Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1891-07-04
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= NAsHINCT0N, June 26.-The Ohilid
4 insurgent commissioners,::it 1T is said, hav
q a telegram from Minister Egan, whicl
D WI easure them hearing at the stat
{ department, One thing the commission
J ers want to explain is the future 0
Minister Egan's offer OF smediatiol
which is not due to them as Balmacedi
partisans claim that they will ask th'
| United States to recognize them a
, belhgerents. France and other Euro
pean countries are ready TO follow in the
, wake of this country. 1t is said that the
, Chilians Will also ask the restorati IN oi
the arms taken, on board the Itatr, or
the grounds that the neutrality laws
were not violated, and that the only
penalty 20 which that vessel is subject
is for the violation of port regulations.
LONDON, June 26,-The Shanghai
correspondent of the Standard says That
even the governments decree ordering
the beheading of all persons implicated
in the recent riots and massacres failed
TO stop the outrlges beng perpetrated
on Foreigners IN China The correspond
ent also adds that there are now twenty
foreign war vessels lying in the Yang tse-
Kiang.
CINCINNATI, June 26.-The master
plumbers have reconsldered their action
recommending Murray for appointment
as chief secretary of ahe plumb ber's Bu-
reau at the worlds fair, and have elected
Andrew P. Young, of Chicago, instead.
New LONDON, ] une 29.-The boat race
between Yale and Havard crews, YVES
won by the latter.
Harvard won by IL lengths; time q
minutes and % seconds; Yale's time was
twenty-one minutes and 81 seconds.
| WASHINGTON, June 26.-The regular
meeting of the cabinet was held here to-
| day. The absentees were Blaine, Proc
toe and Miller. The principal topic dis
cussed was the continued coinage of sill.
yer after July,
Sioux CRY, June % The flood IN
| the Sioux river which came past Lee
mars and Merrill yesterday and did
great damage in the country reached
here early this morning and the river
rose twelve feet. One hundred and fifty
houses in the valley are partly submerg-
ed and the families have moved to the
hills. The large stove works, shoe fac
tory, -four mills and foundry in the sub
urbs OF town, are closed. No loss of
life here.
WASHINGTON, June 25-Orders have
Gon g forward TO the New York navy
yard for the preparation of two new
wooden masts for the icruiser Philadel-
phia, TO replace the three steel masts
now on the vessel. The vessel is found
to be too heavy rs at present rugged and
rolls to an uncomfortable degree.
WAsHIsGToN, June 2G.-The president
today signed the commission appointing
Il. d. iSathbOrn as fourth assistant post
master-general.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-Acting Sec
retGry Cant has Just approved a re-
commeDdaLiOn mads by the fOTtifica- |
uons board, making a small allotment |
to defTay expenses Of a survey in con
nectiCn with the selection OF sites for !
q mortar battery and for the defense of |
San Francisco. The most impor ant re- |
commendation that was approx 81 was |
that the chief of ordnance be author |
lied to construct some new - inch |
rifles forty feet in length.
SAN Francisco, June 25.-The 5irect- |
ors Of the California Athletic Clul have |
about concluded arrangements ;or O |
match in August between McAuiiffe, |
of this city, and Jack Davis, of Omaha. |
SPRINGFIELD. Ill, June Ex-Governor
Oiefer has signed the bill enabling wo-
men to vote for all school officers.
LAS VEGAS, June 26.-Further advices
received here from Fort Wingate, 300 |
miles west of here today, are to the
effect that the trouble on thu Novajo |
reservation seems to be increasing.
Lieut.. Brcet, who was sent with de-
tachment OF troops TO kean's canyon |
near Fort Defiance to suppress the de.
predations of the hostiles, dispatched
courier 10 the commander of d troop on
the Zuni reservation for him to come to
his aid as speedily as possible, also a
courier has arrived at Fort Wingste
with special to the commanding officer
for another troop of cavalry, or all cav
airy troops available, as the hostiles are
threatening war. II. troop, second cav
airy, under command Of Captain Rob-
inson, has left Fort Wingate and will
force the march. This makes three
troops of cavalry now in the field and
the infantry companies are now holdiRg
themselves in read ness to be called out
The trouble among the Indians may
mean another Navajo war.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 26.-The
last agricultural appropriation account
contained an appropriation of $1,000 to
be used in experiments in the produc-
Iion OF rain fall.
The department is now about to
embark in these experiments, having
prepared to test practically the theory
that heavy explosions cause rainfall.
Last evening preliminary trial was
made and a balloon sent up in the
northern suburbs was exploded with
great violence amid the clouds. Whether
the downpOur OF rain later
on in the evening was caused by the ex-
plosion remains to be determined and
the department will Try the experiment
on larger scale 10 determine the eff
ficacy of over Oming the summer
droughts.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. June ga Can
tor, Mississippi, special says: The Miss
issippian. the leading democratic organ.
will publish tomorrow a seven-column
letter from Senator George, in which he
comes out squarely in favor of the Ocala
platform. excepting as to the sub
treasury and and loan features and
aO.o'rment Ownership of railroad and
telegraph lines. Width these except
ions ne takes the advance guard in
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