Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-11-03
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LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 24.-Last night't
 program in the great carnival of crime
 which is now holding the boards in the
 Indian territory, consisted of the whole.
 sale robbery of eeveral small towns ir
 genuine desperate style by Bill Cook
 supported by strong and desperate
 company of followers. Four men rode
 into the town of Watova early in the
 evening, making their approach known
 by promiscuous discharge of firearms
 The bandits terrorized the inhabitants
 and most of them sought safety in their
 houses behind barricsded doors. The
 outlaws visited every store in the village
 and ran the merchants away with Win
 chesters and revolvers. They took from
 the stores all the money they could find
 and whatever else they wanted. Watova
 postoffice was robbed of about sixty
 dollars in stamps.
 From Watova the gang ran onto Tola,
 the hotel clerk as to the appearance of
 the person and was given a description of cite. Later he met Hanchette
 face to face, and spoke to him and had a conversation with him. Hanchette said hs was travelling salesman for a large PIJtsburg mercantile house in
 which he was silent partner. That he would soon be in such financial con- dition Gs would allow him to communi- cate with friends in California and fix 1 up everything there. It is not known that Hanchette was in any financial troubles in Los AngeMk. His wife and children still remain there where she is teaching school.
 YOKOHAMA, Oct. 25.-Three thousand houses have been destroyed by suc- cession of violent earthquake shocks. So far as Known 260 lives have been lost and a large number of people injured. BRooKINGs, N. D., Oct. 25.-Professor Wylie Mellette, son of ex-Governor Mel le,te and instructor in the department of agriculture in college, cut his throat with razor today and was found dead. He had been sick.
 BREAr, France, Oct. 25.-The boiler of the cruiser Arsthuse exploded,ss kill ing six men and badly scalding twenty.
 NEW MARTINsvILLE, W. Va, Oct. 25- W. l.. Wilson and party left on a special tram. At Plymoth many farmers assem- bed to hear Wilson, who spoke ten minutes on agriculture and tariff. He spoke there to an immense gathering. The enthusiasm was intense.
 YOKOHAMA, Oct. 25.-It is reported that the Japanese have affected 6 land ing at Slihiosso, near Port Arther; also that the Japanese captured this import ant place; other reports say the Japs were repulsed with 1860 wounded.
 TOPEKA, Oct. 25.-Newmen Erbe and Gen. B. F. Tracy, acting for the protec- tive reorganization of committees of the Santa Fe road have secured tempo rary restricting order from the United States court, restraining the stock holders from electing directors today until the courts decide on the cumula- tive plan for holding directors. The fight is intense.
 LONDON, Oct. 25.-St. Petersburg dispatches this morning say there is general feeling of indignation against Prof Sacharin, whose mistaken diag- nosis in the first place it was claimed to be rendered more injuries to the patient by the professors negligence and lack of medical skill. Prof. Zacharin has been severely blamed, according to these advices by Prof. Leyden, and it is assert- ed that should the czar die it will be because proper treatment was not under taken in time. The dispatch adds that since the crisis the czsrIna has been subject to continua trembling and syncope. Yestesday the condition of the cZaf varied between droxsiness and comparative cheerfulness. During one of the l8tter periods the czar is said to have been left.alone with the czarowitz l an hour and dictated long message of farewell to Russia, which will be issued | upon his death.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Health officers | are making strenuous efforts to prevent | an epidemic of smallpox. Over 500 were vaccinated today.
 SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. William Schmidt, a native of Germany, sixty-two years old, committed suicide with a shotgun. He has been out of work since the railroad strike. He leaves a wife and three sons.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-H. J. Hanchette, the missing secretary of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce has been discov- cred in Allegheny city, Pa. A friend of whose name was not given, says that while stopping at hotel here he saw handwriting iD the register which he recognized as his, and with he read the name. He asked ten miles away, where they repeated their depredations. They rode into the town and proceeded at once to rob the stores right and left. Every store in the place was visited and the proprietors to turn over their cash. The postoffice was also robbed.
 The bandits entered the town boldly and made no effort to conceal their identity. None of them were masked. From reports of their description they were undoubtedly the same gang that held up the Missouri Pacific train at Correta siding Saturday night It is believed that it was the bandits inten- ton to rob the Missouri Pacific pas senger No. 231 at Tola. While they were holding up the postoffice the train pulled into the station. Trainmen were