Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23

waters. JohnsOn's Bsyou and Radfor,
 were destroyed as completely as If al
 lnvscing army had been at work for tb
 twelve hours the storm ragged. Ot th
 6,OOO head ot stock which once the bayor
 bossted, 5000 head are drowned whil
 the remainder will dIe of thirst, as al
 the water is salt.
 GALVESTON, October l6-Advices iron
 Sabine Pass say that to describe tn
 condition of that place and the sur
 rounding country would be impossible
 What was prosperous village vhel
 Tuesday morning dawned, is now
 scene Of the greatest desolatiou. Therl
 are 1l7 people missing and are are sup
 posed to be dead. About twenEy-fy,
 bodies have thus far been recovered
 The damage to property can only be es
 timsted by the vslue of the town, for al
 is lost. The Sabine < Texas railroad l:
 washed out Tor distance of ten miles
 Millions of dead fish were cast up by
 the waves and thousands of birds also
 strsv the ground.
 SAS FRANCISCO. Oct. 16-Ireland
 Neiser 4 Co.,, of New York, on. of the creditorssof the bankrupt firm of Hoff
 man < Co., have begun suIt in the su. perior court through their attorneys, asking that the San Francisco creditors who obtained attachments on the asset of the insoivent firm. be enjoined from proceeding further in their actions against the firm. They also ask that s receiver be appointed to take possession of sll the firms property, with power tC sell the same and distribute the pro ceeds pro rata among all the creditors. Temporary injunction has been granted
 LAKE MoHAwK. N. r., Got I6.-The first topic of yesterday mornIng's ses- sion of the Lake Mohawk Conference was the Mission Indians, of California Mrs. Hill, of Milwaukee, who has taken up the work interrupted by the death of Helen Hunt Jackson. gave thrilling Dsrraiive of the pitiful condition of affairs in Southern California, as wit messed by her. She thought their case almost hopeless unless @ tirst-clsss and incorruptible attorney is obtained to conduct the fight to regain possession of the lands from the whites from which these Indians have been driven. Sens- tor Downs thought the passage Of bill in the House in reference to their case would right their wrongs without hir- ing au attorney. Similar persons ex pressed the opInion that it would be useless to await government action. The question of hiring counsel was finally referred to 6 special committee.
 GALvEsToN. Texas, October l6.-Re- ports from Johnson Bayou brlu9 tbe terrible intelligence that eighty five per sons are now known to be lost m that place, ana it is greatly feared that the list will be swelled to 100 or more, making the total of victims of the bur ricane fully POO. Reliable information from Johnson Bayou arrives slow, all road being impossible, and only two boats are running to that sectlon- The of the survivors, of whom there are over one hundred around Johnson Bayou and Radford village, are described as something awful. They lost everything and are without food, drink or clothes.
 SAS FRANCISCO, Oct. l6-On Monday next, Mir. Pearson. formerly of Tomb stone, Arizona, will assume management of the Cliff House in this city.
 FoLsoN. Cal. Oct. l6-Willett Sum- ner, serving ten years sentence in Fol som prison, cOpmitted suicide this by hanging.
 PETALUMA, Cal. October l6-Judge prohibition nomIuee for goyer- nor. is stricken with partial paralysis.
 PHESEA. A. T., Osto1er Io.- Briggs democratic nominee for the Council from thIs county. was indicted on Saturday last by the grand jury. for assault to commit murder. He will be arraigned tO morrow.
 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. lS-Ihe state board of health having received inform ation nf the prevalence of fever at Bi lo1i, Miss eighty miles distant, and the death there of Q number of persons from this cause, held a specIsl meeting yes ierdsy to consider the matter. Dr Walker made the alarming statement as coming from the people from Biloxi. that nearly every family there had csses of fever tie was told thst in all there existed d up to Last night, 270 cases; thai for the past two weeks people were be ing buried quietly at night and that m the day time the bodies were laid away IL is the belief that the deaths are from yellow fever. The Board issued a notice to the officials of Biloxi, declaring strict quarantine against 1t.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 1s.-The great strike al the stock yards is practically over. Dele gate Barry, of the Knights of Labor. states that he will have an interview with the packers this afternoon. Lud would then tell them the men were pre- pared to work ten hours n day as de- msnded by the packers He should use every endeavor to have the packers dis charge all non-union men they have brought in, but be would not keep the men out, he said, even if this request was refused. Armour & Co say they will not discharge any of the men they have brought m, and that far as they are con cerned they feel almost independent Of the strikers. They killed five hundred cattle yesterday with their new men and expect to kill SIX hundred to-day.
 Bosros, Oct. 1s-The South Boston Iron Works, the well known gun fac tory, has suspended operations on sc- count of their inability to pay their workmen. Ii shut down m May last for two weeks or as many months. Nearly 260 expert iron workers gre thrown out of employment. For the past six weeks the men have received no pay and the suspension is explained by the fact that the government owed the works S25G,000 for rified cannon, carriages and other work performed of late. and the spproprlstions not being forthcoming. the resources of the com psny became almost exhausted.
 LONDON. October. 1S-The latest re- ports show that the effects of the recent storm in the .outh and west coasts were terrible. A Norwegian bark toundered oil Tintagel, Wales. and her entire crew. consisting of fifteen persons, perished. The British ship Msllery wss wrecked ID the British Channel and twenty per. sons were drowned. The Norviegan bark Fredericks, from MusquIt x. B, for Swansea, was wrecked off PsdstOv and nineteen persons drowned The bark Alliance was wrecked of Psdstov