Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-11-24

ISDIANAP LIS. Nov. l5-rhe noTnin sessiOn of the Knights of Labor wss dc voted to further rePorts snd routin business. There vss time for but tv reports before sdi arnment. Thos from Povderly and ex-Secretsry Litch man. Povderiy's report took hour and Litchman one hour and twent minutes. General Master Workman POEderly in hIs annual report says tha for l9 years the order of the Knights o Labor has maintained existence ID thl face of circumstances most discoursg ing and dIshesrtening. Referring to th' decrease of membership and its cause b, said the laws and principles of tht Knights also swept thousands into pov erty and forced them from the order The political campaign which has jus closed and in which members and as sembhes were pitted against each o:hel to the detriment of the lays and rules of order further tended to increase the | falling of of the members, yet sll these trials resulted in good for the order. He denied anything like official dishonesty inviting a thorough investigation and examination of his books and accounts He ssid that those who control our pub lie highways are reaching out with q hand of steel to control the government itself, and it is battle for supremacy. He recommends special commission oJ three to investigate these questions and further recommends the formation of junior assemblies for educating young working people; also favors changing the time for holding the general assem- bly,. believing it often comes too near election time when the deliberations of the assembly may not be 90 productive of good ss st some other period. In his report Secretary LItchmsn's report was appended ss part of the records and resolutions adopted that it would be i'm polite tor any body of men 10 form a convention to wait on the President elect, Harrison, ss Knights of Labor.
 OMAHA, Nov, 17.-Henry W. King Jr. of the firm Brewing King & Go. was shot dead by former wife this morning. The house with which he was connected IS a branch of the Chicago House Henry w.. King < Go.
 Young King had been boarding at the Psston Hotel with 6 woman ostensibly his wife. At 730 this morning & lady like woman arrived fram Chicago and registered as Mrs. H, W. King Jr. She proceeded to her victims room, calling hIm to the door, a conversation occurred. she uptraidIng him while he urged her go away and leave him. He finally re- pulsed her roughly and started for the elevator. She followed and oyer taking him drew a revolver snd shot him in the mouth. she fired three more shots when he fell down the stairs leading to the rotunda dyIng immediately. She rush ed after hIm and sobbed I've murdered my husband"
 CHICAGO, Nov. l7-Inquiry by the As sociated Ere st ihe store of Henry W. King & Co, wholesale dealers in cloth ing, elicited the information thst 6 dis patch had just been received from Oms- hs which confirmed the report in regard to the killing of Henry W. King, Jr., son of the senior member of the firm, but beyond that nothing was known. city, both socially and financially. Henry W. King. Jr., was about 30 years of age. A few years ago he contracted Gn unfortunate marriage but subse- queptly a divorce was secured.
 Henry W. King. ST., says the womsa who shot his son was not his former wife but a woman named Mrs. Burchler, whose .s hone E Ra! in Gabeaf0 h5s Ihs oause
 Mrs. Burchler who committed the mur der lives in the fashionable quarter of the north side where she has a child f years old. IL appears, according to the statement of the servant. the only per son left in the house, that Burchler Is,an alias and that the real person for whom II stands is Henry w. King Jr. The ser want declares that King has not been there for six weeks aud that on Thurs day Mrs. Burchler or king,frst heard be wss going to marry 6 Miss Duffy and be- came much excited and lefs the city yes terdsy. Of late she complained of young King neglecting her and went to her husbands father and demanded that the young man support her proper ly. Kings first wife disappeared after the divorce and her attorney says she IS now In Europe studying for the operstic stage.
 ST LoUIs-The marriage of Henry ". Kiag Jr. was announced in LOcisisns, Mo. Nov. 1st, The bride, A lice Duffy, is 6 daughter of the late Hon. H. c. Duffy 8 member of ths legislature some years since.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 17-Admirsl Bald win died st noon to-day.
 WAsHISGToS, Nov. 17-Represents- tive Perry Belmont of the first New York district, has been rendered and &C., cepted the appointment of United States minister to Spain to succeed J. L. Mo Curry resigned.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The heavy whole sale clothing firm of Llndsuer Bros. IS Co. filed confessions of judgment to- day Rgaregsting SlSl,652. The firm is regarded ss one of the largest wholesale clothiers iu the country. Assets, S5O0,- 000; liabilities, S6OO,OOO.
 IATFR-The suspension of Lindsur Bros. * O., wholesale cloihiers. was precipated by the premptory refusal of II. A. Holm, a well known fetired cap italist of this city to renew the firms note for Sll0.00O, They employed about two hundred hands in the msnufsctur- ing department and these employees had about S25O0 deposited with the firm which was covered ID confession of iudg- ment. The firm expect to resume busi- ness in lJ days.
 SAS FRANCIsco, Nov. l9-In the case of Wm. H. NJ. Stanley. claiming 10 be the son of Big Bertha, the well known confiderce operator, and who was tried here today on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses from Hen " Parsons ieweler from whom he ob- tsined slSC0 worth of diamond iewelry by misrepresentingh his ability to pay. The jury returned s verdict of guilty af ter ten minutes deliberation. Big Der tha vIll be tried on 8 like charge Mon day.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. l6-The annual report of chief of construction Wilson of the navy. shows that sSS5,349 has been e1pen Jed in the repair of ships, purchase of tools. etc, snd s3, ,266, ,ls5 ID construction. The strength and condI- ton of the navy is ss follows Five dou ble turreted monitors awaiting comple- ton, two belted cruisers, preparing 13 single turreted monitors in ordinary, g unsrmored steel and iron vessels. of which are in commission. II building. 2 repairing, on station and in ordinary & wooden steam vessels nearly all on