Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-16
were electsd: John ID. Sprecksls. San

were elected: John D. Spreckels, San Francisco; Geo A. Knight. San Fran | cisco: U. s. Grant, San Diego; L. A. Sheldon, Los Angeles, 0. E.. Crocker | and Irving M. Scott were nominated | for presideDtia electors at large. John T. Lynch was nominated for lieutenant governor and the convention adjourned sire die.
 WASHINGTON, May S-The president
 has issued an order extending civil ser vice rules to the interstate commerce com
 mission. This brings all offices in the commission here and outside of Wash ,ngton into the classified service except
 the chief executive ones requiring pres idental nomination and confirmation by the senate. The order makes total of 85, 5,9O0 governmental positions now in- cludsd in the civil service.
 ROME, N. Y., May S-J. W. Watson Rildrstb, the boy train wrecker, receiY-
 ed life sentence today. His companions,
 Plato and Hubbard, pleaded guilty of
 manslaughter in tbe first degree end
 were sentenced to twenty years impris-
 onment on the two indictments, or forty
 years in all.
 MILWAUKEE, Wis, May S-AlI is quiet
 hundred cars ara in the service. From
 appearances the back bone of the strike
 is broken. The company has issued a
 notice guaranteeing prote ction and per-
 manent employment to ali men who &C.,
 cept places. Several arrests last night
 served to quiet the hoodlums.
 All attempts at mediation have proven
 fruitless. The strikers agreed to sub init their grievances to the state arbitra ton commission with the understanding that if settlement is reached all the old men will be re- employed. The con- pany declined.
 NEWPORT, Ky, May 8-Seott Jack sons trial is near at sR end. The com monwealth this morning announced that it had DO more witnesses to offer. In all 196 witnesses have been heard. The court adjourced till ? this afternoon and arguments will begin tomorrow.
 DETROIT. Mich, May 7-An srimate3 tight over the money question Was the
 nest striklng feature of the Michigan republican convention. IS resulted in
 que!cnirg both the gold plank offered by the majority and the silver plank sub nitied by the minority ct the reeolu- tions comm ttee and the substitution thereof of the money plank of the Min nea polls platform of 1892. Mckinley was endorsed most uDequivocally and | delegates were strongly instructed in bis favor.
 The financial plank was as follows eve are upyieldiue in our demands for | sound spd honest money. We are Tn | favcr of tte use of gold and silver and paper dollars in our currency all to be maiutained at parity as to theIr pur- chasing and debt paying power. We are opposed to any provision that will invite the depreciation of any portion of our currency and therefore we are opposed to the free and unlimited coin age of silver by this country under the present capditions and we believe such 3 course would destroy the parity on and contract the currency"
 SACRAMENTO, Calif., May Ex-Governor Budd is in receipt of 8 report from the United States department of agri- ,ulture showing that sp!enic fever does exist among Cslifornis cattle and contrary to thefopinion to the general, that the health board cannot use the funds for it's suppression Tor other than human diseases. Gov. Budd will instruct the health board to 70 on tour of inspection and will em- oloy veterninary from the state uni 'ersity to accompany them. The agri- cultural department will send govern nent inspector to go along. District attorneys will be instructed to comply with the law of 1893 regarding diseased sttle, and active compliance will be made to eradicate the disease.
 WASHINGTON, May S-All doubt that Ilsie Kreglo, the 16 year-old daughter f @ tenant farmer in the outskirts of