Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-21


 Ids AfanLEs. Julie if.-A boiief ss- plosion occurred on the Van Nues ranch. 20 miles ro-th of here this morning. One man was killed and several badly injured.
 C.Iso, June Tit is reported that the Mahdi hes released all the European prisoners. -.>:
 NEW YORK, June Dissatisfaction in the ranks of labor are on the increase. A cloak makers lock out is ascertained, which is only the beginning of general strike which wil1 eclipse anything of the kind yet known here.
 BOSTON, J une 1.-The building labor CTS of Boston, Somerville, and Cam
 bridge, numbering 5000, struck this morning and the bricklayers have agreed to support the strikers for an ad- vance Of D cents day.
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 17-Louis Hal stead, who was in the car next to engine at the time of the Webster street bridge disaster, May 30, and went down into the water with it, nearly losing his life and receiving many bruises, will sue the $. P. company for 31O,211 damages.
 SALEM, Ogn., June 1.-The governor | to-day committed the death sentence of | Clifton Pennington, convicted at Baker | City of the murder of Charles Balcom, to life imprisonment in the penitentiary NAPA, Cal, June 17-To-day was the time set for the< sentence of Margaret Merkle, convicted of the murder of Jos eph Won Wyle. Her attorney asked for now trial and in support offered an affi- davit from her husband, Christian Mer kle, that he and not his wifa had killed Von Wyle. He said it was done in self l defence during row in which all were engaged. He said that the reason for not making 1t known before was that he thought his wife would surely escape conviction. The court reserved the de- cislOu until tomorrow morning. The second conference on the anti trust bill reached an agreement by which the bill IS stripped of all amend ments added by the senate and house and remains as it originally passed the senate.
 On motion of Plumb section 3, of the l act of lo.o, authorizing the coinage of silver dollars and restricting its legal ] tender character, was adopted as new section to come in as section ?. Reagan offered ths following mendment as a substitute for sections 3, 4, and ,:
 Section 3. That certificates provided for | in this act shall be of denominations of not less than one or more than one hun5 dred dollars, and such certificates be re- deemable in coin Of standard value. Provision in section one of the act of 1878, which requires the secretary::of the treasury to purchase at market value not less than two million nor more than four million dollars worth of silver bull lion per month, is hereby repealed. Af ter long discussion it was modified at the suggestion of Eustis by adding the words: and all silver certificates al ready issued" and as SO modified it was agreed to. Plumb moved to insert the following as an additional section: Owners of bullion deposited for coinage snail have to receive coin or its equivi- lent in certificates provided in this act, and such bullion shall be coined as agreed to without division.
 The bill was then reported to the sen | ate and all amendments agreed to. Wolcott made speech in favor of the free colnage of silver and severely critic ised the attitude of tho administration towards silver.
 Mitchell addressed the senate and ln the course of his remarks declared that | any administration which would set it. self against the free and unlimited coin age of the silver dollar would deserve to be hurled from power. A little of the bill was amended so as to read 'an act to provide for the free coinage of gold and silver bullion and for other purposes"
 Los ANGELES, June 1.-The jury in the case of w. c. Chronicle and w. A. Gardiner, on trial for the murder of Do lores Cook, at Castle canyon, February last, rendered verdict of acquittal. OAKLAND, June l7-William Smith, a teamster of the Oakland sanitarium, to day took bath, snd several hours later his body was found in a tub of boiling water completely cooked. It is believed he committed suicide, as he had recently been laboring under temporary aberra tion of the mind.
 WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The following principal changes were made by the sen- ate committee on the tariff bill. Glass ware classifcations were changed and large general reduction was made. Steel rails were reduced from s1344 to S1l. 20 per ton. No bounty will be given for less than five hundred pounds of sugar annually, and sugars between l3 and l6 duties standard will pay duty of three tenths cents per pound Sugars above 16 will pay six tenths in stead of four tenths, Tabacco is un- changed md slight reductions were made in many items in the agricultural schedule. The duty on cotton manu- fracture was reduced ail through the schedule, and only slight change was made in wool. The bounty for silk and silk cocoons raised and reeled m the United States was striken out.
 WAsHINGToNs June ls.- Mutohler and Vaux, of Pennsylvania, voted with re- publicans in the negative.
 The silver bill as amended by the sen ate was presented to the house at 12:40, and was received with tremendous ap- plause by the,democratic side.
 Bland immediately moved that the committee rise in order that the house might at once proceed to consider the bill. The chairman of the committee. (Allan of Mich, J However, directed the the clerk to continue the reading of the long printed precedent bearing upon the point under discussion. At the conclus- lon of the reading Hands motion was put to vote and defeated, 79 to S9 On the vote by Teller's committee it re fused to issue; to rise yeas, 94, nays, l05; and continued the con ideration of the Indian appropriation bill.
 MINNEAPOLIS, June 1S-A party of of ficers arrived here with a search warrant | and went to several persons this morn l ing to recover census reports confiscated | last night by Deputy Marshal. Deputy | Daggett with armed officers were driven 1 out of Commissioner McCafferty's office | at the muzzle of revolvers. The city is | in state of indignation over the pro ceedings.
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