Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-04-14

nSso murderer, VIII not be hang.
 ca Tomorrow as sentenced by the court dne eGse IS appealed to the Supreme
 court and the sheriff has been served 3 with stay of proceedings. CHIcAoS, April GA special from New hampton, Iowa, says that 8 terrible dis.
 aster occurred seven miles west of there
 tnls morning. The passenger coaches
 or the west bound Milwakee & St, Paul
 tram, were precIpitsted into the Wap-
 ZIG hAVer by the giving way of bridge.
 1ne engineer and two passengers are
 known to be drowned and it is supposed
 that the same fate has befallen other passengers.
 LONDON, April GA dispatch from IsnRier says everything remaiGs quiet
 II Is generally expected that a satis- factory settlement between the Ameri- ] Gan and MOoTish governments Will be
 enected thrOhRh She mediation ot the British French and Italian ministers WAsHISGToS. April G.-The President
 to-day approved the act granting n pen
 sion to the widow of Gsnl Logan and
 increased the pension of the widow of
 Gen'l Blair.
 
 bill to repeal the section of the revised status which provides that DO person
 who has served Iu any capacity ID the military service of the so called Con fedeTRte states, or of any of the states during the late rebellion shall bs ap- pointed 10 any position iB the army of the U. $.
 NEW HAMPTON, Iowa, April Up to lO o'clock this morning. SIX dead budIes were taken from the railroad wreck at Wapsie river. IL Is supposed that the passenger train after crossing the Wspsie, ran into large pile of ice, washed on the track, causing the engine to run of, turning completely around and slighting in the, water. The baggage car was thrown completely over the engine and the smoking car on top of the engine. The passenger coach IS on its side in sour feet of water. On account of high | wster further search at present for the dead, is impossible. Twenty are injured. but all will live.
 WAsHNGToN, April 6.-The Fres iieni sent the folio Siug nominations to the | senate to-day: Brigadier General Geo. | Crook to be Major General, and Gel John k. Brook Ot the third Infantry to be BrigGdier General.
 NEW YORK, Apul G.-EK-Senator Ros- COG Conkling has been confined to bis home with an stsce-s in his right ear. His physicIsns have ordered complete rest and quIet.
 WAsHNGToS, April G.-The house thls morning entered upon the fourth day of its contest over tbe direct tax bill, Read of Maine demanded the regular order, which the speaker stated tO be the vote on She motion, that when the house sd Iourned to-day ]. be 10 meet on Sa.ur- day.
 Oates, of Alabama, on behalf of the opponents of the bIll proposed that they be given two hours for general debate. A sharp contest between several mem bers ensued, followed by shouts for the regular Orjer.
 Representative Marion Biggs. ofCali- fornls, today sppeared before the house. committee on Pacific railroads in SUD- port of the passage of Huntington's blll | for the -sitlement of the indebtedness of the Central Pacific. lie urged upon the committee the wisdom and justice of d. lowing the Court of Claims to Rdjust the claims and enter claims made ID the case. The roI q had not, in his opinion, been fairly dealt by the government
 SAN DIEGo, April 6.-Reports of rich gold discoveries ID Lower California have created much excitement ID this territory; prospecting parties have been fitted ou; and gone to the scene. It has been an ascerlained fact that 6 number of experts have been in the Lower Cali | fornia gold fields and have brought back to theIr employers quiet reports of the mines. The papers have interviewed sn expert who was n from San R8ohsel. He states thnt ID travelling through the | Sierra Msdre mountains he discovered q tract of land ten miles long, snd twenty miles wide, containing n number of veIns O' gold from three 10 thirty-fiye | feet in width. principally comprised Of free gold m white quartz, which works easily, assays from twelve to totwenIy-four hundred dollars ton. Placer grounds are reported to cover thousands of acres and are said to be rich ID gold dust and mug g.ta. The mountains contain several streams of water Whioh have fall of from five to twenty-five hundred feet per mile, making locality available for | hydraulic mining. Other discoveries have been made besides the enc alluded to. To every case the supply of water IS reported to be good and all conditions are favorable for extensive mining opera tions.
 NEW YORK, April 6--Recorder Smythe to-day sentenced Francis W. Pittnan to imprisoument for life. He WAS tried for the murder of Dougherty RaHhesl and was convicted last night Of murder ID :he second degree,
 SAN FRASCIsCo, April 6-Judge Saw yer delivered his charge to the jury this morning in the case O; C. ?. k. K C.. and Mclean, e1-custorH offi,er, who has been on trial for the pas: week on charges of fraud and conspiracy in dealing in l Chinese return certificates, SAN FRANCIsCp. April 6.-Five suffer CTS Of the ferry-bost Julia disaster st Vallejo. have sued the Southern Pacific Railroad Comp for sums aygre gatinE 8 quarter O! q million dollars fer lnICfles received m the disaster.
 WAsISGroS, April 6.-COI. chairnsn of the census committee, tavorably re- ported bill for the taking Ot ths elev- | enth annual census Rni limits the cost of the next census 10 S3.OG0GO0. exclus- | i've of printing and engraving.
 Los ANGELES. Apll 6-Anschlas's attorney saw him this morning and stat | ed that a motion Of appeGi Tor new | trial had just been filed, The murder CTS spirits at once rose. Work on the scaffJld has been stopped ID consequence of the filing of the appeal.
 Los ANGELES, April 6.-Members of a private detective agency have effected | the arrest of the notorious Hamilton Griffin, against whom charges of embez- element are pending. Just where Griffin was caught the detectives refuse to say, but the suppositicn is that the arrest was made in Canada
 RoME, April 6.-The csbInet has de- cided to stop military operations ID Africa during the summer months. special colonial corps will remain st Msssoush, but the rest of the troops will return to Italy.