Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-02-20

| back or the head. he lLnHeuiateI5 re | turned the blow, striking his father several times with an axe. After com hitting the deed young Whslen attempt ed suicide by stsbbing himself several [ times m the breast. HIs wSunds are | dangerous but not necessarily fatal. He has served two terms in prison, one ID Oregon for attempting to murder a
 woman, and in San QIentin for bur glary in Los Angeles. He was pardoned by Gov. StOneman on September 18th 1 IS,J.
 SAN FRAScIsco, Feb. 15-The police declare that they don't believe that the V Nickersham murderer has been arrest cd. as they have indIsputable proof of Dnck's having sailed on the Rio de
 Janeiro on January 2Oth, for China.
 PLAcERy1LLE, Cal, Feb. 15.- The an ,i- Chinese association held a meeting last T.. .L.. BoycU:ting @as agreed o1 Co be- aIu 0u ,uo tTss day Ot March. A written
 agreement VIII be presented to tLe Feo- Tle oi townships for signatures, wLeret ty tle s.yueJs promise tO olrchSrSe tho Chinaueu iE their employ sty .tho iEst oi March and withdraw Iair0Lage from a4l persons emplOyiug them after t..g; date.
 All persons refusing Co sign tLe agree
 mtnt are listed on Blackboard for the
 purpose of boycoiting. 4 committee of
 twenty was appointed Co visit China.oSn
 on tLe frs. of March to request the Chi
 nese to leave by the lst Of April Wm.
 E. Selkirt was appointed delegate 10 the
 state convention to be held m SGcra-
 mentO.
 BosToS, Feb. lj.-The damages
 tLioughOut Massachusetts by recent
 storms, Il IS estimated, will reach about
 seven million dollars.
 FRESNO, Feb. 15.-A Chinaman sup
 posed to be Ang Tai Duck, the murder
 CT of the Wickershams near Cloyerdale,
 about a month ago was arrested at Ma
 dera and brought here and jailed yes
 teriay, to await identification by ;. r.
 Weston, of Petaluma. He had ticket
 for Hong Kong and several hundred dol
 lars on his persoc. He ansRer5 the de-
 scrIptIon of tLe murderer.
 ST. LOUIS, Feb. l5.-In addition to the
 damages sustained yesterday morning
 and evening by the shipping interest at
 this point from the breaking up of the
 Ice gorge, 1t has just been learned that
 the government fleet anchored behind
 Cairo Island, consisting of three steam
 CTS, forty barges and about twenty
 pile drivers, valued at about S2,OO0,OOO.
 broke from their mOOrings and tlOated
 down the river. Major Ernest stated
 that he has received dispatches from
 Chester, H., to the effect that seven of
 the barges were recovered at that point.
 Two of the steamers were under full
 .F ufa sr~Ffavr kha Nank ltrnEa
 away and he thinks they will sustain no damage of serious nature. The fires of
 the third steamer, however, had been allowed to go out and she may be seri- 0usly injured before recovered, No es- innate of the total damage can be made.
 DENVER, Feb. 15.-While the board of trade were m session this afternoon they received the following telegram: "Ihe citizens of Flagstaff appeal to vOu for sId Es they are made destitute by a raging fire destroying all the business portion of the town, leaving the people without food, clothing, bedding or shel- ts-. IT you have any contributions send the same to us at once. Signed: C. Aver. Treasurer of Relief Committee. Inside of halt an hour the members of the board had provisions and clothing sufficient to fill car which will be for warded by express traIr tonight.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. Ij-The senate in executive session Thursday, the llth in- stant, confirmed the nomination of J. 4. Bsyard as secsetary Of Arizona.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. l5-The silver fight was renewed in the house commit tee on coinage, we,ghts and measures to-day. A bill entitled 'an act to mGin- tain pure silver and gold' was IntTO- duced as g substitute for all other bills l on the silver question. It provides that | as the faith Of the U nited States Is | pledged to the restoration Of silver on l au equality with gold, that the presi- | dent be authorized to make treaties with | foreign powers to open their mluts to | Tree coinage Ot silver, etc, and to ap- | point commissioners tO conduct the ne- gotta .IOns. After warm discussion the | 0Iil WGs defeated by A vote of to |. Those voting in the affirmative we're James, HemphIli, Rockwell and Scott; those voting ID the negative were Bland, Lanham. Seymour. NOTwood, McClgary, Bynum, Futile, Felton and Fuller. Mr. Hemphill to get the serse of the con-
 -ANtNN aAAAA tAA AAAl NAAAAo AAAA-E iuy sympathy with the object, moved to -epcrt iayorably on Representative Res- ,Rn's bill tO provide for free and un- united coinage of silver, the motion W as cst, eight nays and four votes in the cast by Lanham, By lum, McClesry and FeltOn; and those in he negative by Seymour, Hemphill, NOrwOod, Scott, James, Rockwell, Tut le and Fuller. Representative Byuum hen moved to report adversely on Rep Waite's bill to suspend un- Il further legislative action, so much of be act of February 2S, lsIS, as prOvld- | d for the coinage of standard silver dol l ars. MT. Bynum's motion was tied by 1
 vote of six to SIX. Representative }land, "a bill for the free coinage of | liver, and other purposes" IL provides hat holders Of silver bullion shall be ntiiled to have IL coined upon like erms with gold, and that silver dollars O coined shall be legal tender, etc It { lso provides for the repeal of the act l the purchase of silver bull ( ion io be coined monthly with standard i liver dollars. NIT. James' motion to re- ort the bill adversely vas carried; yeas , nays ,. The detaIled vote was ss fol- iNs- lchss N1l uOuTs henpLllls NOT rood, Scott, James, Rockwell and and ,uttle; nays, Lsnham, Byuum, Fuller : nd Bland. Representative James will ] lgke a majority report, and Represent tive Bland will make a minority repolt, the passage of the bill. C
 CNcISSArI, Feb. lj.-J. E. Msnni1. s lie assignee of Archbishop Purcell, who | las arrested for embezzlement and per I Iry ID default Of SllO,OOO bail, was re- .ased by Judge Johnson ot the common | leas court on a writ of habeas corpus, aii being reduced tO so 0OO and bonds len being obtained. FRESNO, Feb. 1j.-S. IP. Watson of I etaiumA arrived this evening tO ldentl- | ' the supposed Chinese murderer of | asse WIckersham and wife. it IS stat 1, l that the prisoner though very much n .sembling the murderer is not Tai c tuck. WAsHINGToS. Feb. 1j.-In the House |
 day Hanback, introduced bIll provid- ( g for the most sweeping inquiry con- |" 'rnIng charges made rejecting on the s' tegrity and official acti1n of certain {, hcers of the government ID connection ith the Pan-Electric Telephone cs1n- a