Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-10

| use Ol eIcctElCIty as mOIlEe power Ou steam roads has led the Baldwin loco motive works and the Nesting honss Elect. ic N ManutacturIpg company tC
 fleet combination for the development an apparatus for t'e operAti, n Oi steam railroads by electricity.
 SANTA FE, N. NJ, Aug. 5.-J. A. Req vis, husband of the pseudo Baroness Peralta~ ReavIs, who is in the United States prison in default of 550C0 ba ! charged with attempting to deiraud the government Tn connection with fam Ous Peralta land grant clam, has applied to the New M xicO supreme court for TO lease under babeas corpus act.
 CINCINNATI, O, Aug. 5-About D. n q fire broke out on the Big Sandy, s wharf boat. It spread rapidly and soon swept out the wharf boats of the Louis vile nail line, New Orleans & Mempbi: line. Everything along the public land ing Is Roi6g, 230 steamers of Carroltor and Big Sandy are burned. and every thing in the port IS threatened.
 MARsHALTon, h., Aug. 7-The de- mocratic state conver ton Was called tC order at 1920 a. m. The convention contains 107 delegates. In the caus cuses this morning prior to the assem b. ling of the convention, by various dis. 1 trIcts showed the free silver men to be in hopeless minority. The comn.ittees on resolutions gre unanimously fol sound money. The eilver men will in. troduce minority report. Judge Babb of Mount Pleasant, will be nominated for governor.
 SPRINGFIELD, III Aug. 7-Governol AltgeId has received no further new: today from the race war at String Valley. Delegations of colored citizens from Chicago are here today praying the governor for protection for life and property at Spring Valley and advocat ing pacific policy. They claim blood shed will prevail if the governor dce: not take prompt action.
 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-The president appointed Burton Bennett, of the Statt of Washington, district attorney fol Alaska.
 NEW YORK, Aug. w. II. Crossmar & Bro coffee importers, announce they will ship S1,OOOOO0 in gold by the Aug usta Victoria rtomorrow.
 LONDON, Aug. 7-Archdeacon Vol cables from Foo Chow that the Chimes, soldiers sent to protect the mission O Ku Cheng broke into and plundered it He says that no relience can be placed upon the Chinese authorities.
 LONDON Aug 7-The Globe this after noon gives prominence to an interview with Jefferson M. Levi, of Monticello Virginia, who is quoted ss saying "th' wild silver theory is dwindliug away il America" and that ''the United State is on the high road to great properity."
 SAN Francisco, Cal Aug. Flour teen jurors will be impannelled to tr! Durrant so that if one dies or is sicl there need be no delay.
 Theodore Durrant may not be tried il San Francisco. The reason for this il the tangle into which the attorneys 1T tie case find themselves regarding jurors. After much care and deliberat Ion seven jurors have teen selected tc try the case, only to find that two Ju' ors arS objectionable in more ways than one. In this respect the prosecution seems to have gotten the worst of it. Juror Walter $. Brown is said to have stood for the acquttal of NJ. D. Howell ia the trial for counterfeiting, his reason 1 being that h. did 10: believe in convict ing OF circumstsntial evidence. Charles r. Nathan, arotber accepted juror, has B record In Sacramento for obiectirg to the death Genalty in cases of ciIcum- stantial evidence.
 FoET WORTH Texas Aug. '. Tue platform adopted by the silver convent ion declares radically in favor Of free coinage of siiver at ratio of 16 to l and strongly condemns the financial policy administration.
 NORWICH Conn, Aug. Mrs Anne NJ. Gardner, the woman who SO mYct9r- ouisly disappear from the Christian En- deavor convention, has been found. She ould rot admit her identity at first or that she WAS trying to leave her husband aad childr, in Nebr, ska. Finally she broke down aud confessed her idrutity.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 7--The Br.therhood of Tailors has prGctica ly won the fight for better wages and conditions. Leader Meyer Schoenfeld said this morning that l,5G0 tailors are still on strike in thls city, and nearly as many more in Brooklyn ard Brownsville.
 NEW YORK, Aug. "A Herald special iron Nassau Confirms the rumor tat provisional government has been found ed in Cuba with headquarters at Bare. Gen Bart ome has been proclained president. G nreal Castillo will be sent to Washington to attempt to secure re cognitlon as beligerent.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Aug. Labor Com missioner Fitzgerald Is preparing memorial to congress which VIII contain figures to prove ths startling stats meni that the number of Japanese arriving iu San Francisco exceeds the total number of all other immigrants from other parts of the world. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Aug, Mrs. Bar bara Cregle was killed and fourteen others injured in peculiar trolley car l accident last night. The car became 1 taBG!ed up In twisted wire and the 1 electric flames flashed and cracked about |