Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-05-03
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. a mob numbering 4,0O0 attacked thu
 Jewish quarter and wrecked q numbe of dwellings. The troops did not sue 2 ceed in restoring orc CT beforn | of th' 3 mob were klled and iaany l. o @ wound , ed.
 SAN DIEGO, April 24.-A white man
 named Walker was captured to-day al Tia Juana in the act of aiding Chinese across the line. Other arrests will prob ably be made before morning.
 ALBANY, April 24-The senate recall led from the assembly the ballot referm bill, and again passed it, changing it to agree with the amended:bill agreed upon
 last Friday by Governor Hili. It is un-
 derstood that the Governor will now
 sign the bill.
 CHICAGO, April 24-Josepn Gruenhut,
 a statistian of the health department,
 has compiled a table showing the nun
 Der of labQring people ia thSzeity who
 will eitheT<strIke for eight hours or the
 1st of May. or be made made idle by strikes in collateral industries will be 223,000.
 BERLIN, April 22-The projected rail
 way from Jaffa to Jerusalem seems at last likely to be realized. The engineers | operations. The lIue is expected to be
 very acceptable to pilgrims and tourists. The line will be supplemented by one
 from Jerusalem to Damascus. and also by train east into Mefford land where
 there are still greater cities. l SAN FRANCIsCo, April 24.--In the suit
 of Captain Jeremiah Cox, against his at
 torney, D. Nj. Delmas, to recover S32, SG2, the value of claims purchased by i Delmas under Coxs instructions, but | held by Delmas to be a private specu ] lation, Judge Shaft to day set aside the former verdict, awarding Cox S22.867, and gave him judgment for the whole amount.
 WASHINGTON. April T. - Chairman Conger of the coinage committee to-day | introduced in the house a bill agreed upon by the republican caucus last night 1t was referred to the coinage committee.
 A number of amendments relating 10 the civil service sections of the lesllsia- tive appropriation bill were rejected. Briggs of California denounced civil ser vice law. 1t was," he said, conceived and brought forth in iniquity; Pendle- ton was its father, George William Cur tis its granny and Dorwin B. Eaton its nurse and clout washer Many other members spoke against the bill.
 Houck's motion to strike out the clause of appropriation of salaries for civil service commissioners was lost, G to l2 and pending further action the | committee rose and the house adjourn | ed.
 LITTLE ROCK. Ark, April Pit is 1 learned from a reliable source that Gov. | Eagle has collected through private | detective agency evidence which Il Is i claImed will convict the assassin of J. | l.. Clayton. Governor Eagle refuses to | make any statement, but it is said the | proof will show that the crime was com mitted by man who mistook John M. | Clayton for ex Governor Powell Clayton, and believed he was averaging the death | of relative who was killed while Powell 1 Clayton was governor.
 BAYOU SARA, La. April 24-The real condition of things in the flooded dis trict is just coming to light The entire i front of point Conguee IS under water. and water is so deep back of the lcvee, that hundreds of lives are in jeopardy | Small stretches of levees are still stand ing, crowded with negroes, whites and live stock. The crevices at Avendale will overflow thirty of the finest planta tons on the river.
 NEW ORLEANS In Point Coupee parish not a plantation IS left above water, and not levee unbreken, while hundreds of families are Omeles thousands of head of live stock have been drowned. and 1t is quite probable -eo 1,
 WASHINGTON, April 24.-The senat4 took up the house bill 10 transfer Te,e nue cutter service from the treasury q = partment to the navy department. Pend ing consideration.
 Committee on privileges and elections reported las an original measure) a bill to amend and supplement the election law of the United States. Placed on calendar.
 Senator Teller to-day introduced bill as a substitute for Jones silver bill, providing that any person may deposit at any mint or assay office of the United States, either gold or silver bullion, or both. in quantities of not less than five ounces of gol1 or eighty ounces Of silver, and demand and receive coin cer- tificates therefor at the rate of Sl in
 
 Troy weight of standard gold, and at the rate of Sl Tn certificates for 4l2 15 grains of silver.
 Without action on Hoar's election bill or the revenue marine biil, the land for feiture bill was taken up. and the amend ments reported from the committee on public lands were agreed to. Berry moved to amend the first section of the bill so as to forfeit all iand granted @ railroad companies where the lines are not completed within the time fixed by act in subsequent extension of it The amendment was rejected, the republi- cans voting in the negative. The bill WAS laid on the table and the senate ad journed.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, April 24-Michael Lane, a stone cutter, shot and fatally hurt his wife at her home on Lafayette street to day, and then blew out his own lived happily together, and the only cause that can be assigned for the trag- edy is insanity, as Lane had been unwell | for some time, and it is supposed he sud denly lost his reason. They had a large family of children. nearly all Of whom are grown. The tragedy was discovered | by a young son. who returned home | from school this afternoon and found | his parents on the floor, dying. Both | were covered with blood, as were all ar ticIes of furniture in the room
 Mrs Lane had two bullet holes in her head and her skull was also crushed by | a blow from a hammer, leading tO the l supposItion that Lane had comuleted bis i work with that instrument. After shoot l ing his wife Lane shot himself m the temple, the bullet passing through his | brain. The revolver was clasped in his | hand when found. He died in short | ime and there is no hopes of his wife's recovery.
 WAsnINTroN, April Secretary Proctor said to-day that no change | would be made in the military division | commands for at least two months. It | is understood that the date of retirement | of Brigadier General Grierson is July s. | It has been fixed for encouragement oi i