Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-04-21

shorter and shorter. eDd be added that there was a general wasting away Of the vital power.
 MT. ConklipR's brother Gust came out of the house and said the pstient was not dead but was dying. The re port Of his death a; S:l9 was on the strength of a ned from 6 professional nurse who appeared st the door at the time and was Ia ked II COnkiing was dead.
 Col. Fred Conklug has come out of the house and he says positively that Conkling is not dead. bnt can't live IF house. This Is the official announce mens st D. m-
 Dr. Barker called at 1O:5O o'clock and remained until II o'clock, he sad MT. Coukling was failing rspidly. his extrem- ities were becoming cold. His legs were auite cold nearly all the way up, bis res psra,ion very quick and he did not think l OonkIlug could live much longer, in fact he did not think he would live tEo hours he was suffering from & general failure | of the nervous system.
 COnklIng died at 50 a. m.
 DoxNIEvILLE, Cal, April 17.-An old pioneer named John Barton was found dead yesterday nesr this town. His chest was entirely gone and the contents were blogu away. He was inning alone and it is supposed committed suicide by placing cartridge oi gisn. powder on bis chest and exploding if.
 SAN FRASCI co ApIil 1.-The arrival of a steamer tbs morning from floDOlu | iu brings the pews that the sugar crop is being rapidly hbrv, siei. It is now es- timated that the crop will be about the same ss last year, CT one hundred thou sand tons.
 The laying of the Pacific cable is tue one subject wbicbIs being talked of in he Orhavaysin isisDds.
 Hooolulu hes 5yices from New Zs- lspd stating that the surveying ship E 4eria will probably soon begin snrvey- ing & cable rlute. She will begin Rt New EZeiAnd aud proceed 10 Tonga. | Sandwich Islands and from thence tO | Vancouver B, c. A belt two hundred miles wide will be examined. The task will occupy from two to three years.
 WAsHNGroS, April l8.-Tbe house passed bill creating Department of LsbOr.
 NEW YORK, April ls.-Dr. Agnnw died this afternoon.
 SAS FRASCIsCo April 1S-A disastrous fire which is believed to have been ia cendisry occurred at Senator StaDford's stables st PnlO Alto last uight. Che whole row of stsblss gBs consumed and out of twenty hOrses thirteen are dead or wlll.have to be killed. The following horses are among the number: RixfOrd five years old, record 22i; Maiden three years old, record 223; MOrlsine yeariing with fastest yearling recoTdsiD world, ,23l also the colts Emma Robertson, TFOL ba- dors, Lowell and Howard. MsnzlsnIta record 2l6 and Palo Alto record 22O i, were badly buIDed and IL is believed she latter will die, O-e valuable hor-e was was burned SO badly she will have tO be killed. Itwas believed last night that Aymer and Hinds Rosa had blso per ished. The latter was valued at over twenty-five thousand dollars. Tee total loss l. believed to be two hundred thou sand dollars.
 NEW YORK, April 19.-The funeral services over the dead senators remains will be held Friday morning in Trinity chapel on 24th street. Rev. Morgan J. DIX will officiste, assisted by other clergymeD. Friday afternoon the re- mains will be taken in special train to | Utica, where funeral services will also be held in the late residence of the dead ex-senstor.
 NEW YoBK, April lS.-A Rio Janerio letter give sn aGOO1ut ot the poisoning 1 of Indians on the frontier of Ssta Paulc. 4 certain Joaquin Burns, with sD armed T .-n 2. T..l out of the village and then poisoned all their food and drInk. According 10 Burns own statement be found on hIs ranch 8 few days later. three thousand | cOrpses. He slso bOssted that he had poIsoned eight hundred Indians in another village snd was about repeating the outrage in other places.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 1s,-The 1S.h annual convention of the medical. so- ciety of the state of California began here this morning, l25 members regis tered their names.
 WASHINGTON April lS.-In tLe discus- sion on the admission Ot DskOts Sher- man showed by the vote in the senR,e that .he electoral commission bill was not repu blicsn but democratic meas ure. Twenty-six democrats votIng for 1t and only tWenty-One republicans. fourteen republicans including himself, and one democrat Eaton of Connecticut, voting against if. He declared that Hayes had been fGIrly elected and that II Iildou had been inaugurated 1t wOuld have been illegally. In speaking of the Louisiana elections Sherman said thR. the democrats not Only by fraud and violence sought tO control tbe pre- sidential elections. but had actually suc- cseded in deprivinR oi u, IF offices a du- | ly elected Governor ard members of the legislature. When 1t was saId to b. white mans government ID Louisiana, it neaJt an un republican government. He said be felt called on to make these | remarks on party sO correct histcr;cal errors into which many people had foil CD. Not only did the returning board of Louisiana have sufficient evidence be- fore them of fraud. violence and outrage in the election of 1876. but the present | Governor of the state and it's senators had confessed all Hnd more than had ever been claimed by the returning board, Sherman oontinued bis defense | of Hayes election and s general srrsign- ment O,t the authorities of the southern | rthtes O. lutlmllhtluR tue uekfO NOtrrS. He was listened to vlth profound stten- | tion.
 Vest said be still denied the honesty and integrity Of shat election; He ask ed why every man connected with the returning board in Louisiana had been rewarded with an office. He criticised saIcssiically the sentiment 1prCssed by sherman ID two recent speeches al Nashville and Springfield. At the risk of the senator's contempt l will cay that the American Ieople wIll never be satis- fed with the explanation made to-day, but that like James G. Blame they have already come to the conclusion that tits impossible Ter be in u y of the sena- tor from Ohio to explain why 1t was that & vote Of LouIsisps, as returned by ths returning board, was good for the pur- pose of giving the electoral vote of Louisiana to Hayes for president but not good for the purpose of gIvIng 1t to Packard for governor
 Sherman Tecited his former sentI- ments and said as far as Packard was conc rned ibat President Hayes he'd DO power on the returns ecu. to tee legls- lature,