Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-01-18
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 SAN FRANCISCO, January g.. Mrs. Ju
 Han B. Welisford, wife of the mailing clerk of the Examiner, comm tied sui eide during the night by han ing her. self with a piece of the sheet in her
 room. The only cause her relatives can assign is that she was temporarily in-
 sane, as sac had been Respondent for a
 week.
 SAN FRANCISCO, January 9.--A W sh-
 ington special says the army ret Ing
 board which was convened at Los An
 geles July 20, has been dissolved and lcw
 one appointed. Major Leonard Y. Lov
 ing, surgeon, has been ordered before a I board of examination. Secretary Proc
 tor has remitted that portion of the
 court martial. sentence in the case of
 Lieut.. Cushman, which required him to
 be confined to the limits of the post and
 to forfeit portion of his monthly pay.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The following
 appointments have been confirmed: J.
 P. Squire, postmaster at Redlands, Cal; | register of the land office, Horatio Rust, Tule river, Cal; Chasles k. Drake, re-
 ceiver of public money, Tucson: Herbert Brown, register of the land office, Tue
 son; Cornelius Grouse, of Indiana, In l dian agent at Pima agency, AriZ.; Jas.
 F. Barnett, Mescalett agency, New Mex | leo.
 COLUMBUS, O., January 9.-The dem
 ocratlc members of the legislature con-
 vened in caucus this evening to select
 candidate to be voted for U. ;. senator
 to succeed Payne. Roll call showed 73
 out of v members present, 43 b9ingn nee
 essary to choose. The first ballot resul | ted: Brice %. Thomas Il. McMahon | It, Baker 6. Hunt ?, Neal ?, Outhwaite 1 name; of Hunt withdrawn and second
 ballot resulted: Brice B, Thomas Me
 Mahon 13, Baker 1, Seny ?, Outhwaite 1 Seny ?, McSweeny 1, Gibbs ?, Monote on behalf of Thomas moved the
 nomination of Brice be made uuani-
 nous, which was done amid much en- thusiasm.
 SAN DECO January 9-Accident to southbound freight train on the Cali fornia Southern road, about three miles of Sorrento, this county, occurred this afternoon. It is stated that two cars loaded with ice were derailed and ditch
 ed. No one was injured so far as known.
 SAN FRANCISCO, January 9.-The steamer Picking arrived from Hong Kong and Yoka homa this morning. Chinese advices report the wreck of the British ship Nyl Chan Nov. 9. Capt. Butler and eight men arrived at Hong Kong in a small boat four days latter and anoth- CT boat containing Mate Briggs and six
 men is missing. British gunboat Cock shafer left Hong Kong in search of the boat but returned without finding her. Meagre particulars of the theatre collapse in Shantung, are reported by telegraph from Shanghai, Dec. 3rd. 1t appears the accident occurred at liant ing, east of Shantung. Oct. 13. The temple where the performance was being held, stands on a high terrace in the
 middle of the town. A hill was once there but has been cut away except the portion on which the temple sands. A wall almost perpendicular and about % feet high was built up from the street to support the ter ace. This wall ended Tn a low parapet around the tenn ie, which had a seating capacity for an immense
 number. During the performances the outer wall gave way, either from being defective or from the great pre- ure above, and the whole mass of men, wO- men and children were hurled to the street below. Groans and shrieks rent the air, and people who had first len and escaped with bruises were . mo- ment later killed by their comrade, fall ing on them. Many died from suii1ca- tion and others by being trampled upon All this time immense blocks of stone and cement fell with deadly force. Heads were burst, bones crushed and arm and and legs broken and a number of cases,
 bodies were almost severed. \ toJ-l of 200 dead bodies have been taken from
 the ruins, and it is thought the list of dead will reach 250.
 SAN DIEGO, Jan 9.-Mr Woods, who has just returned from England, brought with him funds to the amount of 525,- 000,000 and has the authority to draw from an English syndicate S26CO0OO0 more, for the completion of the Mexi- can & Pacific railway. The road is to be built and operated to San Diego in
 three years.
 CHEYENNE, Wyo., January 9.-A west bound fast mail train on the Union Pa citic road, was derailed at Sydney, Neb.. this morning. Two mail cars. baggage, express and two sleepers were destroyed by fire. Thirty-rwo pouches of regis
 tered mail destroyed; loss cannot be es- timated.
 LOUISVILLE, January 9.-At about 6 o'clock this evening Caison No. 1, about 100 yards from the Kentucky shore,
 used in the construction of the new
 bridge between Louisville and Jefferson ville,gave way and the workman employ oI in, aif q hol to death by falling stones or timbers.
 As the men in,the pumping station were waiting for the men in the Caison to put
 off in the boats for the night they sud denly saw tue low dark structure dis
 appear in the water. The life saving station was immediately notified of the accident and three boats manned and
 and sent to the scene. 5000 people
 gathered on the shore and watched the boats, which were soon flying about
 over the spot where the Caison had stood. Lights moved to and fro but no
 trace of the massive structure could be
 seen. It YVES soon known only four of the eighteen men who were at work at the time escaped.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-Judge Kelley
 died at 6:30 this evening. He was con | SclOuS to the last. Ills remalnS VIII De | buried iL Laurel Hill cemetery, Pa.
 Funeral services will take place Tn the
 hail of the house of representatives Sat | urday noon. He has served in the lower
 house longer than any other member
 and for this reason is often called "Fath-
 CT of the House."
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Ways and means
 committee listened again to several farm
 CTS as to their needs in the way of pro-
 lection. Several paper makers and rep
 resentatives of leather interests were also heard.
 ALBURQUERQUE, N. NJ, January 1O.-
 Burt Charles, the Is year oil leader of
 a band of horse thieves, and Charles
 Morris were arraigned here to-day for
 stealing horses of Richard Lustr, last
 November. They were bound over to