Arizona republican., 1896-08-18

QlQ not come OH on dcCOunC or UQo aspect of the weather. In lieu thereof a short song service was held, the union meeting being post poned until next Sunday.
 Saturday night one of the heaviest electrical storms ever witnessed in Phoenix passed over the town. A high wind began blowing and for a while it looked as if serious damage would be done to property. The storm had the effect of placing the town in darkness. Several awnings were blown down or rent.
 Deputy U. s. Marshal Slankard suc- ceeded in capturing at Lehi Sunday the man who is said to be the accomplice of the man Woodford, captured by Slankard Saturday on suspicion of be- ing the Prescott postoffice robber. The two men were released from custody as the railroad men who saw the robbers in Prescott could not positively identi- fly them.
 A communication from Harry Brown locates that young wheelman in Col orado. He returned to this city the suit of clothes he wore on leaving here. He covered about 4,00O miles in the suit and from the general appearance looked as if they had been run through a threshing machine. Al buckskin patch of huge dimensions on the seat of the trousers is the only substantial part of the suit.
 IA large audience witnessed the in itial performance of the Streets of New York" last night at the park theater. The members of the cast were we'll up in their parts and the usual first night hitches and delays were absent It is a first-class play and is we'll rendered by the company. The audience was pleased, thereby in- suring a good run for the play for the balance of the week.
 Saturday night about 12 o'clock dur ing the progress of the electrical storm the spire of the Presbyterian church was struck by lightning. The bolt struck the steep1e near the base, tear ing off several shingles. It passed down through between the outer and the inside casing. Evidence of the course of the lightning was shown in three distinct places. A heavy rain was falling at the time which probably accounts for the church not taking fire.
 It was only yesterday that the story of another holdup was made public. The holdup occurred Friday night and the man who was forced to gaze into the muZZle of a sixshooter. was Mayor Schwartz. There were two men and the major says he bluffed them out. It was while he was going home, and when at the corner of Washington and Sixth two men confronted him and told him to disgorge The major had faced guns galore and his nerves were not shaken. He tried to temporize, but they would not have it, so he told them fiatfooted that they would get nothing for their pains, so they let him depart in peace. The major kept the matter quiet, but it leaked out yes terday. ri l.rl.'t .s
 Globe Silver Belt: Development work on the Black Copper group, under bond to Col. J. A. Fleming and Dr. J. M. Ford, of Phoenix, is progressing satisfactorily under the direction of w. W. Hill. Nhe principal, work thus far has been the sinking of a shaft on the Black Copper claim, which is down 100 feet, and in ore nearly all the way. At depth of seventy-five feet the ledge was crosscut six feet and drill driven in three feet further, without reaching the wall, all in ore assaying over 15 per cent copper, and without a particle of waste. At 100 feet a crosscut is being run and the ore is, if anything, better than at seventy-five feet, and showing an increase of iron and some lime.
 w. A. Davis had an experience Sat urday night that he will remember as long as he lives. During the electrical storm a live wire was blown to the sidewalk in front of the Richelieu sa- loon. Davis was passing and fearful that some one would touch the wire, and without thinking of his own dan
 ger, picked it up to throw it into the street. He had no sooner touched the
 wire than he gave yell of pain. Sew
 eral persons in the saloon rushed out
 and to them Davis cried to cut off his fingers, as he could not let go. Finally one of the men kicked the wire from Davis hand which was badly scorched. If it had not been flor the fact that the
 broken end of the wire lay in a pool of water Davis would have received
 the full force of the 2,4O0 volts and
 would have been instantly killed. PEPCONkj MENTJnN