Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-11-10

 set and before sending the letter that the object was not to perpetrste a joke or to satisfy curiosity, but to get Min ister Vests opinion on the topics em' brsced in the letter. Murchison's let ter was dated Sept 4th, and Vests re- ply Sept. 13. The minister's letter was IeceIved at Pomona Sept 20th and kept by receIver from Sept, 2Oth till Oct. 18th, a full mo ith, when it was brought to Los Ange es by W. A. Ball the city attorney of Pomona, ard laid before W. F. Fitzgerald, member of the state republican committee; Heury T. Gage, deligste-st-la-ge to the Obi cagO convention: C,l. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, and one other person, the latter local candids.e. It wss unanimously de- termined by these five persors to make the letter public without delay, and copies of Ihe correspondence Nes first made by Judge Fitz. and sent the same day to the republican stste com mittee with sn explanation of the circr -n- stances. Chairman Quay, of the ns'iCn- al republican committes at the same time was notified by Judge Fitzgerald. Vests letter wss first made public Oct. 2lst in Los Angeles. The Times ss soon as practicable had the letter photo grsphed and about Oct. 25;h the oriei- nal was sent to Chairman Quay of the National Repub' can committee in sn- swer to his telegrsphic request.
 FRESNO, Cal., Nov. 2-At the adjourn ment of the afternoon session of the supreme court in the case of Hitchcock ys. Cruthers, while the stairway vas filled with people, Henry HsrdwIck, 6 witness for the defendant, met Robt. Sronce and shot him. Sronce ran to the head of the stairway and fell. West Sronce, a brother of Robert, from the head of the stairway shot Hardwick. The latter turned and several shots were exchanged. West Stronce IS un- injured. The other two the doctors say will probably die,
 SAS DIFGo, Nov. 2.-Mrs Alexander Sucy, who came here from Phenix last JHly, attempted to commit suicide last night by taking chlorsl st her room at the Minneapolis House. A lady friend her and summoned a physi- elan who saved her life. Among Der ef- fects was found a note in which she stated she was tired of fife and she in- tended to kill herself by soms other means if the chlorsl did not have the desired effect. IL stated domestic trou- ble was the cause.
 WAsHISGToS, Nov. 2-The Treasury in accordance with the usual custom, authorized free entry of the articles recently imported at Baltimore for Lord Ssckville West, British minister. The application of Minister West was received at the treasury department for such privilege last Tuesday, the very day on which ihe President informed him of the sever arce of their official relations.
 ZANZIBAR, Nov. 2-Couriers from Ta- bora bring direct news from the Stanley expedition, portion of which was me; by Arabs trading between lakes Victoria, Ayanza and Tsbors. They did not See Stanley who was TWO days ahead of the They had suffered greatly on march and many had disappeared or died. Forty were drowned in crossing the great river which flows in 6 wester- ly direction. and one white man had died, Stanley had been obliged to fight some tribes thst refused to supply him with provisions. A part ot the 6 cort who hsd been attacked with fever had delayed the march. The Arabs estImst- ed the total strength of the expedition after al. losses es 25O men. The rear guard stated that Stanley had decided to strike towards the North, sfter get tIng a certain distance north he intend- ed to ts';e sn oblIque line eastward and go straight to Wsdelsy, at which place it WAS thought he would arrive about the middle of JsDue ". It will be re- d that on August lst informs- tiou WIS ceived from Zanzibar that two messengers had arrived there who left about ihe beginning of April end wbo epor ed that stanley hsl not sr- rived at Wsdelsy up to ths, time.
 HUNTINGTON. Nov. 2-Senator John ST CT nan spoke to sn audience of ten thousand people here to-day despite the rain. Senator She lan said that the promise of the democrats that they would distribute the vast sums sccumu- lated in the treasury among the people if they came -nto power sgsin, did more than any thing else to influence the cleo ton in Inc an" They had promised evil service refo. IT, ieconomio sdminis- tration Gnd a reduction of taxes, and the people of Ind 'Fo os had turned their backs on the democratic party, but he no longer had any doubt about them on the subject of surplus, He said it could have been avoided had the democratic party utilized the monsy for the redemp tion of bonds.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2-The steam wfsler ThrEsher arrived from the Ar ctic this afternoon and brought information that the l3 whslers with thelr crews of about 500 men which had been eau. ht in the foe pEck of last September were safe. The Thu 7her IS one of the vessels that str ied on a relief expedition as soon 6s the news of distress of the whsl- CTS was brought to ODnslFsks. The Thrasher could not get near the endan- gered vessels on account of the ice, but on Oct. 2nd after the vessels had been imprisoned days a gale sprsng up and the ice began to b.esk. The whaling captains then took final opportunity 10 release their vessels and in a day or two all were safely out of the ice and on then way to the whaling rendezvous.
 NEW YORK. Nov, 3-Republ.can busi. ness mans parade started from Battery at one this afternoon. On the way up Broadway as the bankers and brokers divisions passed up the other divisions fell in from the side streets At half past two sbout twenty thousand men were in line. The rain of the mornins 6 continues but the msrchers do not seem 10 mind it. As not much over one quarter of the divisions have yet fallen ID lIne probably seventy-fve thousand will pass in rev Jew before the republican candidate for governor.
 At head of procession YVES 6 truck drawn by F horses bearing a model oi the steamer Dolphin. Along side were 75 men in seamen's uniform who cari ed banner i scrIbed
 DEMOCRATS KILLED
 JOHN RoAcH
 but his spirit goes marching on."
 OLTAwA, Ont. Nov. 9.-Aocording tC the returns received by the department oN arr,.-Ik-,a ovar tU0 hupHrad MOr-