Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-07

overturned the third tune apu fensineo 30 until the rapids were passed when the boat was ..brouest ashore and tlaes found strapped to the seat desd'
 NEW ORLEANS, July 5.-During the Fourth of July celebration at water Valley. Miss, yesterday, the grand stand upon which about four hundred people were seated gsve way and Tell Wlth crash burying men, women and children in the ruins. Great excitement and con fusion followed, but the imprisoned vic- tins were rescued as soon as possible. About fifty persons had arms End legs broken and received more or less severe injuries. No one wss killed outright, but it is believed several oi the wounded cannot recover.
 CHICAGO. July 5.-Almost total par slysis of telegraph wires west of Snichgo to-day indicates apparently ihai the storms of the past few days culn;nating last night were the most widespread ana severe in @ number of yesTs. The great net work of wire covered territory stretching to the Rocky mountains, but so few of the hundreds of lines running in all directions were to-day in anythiag like workable condition, that the busi- ness with points west of here IS com parstively at standstill.
 MARYsvILLR July 5 A disastrous fire broke out here early this morning and st three o'clock was raging ID the block bounded by Second, Thitd and ID and E streets in which the most valuable busl- ness hodsea in the city are located, Al that hour the fire was under control snd if WAS believed the loss would reach two
 hundred thousand dollars.
 The fire is the most terrible that has visited this city for years and the loss
 exceeds that of las. Sept. by over fifty thousand dollars. Every building ID the block with two exceptions is com
 pletely destroyed only the walls remain ing and ID many instances they have fall en. The fire was discovered about two
 o'clock issuing from the work shop oi
 Frost 4 Stafferr furniture store. The Fire Department unable 10 stop the
 progress of the flames owing to the higt
 wlnd and dry wood root, it soon became
 evident that it was useless to try and
 save any buildings la the block and s'
 tention vss directed towards keeping
 the fire from crossing the street which
 WAS accomplished with difficulty. Thl fire ragged 2 hours before il began tc di
 minish in volume,
 The principal losers gre ". T. Eli
 x Co, s42,0O0, .. J. Ripley, s2O,OOO
 Frost & Shsffer, s40.0OO; F. w. Aaron
 sll 900, The total loss will be close t'
 sl75, 600. Insurance estimated at S9O,
 GOO.
 wAsHISGTos July 3.-McKinley o Ohio moved to increase from $6. to s6.I per ton the duty on pig iron. He ex plained that the present rate of dut was s6 per ton and the proposed reduc ton would have 8 very injurious effec
 upon the pig iron industry. Motto lost, yeas 6S. nays 17.
 Mckinley then moved to restore th present rate of duty oD iron railway bar weighing more than 25 pounds to th ' yard. Lost.
 , McMillan of Tennessee moved to strlk 1, ont the clause imposing duty Of Sl ' per ton on slates and billets of steel. sn s restore the present rate of 45 per ceI advslorem.
 Bsyne O, Pennsylvania, opposed th 2 motion. The present duty was eouivs ! lent to $500 per ton which be said l thought wss not sufficiently high vhe ' compared with other articles on the iro and steel schedule. The molten VI
 sgreed to.
 | Moffett moved to increase from S2O = S22 per ton the duty on charcoal ar l. bloom iron. Lost.
 s Mckinley moved 10 restore the eKIs c ing rates On bar iron and the motto ' ves advocated by Burrows, of Michigs q and Bayne of PeDnsylvGDia. He expres !, ed himself as disposed to 8 reduction 9. the tariff and in favor of repeal of Il
 tobacco tax and tax on alcohol used f. arts. This, he thought, would redu
 the surplus ns far as ii should be redu . ed if the government intended tc do !u s tice to the widows aad children of q
 soldiers of the gaT. He favored TGr
 because is provided home market, ai a said the two tickets before the count V to-day renresen.ed two ideas. The T
 publicsn ticket that the American me
 tet should be for Americans and q
 other that the American market shou be open to the whole world.
 IT Scott, of Pennsylvania, charged . republican party with having desert ID :ts platform os 1884 for revision o. T. tariff and going before the country j. 1888 asking support for their siceo. or
 prIpciple wElch ii never before Gdvoci 7e ed under the cry of Bn American mark D. for Americans and protection for Am B. ioan industries and labor. The repub re can party proposed to carry CD the tGl II system in this country which VOL d protect l.5O0, GOO wage workers as sgsiI
 16.0O0,OO wage workers.
 ,n Reed, of Maine, expressed delight a I | 4l,.. iy come back from hIs occupstional bU ,g ness as member Of congress-. Had in gentleman been present he would knl IO. these questions hnd all been discuss' s and the house perfectly acquainted VI ~ them. The gentlemen based bis remsr x, on the idea inst sihe Americans VI es producers, and 1t was for the benefit 'n the American people, who were the e
 sumers that the producers who were a IT, Americans, should have the Americ .h market.
 -s Scott said 100000 lsborers had be ,h thrown out of work during the past We eu and n what classes? Why the protect ly industries which the republicans ste
 up to defend. These lsborers had be
 driven out because their employers D. attempted 10 make ten per cent redt ID ton in their wages. Why should 'sl manufacturers of Pennsy lvanis demo 20 their men to submit 10 this reduotio D. Was there any change in the conditi
 of the country? H d any tariff bill pas: in the house that could possibly effect IT, wages of these menl Was no. tber, ,s- republican senate having power to p mi con hole such a bill or keep it iD he committee for all timey
 After the debste had run for so
 time Bland, of Missouri, appealed an more rapid progress, but Bland's app N proved intellectual and one hours d '- cussion ran on.
 sy Finally McKinley's motion was vo en down, 56 to 70 Suowden. of Penns lst vsnis, moved to fir the duty on Iron
 steel rails, weighing not over % pour
 to the yard, st sl7.20 per ton, and il 2. or steel rails punched S20.l6. Lost. ~ On motIon of Breckenridge, of Ark , sss, duty of 40 cents per pound '
 imposed on iron or steel flat rails c
 tin ribs for the manufacture of fenci Of Having completed consideration 'n- forty pages of the bill the commit or rose. A conference was ordered on