Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-08-25

man seemed to enjoy the experience. Passing Marine CIty at midnight the dock was illuminate and cannon. hu- man voices and steam whistles spoke 8 greeting, At St Clair rockets and Ro- Insn candles were set of and peopl cheered heartily. ThI5 afternoon the party again boarded the boat for Port Huron where Thurman speaks this Ef- sernOon.
 SAN FRAScIsoo, Aug. 22-An un- known steamer was sugk by the steamer Oceanic from Hong kong and YOko- mama at ten o'clock thIs morning, of Fort Point, just inside the entrance to the barbor. IL IS almost certain that the steamer suok is City of Chester. which sailed for Eureka, Ca i'O mia this morn ing with a large number of passengers on board, The Oceanic had her boats out saslng passengers. The steamer San Rafael aud tugs hays gone to their assistance. Several lives are reported lost.
 LIrKR:-The Merchants EIohaage has received information that 10 persons are drowned. The probabilities are that the loss of fe will bs considerably above that figure.
 SAs FRASc1soo August 22.-Best & Belcher, 325. Crocker, 0 70; Ohollar, gro; Con. VIreinis, 7Sl; Confidence 1925; Gould < Curry, 275; Hale & Norofoss, 47O.; Locomotive, 10; Peer, 40. Peerless, I.20; POtosi, 255; Ophir, 575; Savage, 202 Sierra Nevscs, 29O, Uni9n Con. 4O5: Yellow Jacket. $50
 SAN FRASCIsCo. August 22-Fron, the test information obtainsols from Zee steamship officials to-nighs ii i- thou2 ht that all of the passengers snd crew have been accounted for except the following who are believed to be los::
 Cabin Psssengers-G. W. Anderson, Oakland; Mrs. s. F. PrSther, San Die 4o, Mrs. c, H. Hensy, Eureka; J. O. Hampton snd wife. Virainis Ci , New; c. T. Davis, Spnug6sld Cal. and Miss DsvIs his peice. J Green, Nspa, Gal; Mrs. Ne sch and Mir Porter.
 Ccew-E K. Chambers. Seward: Robert Feltoa and Adam Richmond. vsitera
 C, ;, Arthur, purser of the OcesnIe, Ess writing in bis cabin when he wss aroused by the sharp blasts or the vhis ile. lie ran on deck and arrived there i1st ss the collision took place. He says the s~enes on the deck of the Ches- ter were perfectly hear,Tending T3e greatest confusion prevailed and up- douotedy lives were lost from thls cause. The boats of the Ooesnis were m tue water within a couple Of minutes and live preservers were thrown 70 those struggling ID the water. Scarcely fvo minutes elapsed after the accident untll the Chester turned over like box snS saDk, the boilers exploded when the water reached the fire.
 The city of Chester was @ staunch iron steataer which hsd been ID the coast trade for many years and uss built st Chester, PennEy iu Anis, in 1SI6. + was the property of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company and formerly rsn tn Portland, OsegOn. Her length vas POP feet. beam 8 feet, depth l6I feet. fer net tonnage was 1855 and her gross tonnage llO6, She was valued at $l5O.OOO and was insured in San Fran cisco and eastern companies for about half that sum.
 WAsHISGroS, August 23-The Presi- dents letter of acceptance will be gwen tO the pubic during the uext few days, There has been a good deal of talk about Mir. Cleveland wanting to see what kind Of tGTif measure the senate finance committee would recommend before ne announced his acceptance of the St. Louis nomination. Ihsre is nothing at all in this talk. as Mir. Cleve- lsnd clearly indicated in 8 conversation which he had a few days sgO with member Of the senate from Kentucky The impression left upon the senator was that Mr. Cleveland would Rbou, the middle or lAster part Ot thls week. pub fish hIs letter to the winds, and also fur iher, thB. it world be very short-much shorter n fact than was his first letter of acceptance, which, it will be remeu- qered violated all precedents ID being only little over half & column long.i
 PORI HURON Aug. 22-At Pine Grove Park large crowd attended the exer- cises in honor of Judge Thurman. The Judge in the course Of his remarks de- fled any man who had regard for truth 70 say thst Grover Cleveland has not made a good president. A brave, intel iigept. ls lel-besdei, noble man. he hss had clean and upri ght and successful administration. He asked where IS the ruIn and dIsgra"e tbst was predicted vCuld follow Clevelan1s sleouon m 1884, On the contrary the country had never been more quiet, prosperous and peaceful for many yesrs. Judge Thur msn lhen spoke at some leugih On the "a fl and said the Democratic party be lIeved the way tO treat che people hon estly, fairly aud wisely IS to tske no mors taves 0u. fl the peoples pockets than the government actually needed.
 MILWAUKEE Wis. August 23 The hrra saN Ma Int naah, Wis, exploded st an early hour this morning killing 16 pereons and in j1riuR 1S others. A fire broke cut in she mil sbgut midnight. Fifty men were si work Iu tbe building a. ths time bu, made their escape. A crowd of seveFs hundred crowded arou1d the building and wssn the flames were at thsIr beighih She explosion of the boilers oc- cured. The root was thrown upward | a, bricks scattered in every direction. | Scores ot people were buried under the | debris. As soon as the frat cuufuEiOu | had subsided the work of removing the | dead snd injured commenced, The l aupber cf the dead IS eighteen. six fa- islly inbred and 8 number of others | more or less seriously hurt.
 After the roof fell firemen turned the |
  blesohes which were separated and sr explosion followed. Tho bleaches were carried two hundred feet across a tram. way where most of the people were standing, moving them down like grass IL passed about as high As 6 mans head. and most of those killed and incurred were struck by It op the head
 WAsHISGroH, August 23-The House resumed consideration of t1e conference report on the army appropriation bill, snd after some discussion as to vhether the rights ef the House had been lnva- wade by the Senate and thst the com mittee on military af airs had been guilty of trssPsss oD tbe tight of another The conference report wss rejected by vote of B to 6I. The House insisted on is disagreement to The senate amendment.
 SAN FRASCIsCo Aug 23-The latest estimate Gf the loss ct lie in yesterdays steamer disaster places the number at saIrtesn, Large crowds corgregsted sbou! the morgUe this morning in e1- pectation Of finding more bodies. but DO more were recovered. Nothir 2 hss been done towards holding sn inquest