Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-08

OOiDoIG WOIc GWO OuC0 8lOVoS ana Choynski used skin tight driving gloves the others had been lost. Corbett showed he was much the better boxer and Chaynskie could hardly touch him.
 After 37 bloody rounds in which Choynski was bably battered, Corbett got in knockout blow and won the fight.
 WASHINGTON, June 5-Postmaster- General Wannamaker has sent a circu- lar letter to the largest post offices in the country to obtain information with a view to reducing work on Sunday.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has de- cided that the work of Praffers in Flu rope, for the new Catholic University is in violation of the alien labor law
 Acting Land Commissioner Stone has issued an order directing that no more land cases be sent to the Board of Review prior to their being sent to pat ent and that the cases now on hand will be disposed of rapidly as possible. This action is taken with the the view of abolishing the board.
 WASHINGTON, June 5.-The president has received letter from the committee of the National Wool Growers Associa- tion of the United States, dated at Col umbus, Ohio, urging the necessity for an extra session of Congress to be con- vened at the earliest practicable day for the purpose of enacting necessary legis- lation in regard to wool growing and other industries of the country.
 SILVER CITY, Montana. June Sur rell, operator at Silver City, was killed and F. c. Jobst, the Montana Central agent, was probably fatally injured last night. The object was robbery. It is not thought that the highwaymen se- cured over S2OO. The robbers fled in the direction of Marysville. Officers and posse are in pursuit.
 SILVER CITY, June 5.-The depot rob bers were overtaken by the posse. They refused to surrender and began firing on the posse. The fire returned and both robbers killed.
 CHICAGO, June 5.-A private dispatch has been received which says that Mrs. Genl. Lew Wallace is safe at Cresson, Penn.
 JACKSONVILLE, FLA, June 5-Sixty buildings, mostly wooden, covering five blocks, were burned this morning. Loss, S200,000. Insurance small.
 CHICAGO, May 5'-The estimated Chi cago cash contributions for the Johns town sufferers is said to be about one thousand dollars:
 DUBLIN, June 5.-The municipal court adopted a resolution of condolence to the sufferers of the Pennsylvania floods.
 LINCOLN, Kans.. June 4.-Pat O'Leary, a murderer, broke jail last night. He was captured and shot by citizens of this and Ellsworth counties who then took him to the railroad bridge and hanged him.
 CHICAGO, June 5-The Cronin inquest was continued to-day. Patrick Me Gary friend of Cronin testified that Cronin told him he expected to be assas- mated for the part he took in the investi- gation at Buffalo for the charges that Alexander Sullivan while member of the executive board of the Clan Ma Gael, had misappropriated large amount of the society funds and had sent men to death and to prison to hide such misrepresentation
 WASHINGTON, June 5-The Secretary of the Interior has accepted the resig- nation of John H Oberly commissioner of Indian affairs, to take effect July 1st.
 LONDON, June 5.-The derby was won by the Duke of Portland.
 JoHNsTowN, June 4,-An Associated Press representative to-day visited Prospect Hiil, where several hundred people fled to escape the flood. He came upon pneumonia scourge. Every house on the hill had thrown its doors open to receive the fugitives, and every one of them now is a crude hospital. To- day several fresh cases of pneumonia were developed and the prospects for scourge are all too promising. The en- feebled condition of the patients and the unhealthy condition of the atmo- sphers together renders the spread of the disease almost certainty. Several loads of provisions arrived today, all for the Prospect Hill sufferers.
 The reservoir embankment, 1t is stated was principally of shale and clay and straw was used to stop the leaking of water while work was going on. A | prominent citizen called on the sheriff l of Cambria county and told him it was his duty to apply to the court for an in- | junction against the building of the dam. | The sheriff consulted with the Cambria | Iron Company and an employee was sent to make an inspection and as his re- report was favorable to the reservoir l work the Sheriff went no further.
 JOHNsTowN.-Artists with their par aphernalia may be seen tumbling about | together absorbing all the sunlight and | the scenes. There will be no lack of | pictures of the Johnstown flood horrors Six improvised morgues are in Johns town
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 4-The Cronicle | tomorrow will print a statement to the | effect that Wm. B Tascott the murder | CT of Amos. J. Shell the Chicago banker, is now in Canton, China.
 The discovery Of his present residence | Is said to have been secured from wo- man who arrived here from Chicago | about two months since, and who claims to be his deserted wife. Myron GantZ, who was formerly connected with Chi cago paper, says she also lived with Tas- cot as his wife.
 A Cronicle reporter representing him. self as an advance agent, made himself agreeable to Mrs. Gantz, who finally grew friendly enough to say that it was she who aided Tascott to es- cape from Chicago. She says Tascott was secreted in her house two days and then two weeks in house of her selec tion. She then assisted him to reach St Paul, and about month after the murder he went west by rail to Portland Oregon, ond from their to British Co Iumbia. A few days later he sailed on one of the Canadian Pacific steamers to China. Mrs. Grantz claims to have re- ceived letter from him while iD China.
 GRASS VALEEy, Cal, June 4.-The Idaho mine has been closed to smother the fire which has been raging there there since yesterday. Thomas Dunsar and John Ralph could not be rescued. They are surely dead by this time All the others are safe excepting Frank Car