Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-12-08

| ter one of the leading lawyers of thIs
 city who has been ill for number of
 months. died st San Rafael at 2 o'clock
 thIs morning.
 NEW HAVEN, Dec. 1.-Two days sgo John R. kiag, lsw student. was mur- dersd ss subsequently, developed by Geo
 Donovan. Donovan disappeared and
 thIs morning his body was found in a re- servoir. The motive for the murder and suicide oould not be determined.
 WMHIsGToS. Dec. 1,-The President to-day appointed Chss. E. Vsndever of
 Indiana, agent of Indians at the Navajo agency. New Mexico.
 FL RESCE, ATE. Nov. 30-Henry Mil Ter siIas Henry Brown, sus )ected of stage robbery and now in jail at thIs place, made tull confession this morn ing ot his guilt. saying that be was in- spired by the success of others ID that line In this territory and Gala, and told where t5e SuDs and masks were. He robbed l.. J. NJ. Hurley end the doEn stage to Casa Grsnde last Friday after noon and rified the mail and express.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 30-A furry occurred on the board of trade o-day on receipt of advices from San Francisco, inquiry being made there for wheat for Austrs- lia on account of almost 6 total fsillre of the crop ID the southern part of that country. Some weeks ago commercial papers reported damage to Australian wheat but this IS this first intimAtion that the damage was serious.
 DETROIT, Nov. 30-Christ Rule, one o the miners ID the level of No. 2 shsft a the Cslumut & Hesla mine, says ths sbout II o'clock last night he smelled smoke and called the attention of the others to it. Two men immediately traced it to No. 3 shaft which was found all ablaze. One Of them then made an attempt to turn on water but there was none, and be states that if there had been water 1t would have helped mat ters. Upon seeing this tine men came to the surface. Nothing further is known of the whereabouts of the eight | men who are missing, they were working 100 feet deeper iD the main engine | ssft and 1t is supposed were smothered l Tn an tempt 10 escape.
 CALUMET, Mich. Nov. 3O.-A fire was discovered ID the Calumet and Hecla | mines this morning. The fire made rapid | hesdwsy, and sll the men made rush tor | tue surface. but eight are missing. That | they are dead is certain. The mine is | completely covered with the dense | smoke. The fire looks worse than 1t did | last time but being nearer theisurfaceIit | IS believed the damage financially will | not be o great. The company are making desperate l efforts to control the tlsnes and rescue l the miners, but 1t looks as if the case was hopeless. The men are all cornish men. The scene about the mine is heart | rendinE. The fsmilIes of the men are | cogniEsnt of the extreue likelihood of | the men never comeing out alive and 70 | their grief and lamentations are added | the most frantic confusion on part of | all except the trained employees of the | company.
 PLAcERvILLE Gal. Nov. 3O-John II. | Meyers was hu 2 at 1,l4 o'clock thIs af- terroon for the murder of John Lowell | on the 24th lest Msrca. Olsen and | Drsger who were convicted with Meyers | took Gn appeal 70 the supreme court yes | terday aud Meyers had to pay the pen alty Of hls crime alone He remained ip | an apparent r-aconsciOus condition all | the morning and when the time came | for the march to the gallCws he was lead | ont of the !aibto the scsffold by two dep | uties crying aud holloving sll the time. | He was not abe to stand while the straps | were being ao yusted and wss held in on | erec. position antIl the trap was sprung. Hundreds of people witnessed the exc cution from the isil yard and neighbor- ing house tops.
 WAsHEGToo, Nov. 30. - Secretary Whitney presented bis annual report 10 the President. After giving 8 brief re- view of the condition of the navy as it will exist on the 4th day of Merch 'S9. ID comparison with same ss it existed on tte 4th of March 'S5, and furnishing a list of the sTmorcd vessels heretofore authorized by Congress-. the secretary says, "So far Bs RrmOred ships are con- cerned the subject is yet to be treated in broad way by the department and congress. At present time the condI- tiops suct that everything necessary to first class fighting ship can be pro- duced and furnished to the department in this county. but this never until the present timehss been true, Therefore consideration of the subject has been necessarily postponed by the depart ment until tbe present time. The efforts of the department ID ship construction have necessarily since March 'S5 been devoted to u1srmoTed vessels and as to others the department is sble to report that when he ships in course of con s.ruction and those authorized shall be completed, tbe U. s. will rank second among nations in possession of unar- mored cruisers.
 It is gratifying to be able to report, says the Secretary, that nOtwithstGnd- ing the lsrgeexpenditures for new navy m the last ttree years, the reduction ID other directions made of total expendi- lures of the department IS less for these years than sor the three years ending June 3O 'S4, The ordinary expenses of the department hsviDg been reduced over 20 per cent. Total expenditures of the department for three years ending June 30. 'S4 compared with three years ending June 30, 'SS were s47 ,979,39 and s46. S3O,6S0,
 The estimate for the navy and marine corps for the current fiscal year amounts to S240B. .624- Those for the next fiscal year S26. 6.757677. Appropriations for current fiscal year Sl9,942.4s
 LONDON. Nov. 2s.-Valery wiede- mann, German governe 6. has brought suit against Robert Horace Wslpole, heir presumptIve to the esrldOm of Oxford, for SlO.0OO dsa ages for breach of prom ise and libel. Sheisllsges thAtI met her in Bulgaria, and made her sn offer of marriage. then betrayed her afterwards and discarded her. and now repudistes the paternity of her child.
 PHILADELPHIA. Ps. Nov. 2s.-The jury ID the case of Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiting, who hss been on trial for the past few days on charge of causing the death Ot her nine-yesr-Old daughter by sd- minis,euug pOison fn April last, brought in verdict of murder in the first degree this evening, after being out two hours. The crime of vlich Mrs. Whiteling WAS tired was one of 6 series of three, with which she is charged, the sl.ey tion being hat she not Only mardeFed her daughter Bertha, but also her husband John WhiIeling aged &, and :heiF baby boy, William O. N hiteling, aged two years, and collected infurances on the lives of her victims amounting in the aggregate to over S35 900 The wife