Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-12

NNlfN0 oI tue A1NoNNu oStuNf Nt NAN Wisconsin Central Railway from Laggan, B. C., states that Phillip :. Abbott, an assistant attorney of the company, was fatally injured yester- day by falling over preciplce, Ab- bott WAS the son of President Edwin H. Abbott, of the Wisconsin Cen tral railway.
 CmcAao. Aug. 5.-The Chicago stock exchange will remain closed until Moore Bros. failure has been settled. The action governing the committee m closing the doors Is said to have averted a panic.
 SOUTHAMPTON, Aug 5.-Anxiety IS felt for the North American steamer Spree, which was due last night. A heavy fog prevails. Five hundred persons are on board.
 NEWPORT. Aug. 5.-Cornelius Van derbilt's condition Is again reported as unfsvorable.
 MADRID, Aug 6. Trouble of serious nature is being fomented ID Spain, particularly in the province of Valencia, by agents of the Cuban insurgents. The minister of the interior, Senor Cosgayon yesterday. replying to a question in the cham Der of deputies. admitted that riots occurred m Valencia, caused by friends of the Cuban insurgents, who hoped thereby to prevent the departure of rs-inforcementS of troops for Cuba. Hitherto, the pop ulaT demonstrations have been at tributed entirely ly to protests against the imposition of the new taxes, made necessary by the financial strain the government has been subjected to through the carrying on of the campaign against Cuba. But while the government IS only willing to admit that the riots have been instigated by agents of the Cuban revolutionists, 1t is generally admitted that the roots of the trouble are much deeper, and that it is being nourished by a natural feeling of alarm and dismay at the apparent utter inability of the gov ernment to cope with the sisusticn in Cuba.
 DENVER, August 6.-It is an nounced that State Auditor Parks Is quietly collecting the circulars of all the insurance companies who have declared that if the democratic party goes in power that policies will only be worth half the amount Tn which premiums have been paid. He will declare such companies in- solvent, and as hIs judgment is final they will be obliged to go out of business.
 PERRY, O. T., Aug. 6.-The final decree issued by Judge Adams, chief justice of Creek nation, striking from the roll of citizenship l,70O negroes, has been handed down. Since the passage of the act, during the war, admitting negroes to tribal relations, negroes have drawn Sl.- 100000 in anuuities, held office and educated their chilnren at the eX- pense Of the Creek government. There is no appeal from the decree.
 NEVADA, Mo-, Aug. 6. - Sheriff Scrogham closed Conkling Brothers banking house in this city, also the Bank of Bronsugh and the Bank of Richards, all the property of the Conkling Brothers, this morning, under an order from the Vernon county court, the action being based on a report by State Bank Examiner Jones that the business was being conducted in an unsafe manner.
 CLEVELAND, Aug. 6. - Following the excessive heat of this morning, a terrible storm of lightning. wind and rain came up. For time all telegraphic communications with points west of this city was cut of. The wind reached velocity of forty miles an hour
 LITTLE RocK, Ark, Aug. 6.-Tbe cotton fields in Lonecke county are burning. Reports from England state that the fire is approaching the town Citizens have organized a bucket brigade to protect resi- dences. Hundreds of convicts have been sent to England to assist in fighting the fire.
 SAN FRANcIsoo, Aug. 6.-Judge Slack fined Notary Public Cooney, to-day fifty dollars for contempt of court in failing to appear when or dered to sign a deposition in the Fair will case.
 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Ang. G. Mayor Hazel NJ. PIngree, of Detroit, was nominated for governor on the fourth ballott in the republican convention 10 day.
 PIrrSBURG, Aug. 6. - The heat record for 1896 was broken to-day. mercury touching % degrees. One death and many prostrations have been reported. There was much suffering among the mill workers and many mills have closed.
 SAN FRANCISco, Aug. G. John Sopher, a worthless character, tried this morning to kill his wife and killed himself. The woman was not seriously injured.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.-The re- markable story that has been told by Millionaire Campbell ot Homo lulu, of how he had been kidnapped, bound and gagged and kept pris- oner for two days by a gang of con- spirators for twenty thousand dol lar ransom, has been fully corrobor- ated. The police have investigated the matter carefully and have re ceived corroborative evidence from several sources. O. w. Winthrop, cemetery superintendent, who IS al- legged to have dscoysd Campbell to a house on California street is miss ing. Although Campbell is over sixty years old he was not intimid- ated by threats of the conSpirators and did not allow sufferings to weaken his will. He was kept bound