Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-02-01
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l SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3.-The British ship | George Thompson from New Castle with cargo of coal beat the record for sailing vessels to this port on that route, mak- ing the voyage in B days.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The publica- tion of the Samoan treaty in Berlin has | led to it's denunciation by the German press of both parties. The dispatch says | the radical and conservative alike call ! it "German retreat"
 DENVER, Jan. 23.-The entire Rio | Grande system is open, the snow block ade having been raised. San Francisco is open to-day and the first through train for the coast left Denver this morning
 CHICAGO, Jan. 23-A hack containing Mir. and Mrs. Frederick Payne, who were attending the funeral of their child, was run into at the gate of the Rose Hill cemetery, by the Chicago express train on the Northwestern road this evening, and the unfortunate parents were slain outright. Simon Andeson, the hack dri- yer, and Mrs. Beprogal who was with the Paynes, were fatally injured and died in few minutes. The nine year old daughter of the Paynes' escaped miraculously.
 Washington, Jan. 23.-Secretary Win dom has written long letter to Senator Frye, chairman of the committee on commerce, regarding the Alaskan seal fisheries. The Secretary says the pres ent system of leasing the fisheries com mends itself to his judgment as the wisest for the government to adopt in he future.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The agents of the National Steamship line stated to-day that they had no additional informa- tion regarding the steamship Erin which it is feared foundered with eighty-seven people on board. The agents, however, still maintain hope.
 WASHINGTON, January 23.-Vest pre- sented the credentials of w. A Clark and Martin Maginnis as senators elect from the state of Montana They were read and referred to the committee on privileges. On motion of Vest four gen tlemen claiming to be senators elect were admitted to the privileges of the floor pending contest.
 Ingalls,, in addressing the senate on Buffers negro immigration bill, said the solution of the negro problem will demand all the resources and statesman ship of the present and of the future to prevent {. catastrophe. No other peo- pie on the face of the earth ever submit ted to wrongs and injustice winch for twenty years had been upon the colored men of the south without revolution and bloodshed, but he thought the south was standing on volcano. Four solu- tions of the problem had been submit ted, emigration, eXtermination, ab- sorption and disfranchisement, but it was still the fifth solution which had never been tried, and that solution was justice. He appealed to the south to try the experiment of stacking guns and opening ballot boxes to black and white alike.
 The bill increasing to SS00,OO0 the appropriation for a site for the public building in San Francisco was favorably reported from the committee and placed on the calendar.
 The bill to place General Stoneman on the retired list as colonel in the infan try, passed,
 At the conclusion of Ingalls, address the senate adjourned till Monday.
 WASHINGTON. January 23.-C. P. Huntington, vice president of the Gen. tral Pacific appeared to-day before the house committee on Pacific railroads and favored ssthe extension of the time allowed for the settlement of. the indebt- ness of the Central Pacific railroad com pany and the reduction of the interests to be paid the government as proposed in the Vapdeyer bill,
 Huntington said the bill he favored would be as the omnibus bill; the period for settlement to cover over 123 years and the rate of interest to be paid was 115 per cent with reasonable time. The Central Pacific would pay its debts; it would pay during the next two years more than double the sum it now pays under the Thurman act.
 PORTLAND, Jan. 24. Union Pacific trains are again blocked. The t'ain coming west is delayed beyond Green river and the trains gong east are block aded at Pendleton.
 SAN FRANCISCO, January 23.-The propositisn to remove the Apache In dian prisoners from Alabama, upon the recommendation of General Crook, who favors the location of .part of those In dians some place in Indian Territory and the balance to be be set at liberty, has caused much comment in army cir cles. The opinion was forcibly expres- sed here today by an army officer that if the Indians were sent to the Indian Territory they would not be long in get ting to New Mexico if not Arizona. If these Indians are turned loose again on the people of Arizona, life would be un- safe and property that with the last few years of undisturbed peace and tranquil lity has grown in value, would not be Indian prisoners are unhealthy where they are at Carlisle and Mount Vernon, 1t is chiefly on account Of the condition in which they have been for years past.
 QUEBEC, Jan. 23.-Monseur Leglore, vicar general to the arch dioces, died to- day of la grippe.
 CHICAGO, Jan. 23-Nicholas May mur- dured his wife to-oay and then com- mitted suicide. Jealously was the cause.
 PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 23.-Tne jury in the case of Pellis Umatilla, the Indian on trial in the circuit court for the murder of Mrs. Taison on the Umatilla reservation, returned a verdict to-day of guilty of murder in the first degree.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, January 2i.-l l.. l.. Brommell, President of Califor- nia Insurance Union, was shot and se- riously, if not mortally wounded, by G. c. Pratt, general agent of the same com pany, shortly. before eleven o'clock this forenoon. The shooting occurred in the office of the company SIS California street. Three shots were fired by Pratt, who was seated near Cromwell, all of which it is thought took effect. One striking him in the body just below the heart. The shooting created intense excitement. Pratt was immediately ar rested and taken to prison. He refuses to make any statement until he has consulted his lawyers. Cromwell was