Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-08
News items.

The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice the department will redeem the bonds embraC-i in tue I2th call prior to maturity Mayl, with interest to date of presentation.
 The Secretary Of War has still on hand SinOHO of the SjO,00O appropriated for relief oi the food sufferers which vii. be used in purchasing such a3di- ti1nal supplies when it may become necessary.
 Brigsdier General F. s. Mackenzle, Of th' United States army, was ex- amined by the retiring board at New York. As he is regarded Eopelessly iu- sane, there Is DO doubt of his being placed on the retired list.
 Michael Mann, one of the dynamite suspects mentioned in a Paris cablegrs n few days ago, lIvei at Buffalo last sum uer, worked for awhile as railroad laborer. aui then enlisted the United States army, from which he deserted.
 Cincinnati parties ara projecting an athletic festival, at which John l.. Sulli- van, Mervine Thompson. Sheriff, Pen dergast. Stoddard, Duncan C. Ross. Col oael Mclaughlin. II. II. Dufur and other motel pugilIst> and wrestlers will ba gathered in contests.
 It Is stated that Police Sergeant .Ieuks. of St. Louis, who was killed by a negroes last October, was also m the pay of the British Government, and that English detectives came from London to determine whether he had been mur- dered by Fenians. His successor has been appointed. and the Irish agitators claim to be aware of hls identity.
 Felipe c. Cazoreuve, a resident of Mexico. in au interview gIve5 an inter- estiug account of Mexican politics, and allules to the causes which led to the defeat of the reciurocity treaty with the United States, which was the fear Oi the southern sugar planter coming ID con tact with Mexican sugar, which. hover CT. was nonsense, as the Mexcans, Ie says, do not produce scarcely enough Tor home consumption.
 Representative Watson, Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, has prerared a repor. Co accompany h;s bill providing Tor the increase Ct pensions to soldiers widows and dependent relatives from & to SIP per month. The report eavs the total number Ot widows and de- pendent relatives of soldiers Of the late war now cu ihs pension roll Is 12. l30; number of claimants who will probably secure pensions, 9}.6ti; number of wid- ows of soldiers, 1872, together with claimants who probably receive pensions IS. 600. The total number of pensioners whose rates will be increased by the bdl is e-t1matei at l2i,S}3, and the aRgre- Jate annual increase of pensions SJ,96l, gSf. The report says owing tO the age of those who will toe affected by the bill the pension list vill rapidly decrease.
 BUSINESS FAILURES Chicago. Bradstraet's reports 23I bus ines failures for last week nineteen more than last week, but twenty-three less than for the corresponding peuod in 1883
 PROHIBITION
 Chicago: Tho Republican Editorial Association of Indiana, at its meeting at Indianapolis. deprecated making prohl- b.tion an issue in the coming campaign. FoEEIGS-
 The Italian cabinet officers have ten dered their resignations to the king The Porte has appointed a Turk gov l ernor of Crete, and the Christians are much displeRsed.
 Advices from Tonquin s.ate the French | gunb0ats with 1000 men have occupied ! the extreme port of the rebels ten miles l below Pac Niunh.
 Marten. Turner < Co, merchants of l Glasgow, engaged in the East Indla trade. failed Friday. Their liabilities are roughly estimated at tiuuOOO to eJ00OO0
 The Irish Parnellites in the British House of Commons Friday openly de- nOunced the dynamite conspIrators, who, they declare, have their headquarters in the United States.
 General Graham telegraphs to London that he has postponed his forward move ment till Tuesday. General GOrdOnis proclamation caused a great sensation at Cairo.
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