Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-01-09
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 leaving on every train, twelve havirc
 bough. tickets iast night. IL IS probable
 that before the 18th of January, the day
 set Tor their final de.artarc, Truckec
 will be rid e It's Chinese curse.
 DETROIT. Mich. Jan A fro broke
 out yesterday morning In the immense
 seed establishment, Of D. 1- Ferry 6 Co.
 on Brush street. 9 hc fire spread so quickly that ali the adjoining bull .iI: 'H
 were developed in flames. Wmte's Grand the6tCr wGs one of the buildin g-s destroyed. The total losses VII Trob-
 ably reach a million and a half, of Inch
 Ferry's {, Co.'S loss alone IS close cn tO a
 million. Their seed establishment was
 one or tae largest in the United States.
 Several iiremen were injured and Cap
 tain Richard Fil!0on was struck on the
 head by falling bricks aud instantly
 killed.
 ! WASHINGTON, Jan 2.-The Presiden.s
 New lesEs day reception wss one Of .hc
 most brilliant and largely attended of
 any before in this city. IL Is estimated
 that over six thousand people shook
 hands with the President during the re- cepti0n. The President lowered the re-
 cord of hand shaking and Tn nine min
 utes shock hands with 274 people, or
 about 3t minute. The highest num-
 her prayiu,~iy shaken by President On l New Years day was by President Grant,
 wLrn he grasped the hands of 2S per
 ons minute for i3 minutes.
 CHIcAGo, Jan. 1.-Two new cases of small pOx were discovered yesterday in
 .Ee persons Of a mother and daughter, asaha N- FOEt Wayne train. The uniortuEatss left Queenstown, Ireland, on the steam or Spain. and arriving in New York bought Transportation for Joliet, m this state. Tle mother, however, Wes sick before she !ei' New York and yesterday morning ihe train officers discovered
 that she was afflicted with small pox. She was then delirious and could r-ithcr give her name nor tell where she contracted the disease. As her daUgh- Fer, who WAS also discovered to be Ill.
 was only eight years oll and too fright tLei tc E, coherent. she was useless Rs a source If information s1d nothing l c1uii be learned of their destination but what their tickets and the marks of
 their baggage indicated. They were tt ones taken to the hospital and every | psecsuiIon had to guard others from the ContaCion, but how man: of the passcn- l gers or the same train were exposed Is
 not kuowE. and II IS feared naOre cases
 wiil resGi--
 SACRAMENTO. Jar. 3.-On Thursday, ! N.s. D. Slater, a widow, went to the 5:ore uf Brewster d C., gt Ga!t, to pay ! uT a Si,3I1 mortgage on her property. ! No member of the firm being present,
 he left 're money with Frank \. ! Thompson So clerk Ncs.uildy Ilon9- son left the city, taking tle com with ! him. Hc has been n the employ Of the firm for numb 2 of years.
 CIsCIsSArL Jan. 4-A daring and I unique robbery took pla.e on Harrison | Pike just outside the city limits at an ! early hour Sunday morning. ;he bur | glars beIng mC:e boys, .hO We're masked and conducted themselves in regular dime novel style. Theodore Wolff lives 10 9 small house, Iitie apart rom hls house asleep. oue was dNahehtu " knock at the front dCOr accompanied by | the summons. "open the door, or We VIII | break lt down: We are robbers, anu then while the woman almost tainted with fright, tie threat was executed | ard the marau5crs stood before her. w here ls your money and yonr silver ware," demanded enc of the robbers. The woman detected the | voIcs-of a boy attempting to speak | like a man. She refused to give up the yaiuables and one of the Tuffians threw her mon the floor and choked her, while | ;he other went through the house scat terirg everything right and left and shoulderlng and packing whatever | .l- |. Na... IH.aHn
 been thoroughly rified the two youths made gcod their escape and have not vet been arrested, nor IS the identity of either known to Mrs. Wolff. When MT.
 Wolff returned, scarcely hall and hour
 after the robbery had been committed, he found his wife nearly overcome with
 fear and she has been dans erously Ill
 ever since.
 | CHIcAeo. Jan. 4.-The severe snow
 and sleet storm which has been raging
 throughout the northwest since SRtnr- day has sadly inteTfered with the tele-
 graph wires in all directions. All lines
 vest of here are down and commuRlc'- tion with the east IS very uncertain. A dispntch received from Sioux City, Iowa,
 last night. reported n blizzard there. Des Moines and Omaha also reported heavy snow storm, and second dis- patch reported the same throughout , Minnesota and Dakota.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Jan. 4-State Con- , troller Dnnn came down from Sacramen. i to yesterday to examine the accounts ol
 I N. McCarthy, clerk of the supreme . court. who departed suddenly on the . steamer St. Paul, bound for Honolulu . The Investigation shows SO far a detci' 2 oF SI2345. This amount represents . none. winch he, as clerk, was author x ized to draw from the state treasury tt , meet the payments for the supreme : cou-t exuenscs. The lOss, whatever Il U may be. "a .!l fall on the individuals t' = whom tie debts were due, and not or fine state. The irregular way m whlci : NcCsrthy kept hIs accounts will rende ' it difficult to establish what sums nav
 beeu paid by him unless the voucher
 ran he found. An investigation ls alsI ' coIng on at Sacramento md seveTG
 davs will be required to tind out any ,, thing near the exact state of his aii8lrS D, SA. FRAScI-ro, Jan. 4-The probat y of the viii nf tEe late Senator SbarCl .e vss called up before Judge COiiey to 10 day. Judge Tyler was present an Is when the case was called he arose m s. said: "On behalf of Inc divorced vii y of Wm. Sharon, deceased, desire at protest against the probate c f. line will" Mr. Tyler then read ly protest Tn which he set forth that Sara ct Althea Sharon, who was interested ly the estate of Sharon, contested the prI 7e bate of the will of the deceased on tn th ground that Sharon, prior to his deatl IT, revoked his will by executing t. trust deed. whereby he disposed ot or his property. real, personal sn
 mixed, wholly inconsistent Wit
 the will DOW offered es his last te
 timony. It is said the attorneys f'
 Sarah Althea Hill do not desire to s' ,o aside the will, but have taken tn ~ course to bring the matter into court !: order that they may stand chance ''1. inyalidAte the deed ot trust which al h ha poses of about ST., 100000.
 to NEWARK, \. J, Jan. 3-This sfte he noon fire was discovered in the easter ed front wing of the insane asylum, slt ,u- sted two miles from the city. II ve flames shot up the chute to the sit ,er and in 6 few minutes it was a seetnii Ir mass of flames. The wing was SIX hu -Na.-- -a.-a =