Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-10

there IS still no sign of clearing weather
 At 8 o'clock this morning the rain fell
 in torrents for about fifty minutes, and
 flooded the streets and cellars of this city and Brooklyn, accompanied by heavy
 thunder and lightning. Nearly two
 inches of water fell. A dispatch from Stanton. Massachusetts, says the same
 storm visited that section of the coun- try, and sewers were washed out. cellars | flooded, streets gullied, and factories compelled to suspend operations. At o'clock the most severe storm of the season is raging at Nyack. The streets are flooded, and travel and business sus- pended.
 CINCINNATI, Aug. Indications now are that tomorrow will be phenominal- ly a quiet Sunday in Cincinnati. Tho saloon keepers association has all along refused to counsel violation of the town law, and it's members have been out spoken in condemnation of saloon keep CTS who held meeting in Turner Hall last week and resolved to defy the law. Now the last named have taken formal action. A meeting was held last Disht resembling the resolutions adopted at the former meeting. Judge ErmstOn to-day held that barbershop in hotel is not a necessity on Sunday, and fined barber of the Gibson House g and costs. This was test case.
 BISMARCK, August 3.-Atla evening" s session of the convention it was decided the salary of members of the legislature be five dollars per day, and length of ses- sion 60 days. At to-day's session the preamble and bills of rights was discus sed at length. Bartlett, of Griggs county, wanted to strike out that part of the preamble referring to God, and claims 1t is wholly unnecessary, and when considered in comparison with the conduct of scheming conventions and legislatures, inconsistent. His amend ment, however, was rejected, and the preamble of Williams to the constitution was substituted as follows:
 I've, people of North Dakota, grate- ful to Almighty God for religious and civil liberty, do establish and ordain this constitution"
 Articles prohibiting railroad compan- ies or other corporations from keeping black lists on employees for the purpose of preventing them securing employ ment, were accepted.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Dispatches from many points in the farming districts within a radius of 100 miles of this city, show gen rIl damage 10 crops by the un- usually heavy rains of last week. The total losses in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, will amount to between s3O0,OO0 and 5l00,O00. or perhaps more. The hay. potato and small fruit crops suffered much.
 When the market opened yesterday the sugar trust certificates were selling at 11O; when it closed the price had gone up to 1125s.
 ELIZABETH, N. J., Aug. 3.-The dam age by the storm in Essex county is es- timated at half million.
 NORFOLK, Va Aug D. kilrain was ar rested this morning on the beach at Ocean View. by detective Norris. He was taken back to Hampton, where he had been staying for several days.
 1WAsHINGToN, August 5.-Joseph H. Kibbey, of Arizona, has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.
 WASHINGTON, August SC. w. Grouse of Indiana, has been appointed Indian agent at Pima agency, Arizona.
 WASHINGTON, August 5.-The presi- dent today appointed Edward F. Ho- bart, of New Mexico, to be Surveyor General of New Mexico.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. g. Commissioner of pensions Tanner has made public a statement of the number of cases made special from the date he assumed charge of the pension office, March 27th. up to the 23rd of July. It shows that during that period there were made spe- cial 69S claims Of this number the com missioner had 952 drawn from files ex- amined to ascertain who were the attOr- neys in the cases Results show, among other things, that there were 1lS cases in which there was no attorney; that George F. Lemon was attorney in 9o cases. and William W. Dudley in five. That commissioner then named eleven other attorneys who had cases made special m numbers ranging from twenty six down to eight. The above aggre- gate 3S5 cases. The balance of the cases, the commissioner says, are distributed among various other attorneys, no one of whom is attorney in as many as eight cases. Three hundred and seventeen attorneys are represented altogether. PORTSMOUTH, August 5.-Review of the fleet took place at four o'clock this afternoon; weather clear and high wind blowing. As the Emperor approached the fleet the German standard was dis played at the main of each ironclad. A salute was fired by tho combined fleet, the yards manned.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August 5.-Two masked robbers entered the rear sleeper of the Wabash and Western Express as the train pulled out of Harlem last night, and compelled the passengers to give up SI75 in cash and two gold watches. The robbers encountered Roach on the plat form: Roach attacked the men with his lantern, when they jumped from the train and escaped, after firing several shots at the conductor.
 SPOKANE FALLS, w. T., August D. The entire business portion of this city, covering nearly forty blocks was des- troyed by fire last week. The fire broke out at 6 D. m, in frame block near the depot. The water pressure was weak and flames spread rapidly, sweeping the entire block in Jess than half hour. A high wind sprung up soon after the fire
 
 started, filling the air with burning tim bers, and starting fires in several places in adjoining blocks. The Pacific Hotel was the first valuable building to sue cumb; the Russ House also burned like ! finder. The fire communicated with the Northern Pacific passenger and freight depot, burning them to the ground. The Northern Pacific railway s loss is estimated at about million dol lars. The Mayor ordered buildings to be blown up with giant powder and about dozen large structures and other small ones were blown up. Every busi- ness house in the city, including eight banks, all the hotels, bakeries, and every newspaper in the city except the Review, is destroyed. Loss is estimated at from thirty to forty million dollars. Three persons are probably fatally injured by jumping from windows. All provisions in the city are lost.
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