Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-12-18

N thinks there we're ten or twelve lives ! lost. including s colOred fireman ard | two colored chambermaids. Barry also
 reports the loss of Captain Bird, sup erlntendent of the Vandalia railroad, with his wife and daughter. Barry | knows nothing Rs to the number of | psssengers that were on board, but | thinks there were not very many. He l believes there were some women and | children on deck.
 EvideIce accumulstes that there were
 many lives lost. Some people place the
 number gt fifty.
 ST. LoUIs, Mo, Dec 1L-A special ! from New Orleans slluding to the burG- | ing of the steamer White. says: All the rescued people took a Mississippi Valley
 train for this city. arriving this noon. | Wm. Ms9reevy, chief engineer of the boat. gives the following statement of
 the disaster: At 10 10 O clock last night,
 vhlls landing at Dr. Terret's place
 above the postOffice landing, at Point ! Ciupee, at which place the boat Was ! loading cotton, the fire broke out amid
 ship, just alt. Engineers Barry snd
 Jannoy WhO were on watch gave the
 alarm and the pumps were put to work, but without avail The watchman gave
 tue alarm by ringing the bell. Clerks Callahan and Bell at once aroused the l people in the cabins. The ire spread rapIdly and m less than fifteen minutes the boat had burned to the waters edge. There were four kegs of powder m .he magazine, and the moment # reached them flames shot up about one hundred feet high. he sight was the most hear;Fendering one ever witnessed | by q human being. The shTieking of
 women aud children for help was aw- ful- He saw the superintendent of the Vandalia Route railroad standing out side If ,he ladies cabin throwing bis
 two little daughters iD the water. He
 st iod there and was burned to death
 with his wife. There we're Tn the cabin nine lady passengers and about eight
 men. Al New Texas. twenty deck
 hands were tsken on board, all of whom
 are supposed to be lost. IL is learned
 Ina. Andrew Pierce. sailor, and Antonio
 R-batta, fireman, are the ones to whom al the credit of saving ;he survivors IS
 due.
 DUBLIN. December l4-John Dillon
 appeared for himself to-day in the acti n
 brought by the government against him for agItating m Rv0r of the Plan ot the
 campaign. In his address to the court
 Dillon coutended that tue language he
 used in his speech selected ss Dasis ot
 prosecution. was unsuitable and that the l crown was Etraining the law against him.
 The judge declared that the plan oi the campaign" was clearly sud absolute ] Iy illegal. He rrdersd Dillon to give s
 bond ID the sum oi E2DO0, with two sur
 eties, for Sl0O0 each, for his good behav-
 for In the future. within twelve days, or
 90 to prison for siI months.
 LAFAYETTE, Ind .. December 1.-The | brakemen on the Louisville. New Al | bany < Chicago Railroad. today joined | the freight conductors Tn their strike, | claiming that If the conductors are en-
 titled 70 extra pay, they are entitled to
 the same,
 CIsCINSATI, December H-Eleven | hundred cOopeTs of this city and River ] side stopped work to-day because tine | pfoprietoIs refuse tO sign the scale of ! prIces prepared by the workmen. The ! scale k very full. fixing the prices for all ! classes of work and says tbat days work shall not exceed ten hours, iuclud- | ing lunch tune, with an hour of on Sat urdgy without loss of time. Efforts ] | weeks 10 reach an agreement, but have | failed
 Bo-ToN. December H. The city vote ! for mayor, with two precincts missing gives O'Brien (D) 22. SS3, Hat (K) IS.l74, McNeill (L 3572-
 SAS FRASCIsCO, December l4-Ap- plicatIon was made Co POlIce Judge Lswler today for issuance of warran for the arrest of McCord. superintendent
 uf the Sutter street railroad, for murder.
 it being claimed that he ordered the firing yesterday. The warrant was not i-sGei. the judge promising to consider the matter.
 SAS FRANCIsCo, December l4--Best 4 | B. lcher l6 30, Chollar 4.6). Crocker l % Con. Cal Virginia 34 50, Peer 70. Peer | less, G1, Oph.r l5 75 Savage ll75, Hale ]
 s NofCross Sj. Confidence, 95O, PO;osi 1 Sl. Sierra Nevada lJ, Union Cen. 5ss | UlGh s 60. Yellow Jacket 6 25
 WASHINGTON, December 1.-The en- tire morning session of the committee on | pos;ofices and post roads was occupied | i1 reading the report of Representative l Warner of Ohio on the obligahous oi | snbsidiZing railway telegraph lines. | The report Is based upon the investi- I gation ordered by the house last year under a resolution of inquiry of Repre- sentative Anderson oi Kansas. After an exhaustive srgument tLe conclusions of the subcommittee on the several points 70 I-sue are stated ss follows:
 FIrsi-ihat the obligation to con Etruct. maintain or operate telegraph lines is ;de ssme Rs the obligation tc construct, maintain or operate lIbe uf railroad.
 Sec0nd-Tbat s railroad company cannot relieve itself of this obligation and cannot transfer i: to any other company.
 Third-Tha, ss public aid can only he granted for puOhc purposes, such telegraph lines as we'll as rEilr ad lines mus; be operated for the equal benefit oi all persons without discrimination ID favor or against any oBe.
 Fourth-In order that all may enjoy [ equal facilities, privileges and the use of such telegraph lines, It is necessary thst tine same facilities and terms Es to he reception and transmission Of mes ages should be extended to one tele- ( graph lns that are granted tO another; hat m this matter there should be no cOuCediBg that subsidiz- ' IAE 10 Ah4lAohA is VI llhOc " Abucl ou4l- , -stion 10 maintain aud operate tele- , graph liue for the benefit fl Gli, 1t fol- ! ows that l; IS bound to accept telegraph k natter st the terminus of the lines iron. ,lI telegraph companies. s
 Fifth--COmuiitee finds from evidence ' lefore |; that railroads are not main $ aining and operating by themselves n .ud for the public use, telegraph lines D s required by tue several acts of con l ,Tess under which they were authorized q O build their lines. It IS held that the b outracts entered into b tween railroad ompanies and the Western Union Tel !, graph Co. by which the rights and r .rivIleges of the railroad companies E -ere transferred to the Western Union, ci rs beyond ihe scope of the law. hese b ositlons are sustained by many refer p nces to granting acts and decisions of 0, be United states supreme cOurt) pl SiIth-rhe right of the Western l I -nlon or any other telegraph compsny r D construct and operate lines ofits own } the Pacific coast Is uot questioned, D, at 1t is held that the construction of 8. ,,b Ii,.g cannot relieve tba ra,t,,.1 l n,