Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-01-26
Culberton Judge R:cks made a stats-

ment of the cases in which improper re- ceipt of fees is charged. He said, the cases were anomalous or he would not have undertaken to com plete the records. "I clsim that l had the right to com- plete the records, ss I did. The claim was accounted for satisfactorily 10 the government for all money. My success sor, as clerk, lost nothing on the trans action, and 1 acted strictly according to the custom followed by the courts in such cases"
 STRENGTHEN, Ills, Jan. 22-Cullom was renominated in the senate on tue first ballot by a strict party vote.
 TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 22.-Luclen Ba- ker, of Leavenworth county, received for senator 91 votes in the house and I6 in the senate. Joint ballot tomorrow will formally elect Baker
 Special to the CITIZEN:
 Phoenix Ariz. Jan. 22-Iu the assem- bly, c. D. Reppy of Cochise county was elected Chief clerk, l.. O. Hayes, of Pima county, Entry and expressing clerk and M. H. Calderwood of Marico- pa county Sergeant at Arms. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-A London cable gram to the San says that the Belgium poisoning mystery continues to excite public interest far beyond the boundsr- ies of the country where the trial is proceeding. The week has been mainly consumed in 8 battle between medical and other experts. The claim made by the accused that the morphine she bought just before her brothers death was for her own use was upset by a se- cret analysis, which showed that Mme. Joniaux had taken DO morphine just be- fore her arrest
 | Two of her victims died of stropoine. and 1t was proved that she bought the drug, but she claimed tLat it was for her eyes. She grew nervous as the dam aging testimony was piled up and her voice was sometimes husky and her man. ner discomposed as she made her objec. tions and explanations. Her outbursts of indignation were intense.
 | When the insinuation was made that she had committed adultery with her present husband before their marriage. several times she rose to her feet m A terrible passion to denounce as liars the witnesses who made the suggestion, or who testified that she had been detected cheating at cards. The latter episodes, nevertheless, were sbundantly proved.
 General Vandermissen, former con- mander- in chief of the Belgian army,
 was an unwilling witness on the latter point, but was compelled to admit that
 Mime. Joniaux had been accused of gross frauds at bsccarht in a party com posed of the most prominent persons iD the country.
 The prisoners mood varies from hour to hour. There are tears, indifference and anger, but she never misses an op- portunity to make 8 telling point for herself. Several times she has moved the jury to tears. Nothing escspes her. Fully 200 witnesses remain to te exam ined and the trial will probably be con- tinued another fortnight. Public opin- ion, which a week ago was inclined to favor the prisoner, has now gone to the opposite extremes.
 LONDON, Jan. 21-The Times has a dispatch from Teheran, capital of Persia, stating that the town of Kuchan in the province of Khorasan, which was de stroyed by an earthquake fourteen months ago and which was su bsequently rebuilt, was again destroyed by sn earth quake shock on Thursday last. There was, as on the pravious occa- sion, great loss of life. One hundred women who were in a bath house, wer- crushed to death by the falling building. The weather wPs intensely cold and thie increases the sufferipgs of the survivors, whose houses were destroyed. The dis patch adds that four distinct shocks were felt at Meshed, within three days. None of the shocks, however, ere of sufficient strength to do any damage.
 HlchsD lies at the foot of the .ohah Jahan Kuh, 8 mountain 900 feet iigh. The town, which IS about eight miles northw' ct of Meehed, is 330O feet above sea level It is. or was, an important place, being oh the route to Sbirvap. The population prior to the earthquake of 1893, which destroyed every house in the place. was between 10000 and 25. 900, The official report of the dis .sta. places the number of persons killed at 12,000. Fifty thousand head of cattle have perished in tho valley at the head of which Kuchan is situated.
 From November 2 to 27 there were 127 distinct shocks. It was the first shock that destroyed the town.
 HOMESTEAD, Pa, Jan. 21.-The em ployees of the Homestead steel plan have stolen a march ou the compan, and the Amalgsmated association ha again secured footbold in the works | by the organ: :zation of at least one lodge. the first since the break of the b:l | strike of 1892.
 The organiZati ID was necessarily &C., with much secrecy and it i> uouerStoou Iud1 Oniy tue uost tFuSt worthy in each of the departments were selected for the initial stet, and through them it is expected to regain the old time power of the association in the mill. Then the original charters of tht mllls which existed prior to the famou- strike will probably be returned to the officers. The lodge already organized is what is termed general lodg which will embrace workers of all kInds. From thIs lodge they will be graduated into the sub-Iodge to be organized in each department
 That the combination spirit is rife among the men was evidenced by the ct the open meeting today. Between 1000 and 1900 men were pres- ent. President Garland. of the Amal-