Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-09-22
FRESNO, Sept. William Lane an |

FRESNO, Sept. 1S.-Sioce most of the first crop of raisins have been picked and cured, those Tho are best posted on ) the yield say there will be Q shortage of
 300 to 1000 car loads ID this part of the valley, but the quail y Is very fife.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Sept. 1S.-A band
 of five youthful burglars have been
 arrested at Lamar, Mo They confessad , to breaking Into the store os the Devore Fruit Co.,, cracking the safe and taking
 $500 cash. The ages of the boys are
 l5-l4-l4 aud respectively.
 NoRTHENIDE, O. T., Sept. 1S.-A fire
 destroyed last night all that had been
 done here during tre past yelr. The
 Arlington hotel, inst complete at a cost
 of S2O, eco, Is total loss. The guests
 barely escaped with their iiveF, losing al.
 their effects. Many business houses
 were burnt out The oiigin of 'he fire
 is inc ndiary. Practical y there IS no lD-
 surance. \ shifting wind saved the town
 from extin ti0-i Thsra was DO means of
 fighting tn" fire X :-Pt by buck ts.
 CovIN, Mo., Sept. 16.-The Colorado
 aud Utah expr- S ca the Santa Fe was
 held up. TGe company had spy on
 the train and the bandits were met with
 a hail of buckshot. They shot the en-
 gneer, Prescott, but not fatally.
 The company got notice of tbe pro-
 posed )ldup a d were prepared. The
 robbers ordered Prescott to hold up and
 instantly fired. Whsn Prescott fell de-
 tective Kinny bounded to the top of the
 engine and fired a load of buckshot full
 in the robbers face. But he got away
 and 8 general fusilade followed, the rob-
 bers hastily retreatIng into the bushes, with the detectives pursuing. Five | farmers living north of Arsbeila, Ms
 souri, in Iowa, are the robbers. Charles
 Abrahams and Llrcoln Oyerteld were
 captured this morning in Memphis,
 Missouri. Abrahams is wounded SIX
 times and cannot live.
 LONDON, Sept. IS 8-Every hour adds
 to the crushing defeat of the Chinese.
 The totsl Chinese loss is said to be over
 1000 killed, wounded and prisoners
 It is probable that the number will be increased in few days by prisoners | who are being constantly brought in by
 the Japanese. Practically all the effect
 i've Chinese staff officers are prisoners. The prisoners are being sent to Japan in patches of 1000 on Japanese trans ports.
 A dispatch from Shanghai says that an imperial edict deprlving Viceroy Li- Hung Chaog of hls three-eyed peacock feather, because of his mismanagement of the Corean campaign, has been is- sued.
 The Japanese are rapidly advancing on Monkado.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Cal, Sept. 17.-l Steamer Nameying has been sunk of the China coast. All hands were lost including eight white men and fifty Malays before the mast, besides the officers and the passengers on the vessel.
 WASHINGTON. Sep. 17.-Concernlng the coinage of silver collars under the unrepealed portion of the Sherman act, Secretary Carlisle's statement shows that since the administration came into power 1,957, ,223 standard dollars have been coined, of which 52O,O ,O69 have been | seignorege.
 PERRY, O. T., Sept. IA cyclone passed through Jennings today and | blew fifty houses to atoms. A young lady and two children were killed and | several persons injured. Several houses caught fire at Mining and a conhagra- tion followed.
 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 17.-J. A. R. Elliott, the champion shot of the world, made his right to that title doubly se- cure today by winning the second of series of contests with Dr. Carver, the worlds champion rife shot. The score was: Elliott 95, Carver 93. The match was for S4C0 side, best two oUt of three shots at 100 live birds. The score in the first match shot Saturday result ed: Elliott 99, Calver 91.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-The board of general appraisers, in an opinion drawn by United States General Appraiser Sharette of Baltimore, Md, sent to Col lector Kilbr tn of the port of New York holds that schedule K" of the new tariff act does not go into effect as to articles therein provided for until Janu- ary 1. 1895, but that all fabrics manu factured from wool, worsted, hair of the camel and goat, alpaca or other animals as dutiable under the Mckinley act un- til that date.
 NEW CHANG, China, Sept. 17.-Rey- srend James Wyhe, an InOffensive Scotch missionary in North China, was beaten to death by Chinese soldiers on public highway while enroute to the seat of war. The native authorities are acting energeticaliy in the matter and will likely behead everybody who had hand In the murder including the officers A money indemnity will be paid to the family of the deceased by | Cbina who fear exciting the H. will of foreign of residents. They however regard their position as precariOus and Lave appealed for protection.
 PHUEyIx, Sept. 1.-The democratic ! rri;orial convention met in the opera nouss in this city this afternoon and pro- ceeded to organize by the election of F. J. Edwards, of Globe, as chairman, and Robert A. Todd, city editor of the Tue son Star, as secretary.
 J. c. Hernd1n, of Prescott, wes rom- , mated for delegate to congress and Jo- seph Campbell, of Phot nix for council ] by exclamation.
 The platform adopted endorses, with put qualification, President Cleveland md his administrat on, expressing its sntlre confidence in his patriotism and ability to guide the destinies of this great nation.
 It also endorses the territorial admin stration and the reforms and retrench- ments that have been effected in its every department.
 The platform demands free silver leg slatiOn and that a check be placed on