Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-11
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|. SAN FRANCISCO, February 2-yan Bu e Ten butke. restaurant keeper, was shot } and killed in his restaurant to-night |, One Crawford has been arrested for the - deed, but denies all knowledge of tho f crime. Crawford married Burke's wife
 after being divorced. after which there was trouble between Crawford and Burke for some time. An exsminatou . will had tonight,
 , NEW YORK, February 2.-Mayor Hew- 3 Tt has decided that the mental and
 physical condition of Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist, IS good.
 ALBUoUERQUE, February 2.-The par. tlcnlars of the killing of Field Dickens by Scott Reed in Socorro county are at hand. Both men had previously quar-
 fsled. but nothing serious wss thought
 would be the outcome. On the day be-
 lore Dickens died he had renewed the quarrel with Reed, and att, rnp,ed 10 draw his revolver, but the latter vas too
 quick Tor him and shot him. Dickens
 died the next morning. The shooting
 occurred st Reed & BurtonS runeb:
 Reed Is a son of the senior msmber of
 the ranch firm and Is about eighteen
 years of age, and has been home but a
 tev weeks from Bn eastern college. He
 waived exsmInstIon and gave S5O.O0O
 bail Tor his appearance ID the district
 court.
 WASHINGTON, February "A bill au-
 thorizing the consideration of claims of
 all soldiers and sll their heirs who may
 have been denied the bounty of $lO0| granted by act of Aprl 22, '72, under
 u, .F sidoe been modified or rescinded, WAS
 to-day reported fsvorsbly by Senator COckrell from the committee on military affairs. It limits the benefits 70 be de- rived from the bill to soldiers who en- listed prior to July 22, 1861. under the presidents proclamstions of May 31, 1881,
 The bill to increase pensions of total helplessness to S75 per month passed.
 Senator Kenns replied to-day to the tariff speech of Senstor Sherman. Presi. dent Jefferson, he said. solemnly evoked and charged Ill the organic law of the land to avert the danger of s surplus. Gen. Jackson, Daniel Webster and succession of republican presidents and secretaries of the treasury had showed ' the apprehension expressed by President Cleveland. Senator Sherman had ohRrg | ed that the surplus vas due to the PTesi. dents failure to exercise his legal flnc- ions. This charge was based mainly on the fact that the President opposed the shipping of subsidies upon such criticisms The President could well ai- 1 ! fore to meet the issue. henna then discussed ID detail She effects upon rev enue and upon the domestic interests of | ludicIOus revisiOus of the tariff, claim | ing 1t would correct the Innumerable ex- | istlng evils without disregard for any l established interest of the country. Tie l true solution of the difficulty, he said. | Is fair and just m3dIum which shall | produce the revenue the country needs, l no more or less, according to the plain | dictation of common honesty as declared | by the last democratic platform m spirit of fairness 10 all interests. Both 1 the labor and burden of our system of taxation falls on labor. The tax on to- b4coo, DO douot, could be reduced or wholly repealed. Iron. coal, wood and other products of labor. care and enter | prise would not be sscrsiced, but would | find under democratic control of ihe | government fair and secure reward, | but it monopoly was fortified and en- treDched behind twenty one more years of republican exEctiOu and misrule | labor would have to go. In conclusion, | he said: 1t is my candid judgement, | that the great mass of the people will | endorse and support this struggle for | their rights and relief of their bond | age"
 Senator sherman said that his friend | from West Virginia on having pro claimed the fact shat tne ranks of the | democratic party were closed, and that distinct issue WAS to be presented to the | people, had fOrgO.tOn that the demo cratic party had been m possession of the house of representatives for more than ten years and not single affirmative proposition as to the tariff question, had been pre- sented to the judgment of the American people. If the democratic party had | closed up it's record and there was to be fair and manly contest between the | two parties on this great public ques- tion, he would be delighted, put he did not believe thst the Issue would be pre- sented.
 WASHINGTON, February 2-Orain, of Texas, from the committee on presiden- tial elections, reported the joint resolu- tiou proposing constitutional amend ment providing that congress hold ite annual meeting on the first Monday ID January.
 A bill prohibiting the passage through inc mails of cheap literature ss second class matter making it third class, pass ed.
 called up.
 LospoS. February "A sharp shock of earthquake was felt ID England and Scotland to-day. No damage IS report ed.
 sAS FRAScIsco, February 2,-The chamber of commerce thls afternoon adopted the majority report or the com ,,ittae recently appointed to consider the tariff as affecting she sugar interests oT tbe Pacific coast. The report sdvo- cstes that the present tarih De mSin- tRined. D.;
 WIsUIsGroS. February 2-The Presi- dent today approved the act making anDropriations to supply the detclency ,5 RppropristiOns for the hscnl year ., IIuy June Both, 1887; also hn sc'
 ,skIng an appropriation to carry lnto efTsct the provisions of the sct ID reler epce to agricultural stations.
 LANSING. February 2.-The Palms rrI co1yt The children get tbe income or tbe estate. amounting to two hundred ,boussnd dollars per annum, and 'he g-snd children get the estate.
 W,sHIxGrCy. Feb. 2-Denis kearney talked to the house committee on foreign afTsirs this morning m support Of the Cnmming's bill prohibiting Chinese m migration.
 WAsHrSGroS. February 2.-Ihe re- ,niop and banquet of the survivors or S4tb congress to-day brought together .aaIve men. Their reception was large ly attended.
 SALINAS. February 2-The proceed, mos in the Azbell trial to-day consisted in ,he introduction of evidence ID reouE tsI by the prosecution showing the DO, sition in which the bodies were iounu and that there appeared to be evidence of a struggle Thal
 SAN FRAScIsco. February. |Ine steamer Belgic. which arrived today. brings Hong Kong sdvices to January yokoharns adyices to J6nu6ry |