Arizona republican., 1895-03-08
LOCAL BRIEFS.
A Record of Yesterdays Hap
 peningS.
A Church Janitor Held Up by Foot padS-An Increasing Rail-
 road Business.

Guns and ammunition at Talbot x Hubbard's.
 Assemblymen Herrick was passen- ger on last nights train.
 A trainload of material for the new road came Tn yesterday afternoon.
 Among the arrivals on the train from the north yesterday afternoon were three Japanese women.
 Thos. Murray yesterday fled his bond as notary public with the recorder. Amount of bond was $1 ,000.
 A carload of stock was sent out on last nights train for 0. F. Schumaker, the leading butcher of Tucson.
 Six carloads of freight consigned to Phoenix merchants came in yesterday oyer the north and south road.
 Detective Thatcher of Wells, Fargo Co.,, after one days stay in the city. left for the west by last nights train.s
 Hon. A. c. Wright went to Maricopa last night to meet the mother of Mrs. Wright, who is on her way to Phoenix.
 Cook & Bell yesterday received some handsome silver ware show cases, which they are having placed in their new store.
 J.J. Gardiner sent carload of flour to Prescott by yesterday mornings train. This is the first shipment of the kind over the new road.
 The front of the Phoenix Grocery eompany's store is receiving a fresh coat of paint. There will be a great improvement in looks of the store.
 Col. w. J. Rulings will arrive in Phoenix next Monday with h1s Penn. sylvania colony. They will commence preparing houses at once in Paradise valley.
 The base ball boys are getting down to work for the game with the Fort Whipple team on the 14th. They held their first practice game yesterday evening.
 The mandamus proceeding by Wm. Jackson against J. E. Walker, clerk of the district court, to compel him to approve bond, will come up for hear ing this afternoon.
 The first special trainload of stock sent over the new road went out yes terday morning. The train consisted of twelve carloads of cattle and be- onged to Powell of Los Angeles. &The Root Newman mining case which has occupied the attention of Judge Hawkins and jury all week, last night + had reached such stage that the ar. guments could be commenced today.
 The coming of the Calhoun Opera company is always a welcome event and this season more SO than usual, as tt will give grand production of the Black Hussar, comic opera of the most joyous description, with lively music, hosts of pretty girls in decidedly fetchy costumes and grand spectacular effects.
 Kid Slator. the pet of bicycle boys of ehoenix, will try to break the coast record for half mile on the thirteenth of the month. The time is held by Walz, of Fl Paso, and was made on the track here last winter and was made in t:1l He also intends to try and beat the time for quarter of 8 mile on straight away course. He is in active training now and if he continues to improve both records will be broken.
 Another hold-up occurred Wednesday night. As the janitor of the Methodist church was going home after closing the church, and on going up Tenth avenue. short distance above Wash ington street, man stepped from the shadow of the trees, and ordered him to throw up his hands. The command was promptly obeyed and the highway man going through his pockets relieved him of $14 75 and then disappeared in che darkness. No trace of the robber has been found as only poor descrip- sion Of him could be given.
 The following transfers of real estate were yesterday entered for record :: Geo. B. Perkins and John Baggiore to Alice M. Cunning, lots ', 8, Il and 12 in block 3S, Capitol addition, and lots and in Broadway addition, 5000 Martha Meadows and husband to w. Lee White. one-eighth interest in lot l tn block 3, Murphy's addition, $200; Simon Novinger and M. E. Collins to Geo. B. Perkins, lots 7, 9, II and 12. in block 3S, Capitol addition, $1,200 Alice M. Cunning. the south half oi sots and in block 91, city, $10,OOO.
 The Phoenix city directory published by the Arizona Directory company, will be lad before it's subscribers early next week. The book will be very hand.