The Arizona champion., 1885-10-03
GENERAL NEWS.

Montreal, Canada.
 Lord Salisbury, the English Premier
 is reported as seriously ill.
 Secretary Lamar, of the Interior Departmint, is still very sick and con fined to his house.
 Dudley Watson has been appoint . cd collector of customs for the State i of Michi gan.
 There is a serious strike of the iron workers at Martins Ferry, Ohio. Several men were killed.
 Capt. figuro, paymaster of the ad cavalry, is posted as defaul,er to the amount of several thousand dollars.
 The Pope has consented to be the .rbitrer in the difficulty concerning the Caroline Islands, between Ger many and Spain.
 Secretary Manning has dismissed two chlets of divisions and i've clerks in the registers office. The vacancies will not be filled.
 George Wilkes, the founder and proprietor of "Wilkes' Spirit of the Times," died in New York on We'd nesday last, from Brlghts disease.
 Application has been made for 6 receiver for the Charter Oak Life h. surance company of Conn.,, one oi the oldest companies in the business.
 Two Missouri men fought a very successful duel at Cotton eood Point m that state on Monday last. The coroner had to hold doabl. inquest.
 Chris. Schubert, manager and treas urer of tke Lcavcn worth Tarn Vtrcin and singing soc,c,les, has disappeared with fands auaountiny 10 about <5oo.
 Wine, women and cards got the best of F. beaumont. of New Orleans, consequently he has been arrested to, forgeries amounting to several thou'- and dollars.
 Governor Robinson has been re. nominated for another gubcrnatorial term in Massachusetts. Oliver Ames obtained the nomination for Lieuten- ant governor.
 Roswell P. Flower has refused to accept the second place on the Dem. ocratic ticket, in the New York guber- material race. Roswell wants to play first fiddle or nothing.
 Citizens of Abilene, Texas, where Holland resided, who killed Davis, the counterfeit money swindler, in New York. have raised purse of $,,- 900 far the defense of the accused.
 Sam Jones, the evangelist, is start ing another religious campaign in western Missouri. There arc but few better places to have good opporu- nity of fighting the world, the flesh and the Devil.
 The Chicago White Stocking base ball team defeated the New York l Stalwarts on Wednesday last by score of toI. This gives the Chic ago club an almost undisputed claim to the National League pennan'.
 On Tuesday last at Saybrook, a town in Illinois, Dr. Harvey L. Lewis killed Dr. Geo. Barton by pistol shot, during professional disagree ment. Both were physicians of cred itable standing.
 The miners at New Castle, w. T., gave the Chinamen employed there twenty-four hours to leave. They said they would riddle with bullets all Chinamen found there at the expira- ton of that time. The Chiname n left.
 Editor Stead, of the Pall Mall Ga Lette, General Booth, of the Salvation Army, and others of their following, who assisted in the abduction of the girl Elisa Armstrong. have been com nitted for trial. It looks as if the Pall Mall Gazette exposures had got heir originators into an awkward fix.
 Bill Hyde seems to have the inside rack in the race for the St. Louis oostoffice, but John C.. Priest is press ng him close. The President will nave to decide on the merits of two 'ery able men. On the grounds of merit, personal ability and steady al- egiance to the Democratic party, Bill ouoht fO Upet thar p