Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-11-21


 25-rouud contest. The conditions are that the bout shall be brought of in New York city the latter part of Jsnus- " next; that Honest John Kelly, shall be referee and Benjsmiu c. Williams of- deposit tbe whole s25 900 with the re- terrse before the boxers enter the rtDg.
 CANYON, Nov. 17-Nstional Chairman M. A. Hanna arrived in Canton at p. m. accompanied by General Osborne, national secretary. President-elect Me- Kinley met the visitors at the depot. They drove direct to the Mckinley home where they lupched. This ls the first meeting of the president-elect and na- tionsl chairman since the election.
 PORTLAND, Ogn., Nov. 17-Althougb the water m the Willsmmette River continues to rise, DO further damage is spprsbended. Travel is expected to be resumed today without further interrup- tion.
 MARIoN, Ills. Nov. 17-Thls morning . blaze broke out in . saloon and des- troysd sn entire block. The loss will reach e50.O00.
 SHEMBINA, Mo-, Nov. TYR. P. Giles, congressman elect. from the first Ms eouri district, died today.
 CHERRYvALE, Kan, Nov. 17-A Ger. man named Breckham. has been buried to Otsego Jail from the Bender set,le- ment, north of here to prevent his being lynched, for having outraged and murdered bis eighteen year old daugh- ter.
 LOUISVILLE. Ky, Nov. 17-A Times special from Psducab, Ky, ssys: Smith Lorian (colorsd) was brought here this morning from Altoona 15 milss below. He is riddlsd with buckshot. He re- ports about 15 colored people were cutting stsve timber for the Standard Oil Company. Lsst night 100 men surrounded their hut and opened fire. Several negroes are shot but none killed. No effort is being made to srrsst the shooters.
 BUFFALO, Roy. 16-At midnight the turning of switch in the big power house at Niagara Falls completed c cir- cult which caused Niagara river to flow up hill, % to speaK, by returning frac- ton of its rssistless energy which had already swept past the gates of Buffalo, back into that oity, twenty-ssve miles distant. The harness wss buckled that
 bitches the factory wheels of Buffalo to the Rrestest cataract on earth. Mon. day morning the street oars of the city will move. by falls power. Hereafter the falls must work enough to earn their
 living. The buokling of the harness could have been done ss we'll twelve
 hours earlier, but owing to the fact that
 the father of William B. Rankin of New
 York, secretary of the Niagara Fslls
 Power company. is @ clergyman, and in defersnce to his wishes, the Niagara falls power wss not turned into the trsns- hitting system at noon today, as had been expected.
 The conn pections were made at mid night tonight. The force of experts hay ing the work m charge were busy all of
 last night and until late this evening, testing the various connections and Ro- ing over the machinery, to make sure everything was in proper order. WbeD everything was in readiness for the switoh to be thrown over, the electri- cisrs were confident that there heed be no cessation of the current sent flowing over the wires of the Buffalo street rail | way system. The distance covered by the line between Buffalo and the fails is twenty seven milss, and the expert cleo | trioisns who have the work in charge estimate that tle loes will bs lees tban | 10 per cent and may not exceed Der cent. Careful tests are to be made in this connection, the tests covering both night and day and clear ss we'll as raiuy weather.
 The line that has been built to carry the current bears wires of 6 most sub- stantial nature, which, unlike the tel egraph lines and polss, are placed very close together and arc braced in such 2 manner as to be proof sRsinst heavy storms. At curves the poles ars set double and are guysd ts numerous smaller poles to prevent sagRing. The overhead line extends from the power house at the falls to tee city limits of Buffalo, where the wires enter cement conduits. On the overhead line Rlass in- sulators were found unequal to the etrain. and porcelain insutstors were made especially to hold the wires. The insulators were subjected to acurreDt of 30, 900 volts before being put in use. There arc at present on the poles eight cables, each carrying 5000 horse power, or 10000 horse power in all. The poles are of such Q su bstan tisl character, how ever, that this number of cables can be doub without subjeotinR them to s greater strain than is considered cafe.
 The only COD ptrsot made SO far for the delivery of power by the company is that with the Buffalo Street Railway company for 1000 horse power. Undsr the contract with the city the compile tion of the undertaking of delivering power ip Buffslo was not obIie estory be- fore next July. It was to secure the contract with the street railway com- psny that the work was hurried through 60 fsr ahead of time. Contracts with others desiring to use the electrical power will now be made and it is thought that by the opening of spring the power will be we'll distributed throughout the city.
 Since the inception of the undertak- ing and during it's carrying out, the company have frequently called upon Messr-. Edison and Tesis for advIce and these famous masters of electricity have been frequent visitors to the Niagara Falls power house to solve the technical problems.
 The power will cell in Buffalo for S36 horse power per snnum, and under It's contract with the city the company must increase its capacity 10000 horse power per year until the maximum of 5OO,OOO horse power has been reached. The switches in the Buffalo street railway power houee were turned on ex- sctly at midnight by W. l.. Remmett, chief engineer of the General Electric company. Mayor Jewett was present and held the watch. Everything work cd smoothly.
 NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 16-The fact that at midnight was to begin the transmission of electrical power from the falls to Buffalo for the first time drew . very large crowd of people to the pover house of the Niagara Falls