Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-07-22

w AsHlNGTON, july 1S.-It was an.
nounced this morning that the treasury
yesterday Brought 100000 ounces Of
silver at S0.121a. The amount Offered
was not made public. The total pur
chases so far this month are SOS ,O0(
ounces.
CHICAGO, July 13.-The day opened
clear and hot, but the scorching rays OF
the sun did not suffer to keep people
from the Worlds fair grounds.
Workmen on the ruins of the cold
storage warehouse made another ghostly
find this morning. 1t was that of a
human arm. From the ring on the
finger it was ideatified as part CT Ralph
Drunmond, part of whose remains were
taken out yesterday.
The total list of casualties from the
fire now numbers seventeen With three
or four unaccount for. 1t is now be-
lieved the total Will not now exceed
twenty or twenty-One, though there is
considerable uncertainty Us TO tie num-
Der Of strangers in the building when
the fire broke out.
The gate receipts at tie fair Sunday
| will be donated to the relatives of the
dead firemen, and several city theaters
will also give benefits for them SO that a
handsome sum is sure to be donated.
Mem ria. services will he held at the
grounds Sunday.
Berlin, July IL. - The army bill
passed to a second reaching in the reich
stag by a vote of 1913 to 1877. Thi. prac-
ticslly amounts to the passage of the
bill
WASHINGTON, July s13.-The treasury
received notices Of acceptance of its
| counter offer Of seventy-one and a half
| cents for silver 90 the amount OF 10000
ounces. The purchas 8 thus far this
month, out of total legal requirements
of fur and half million ounces.
amount to only 1880 ounces.
LONDON, July 13.-The Times cor
respondent at Bangkok telegraphs that
| the Siamese government has refused to
| permit two French gunboats to enter
| the Meinam river twenty miles from
| the north of which Bangkok is situated,
and has threatened if the gunboats
| attempt TO Cross the bar they will be
| sunk. France, the correspondent adds,
| has officially held this action as practi-
| cally declaration of war.
SIDNEY, N. S. W, July 13-Latest
| advices from Samoa are tt the effect
| that active hostili:ies have broken out
| between the followers IF King Maletoa
| and Chief Mataafa. Each faction has
| camps two miles from A pia and Skin
mishes occasionally occur The kings
forces are stronger but the chiefs have
better arms. Both refuse to hold any
| district neutral.
SAN JOSE, July ia duplicate from
Professor 5. Holden, of Lick observa-
tory, says:
An orbit of the new comet has been
| calculated by Professor Boss. 1t is
approximate only. 1t indicates tina,
during July the comet will move rapidly
east and south that its Light Will de-
crease. The comet will. be nearest the
sun July %. The photographs made
by Professor Hussey show tail
more than ten degrees long. Our other
observations have no popular interest
| at present.
NEwBURG, n. Y, July ia west
bound West Shore train ran in an open
witch half a nile south OF here at noon
and a bad smash-up resulted. -Four
bodies have been taken from the wreck.
A large numbe of badly injured br-
being taken to the hospital. Il is sad
eight to ten are killed and over a dozen
curt.
The train consisted OF an engine,
baggage ear, three day coaches and
sleeper. 1t ran a high rate OF speed
INTO freight tram on the siding caus-
ing general wreck.
The trainmen jumped and escaped
except one, who was slightly hurt; six
or seven are killed, and fifteen or twenty
injured. The dead include four IN
known women and little child.
New YORK, July IA special from
Raleigh, n. c., says letter to prom
nent state official says DR.. Lewis,
health officer of Northampton county,
reports the existence of a disease re-
sembling cholera. The persons attacked
died in six or seven hours. There have
been twelve deaths.
DENVER, Colo, July 14.-Eastsrn
papers have been telegraphiDg asking
he real import of Governor Watts
ncenGiary silver speech. Ia an inter
view today be declares he meant just
what he said, and will not withdraw
a single word.
PARIS, July 1.-The hundred and
fourth anniversary Of the fall OF bastile
was not celebrated today as usual, due to
feeling engendered by the recent riots
Of anarchists making threats of burning
the city. The military and fire depart
ment has been reinforced.
LONDON. July, IA special from
Bangkok, Siam, says twenty Siamese
were killed and fourteen wounded |
yesterday during the exchange of shots |
between forts at mouth of Meanam |
river aud French gunboats.
EUREKA, Cal, July 1.-THE coroner's |
jury in the case of Robert Russell, mate |
OF the schooner Mable Gray, whose |
body vas found Wednesday in the city |
with limbs bound and a gag in his |
mouth, returned verdict that RUSSELL |
met his death at the hands of persons |
unknown. He has been threatened by |
union sailors and they are suspected of |
the deed.
BERLIN, July A. - The army bill |
passed the second reading IN the relch-
stag today. 1t will pass third reading
tomorrow.
SAN Francisco, July 1.-THE coro
ners jury rendered a verdict this even
ing In the case of Nellie Horton, the
telegraph operator who shot and killed |
Charles II. Hagans, another operator,
last Sunday night. The jury found that
the killing Of Hagans was 'justifiable
homicide" but the coroner disapproved,
saying there was nothing in the evidence
to warrant such a verdict.
PEMBERvILLE. Ohio, July 14.-WillIam
Cook. a section foreman, went home
drunk, went TO the bed where his four
children were sleeping and made a muir
derous assault upon them with mat
took ha1dle. He picked one OF the
children up and dashed him against the
wall and ceiling inficting wounds that
will prove fatal. Two or more of the
N Ill I; Tho ill 1f &c /