Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-03

aud P5ssisns ou tha Persian frontier.
 AUGUSTA, Maine July 26-Josaph H. Masley. discussing the report that .hs national committee will meet tt Washington early in November to de- eide upon the time and place of the next-republican national convention said he prefers to hold the convention ca the Pacific coast.
 NEW YORK, July 26-M.s. NJ. Starr Colgate, wife of the millionaire finanoisr, has begun suit for a divorce f.oal her husband and naming Mrs. Basset, of New York, as correspondent. Mrs. Col gate is one of the handsomest women in N5w York.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 26-Cholera is raging iu Jspan. The officers and pas sengers of the steamship City of Pekin tell tales Of de .ths in the streets of ciJ- les where the s'eamer called. From ths outbreak of the Gisease until the day the steamer sailed from Yokohama 1lS3 desths had been reported. Ths dis ease was brought to Japan by the forces returning from the war in China and Corea.
 WASHINGTON, July 26--The treasury department has declined to entertain the protest made by the Humane So- ciety against the admission into this country of bulls and tcreadors from Mexico for bull fighting exhibitions at the Atlanta exposition. The society asks that bulls be excluded on the ground that they were immoral instru- ments; and that the admission of tor readers would violate the contract labor law.
 AssistaD. Secretary Hamlim in reply cites an act prohibiting the importation of any obscene book, pamphlet, draw ing, painting, instruments or any other articles of an immoral nature, etc. The letter then proceeds:
 The department is unable to per cei7e that the importation of bulls for the purpose indicated comes within the letter or spirit of prohibition contained in the provisions of ths law quoted, and therefore declines to issue the desired instructions. If the exhibition of bull fighting is prohibited ny the laws oi Georgia it IS presumed that the author.
 tes or that state will prevent it, but the subject does not appear to come within the jurisdiction of the depart ment."
 SAN Q ENTIN, Cal, July 26-Wm. M Fredericks, murderer of half a dozen men, was hanged this morning for the killing of w. A. Herrick, cashier of the Branch San Francisco Saving Union. He made long speech: forgave every body and died calmly.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.-It is evident that the defence in the Durrant case will take advantage of every technical lty. IL objected to the entire jury panel because the minutes were defective of the meeting of the superior judges when the list of 3600 jurors was selected The questions of the prosecution are mainly directed to ascertain if the juror would accept circumstantlal evidence and rot hestitate to iufiict the death penalty for murder. The defendants questions are based on the jurors knowledge of news paper comments on the crime ard Dur rants connection with it. Almost every man summoned as juror hGs formed an opinion us to Durrant's guilt.
 STOCKTON, Cal, July 26.-Two loco motives for the new Valley read arrived this afternoon.
 CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 26-The Colo rado, Utah & Wyoming railway company has iled articles of incorporation with a capital of 8 5O0O,OOO.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, July 26-Hoe Tung, a Hong Kong banker now here, believes there will be great revolution in China soon.
 CHICAGO, July 26.-One of the most important finds made by the police to- day in the search of the Holmes case was bench covered with blood stains.
 BccHUM, West Pa.. July 26.-An ex- plosion sccurred yesterday in Prince Won Gurnsz mine. The bodies of 32 victims have already been recovered and a number of persons are still miss ing.
 WOODLAND, Cal, July 26. Hon. II. Langenour representative of this dis trict in the legislature has disappeared He was reported wealthy but as being badly iu debt lately ard after turning all property over to his mother disappeared with a Sl0,000 check.
 NEW YORK, July 26.-The plaintiff side of the Corbett divorce case Is clos ed. A motion by counsel for Corbett to lismiss the suit on the ground t. at the plaintiff allegations had net beer sus- .a;nsd by the evidence, was overruled oy the referee. Juy H. Wilson, member # dramatic company, testified that a goman known as Vera travelled with ! he com mpany as Mrs. Corbett. Go, bett | md Vera occupied the same rooms in lIlferent cities.
 BREAKwATER, Del, July 25.-Cap. ain Quick of the schooner Carrie E. | Laue, upon her arrival here tonight had | tale 10 tell about thrilling encounter . Cuban waters with Spanish gun ,oGt. Two shots were fired at the Lane | y the man. of var, and ore of the choauer's crew narrowly escaped being filled by one of them. The vessel was