Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-09-04

! OnlOn leieLTAp1 O. mas gu5b seCui uicN commnr'- -ltIOn zIth Charleston, S- C !,
 and R single wire Eas been obtained
 The oause Of the obstruction Co the
 wires mas net yet been learled. he ! Western Uuion agent ct Richmond, Va,
 taleGraphs the manager ot the New York office. saying: Our man at Charleston ia demOrali Zed. All his force has deserted but one man. He says
 there is a hig loss of life and property. l am trying 90 get something tangible.
 W4sHINGrOS, Sept I.-l0:30 Q. m | The SOu.Ee-D Telegraph C.. report the
 earit quake shock there lat night very
 severe. Several lives were lost ecd
 number of persons injured.
 LlSDoS. Sept It IS Eumored that rhe cZ47 has abandoned hii intention Of go
 ing Co Samurksra to be crowned enper-
 or of Asia, and will assume the title by
 ukase.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-Chairmar | Wblte called the demOcTatIc state con | yenticu to order ct lO$j0 c. In. Tho ! committee of permanent organization l aud order Of business have decided tnIs | morning to recommend that a majority ! of delegates voting shall c1rs'Iru:e a | uOmInGuon. The outlook before the | opening ot the convention k that there
 Eill be DO O,l!ot taken tO-dsy oE gov
 erno.. The platform, it k believed, Sill cause long and heated dIscrssiOu. l NEW YORK. Sept. IA Washington | special to the Times says Thomas Court land Manning, of Louisiana, has been | appointed Minister to Mexico. 10 sue
 ceed Jackson. of Georgis, resigned. COLUMBIA. $. C., Sept. 1.-Ai 9:iS last night thls clty was visited by terrible earthGuGke. The first two shocks ver- ! fearful. Buildings swayed from s,de c. | side and the earth rose and .ell like the waves of the ocean. The people FIshed madly from their houses ID,n tn- streets. Some sQraug from tls via ! dUws and were injured. The experi | ence of those m buildings gt the t'I. ct tue first shock was that oi 5-.L- rocked as # in Q shID et sea. Macy ,i the uost substantial buildings were shaken to their fOGGda,I1Es md ;ls walls cracked and sprung. Five mn. ntCs after he first shock second c4lle. eud ten mInu.es later third. O her shocks until :OJ B. n when tho eighth shock WAS felt a3i this one taste! f.r a
 minute and half. At f o'clock Jh.-
 morning the EInth sdJck C..u,, al ! Ht
 9 30 and 1920 our city Ess again mad
 Co tremble Very httle sleep was nad
 by any of the inhabitants of Columbia. |
 The negroes thought the cad of the l
 world had come and they held prayei 1
 meetings on the street corners.
 WAsHNGroS, Sept. 1.-PrCf. Mcndeu |
 hall of the signal serN ice has made a | study of earthquakes TOT many years l
 and has felt toe shock of number 0; l
 severe ones in Japan. He says that oi |
 last night, while not especially severe l
 was nevertheless the worst he ever ex- l perienced. HeeIpresses surprise at th, |
 wiie extent of the phenomenon, ant |
 thinks II likely thRt when the report | are all ID, II will be found that the aret l affected k larger than that of any pre- | viOus earthquake of which there is any | record. Upon a globe Zen inches ID d. | ameter. he says, one can usually cove the area ot an earthquake, even a sever, | one, with the end of his little finger | but this one seems tO have RfTecte
 half the continent and we don't knOv | how much more.
 HALIFAX. Sept. I.-The schooner How lett seiz, b; the American schooner High l land Iight for fishing wIlnIu the tnre, | mile limit of the east p0IHt of Prluc, Edwards Island This IS the first act ual seizure made for fishing.
 TIE HAGUE, Sept.-Tae great bat at SchuJzSeagen Ou the North Sea ': South Holland has been destroyed by bfe. The Casino was also destroyed l The total loss will not fsli short O SSOOOOO.
 CHARLESTON, 5. O, Sept. I.-N.tt. exceed one hundred houses Ia the cit, T.fnf d sN
 are all camped m the open places. Al l stores are closed sni a scarcity of pro visions Is tesred because no Cue can bl | . got to go Co the stores to sell them.
 H.rily a house in the city e-cspet injury Cri many are SO shaken O. cracked that hard blow would briua them Go the ground. The shock wa. severe at SCmerville and Mount Pleas ant and Sullivan Island. Pastures II some parts are noticed, from which fine . sand, apparently from a great deptb. ' ezudes. 4 sulphurous smell Is veiy noticeable.
 lt cannot be accurately estimated, but lt IS safe to place SjOOO00 as the loss During the night fifteen to twenty were killed and much greater number wounded in all sorts of ways. The los. of human life will be large and q vii lake days to get tbe accurate nun Der.
 AUGUSTA, Ga. Sept l .-A A relief trair lss been dispatched 10 Charleston from hIs city.
 NEW YORK, Sept. I-Hanian defeated Courtney 10 the boat race at Rockaway beach thIs afternoon.
 NEW 1jRE, Sept. IA dispatch says bat a J:lO o'clock thIs evening another earthquake shock was felt ct Charleston l c August ta, Gs., and Columbia. ;. 2. At Augusta the vibrations were TO- lceable for about two minutes.
 SOFIA, Sept. l-Z4UkCfi, the Russian. rho was the leading spirit m the recent evolution has been arrested and placed nder strong guard, the members of ! men have been ordered to keep him nder constant surveillance, as 1t Is cared DO may commit suicide, The evolutionary troops retreatci tJ tre eights Ot Sofa which they occupied. Le loyal troops surrounded them and
 mpelled them to surrender and then lsarmed them, placing the officers un. CT arrest.
 SHANGHAI, Sept. I-AdvIces from hing Too Foo, chief city of the pro- lnc- of Sechuen, state that the natives the eastern part of that provirce ,., D those of northern Cochin China n ave rIsen against the Christians and O. re masFacrIng them and destroying s-. lclr property. This active prosecu- VI on i5 attributed n impotence of Eo- lsh and Amerlcan missionaries. Fifty Iusiiau5 m Cochin China, bsv, .el killed, their houses burned auI q rms destroyed In Sechuen a general rt. assserc of Christians IS reported t9 m 3 ID progress and they are kiasd uher- -.5, Ter found. It Is sad that whole yiI- n1. ges "ccupIed by Christians have been 1f '-troyed. and that sll lands occupied .- professors of that faith are being tc-- t,- o!ed and devastated. The Apos., h. s'- car residence ia Secbuen has been - lrued io the ground, not a piece of rniture nor book nor paper saved - le foreign consuls barely escaped from .chuen with their hves. SAN FRASCIsCO, Sept. I-Jud % Jack n Temple of SonOna was nominated E EuDreE1n ind ga Fpr fla zI.-s ..-~- s