Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-11-14

thirteen years, and he says it has never
 yet been built upon.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The owner of
 the British cutter Arrow" has issued 6 challenge for an international cup.
 The challenge has made quite a sensa-
 ton in the New York Yacht Club.
 LONDON, Nov. 1.-The Peninsula and
 Oriental steamer Indus from Calcutta
 for London, was totally wrecked on a
 reef off Moeletivoc, Ceylon. The pes-
 sengers and mails were saved.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The coroners jury in the case of Mrs. Pratt, who
 was killed in an accident on the West Shore railroad near Little Falls on Monday, yesterday rendered verdict charging the railroad company with gross negligence Tn not having provided a culvert at the place of the accident.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The new cre- matIag furnace on Long Island WAS privately tested yesterday, the carcsss ot a sheep beIng used. The result has not been made pubic, but 1t is known that It was not entirely satisfactory.
 MONTREAL, Can, Nov. H. Twenty witnesses who have been summoned from the outside places to attend court here have refused to do so on sGcoun: of the small pox.
 CoSsTASTINOPLE, Nov. 1.-The Rus sian ambassador has been ordered by his government 10 press the demand made by Russia before the conference for the immediate disarmament of Ser via, Greece and Bulgaria and the dispo- sition of Prince Alexander the rnler of Bulgaris.
 LONDON. Nov. 1.-The Times con- mentIng on the anti Chinese crusade on the Pacific coast, says: "If Chinese i'm migration into the United States was thoroughly blocked for a period the Chinese might meet with 8 more favor able opportunity at home and tteir immigration into the United Stated would be- altogether deverted. The attempt to turn back the tide of foreign colored labor by the means re- sorted to by mobs in the western part of the United States Is Odious and the in justice done to Chinese in the recent attacks on them, is an act of spoilatiOn committed against the world at large.
 GALVESTON. Texas, EOy. g. A sphcial from DaDgerfeld to the News says; Late accounts show that the cyclone in Case county last Thursday evening was worse than at first reported. The breadth was thirty yards. The funnel shaped cloud moved with awful velocity and a terrific roar, crushing dwellings and Outbuildings and scattering their contents far and wide and carrying death and destruction in it's pathway. Hardy Putnam and his three children, aged, six, seven and eight years, and al SO a nine-year-old boy named Richard Hawthorne, were instantly killed by the detructiOn of dwelling. The head of of one child was twisted of snd carried two hundred yards from the body. Mrs. | Bruce, a widow. 80 years of age, and her daughter were badly injured by the | wrecklng of their residence. It is sup posed that the former will die from her | injuries. Other casualties are reported. | After the storm turkey was found | stripped of its feathers. | The extent of the damage is not known.
 GALVESTON, Nov. 1.-The committee | Dn Grbitati6n for the settlement of the | recent strike inaugurated m the city, neld a continuous session today. The evidence taken is being reduced to writing. The situation continues grave. Colored laboreTs all over the city are awaiting the result of the arbitration. The committee labors with undisguis ed interest. They feel that their interests gre being jeOpsrdIzed by the Knights lf Labor. This feeling has been inten. 'Itied by a demand from the local assembly of the Knights of Labor for he dismissal of three colored men and md one white man on the police force, ln the ground that they have been in- iulgIng In conversation calculated to ncite incendiary feelings among the he co!ored people. The City Mayor, refused to comply with this demand, replying that the officers ID question were capable men. AdjutGnt General King is in the city investigat- ng the situation by order of Governor Ireland. Work everywhere in the city s progressing and the freight blockades along railroad lines are being rapidly decreased. Matters are quiet at Hons ton and work 0n the wharves of the Di- -ect Navigation Company was resumed his morning.