Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-02-29
TELEGRApHIC,

usual gnard OF Texas rangers was on
the train keeping close watch on Ma
hers every movement
my eyes are much better" he said
"snd L sm going to do the best can
when l get into the ring. 1 wleh ]
could have had better luck in preparing
for the fight, but 1 cert ,inly expect to
win in five rounds or lees" A pair OF
goggles covered his eyes.
Ell PAso, Feb 20-Maher left this
morning in a buggy with John Quinn
and Peter Lowery, intending to drive
across the country. some distance, and
catch train, his object being to dodge
the RAJ gers. Should Maher be caught
| by the rangers the chances are that he
will be arrested and placed under heavy
bonds not to fight on Texas soil. Fitz-
simmons, Julian, Stencil and Jack Nc
Coy leave Jusrez at noon today and
| will report for orders to Dan Stuart at
FL Paso. The fight is practically GER
tain to be on the Mexican side OF the
r o Grande, fifty or leo miles from Eli
Paso.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Chicago is expert
enolng tie coolest weather of the sea-
son. Since yesterday morning the
thermometer has not risen above zero
and with bitter north wind blowing
much suffering has ensued. At six
O'Clock this morning nine below zsro
was reached, but some thermometers in
the suburbs indicated II below. Michael
Hughes was frozen to death while on his
way to work, and John Bradley was 30
overcome by cold that he fell into the
ri. or. Scores of people who were com-
peeled to remain out of doors have been
SEVERELY frost bitten. The cold snap is
general all over the southwest.
ST. LOUIS, Mo Feb. 20.-Jsmes Fitz-
gerald was banged here at 10 q. IN. to-
lay for murder of his sweetheart Annie
Naessens, on the night of Nov. "a, 1893.
The rope broke and the victim lay struS
CLING on the ground beneath the gallows.
The Doctors found Fitzgerald etll con-
scious. Stimulsnts were given and he
revived. A new rope was cent for and
at IL o'clock, sick and trent bling but
nervy, the victim was again taken to the
csffold. This time there was no
hitch.
New YORK, Feb. 20.-Gep. Clsrkson
# Iowa and Geo. Christ, republican
national league committeeman from Ari-
IONA, are at head of a project for the
building Of great republican head
qua ters in New York City to cost 3d.
0U0.0U0. The matter is to be brought
oe 'o-e the next meeting OF the National
committee.
JOHANNESBURG, South African Re-
pa bile, Feb. 20.-Detsils were received
10 this city today OF what is probably
the most disssterous dynamite explosion
If record in sny pert Of the world.
Thousands of people are rendered home
less by the terrible calamity and about
one hundred are believed to have been
killed. Two or three hundred men.
women and children are severely
wounded. Many others more or less IL
iured. Viedendorp, the scene OF the
calamity, is suburb OF johannesburg
and in it ere huddled the memb ers Of
the poorest classes Of white', Malay,
Keffers and Cinnamon, who su bsist, for
most part, by doing odd jobs about
the place. which is railway transfer
station for mining districts. Among
the freight cars standing on shunt for
tbs. mines at Vedendorp, yesterday
was eight trucks loaded with dynamite,
hidden under canvass coverings to pro-
tect it from rain and sun. As evening
vas approaching there vas an explosion
uear the freight depot so awful in in
tensity that the ground for miles was
.onvulsed SIS il by an earthquake
Houses and rocks fell, masses OF iron
earth, stone, wood and human remains
were hurled eky werd. Windows in
almost every house in Johannesburg
we're broken and people blown through
the air like straws before gust If wind.
The explosion had torn hole 200 feet
Tong and 80 fes t wide, over the spot
where the trucks of dynamite had
stood but few minutes before. All that
quarter of johannesburg. was literally
blown 10 pieces.
Iron work was twisted and torn,
stones destroyed and bricEwork pnlver-
ized. On the ground there were the
olackeDed shapes Of human remains,
limit be, heads, trunks, scOrhed and torn.
The victims were mostly Mala's Kaffers
and Chinese, the whites eia, iu
minority at Viedendorp, but quite a
number of white people, including Elk
teen girls we're killed. In ID MINI tes after |
the explosi u the bodies OF forty deao |
persons, horribly mutilated, were picked |
up and carried away, while the.search,ng |
OF ruins continued without intermis- |
ion. Over 200 of the moet severely in
iur, persons we've also carried away |
and hundreds of others taken to places |
where they might be cared for.
LONDON, Feb. 20-The Leeds Mer- |
curry says today tbs engagement Ct VIII
liam Waldorf Astor ard Lsdy Randolph |
CGurchill, formerly Miss Jennie Jerome /
of New York, will shortly be announced
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Secretary o.
ney this morning received the following
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