Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-04-24

SAN FRANCISCO. April 19.-Dennis | Oliver, prominent capilailst. and piC
 neer merchant of this city and who wa
 created Knight of St. Gregury wit
 St Gregory. with the title of Msrqun
 by Pope Pids ninth, died suddenly las
 night.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 19-F. R. Dray
 a member of the executive committee O
 the State Anti-Chinese Association | from Sacrament, has sent his resigna tion To the headquarters of th
 association Tn thIs cIty, givini
 as reason for his action tha
 he cannot cOnscleniiously aPprov, or support that part of the boycott def milton which prohibits the selling ana
 iesling with Chinsmer, theIr patrons and employees except where legal obli- gations exist, s'in cases of common car riers, water companies etc.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.-About two months ago a fight occurre1 in the village of Dsnville. near this place, be. tween two brothers named Weaver and a man named O'Dill. The latter wss fatally wounded. The Weaver brothers were arrested and hurried away to avoid mob violence. Last week they were re turned for trial, but their cases were continued. This morning a party of forty or more armed men surrounded the residence Ct the sheriff where the prisoners were under guard and the deputies finding 1t useless to resist, sur rendered. The Weaver brothers defend ed themselves in theIr struggle for life with revolvers which they had taken from one of the deputies. They were finally overpowered and disarmed. Ropes were placed about thelr necks and 6 proposition was made to hang them, but tramp approaching, fright ened the mob. So they fired fifteen Of twenty shots into each man and mount ing their horses rode rapidly away. The mother and wife of one of them witnessed the entire tragedy.
 NEW YORK, April 19.-A Msdrid dis patch to the Herald of thls morning says that Monsignor Nsrcissus Martin ez Esquiero, bishop of Madrid, who was shot yesterday by Csvetsno Gales, an untrocked priest, is dead. On his way to prison the assassin admitted the uccu anu rhlus Il Iccl tdu4uAf HdNc avenged my wrongs" The bishop once represented Salamanca in the senate and was brilliant orator. Although a liberal, he was made & bishop by the conservatives, because of his piety.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 19-The Cali fornia Refinery to-day advanced prices of all grades of sugar three-eights of cent.
 CHICAGO, April 19-The Lake Shore road attempted to send a freight train out from the town of Lake to-day, but ss the train began to move it was board ed by strikers who in despite of the presence of thirty policemen set the brakes and uncoupled the cars, throw ing the coupling pins away. The train was abandoned by the railroad officials. The police made no arrests.
 WASHINGTON, April 19.-In the house report under call of states. the following bills and resolutions we're introduced and referred:
 By Breckenridge ot Kenlucky--A bill approprIating S430,0O0 for military in the Territory of Alaska.
 Crane of Texas-BIll to provide for
 
 gale of public lands among the states and territories for educational purposes. House refused, 26 to 47, to refer this bill 10 the committee on labor and 1t was re- ferred to the committee on education.
 Barrovs of Michigsn-Bill to provide for the transportation of foreign mails. IL directs the postmaster general before July, 1886, and every five years thereaf- ter. to enter into contracts with the low est responsible bidders at a rate not ex ceediUg fifty cents per mile on outward trips of actual nautical miles travelled between the terminal points for the trans portation of mails of the United States between any port of the United Stat, s and ports of the Pacific and South At lantlc oceans, gulf of Mexico and Carri- bean sea. Ships with which such con- tracts shall be made shall be of Ameri- can register and manned by American crews, and contracts shall extend for the term of five years, and sll vessels SO en- gagged shall in time of war shall be sub iect to purchase or charter by the U. $. government at reasonable rates. The president is authorized to enter into treaty negotiations withthe governments ot the several countries Of Central and South America, Asia and the islands of the Pacific for a concerted support of such steamships.
 From the committee on pOstofices and post roads the rules were suspended and the bill was passed to extend inn ediBte- ly the delivery seTvIce.
 WASHINGTON, April 19.-The anounce- ment that Attorney General Garland was to appear before the telephons m vestigstion committee caused a large at- tendance this morning. It was nearly of sn hour after the regu- lar hour of meeting when the Attorney General appeared. looking pale and rather feeble. With a courteous salute to the committee he immediately took the stand and on invitation of the chairman he began to make a statement his connection with the pan electric. He wished, he said. to lay be- fore the committee and re-effirm the matter contained m bis statement to the President on October Sth last. In sd- dition he was to explain two or three points of that statement. In February General Atkins had said to witness that he believed the Rogers in- yentIons were of great utility if properly handled and that money could be made out of them. Being a poor man like himself, General Atkins had desired witness to enter into this. "I told hIm," said witness, that I had never under taken to make any money except by law and poker. had always lost at poker and generally won at law. Twas willing to go into this if I thought 1t offered any inducements" Confirming. witness said Senator Harris made substantially the same statement about the invention, and two or three weeks afterwards, be, (witness) had been introduced to Mir. Rogers and hls son at their home. He briefly told of their organization of the Pan-Electric G., ss detailed by Senator Harris and oth- CT witnesses and then turned hIs atten % ton 10 the application mRde tO him to bring suit against the Bell Company IL was an inference and not a fact, he sad, that the Psn-Electric had made the application. Witness bad on May % received letter from Rogers request ing suit to be brought. As stock holder of that company, witness had treated the Rogers letter las personal, and he knew Rogers had no authority to make the application, that such sn applies tlon must be made from the president of the company. In July, Van Benthuy-
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