Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-09-08

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 HELENA Aug, 31-A disastrous prai
 rle fire IS raging in north Montana
 Several ranches have been destroyet
 and large amount of hay burned.
 OwENsBoRo Aug 3l-Yesterday Jame
 hatdesty, the principal merchant of W
 Louisville, was shot snd killed by Wm
 Murphy, a leading farmer. The csus,
 Is unknown.
 PITTsBURG Aug 3I-A general strike
 ot the flint glass workers IS expected tO
 morrow. The engineers demsnd not less
 thsn IS cents per dozen for engra Tine
 and tho manufacturers say they cannot
 pay the advance which is about fifty per
 cent on the cheapest grades of glass.
 wares. Suspension of work in New York and sll the factories ID the country is probable. About two thousand will be affected.
 TORONTO Aug 3l-It is believed that at to-morrov's cabinet meeting the pri- vileses of purchasing supplies and tran shipping cargoes ID Canadian ports will be granted American 6shing vessels and the canals will be made free to the yes sels of both countries in order to avoid the threatened retaliation.
 SCRANTON, August 3l.-A terrific eI- plOsiOn of gas secured at the collery of the Mount Pleasant Coal O., this after noon, causing dea'h and injury of a number of employees. It is impossible to learn particulars as exploring parties are hindered from entering until the danger from sfterdsmp IS over.
 MIDDLE Bass, August 3l.-Genersl Harrison will leave here on Monday Rf- ternoon, remsIng over night In Toledo and then going to Indianapolis Tuesday morning.
 CAIRO, Aug. 30-Five hundred Der wishes attacked the Egyptian fort near Wsdy Halfs and captured a portion of il. The Egyptians received reinforce ment and drove out the Dervishes kill ing more than one hundred of them. Tue Egyptian loss is l6 killed and ? wounded.
 WA.HINGToS Aug 30-The annual re- port of the commissioner of pensions shows there were during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1888. added to the pen sion rolls 60.242 new names, the largest annual increase ID the history of the bureau. There are now nearly half mIl- hon pensioners on the roll. Amount paid for pensions since 1861 has been S9G0. .3US,6iI The amount paid during the year was SIS. 775. SUP. Rn increase ov- CT the previous year of SJ, J,30S, ,2SO.
 WASHINGTON Aug 3O-Cullom speak ing on the Presidents retaliation mes | sage said it might be fairly taken As evidence that even the President had | become satisfied the treaty was s mis- He then discussed e1hsustively the | question Bs to whether the secretary of | .be treasury had not the power 10 pro hibIi shipments from Canada to United | ,trtes ports for e1portstion and held | that the secretary had the power to do this by establishing such rules and reg lla;ions as would make lt InI onvenient is to discriminsiions against American vessels. That the difficulty conld be re- moved, If It existed, by a remOnstrGtival address to the British government. It Eould be tune enough when such re- proved unsvailing for the President to apply io congress for 6ddi- Ion8l lagislRii D. The Presiden ats message he considered had been inspir- q eEisyt Eisyt dp2litlcel. s!cessiiy, and might be ance of the Democratic nomination for be Presidency. Ee said his party was ryiug to turn attention from the one ssue on winch they had s'aked their IT, lie tarih
 VICTORIA. B. C., August 30-Jose2h | Sueucer, of London, England, represent nc the Christian Temperance common gealth of that city, has BrraIpPed with he provincial authorities for the whole ,f Malcolm leland two miles wIde and .welve loug. He intends to populate his island with poor famiiIes from Eu- ,lapd. giving them honses and every hing nece say m return for $ hours Fork per day from the head of the fam ly.
 WAsHISGrox, August. 3l-Pcesident Cleveland has subscribed Sl0UOO to the | lemocrst c campai- n fund, Chairm' n Bryce and Congressman Scott S20,OOO each. Secretaries Whitney and E1dicOtt general Dickinson, Herman Dchlrichs, Oliver Payne, Chairman Bar num and Pat Kelley of Minnesota slO.- JO0 each.
 In an interview printed this afternoon Dol. Dan Lamont says Of the Presidents ,t. t.bscription, Il don't see anything very ,tsr fling sbout that story. It IS we'll xuown that the president has always ,peuly au | above board, been in the hs- bit of making such contributions as his | means justified towards the necessary | e1penses of his psrty's cam rsic whether be has been .s candidate | or office or not, and this year IS not | likely to be sn exception. The expenses | Tor documents, meetings. etc, ID ns- | tiopal campaign. covering the whole | -ountry run into the hundreds of thou | sands of dollars. Somebody must psy | and none could be expected to more | than those who are supposed | to have n personal interest ia their p IT. tvs success. The president will ss here | ofore assist the demOceati, party m , ,is manner as lar Rs he thinks far and proper iust as think General Harrison and Gen -rsl Fisk will aid the republi can and prohibition parties. l don't know what sum be will give and don't that it IS any ot my bus ness but am quite sure .thst the ST m you mention [Sl000l IS not unusually large.
 To the further question ss to whether or not the story publishe1 vas true the, Colonel refused 10 reply, siing, That is all have to say on the subject. l think the statement published to the et- feet thst such large sums lave notibeen given before IS all nonsense"
 SAN DIEGo. August 3l.-A private dispatch states that concessions have been granted the Trount Tecsrte Land and Water Go, for the construction of seven monster reservoirs on ihe border line or in Lower California to hold water from a watershed of twelve hundred square miles, or sufficient to irrigste one hundred thousand acres of land ID this county aad Lower California. ltis estimated that the works will cost three and half million dollars.
 DENVER August 31.-The deep water today rescinds the action to hold the next convention at Topeka and left the matter with the committee on permanent organization. A resolution was adopted fsvoring a memorial to congress urging the construction by The government of & system of reservoirs Tor the storage of water on western lands, the same to be under state control, vas adopted and the convention adjourned.
 MORALES, August 3L-A man living south of Nogsles, Sonora, this afternoon
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