Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-14
AN FRANc1sco September ,.

Best & Belch, 3 60 Crocker . GO
 Chollar, , 10 Con. Va.... : Ii
 Confidence =. 6 50 Gould < C.. 15
 Hale S Nor. 15 Locomotive. O5 Peer .. ... 15 Peerless 40
 Potosi. .... 1 D Ophir .... 65 Savage ...... ? 30 Sierra Nev.. 3 %
 Union Con. 3 D Yellow Jac't. 10
 WINENA, Minn.. September 5-A fire
 in Laird & Morton's lumber yard today
 destroyed 22,0O0.O00 feet of lumber,
 100000 feet of shingles, brick build
 ing and other property valued altogether
 at 53l4 600; insured at Sl7n,5OO.
 SAN FRAYCIsCO, SepteE. Der c. G.-Deputy
 Marshal David Nagle was examined in
 the federal court to-day and related the
 details of the Terry tragedy. He said:
 When Judge ferry attacked Justice
 Field 1 was on ny feet in an instant.
 Throwing out my hand to keep Terry off
 shouted: stop that, l am government
 officer Terry then directed his atten-
 tion to me. He had his right arm in
 position as about to strike another blow
 and as he turned bis glance upon me he
 looked like an infuriated beast. His clenched fist immediately sought his
 bosom, and believing my fife was m dan ger, immediately drew ry pistol and
 fired two shots in quick succession and Terry fell to the floor. 1 believe Terry
 would h ve 5Ut me tO pieces and per haps Justi ;e Field had I not acted promptly.
 Neagle's examination concluded the
 testimony and tie case was continued till "Wednesday. when the question of jurisdiction of the federal court will be argued.
 WAsHIHCIoN, September 6,-The sub ject of desertion from the army will be treated at length il the forthcoming re- port of the secretary of War. Various changes in camp and barrack life, with a view to increasing the soldiers O nfort and interest in the command will be suggested Assistant Adjt. General Swan has drafted a bill which provides for the adoption of the British custom of allowing q soldier to purchase his dis charge. Acting Adjutant General Me Keever advocates limiting the term of enlistment to thTet. and r,-onlistmeEt to five years, and granting discharge on payment Of sums graded accordir Z to length of service.
 SANTA FE, N. NJ, Sept. C. In the state convention the committee on elective franchise made report pro vidiug that six months residence m the state shall be necessary before a man can vote. No religious test required. The report agrees with the majority report, except in the matter of the non sectarian school system. The provision that the state shall acknowledge all the TerritOry's debts, except those incurred during the late war and known as the | militia claims, created great deal of there being about four hun | drel thousand dollars worth of these 1 claims outstanding.
 JACKSONVILLE. Fla, September 6.-l Senator Call, in & long letter to Col. | Shipley, chairman of the state democra- | tic executive committee, declining the l latter's proposition to meet him in a | joint discussion before the people of | Florida, says tt Was to escape a plot for | the revival an obsolete land grant l which resulted in dispossessing thous- 1 ands of people of homes; that he pro- posed to canvass and not to make q per ! sonal defense of his own record. He | charges Shipley with participation ln l those evil practices.
 FL PAso, Texas, September 6.-The | Senatorial committee on ard lands ar rived here from Tucson today. Great | deal of testimony relating to i rgationsin | the Rio Grande a ley WSs taken. Sen | pr Escobar, Mexican consul at Fl PasO, | the committee, said the Mex jeans claimed the prior right to the wat or on the Rio Grande river. having used | it for two hundred years. He urged | that restriction be placed on Americans so that Mexicans might receive sufficient | supply of water to irrIgate their lands. The committee visited the proposed site i for the International dam.
 SAN FRANCISCO, September 6.-Ad- vices from Honolulu by the steamer Australian today state the British man. Df-war Espiegle returned there August the 18th, having annexed Humphreys | and ReissiOn islands to British Dolnin- ons While at Humphreys island the rIspiegle took on board twenty seven men of the British ship Garston, on its way from Sydney to Frisco, which was wrecked near Starbuck island, July 17th. Captain Pye and eight of the crew are missing, and they are supposed to be oSt.
 PITTsBURG, ESeptember 6.-At Wells st ltion this morning freight crew at to put three. .tramps off the train, when one brakman was shot and killed md another beaten over the head with .he butt of a pistol, producing serious wounds. The tramps escaped.
 DENVER, September G.-At an early hour this morning Timothy Stocking, 'aro dealer at the Arcade gambling hall, shot and instantly killed Billy Murphy, m ex-convict of Joliet, Illinois. Murphy ' who was formerly mad in love with the yrl who became Stockings wife, was caught after their marriage trying to and sentenced to five years m prison. When released he followed them about the country, threatening to kill them. He called at Stockings hou this morning with knife in his hand, when the latter shot through the window, ma1gling him terribly.
 WASHINGTON, September G.-The fol- lowing consuls were appointed to-day:
 Joseph T. Moses of Virginia, 4. T. Bernard G. Macauley, of New York, to Mana-Juna, Nicaragua; Aleck Palmer, District of Columbia. lt Dresden; John D. DeLittle. Texas. at Bristol; Thos H. Anderson, Ohio, Min ster resident and consul general to Bolivia; Edward Damn, secretary of the Legation of Japan; Author w. Barrett, of the Legation to Venzuela; William R. Gardiner, second secretary of the Legation to Japan.
 NEW YORK, September 9.-The even- ing papers say Congressman $. $. Cox is dying. Four days ago he was confined | to bed by an attack of malarial fever; this rapidly developed into acute which has defied the best i medical skill. Yesterday his physicians