Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-03

day. lie showed no emotion when the sentence was pronounced. He was taken to San Quentin this afternoon.
 HELENA, Mont, Nov. 26.-Miss Nora HOuser has been selected to be the model for Montana's silver statue at the Worlds fair. When 1t was announced some time ago that Miss Ada Rehan, of New York, had been chosen to pose for that statue storm of protest went up from people and press. The women of Silver Bow county in particular were in- dignant, declaring that plenty of pative models could Se obtained equal ID every respect to the person picked out in the East.
 Miss Nora Houser has finally been selected from among the numeraus as pirants as the native Montana girl to be the model for the silver statue. Miss Houser is strikingly beautiful of face and figure, and has queenly carriage. She IS an ideal beauty, and Montana will match her against the world. But the Worlds fair officers have no positive information that she will serve as the model.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2S,-One of the most destructive storms which ever vis- ited the Pacific Coast is raging. About s o'clock thIs morning the clouds began to gather and in few moments the en- tire heavens were overcast. In less than twenty minutes after the first sign of danger the storm burst forth in all its fury. Trees were uprooted, signs and awnings blown down, window panes and shutters smashed and even dwell lings were overturned. The hurricane coming from the Northeast knocked many of the Oakland telegraph poles and wires into the Bay. Considerable damage to property has already been done but, at present it is not known whether any lives have been lost or not The storm has swept along the whole of the coast and is abating somewhat as it travels southward.
 NEW York, Nov. 30.-The invessiga- tion into the Coal Combine was resumed this morning. Thomas Hanford, a coal dealer testified that prices this season are unusually uniform. He attributed the fact to the Coal Combine. Thomas Torey general sales agent of ths Dele ware and Hudson Canal Coal Company testified that at all meetings of sale agents no cast iron scale prices had been fixed, but there was sort of tacit con- sent that prlces should be approximate ly uniform.
 DWIGHT, H., Nov. BOA robber with a key to the express safe of the United States Express Company yesterday while the manager was absent, entered the eX- press car on the Illinois and Iowa road here, unlocked the safe and stole 5000. There is no clue to the robber.
 LONG ISLAND CITY, N, Y. Nov. 30.- The heaviest snow storm on Long Island since the blizzard of 1888. The fall be- ing IS inches to two feet. Heavy drifts in many places impeded travel. All trains delayed many showed in. Those from Sag Harbor are all missing, noth- ing can be heard from them as wires are down over the entire Island. The drifts are packed hard.
 MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 30-KoId has decided not to attempt to be sworn IS governor tomorrow. Therefore there Will be nothing to disturb the inaugura- ton of Governor Jones.
 LONDON, Nov. 28.-The Daily Tele- graph suggests silver to be made legal tender up to the amount of four pounds in order to secure the inviolability five pound prices. It continues: Even if the conference should adopt ROthchilds silver plan, 1t might be months perhaps years of negotiation between the differ ent governments before anything could actually be done. But it IS universally felt that the Rothchilds have done great service to the commercial interests by ad vertlng the utter smash of silver through the collapse of the Monetary Conference
 The Standard says, That the silver market IS not favorable impressed with Rothchilds scheme. The more the scheme is examined the more patzent becomes its impracticability. A collapse of the Monetary Conference IS expected in all thoughtful circles.
 The News says it IS under.tood that the proposed limit of legal tender of sil- yer be reduced to four pounds. It also suggests that Inasmuch as Sir William Vernon Harcourt 5as selected Rothchild as delegate to the Monetary Confer ence, the last named gentlemen has probably received an inkling that the British government will support his scheme.
 A committee of twelve appointed by the International Monetary Confer ence to report on the proposals submit "a .lox ,,- .L,AL L with only short interval for luncheon. Members have arranged to give their exclusive attention to the work of the committee so as to be able to present an exhaustive report to the Conference. Several experts, not delegates to the Conference offered to give evidence on the production of precious metals and other points relating to the delibera- tions but the committee has declined to hear witnesses on any side of the qaes- tion. It is understood that the commit tee will take es nearest to the approx innate accuracy the statistics prepared by Ottoman Haupt.especiallyf for the use of the Conference, giving estimates compiled fpom latest data of the mons- tary stocks of the world and the annual production and consumption af gold and silver.
 Senator Jones, one of the American delegates, has prepared special state ment of the consumption and produc- ton. The silver committee has consen- ted to request Danish delegate, C. F. TeitgeD, to submit his plan as addenda to the Rothschild plan. Teitgen is monOmetallIst, He proposes the coin age of silver five franc four shilling or dollar pieces. rated to gold according to the price of silver in the year previous to the adoption of the international agreement with a seignerage of ten per cent. He also proposes the appointment of permanent international cOmmis- sion to fix an initial price should the price ef silver fall to five per cent below the coinage ratio. The commission will have authority to fix new rates and or der the coinage of pieces. These coins will be legal tender. International banks ar fn lraar, aG a