Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-27
Telagrnphic Notes.

In New York yesterday Gunsberg again defeated Steinitz in a chess game Succi, the faster, completed his task of fasting for forty-fve days Saturday At Baltimore yesterday the new rev. enue cutter Galveston was successfully | launched.
 Many fishing schooners went ashore | along the Maine coast during Wednes- days storm.
 St. Vincent, the stallion with record of 2:3O, has changed owners, the price being s15.0OO.
 Mrs. Jessie Higbee, at Brandenburg, Ky, has been arrested for poisoning her four children.
 Not less than forty persons were in- Jured by the railroad accident at St. Joseph de Lewis, Canada.
 Elmer Sharkey and Henry Popp, two condemned murderers, were hanged at Columbus, Ohio, last night.
 Colonel Joseph R. Smith of Los An geles IS said to have good chance to be made Surgeon-General of the army.
 The Sawtelle murder trlal is LOW on in Dover, N. H. A number of witnesses were examined yesterday. Sswtslle killed his brother.
 President Disz and Secretary Romero state that Mexico has no desire to legis- late against the United States and no wish to retaliate because of the McKin- ley bill.
 In the case of the American tug Mogul the Dominion Customs Department has decided that the vessel was clearly with in Canadian waters when seized, and therefore liable to penalty of S4O0.
 The discovery of Professor Snow, Chancellor of the Kansas State Univer sity, of the existence of . disease fatal to the cinch bug, will doubtless afford farmers relief frsm the destruction of this pest.
 The Baltimore Jewish Exponent pub hshes letter from Cardinal Gibbons on the subject of the persecution of the Jews in Russia In the letter the Car dinal says every friend of humanity must deplors this persecution.
 The President has signed the bill pro- viding for the maintenance of discipline among the customs officers; also the joint resolution providing fer the print ing of decisions of the Land Depart ment of the Interior regarding public lands and pensions.
 Mrs. Astor gave a reception yesterday at her home, corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty fourth street, which was probably the largest ever held in New York City. The streets in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street were blocked for hourS with carriages.
 The recommendations of the Pan American Congress for . meeting of an International Monetary Commission having been adopted by all the Amer ican repu plies, President Harrison has issued call for the first meeting at Washington, on the first Wednesday in January next.
 Investigation shews that not only the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Building Association, but nearly all the numerous organizations that cluster around the big Temperance Union were depositors at the broken bank of s. A. Kean t O., Chicago. Temperance or ganizations had about S30,OOO in the concern when it failed.
 The Sisters of the Holy Sacrament IS the Hame decided upon for the new re- hgious order that Miss Kate Drexel, or Sister Catherine as she is now called, is to establish and which will have for it's special object the amelioration and inn provsment of the condition of Indians and colored people. The site is fixed at Arundel, near Washington.