Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-18

At the afternoon session of the senat committee on trade relations with Cani da, the representatives of the Board C
 Trade, the Pacific Pine Lumber Co, tn tChamber of Commerce and ManufaG turers' Association were present. Co
 Harney, president of the Manufacturer
 Association and secretary of the Golde
 Gate Woolen Mills, gave testimony re
 lative to the woolen manufacturers c
 the coast woolen trade has little to d
 with Canada.
 A. s. Halliday of the California Wir,
 Works urged the need of reciprocit.
 with Mexico, but opposed any reduction
 of duties on Dominion products.
 N. w. Spaulding of the Pacific Say
 Manufactury opposed the reduction il Canadian traffic.
 WASHINGTON, May 9.-The naval off
 cers are gratified at the results attend ing the run of the new cruiser Charles ton from San Francisco to Santa Bar
 bara. Naval constructor Hinburn say the pitching of the vessel in heavy sea
 going to the extent of exposing the pro pellers, imposed upon the engines ana
 machinery, strain of the utmost sever i ity which was nevertheless successful,
 resisted. He was not surprised at hel shipping water over her bows, and sai6 that fast vessels of that type, with bow and stern cut down to admit of firing
 ahead, were necessarily wet boats when
 forced under speed into head seas.
 WASHINGTON, May 9.-Secretary Blaine
 is in receipt of further dispatches from the United States minister at the City of Mexico, dated April g, in which he states that the work of construction or the Sonora, Sinoloa and Chihuahua R R. was inaugurated on the 18th in the presence of the president of the railway company, engineer, contractors, work men, general commanding the Mexican federal forces on the coast, federal judge prefect of the district and many others. The point selected tor the commence ment of the work is about six miles from Guaymas and on the Sonora Railroad near Batamotal station.
 WASHINGTON, May 9-Considerable more than ordinary interest attaches to the appointment of Joseph F. Bennett of New Mexico, as Indian agent at the Mescalero agency, New Mexico, owing to the charges which have been made that Bennett's predecessor was removed by the present administration for no other reason than that he :was a Catholic in religion. The new appointee is himself a Catholic, it is said. He was gallant soldier during the war and was promot- ed to the rank of a captain. He is a resident of Las Cruces.
 LONDON, May 10.-Lecarren, the spy for the British government on the move ments of the Irish leaders in America, declares he pr. Cronin who recently mysteriously disappeared from Chicago, were the closest friends. Lecarren be- lieves that Dr. Cronin has been killed and that the friendship between himself and the doctors murderers may account for his removal.
 DENVER, May 9.-Secretary of War Redfeld Proctor, accompanied by Gen eral Schofield, General George Crook, Adjutant General Drum and General Merritt, arrived this morning on tour of inspection of western military posts. The perty leaves for Cheyenne to-mor- TOW.
 WASHINGTON, May 9.-Asa Matthews, appointed to-day comptroller of the treasury, is the present speaker of the Illinois house of representatives, which office he has held several terms. He was colonel of an Illinois regiment dur ing the war and subsequently held the office of internal revenue collector for Peoria district.
 WASHINGTON, May 9.-The president appointed Samuel c. Wright to be of the mint at Carson City, Nevada.
 ST. LOUIS, May 9-A private dispatch this afternoon reports the death to-day at Orlando, Florida, of Gen. Wm. Harney, the oldest. officer in the United States army.
 NEVADA, Cal, May 9-George F. Gray was killed this morning by being caved tunnel. The mouth of the tunnel caved in and it was some time before the acci- dent was discovered.
 NEW YORK, May 9.-The sale of trot- ting stock from the Pslo Alto farm in Canta Clara county, California, the of Senator Stanford, closed at the American institute rink this after noon The prlces obtained ranged from 800 to over s1,5OO. Total receipts, ST. BIO.
 P1TrsBURG, May 11.-Reports of the damage done by last nights terrible storm are coming in from all parts of Allegheny O., and from nearly every place in eastern Ohio and western Penn sylvania. The loss cannot be approx lmated. Farms were washed out, houses and trees along the banks of streams were carried away. Land slides on nearly every road leading out of Pittsburg. So far but two deaths from drowning are reported, two chil- dren of Conrad Schaefsr, aged 3 and ' of Springi Garden Boroughs, north of which was swept away by floods. Lightning played havoc all night long, and barns and stock were | telephone and telegraph wires were deranged through large section of the county. Three inches of rain fell and the Ohio river rose three feet in ss many hours"
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-Senator Pugh of Alabama, in sn interview, stat ed he was opposed to any appropriations being made for irrigation as the gover- nent has no power to appropriate public money for retaining land for agricul- tural purposes. The fact of the govern ment undertaking to furnish water as @ fertilizer of deserts would open up an unlimited field for appropriations. It never will be an object of national con- cern to irrigate districts.
 RICHMOND, Va, May LA. l.. Royall, a prominent politician, said in an inter view: "If the voters of this district should think me worthy of seat in Congress my aim will be the defran- chisement of .ae negro. All that is necessary is me repeal of the fifteenth and l believe there IS a of it's repeal. The South will never have peace while the negro is 2 voter.
 SANTA BARBARA, May 1.-The Charles ton left this port at z o'clock this morn ing for Point Mayu, below Ventura, from where she will make her four hours run to Conception. If the test proves satisfactory the cruiser will pro- coed at once to San Francisco where the >R A.. l>