Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-21

forest fires raging towards Mill Plain and immediately northeast of Vancou- yer. Some of the outlying houses are seriously endangered.
 NEW YORK, September 17.-In the Ives case to-day witness Woodruff confessed that he had committed willful perjury in swearing to the number of statements in the suit of Netter against Ives & Staynor.
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 WEST CHESTER. Va, September IT, The breast of the large dam located high above here, bursted this morning, and tremendous amount of water rushed down the Brandywine, overflow ing the banks and sweeping everything before it. A large bridge was swept away and several buildings were carried down to Coatsville. The streets of Coatsville are four feet under water, but no lives, as yet, reported lost. In some places the meadow was covered to a depth of from eight to ten feet
 COLUMBUS, September Columbus Delano, president of the National Wool Growers Associations, as they say, be- cause of danger threatening the wool growing industry, has requested a dele gate meeting of the wool growers to convene in Washington on the day the next Congress meets.
 PRESCOTT, A. T., September 17.-It is stated an emissary from the strikers on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad visited Prescott to-day, to purchase ammuni- tion. Any attempt of the company to run trains before an adjustment of the difficulty will be met with armed resis- tance by the strikers, it is rumored.
 PRESCOTT, A. T., September IA telegram was received to-day by Adju tant General O'Neil of the Territorial militia, from Kingman, asking for one hundred stands of arms and ammunition, DC DO oAiApPCO lO OhOC. dS lCdIS tilltI- tained of an outbreak by the Hualapai Indians.
 SAN FRANCISCO, September 17.-No dispatches regarding the expected trou- ble with the Hualapai Indians at Hack berry, A. T., has been received at mili- tary headquarters here. In consequence of newspaper reports, General Miles wired Col. Grierson at Los Angeles. commanding the department of Arizona. to take whatever steps he should deem necessary to prevent an outbreak.
 BOSTON, September 1.-The executive committee of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers is in session here. The question of free carpet wools IS one of the principal topics under discussion. No action has yet been taken, but the association quarterly bulletin, just pub lished says, editorially: Ut is admitted that m 1887 the duties upon carpet wools were not designated to serve as protec- tive duties, but were imposed for purely revenue purposes, and we cannot sub scribe to the claims now made that the conditions have so changed in two years that protective duty is now desirable and would be of advantage to the Uni ted States
 VENTURA, Cal, September 17.-Re- ports of damages by forest fires in this county are still coming in. It is estima- ted the loss so far will exceed fifty thou sand dollars. The fire is not raging in the eastern part of the county.
 MAYS LANDING, N. J., September IT, The counsel for Mrs. Hamilton entered plea of not guilty for their client against the charge of stabbing her nurse
 WASHINGTON, September 1S-Secreta- " Noble has directed that the Secreta- " of public land in Colorado, upon which ruins of former residences and mounds of so called Cliff Dwellers" are located, withdraw from disposal un- til an examination could be held with a view of ascertaining their cause and his torical value. Steps will be taken to protect the ruins from wrongful removal or destruction.
 ST, LOUIS, Mo-, September 1S-As a result of the inquest over the body of young Thomas E. Jackson. killed in a prize fight yesterday, held this morning, Ed. A. Hearn, the surviving principal. was held without bail to answer to charge of murder, while the referee, seconds, timekeepers, etc., are held as accessories.
 MARIO, September 18-The captain, four sailors and one passenger, of the Spanish vessel captured by natives off the coast of Morocco. have been carried into the interior. to be sold into slavery. The Spanish government will make inn mediate demands on the Sultan of Nor occo that the prisoners be restored to liberty.
 BOSTON, September 18-Dr. Louis Maas, famed as pianist and composer, died at Janica Plain last night.
 CLEVELAND, September 18.-Nothing definite has been heard of the yacht Leo, which left Detroit for Cleveland last night, with party of nine on board, till this morning. when the bodies of Ritter and Loeother were found by the life saving crew floating in Lake Erie: the remaining bodies are being searched for, but the work is slow and dangerous. on account of roughDess of the water.