Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-07-23

morning. The platform opposes all legislation hostile to the interest of the working classes. Favors the use of both gold and sllger as standard money and such legislation as will insure the parity of the two metals.
 RIO VISTA, Cal, July 21.-The busi- ness portion of this town was destroyed yesterday by a fire caused by the ex- plosiou of gasoline stove in the kitchen of the River hotel The water supply was short and the fireman unable to check the spread of the flames Odd Fellows hali, Knights of Pyt1ias hall, pOst-o ffica, office of the News, general merchandise store ot J Stern X Co. aLd large number of other buildings including fiften or twenty dwellings also destroyed. Losses estimated to bA Sl50.00O. Insurance about S20.OOO, all communication by wire with the town has besn cut ctf A large number of people are homeless and being cared for
 by the Sisters of Mercy at St. GertFudes academy.
 NEW YORK, July 21-Tha following is synopsis If the speech of Chairman
 Wilson, of West Virginia, notifying Clev- eland. MT. Wilson said: "Besides
 being a committee of notification from the Democratic pa ty we are so a c m- mitte charged with the duty of present. ing it's platform of principles which in all utterances Is merely a decl 4ra ion of the one great principle that whatever gOveI nments and laws can do for d peO- pie must be done without precedence of section or grades of citizenship. Mir.
 Wilson said in the midst of cause de- serving of the highest homo and which
 will receive the highest encOniums In
 histOry'S award. you were struck down
 because as a Democrat you could make
 no terms with those who wished to plum
 der the peep es treasury and psrpetuate the pos essiOns of civil strife. Your
 cOuntrymen will right that wrong we can Ssure you there is no weary or despOnd-
 ent Democrats in rants today and with the peoples csu-e as our canSe c doubt
 not you will lead Us to a glorious triumph.
 WASHINGTON, July I9- Chairman
 Garter. Of the Republican national com mittee arrived here this morning and he spent the day m consultation with the president, Secretary Noble and promin- ent Republican in and out of congress. Mir, Garter has handed to the president
 his resignation as commissioner of the general land office and tomorrow even
 ing hs will return to New York to as sume active control of the campaign. While Chairman Carter was non com municative upon the subject, it is stated upon good authority that ex-Reprssen tative McComas of Mary land will be elscted as secretary of the national committee.
 NEW YORK, July 19-- Supervising boards throughout the state under the act of the last legislature providing for an enumeration (which has been made) and re appOrtionment of assembly dis tricts under it have been today conform
 ing with th9 provisions of the act. There have been tWO exceptions. Monroe and Orange counties which have fiatly re-
 fused to recognize any but tha old boun-
 baries of their assembly districts.
 The reasons argued by W. A. Suther- land, of the Republican national LOm- mittee, when appealed to by the Monroe county board, are that the legislature could not constitutionally enumerate the inhabitants in the year 1882, that the en-
 umeratiOn does not comply with the various provisions of the constitution and that gross and fragrant iniquities exist in the apportionment of the mem
 bers of the assembly and senate.
 WALLACE, Idaho, July 20.-work has
 beea resumed at all of the mines ID
 Occur d Alene. Wages have been fixed at 5 50 for skilled miners and 8 per
 day for shovlers, wi.h rIght to board
 and lodge where they please. The pre- | sence of troops ls a guarantee that the
 men can wsrk for whom they please without becoming members of any or gauiZation. The action of the Home- stead strikers whose deeds were con- mented upon in violent anarchist language by such men as Breen, Dollan, BOynton and O'BrIen stirred up the evil passions of the ignorant miners
 whom they ruled with rod and iron. On | the 18th the strike assumed its most | dangerous phase and the mine owners ] were virtually held prisoners and three ! hundred nOn-uniOn workInen We're ID | the hands of nen capable of shooting | them to death at the command of their leader. It IS regarded here that Gsner- al Garlin's delay at Calado until the non
 union men could be singled out saved
 many lives ana valuable property. It IS
 believed that every threat made by the strikers would have been carried out
 had the troops advanced. The miners considered their fight won whel the non-uDion men left. never dreaming they would return within two days. Be fore they could recover from theIr sur prIse, deputy marshalis were pointing them out to soldiers, who arrested them. Since the 18th instant there has been no danger whatever and sensational re-