Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-05-06
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new system of questions on arrival and | will come under control of a new board of inspectors. To forestall this many | have already taken passage and they will be here in sEa-ms Eext week. Ten | thousand Italians left M3rseilles on II
 steamships which have just sailed from
 that port. The Belgravia is bringing | 14O0; there is 1900 more bound from
 Bremen and immigration from other ports is equally large.
 CHICAGO, III May 2.-After the exer-
 cises yesterday a silk bear flag was pre- sented to the California commissioners | by representatives of California at the Worlds Fair.
 HARRISBURG, Pa. May 2.-The train
 bearing President Cleveland passed
 through here at 2:25 this afternoon. BURLINGTON, Vt, May 2.-The Home \ for Destitute Children was burned last
 night. Fifty inmates were rescued with
 difficulty. The loss is S50,000. CINCINNATI, O., May 2.-Heavy rains
 have ceased and danger from disastrous | imminent. The waters are now higher
 than since 1884.
 ! RIVERSIDE, Cal, May 2.-An election
 to establish the legality of Riverside 1 County, Cal. by 8 necessary two~thirds vote is going on today. It is thought the county will be crrried by small vote.
 | NEW YORK, May "A Herald special
 says martial law has been declared in Cuba. If the insurgents lay down arms | they will be pardoned but If not they will be punished as trators. DENVER. Col, May 2.-The Denver | and Rio Grande has reduced the round | trip fare to Chicago to $50, and S22 to St Louis. Other roads have not yet | cut.
 SAN JOSE, Cal, May "A small new building here was nearly blown down l by terrific gas explosion this morr ing.
 Gas from leaky pipes ignited. Several had narrow escapes but no one was
 seriously injured. The damage is $500 CHICAGO, Il., May 2-Work on the | unfinished portions of the Worlds Far | was resumed this morning. Thousands
 of men are busy putting on the finishing | touches. Great throngs of visitors are
 present on the grounds. Exhibits are still arriving.
 St. LOUIS Mo. May 2.-Advlces from southern Missouri and northwestern Kansas state great damage is being | done by floods in many towns. Water | IS feet deep in the streets. Houses | are flooded and bridges carried away. 4 large amount of crops in this section
 is totally destroyed.
 NEW YORK, May 2.-The Spanish flag ship Infanta Isabella, with the Nueva | Espana m her wake, sailed for home | this morning. These are the first ! of the vessels to go. They soon will be | followed by others.
 The Chinese are not registering ' according with the provisions of the 1 Geary law.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2-Captain | Wiltz, U. s. N, was buried yesterday. | He was recently commander of the Boston and raised the American flag at Honolulu at the request of United States Minister Stevens. His friends | state that the shock at learning of the | taking down of the flag at Honolulu | broke his heart and brought on third
 attack of apoplexy and caused his | death.
 ST. LOUIS, May 1.-The river at 6
 o'clock this evening showed rise of | over a foot since last night and still
 rising. It caused the abandonement of
 the greater portion of east Carondolet. The telegraph office of St Louis con-
 meeting the railroad was wrecked this
 morning and several small buildings
 washed away.
 A body was washed ashore near the
 site of the wrecked telegraph office. Many persons who had been living in
 the second story of their homes were forsed to move out altogether today,
 and several had narrow escapes, barely
 escaping before their residences col lapsed CT floated away
 At Bellvllle several manufacturing establishments were forced to shut down, boiler rooms being inundated. The district known ss ''Oklahema" is now a vast lake with here and there
 hastily vacated shanty protruding a few feet above the waters. Trainmen
 from the east tonight say the water practically covers all Brooklyn and
 number of people are moving out of
 their houses.
 Venice will soon rival the city of
 which it is a names8ke.
 The East St Lou's dock warehouse gave way about noon and fully one- fourth of the vast building with the
 heavy contents fell in heap. the roof sinking and settling upon the wreck. Thousands of barrels of flour, sacks of grain, boxed canned goods, bundles of shingles and miscellaneous lot of other goods were precipitated though the ground ficor and into the water.
 One laboroT Cicero Pate, a colored man, was cru he'd to death under the debris. Two other laborers were in- jured. The loss will be quite heavy but it is impossible to sscersaned the exact amount.
 NEW YORK, April 2S.-Inky darkness yelled the Columbian fleet at 8 o'clock last night and not sound was heard by lapdsmen from the anchored battle ships. Suddenly ray of light shot up- ward from the Philadelphia. It was long, and dazzling ard seemed to pierce the sky. For moment i5 remained sta tionary and then disappeared. That was the signal for the scheduled display of the electrical search lights which the war vessels displayed. Promptly follow ing the Philadelphia's lead, the Amer- can showed the many ways in which the lights are used in active warfare to pro- tect themselves from the attack of those rn rina tarrnrc fnrnahn hnaiS