the cross bar on the telegraph | pole. Heith throughout showed great nerve. and had 1t not been for the absolute certainty of his guilt his life
 would probably have been spared. No attempt was made to modest the other prisoners under sentence of death, the community whiting to see them legally executed. If not disposed of in this way, they will follow the same road just travelled by Heith.
 WAsHISGToS, Feb. 2l-Representa- tive G. D. Wise, of Virginia, will shortly introduce into the house bill Rppropri- ating S30,0O0 for the completion of the monument of Mary, the mother of Washington.
 CHARLOTTE, Feb. 21.-The cyclone about Lane Creek swept away forty houses; two negro children and three white children perishe1. The dead in the village of Rockingham number r; wounded l3 About fifty lives were lost in the state.
 INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 2l.-Ihe National Greenback Labor Convention to nomi- nate candidates for president and vice president, will be held in this city on May 2Sth.
 CINCINNATI, Feb. Navigation of the Ohio river began tonight.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2L-The opium seized on the steamer Tokio in January 1882. valued at S30,00O over which there has been SO much litigation was offered, for sale today for the benefit of the United States government. A few price down. The opium was wrriuTt,--r' on the order of the United States mar shal.
 SAN FRAScIsCo, February 2l-The Bnllentrn's New York special, quoting rom the Tribune says: Painful re- ports are in circulation regarding the treatment of the United States minister | at Berlin by the German government. | If the diversified conduct of Bismarck would not be simply discourteous to Sargent, but also au insult to the United States.
 PTrTsBUEG, Feb. 2l.-There will be an | almost general resumption Ot work thls | week in the iron mills, glass factorles, | and river coal mines.
 | The river coal mines which have been | closed nearly all winter owing to the depression of trade resumed today This resumption of work will give employment to many thousand men
 The railroad mines of Scott Haven struck against a reduction Saturday night and the miners have shut down. | SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. 2L-Henry Marx. charged with the murder of John Comedy during September lHst, was to. day acquitted by the jury. alleged
 cause of the killing of CnXslly Is
 stated to be that he was rnIs oi criminal intimacy with Marx | Los ANGELES, Feb. 2l.-LIbsfal sub
 scriptions and for donations of building
 sites continue for the benefit of the flood -ufferers. Two iong trains with ten car loads of delayed passengers arrived las
 night.
 The city council to-day visited thu | flooded districts, fur tue purpose Of as 2 l certalning the damage to, and devlslnl ? means restoring city property, and Ten D dering future floods impossible. II SAN FRANCIscO, Feb. 21.-The South o ern Pacific estimate their losses iron floods in southern California at abou | nalf a million dollars. The main In
 south and east of Los Angeles, is r' paired, and trains are running regularl @ to day. South of MojaVe the road ha f | been put ID good running order Tor fort
 | miles. Still there IS considerable shove ing to do at both ends of the San te @ nando tunnel The line is open to th IS | Atlantic < Pacific, and passengers an mails for Gulf states are being sent thi
 way General Manager Towne says will have everything m complete rul It ming order again by Monday morning. It WAsHrSeroS. Feb. 2I.-The speak 70 lad before the house the following me ,t sage from the President:
 House of Representatives: l transm
 herewith the report of the Secretary
 State. of the 2lst inst, whereby yo ls honorable body and through you | m people of the United States may b come apprised of the generous contrib A' ton made by her Britannia Ma!estl e. government towards efforts for the rell D, Of Lieutenant Gresly Arctic eXplorii :. party, presenting to the United Stat
 Artic steamship Alert
 IS CHESTER A. ARTHUR. " The report of the Secretary of Sta ,t was read and several times spplRuded-
 Randall asked that the commune ie tion be referred to the committee SO foreign affairs, with the object of havn .s R more formal and appropriate recogI .s tion of this act of the British gOyer
 ment' (Applause.l "I object, . or claimed Finerty. Randall then put Id request in the form of a raotlon, and be was agreed to. FInerty and Robinson, m New York, alone voting ID the negAu'
 @Ca1 we not have a ship ot our o' without begging" queried Robinsc IS Hor STRINGS, Feb. 2L-Another sho' lis ing affray, growing out of i6e eanoie
 wsr. occurred here. NJ. c. Hsrr1s, edit
 of Hymns organ, the Horse Shoe, al local agent of the Associated Press, pJl ne iishsd yesterday an article denouncil go Charles Watson, friend of Doran.s, ht a thief and periurer. Last night w ev son and Tom Shannon approached Hi ris in a friendly manner in 6 saloc we making some sllusion to the artlc ce when Harris, hastily concluding tn .. I-.-nt Ia atta.k him dreE bis plst