Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-16

their heIght all over the country. and | tbe clear moonlight nights are taken full advantage of, in order to rush work. ! Nor is much attention paid to the Sab ' bath day, the harvesters knowing well mo tlme Is to be lost. New wheat IS ar
 irving, aud shows up we'll in quality. John Shaw, a plesterer, committed suicide yesterday at Geryis; cause, un- known.
 The best estimates place the total tonnage now en route to thls port at | 10000 tons. Much of this Is not que until the winter months. On spot there | continues to be the same absence ID | businrss.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-A special from ! Jamestown says: he sleeping car be- ! longing to Barnum's circus was burned | wuil- standing on the side track here ! this morning. The car was occupied by J hang, the Chinese giant, and hs man | ager. They were asleep m the car and ! had q n rrow escape. Chang lost hIs | entire wardrobe, valuable gold watch, ! S7.OOO ID money and several diamonds. | The lost i-wels were presented to him | hy the C. r of Ru~sia, the Emperor of
 Austria and the Emperor of Prussia. ! Chang also missed bis watch and cham
 
 prc-ente1 by Queen Victoria. Chau ! had hearty cry over his misfortune
 LONDON, Aug. PA group of Paris ian capitalists, headed by Freycinet, i will ilin with the Russian concession aires m constructing a railway from the the Caspian sea to Bussarab, on the ! Persian gulf. The Czar and the Shah ] of Persia will support the scheme. A
 nephew of the Russian Minister of FL nance is one of the coHcessionaIres. lt
 is intended by this means to create a through route between Engl md and India, which can be passed over m 2 | fortnight. It IS expected the work wlll be completed in three years. The news
 of this project is exciting, as opposing English schemes looking tO the con structIOn of railway in the valley of
 ihe Euphrates.
 | VIRGISIA, New, Aug. 12-Iesterday a little before noon a shocking accident
 occurred out near the Divide. The ] three-year-old sen of c. B. Hobling, for ! merly in the employ of the NIrgiola and Gold Hill Water company, residing at ! No. 39l South T street, was at the house f neighbOr, I out two huDdred yard,
 distant, where with some other children
 he was play ing in the yard with come
 matches. It appears that the children
 had built a fire of chips and shavings and in come way the clothing of the child took fire. He at once started to
 run home with bis clothing all ID flames. As be neared his home his screams 1 brought to his assistance his father and oldest sister, who began tearing of the little fellows blazing garments. Before they had succeeded Tn this both father and daughter had their hands badly burned and last night was sufferIn z
 feariully. It IS feared that his injuries
 will prove fatal.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 9-The remains of ROderlck Sueider and ChaIles B. Henry, of the Arctic dead, under escort of Gen 1 eral Hancock and troops, were conveyed l tO Cypress Hill cemetery, Long Island,
 to-day, and inferred with military 1 honors.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12 The original pa ] peIs comprising records of Gresly s Arctic search and the most interesting z
 relc of that expedition, were to-day delivered into the custody of General l Hancock, on Governors island, by
 Lieutenant Sebree, of the Ihetls.
 ! WASHINGTON, Aug. PA story pub
 lished in the N,w YOrE Times, stating that the survIvOrs Of the Greedy party ! were crazed by starvation, and of having fed on the dead bodies of their com ! rades, and that written documents ID possession of the Navy Department sub
 stautiate the horrible narrative, created
 quite a sensation here, and Admiral 1 Nichols, Acting Secretary of the Navy,
 was specially interviewed by newspaper men anxious to ascertain something Ctli-
 clal concerning the publication. The
 Admiral says there k absolutely nothing
 iu the Navy Department concerning the ! r'-s--ra4e5- -il5Weytr, n report may have
 gone direct to Secretary Chandler in New Hampshire, as numerous docu-
 ments were forwarded to him without ! examination. There are some persons | who express the opinion quietly that | there is something in the story, and say . it is beginning to be known that the l Greedy patty was not as harmonious as has been generally supposed, and that there Is a story relating to the expedl- ton which 1t WAS intended to keep SC
 cret, but which must come out in the
 >sme way as the story of the Jeannette's
 unfortunate cruise became known to the
 public. LONDON, Aug. l2-The heat yesterday sent the mercury up to g deg. Fahren- helt. lt was the most intense heat ex- pcrleBcrd for 2O years. Work was par tiaily suspended and several deaths re- suited from sunstroke.
 TOULoN, Aug. l2-There were no deaths from cholera here last night sl- l though there are many under treatment. |
 LONDON. Aug. I2.-Cholera has ap- peared In Maniroz-ne, near Valence. | and IS raging with violence. Besircs al. | so rutle'ed greatly.
 LINCOLN, Neb.. Aug. 12.- Startling in. | terest Was excited here to-day by the l story of Henry being killed and eaten | by the Greedy party. Henry's real ! name was Book. IT, sister anl other friends m this city will Push am iuvestl- gati0n.
 FosToGL, Ohio, Aur. I2.-The Re lubiicILs c! the Seventh district in convention nominated ex-GOvernor Eos ter for Congress by exclamation. He was Chairman of the convention and de- They fhen nominated by accla. nation Daniel Bahst, Ol Cleveland.
 LONDON, Aug. PA dispatch from Shanghai, today, tO Renters acenc, states that five French vessels and a squadron under Admiral Lespes have b muarCed and captured the town of heiung, on the island FOimosa.
 PARIS, Aug. 12-TLe report of the oc- HupatiOn of keluug. by the French. ia officially confirmed.
 PtEIs, Aus. l2-It k stated semi-oi. lclally ih t the negotiations between Pa.enotre, French minister in China. and Li Hung Chang only resulted in the H on the part of China Of an illusicr- ny indemnity. The time given Chila To except the French u.timatum expired August f.
 France was obliged Co support her suands by seizing the guraDtee. Ad- n'rai LesIes, therefore, on August , coupled the port of kelung and inc , .oai mnes m he vicinity. Patenotre as informed Li Hung Chang that the .urni.au of the Bremen occupation de 'erds entirely upon Tsung Lii Yanep. 'Aich c!n shorten 1t by paying eighty ] million frgrnz 5n | ?