Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-29
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ETC, Ia, rftclnl says. MI. hhu HIS Victor Repose, poor, but very proud people, entered the poor direct or's office yesterday; bringing their beautiful VI ung daughter who was dy- ing from want of food and medicine. "For God saEo give her some food, said the msn, struggling with hls pride and former station iu lie, when l. came to their turn to be waited upon and they were Rbou. .c present their child l to cor,oblrGte t..eir story, but 1t was found that she had dIed, while waiting for her tarn. The parents, who had kept their suiTerings secret from their many neighbors, were with difficulty restrained from committing suicide.
 NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 2l-Nothing for a long tre has created so much ex- citement here as the news of the arrest in Emporia, ksDsss, of Mrs. Minnie Wallace Walkup, for poisoning her bus band. The marriage took place just a month to a day before his death. Her husband, Mir. Wslkup, had been fsmil. jar figure on the streets of New Orleans He was NIrginian and handsome, energetic man of considerable wealth and ability; be was about i5 years of age. and a widoweT, with two daughters the youngest daughter year older than the wife he recently married. Mrs. Min nie Wallace WBlkup is F years old Her father is James l. Wallace, a lawyer, and formerly U. $. Commissioner. Every. one who saw her noticed her beauty of face and form. and lad like department. | Walkup had net Mip nIe when child and had watched her bloom into wOmanhood The wedding took place at Covingtonr Ky, July 22nd, and was brilliant sifair From her letters, Mrs. Nalkup seemed to be living s happy life with her wants all provided. Her last letter, received five days ago said Mir. Walkup was go Ing on a short trip on business and that she was to go along. Willie Willis was was II months older than Minnie; he was a son of John D. Willis, who died ID Florida several years ago. His moth CT was niece of Mrs. Wslkup's mother Mrs. Willis dIed when her boy was years old and left him to the care oi Mrs. Wallace with whom he has lived ever since. Willie and Minnie were raised together. Willie was c dellcatt boy of slender build; he was as much attached to his cousin as a brother Mir. Walkup asked the boy to go out west as his protege, and intended to as- sist him Tn cutting out a successful ca reer. Willis was also arrested.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 24-A Washington special to the Sun says: The Treasury Commissioner. which has been investi. gatiDg the office ot the Supervising architect, has ordered suspension oi | al payments in case of the new post office building m Kansas City. A bad state of things has been developed there At the last session of Congress s20.OOt were appropriated for the completion oi ! the approaches to the building, Tor ( | clerk, and for sewer connections. Or the strength of this appropriation the citizens subscribed Sl5,OOO for a fine clock bell, which was to enable the re. | sideuts of the c:ty and vicinity within q redius o. G miles to keep the time and set their watches by But months passed by and thert was no sign of clock. This led tC inquiry, and inquiry led to disagreesblt revelations. It appears that Supervising Architect B. has spent the whole S2D, OUO, O,only Sl.400 of which sum has gone for 1 any ot isct embraced lathe apI reputation | This sum was paId for an Iron fence | The sum Of SlS,G00 has been spent fol | the heavy marble wainscotting within the postoflice for which there Is no war rant ID the appropriation. The result | is that the accounts are suspended and NIT. Bell finds himself charged with an illegal and improper expenditure of pub lIc funds"
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Aug. 24-Ernesi Messerschmidt was found m En uncon scious condition with a confused scalp wound on his head yesterday on How ard street between l2th, and 18th streets. His pockets we-e turned Inside out as if they had been rified. He was taken to the city receiving hospital, but died a few minutes after reaching there It is belIeved he was attacked and rob bed by gsrroters while on his way home There is no clue to the perpetrators ol the crime.
 BOsToN, Aug. 23.-At the request oi Bank Commissioner Gatchell, who re cent; made an examination of that m stItution C. $. Adams, treasurer of the | Farmingham Savings bank, of Farming ham, Mass, rendered his resignation to, day. Mr. Gstchell says this resignation was required because of irregularities iI | Adams claims. There Is no shortage II his accounts, but be (GatchelD finds cer. tain matters which, if not explained will make a shortage. The extent of the discrepancy IS not given.
 MADRID, Aug. 25-Mcst of the unaf. fected pOpulace have fled and the few healthy citizens that remain are dis heartened and apathetic. Corpses re. main uncoffined and unidentified. The very misery wrough by the plague has induced the desperate eSpedIent oi compelling soldiers and cOnvicts to car. " on the work of removing from tue public ways and interring the bodies oi the unknown dead.
 OLYMPIA. W. T., Aug. 24-MsiOr E. T. Gum, Editor of the Transcript, died yesterday after hours of intense suffer. ing from neurslgla of the heart. Mslol Gum was one Of the pioneer editors oi the northwest, and was associated II 1857 with H. l.. PittOck m the publics' ton of the Oregonian. He has been en. gagged ever since Tn journalism.
 KREMsIER, Aug. 25.-The czar and cZarina, accompanied by tho imperial entourage, arrived at II 30 this morn ing. The cZar and czarina and imperial suite, in going from the station to the Schloss kremsier avoided the town and were driven through the Post park sur rounding the Schloss. Emperor Franci. Joseph and his son Rudolph. imperial crown prince, met the czsr at the rail way station.
 ST, LOUIS, Mo. Aug. 25-A letter ha- been received by Walter II. LennoA Maxwell, the alleged murderer of Prell CT. from New Orleans, signed LouI' Mattingby, who claims to be an old friend. The writer calls the prisoner | D. Augier and in the course of the let. ter he says" "I met Sir Perry Burrell o West Greansted, Sussex, England, last week. He assured me that he had seer MT. Preller at a Spanish port in com pany with lady on the first If May Sir Burrell IS now Et St Mslo. YoU can sen1 a dispatch to the British con. sul asking him to get hls testimony There Is also other testimony that Prel Ter IS alive. 4 we'll known St. Loui: drummer says that few days after tht body was found in the Southern Ho tel, a young man answering the descrip. tion of Preiler appeared at Elston, Mo.