The Arizona champion., 1888-05-12

Sweden has levied an import duty of 62 cents on smoked pork and D cents on plain pork, Seventy-fve per cent of pork imported into Sweden is from the United States. It is definitely asserted that the line from Fl Paso to White Oaks, N. Mex, will be operated by the Southern Pa- cifc Company. The contract for build ing it has been awarded to Morris k. Lock.
 The great tunnel through the Gas cade mountains, on the Northern Pacific road, has been completed. The tunnel is ninety-nine hundred feet long and the contract was for about two million dollars. It has been finished sas the work proceeded. ~ .
 The rumors of deal in which the Santa Fe had absorbed the Frisco Line and its interest in the Atlantic & Paci- fic meets with general denial from high Santa Fe and Frisco officials, though the indications that such negotiation is in progress are decidedly strong.
 An execution occurred in Spain on the 9th inst. when young woman, her lover and aa aocomplice in murder suffered the extreme penalty through the instrumentality of the garrote. Between this and former executions in Madrid, lapse of five years has occurred.
 The wholesale commission house of w. T. Coleman X O., San Francisco, has made an assignment. The liabili- ties are placed at S2, 100000, with ass cts of s4, 900, ,O0O. The firm has done an immense business in fruit and salmon packing, having branches in New York, Chicago, London and Astoria, Oregon. Failure to realize immediately on assets was the reason for assignment.
 At the annual stockholders meeting of the A. T. & s. F. R. R., at Chicago, last Tuesday, the following officials were elected President, s. B. French; Vice President, Henry W. Bishop; Secretary, Chas. S. Sweet; Treasurer, D. l. Gallup. The officials of the Chi cago branch, or the Chicago, Santa Fe & California, were elected as follows: President w. B. Strong; First Vice President, 0. w. Smith; Second Vice President, A. A. Robinson; Secretary and Treasurer same as for the Santa Fe.
 Nathaniel w. Hatch, a member of the prominent banking firm of Walter s. Hatch & O., New York, was found lying dead in a yard at No. 54, West 2Oth St, last Tuesday morning. It is presumed that he jumped from the sec ond story window Of the house co which he had been invited by Mrs. Schofeld in order to escape the jealous wrath of the husband, who, in some manner, detected the presence of Hatch. Mrs Schofeld is a very handsome woman of 30 years, and is alleged to have been on terms of criminal intimacy with Hatch for some time. Hatch was married man.
 The new Chinese treaty has been ra flied by the Senate. This treaty is certainly an improvement on the treaty of 1880. It excludes all Chinese ex- cept the enumerated class It is the view of the Senate and administration that the whole matter as to the terms and conditions upon which certificates shall be issued to the classes named in China, who may go and return to the United States, is entirely within the discretion of Congress. The regulation and control of the issuance of certif- oates will be wholly in the hands of United States officials, and the power to prescribe other laws at discretion may be exercised by the United States.
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