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Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
MICHIGAN'S MONEY PLANK.
n-Committal Expression Instituted
 After Fierce Debate.

DETROIT, May 8.-An animated fight over the money question was the most striking feature of the Michigan Republican convention. It resulted in squelching both the gold plank offered by the majority, and the silver plank submitted by the minority of the reso- lutions committee, and the substitu tion therefor of the money plank of the Minneapolis platform of 1892.
 Mckinley was endorsed most unani- mously and the delegates were strong ly instructed in his favor.
 The financial plank first offered was as follows: We are unyielding in our demands for sound and honest money We are in favor of the use of gold and silver and paper dollars in our cur rency, all to be maintained at parity and to their purchasing and debt pay ing power We are opposed to any provision that will invite depreciation of and portion of our currency and therefore we are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country under the present conditions and we believe such a course would de- stroy the parity of and contract the currency"
 After considerable discussion it was finally moved to substitute the cur rency declaration of the Minneapolis platform of 1892 for the financial plank submitted, and the motion was carried.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
ABSOLUTE JURISDICTION.
Exercised by the Governor Upon Mil
 itary Reservations.

OMAHA, May S.-Judge Shiras of the federal supreme court today passed on the habeas corpus at Fort Robin son, in which Lieutenant Uandon and Sergeant Braddin had been held under state authority for selling hqhor with out a license, as officials in charge of the post exchange.
 The opinion of Judge Shiras was a comprehensive and elaborate state ment of the law pertaining in ito 1nili- tary reservations in general through out the United States. He upheld in his opinion the complete and absolute jurisdiction of the general government over the military reservation in ques- tion and further that the amendatory act of Nebraska seeking to reclaim authority to enforce its liquor laws upon this reservation was nugatory.
 This settles the question of the right of the government to maintain its post exchanges without interference in any manner by the state authorities.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
LARGE LIABILITIES.
The Hot Springs Bank Failure In
 creases lii Severity.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, May S.-Per- sonal liabilities of President Hogaboom of the collapsed City Savings Bank and Trust company, in connection with what the bank owes, will probably aggregate s75,000. Attachments to the amount of about $65, ,OO0 have been run on the bank. Among the heaviest losers is Sheriff Reb Houpt, who had $16,000 deposited in the bank He has turned over all his property to his bondsmen. It is also stated that Hog nboom'S present movements are un- known. He has not been heard from since the bank failed.
 Hogaboom was at Little Rock the night of the Quapaw club opening and in conversation with personal friends in this city did not betray any fore caste of the commercial calamity which was then so near at hand.
 In many respects he is a remarkable man any those who know him best adhere to the belief that his fndomi- table perseverance and energy will yet pull him and his trusting friends out of the hole. Unprofitab,e investments in enterprises, which depended upon general prosperity, are the cause of his financial troubles.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
HAMMOND IS INNOCENT.
Refused to Take Part in Jameson's
 Raid.

NEW YORK, May S.-A dispatch to The World from John Hayes Hammond says: Hammond suffers in heroic silence. His comrades of the reform committee endure with noble courage the penalties due ito Jamson, who is the lion of the hour in London. Mr. Ham mond's heart is in a critical condition. The prison fare is very bad.
 MRS. HAMMOND" Samuel Litchtenstaeder, an Ameri- can who has just returned ito New York from Joannesburg, says: "The Johannesburg reform committee met last Christmas day at Cecil Rhodas' to receive instructions from him for the movement against the Boers. I was present. Rhodes Instructions were that the reformers should march into Johannesburg under the British flag, and when the town was captured, a triumph of the British arms should be proclaimed. The reading of the i'm structions were followed by a silence of some minutes. Then Hammond arose and said: Not for all the wealth
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09

this land contains, would I have a hand in carrying out those instruc tions. I can pull a trigger to shoot down an oppressor, but I cannot and will not be a party to a revolutionary intrigue. If I am going to take up arms under any flag it wi.I be tile one that is flying today over the ocean wonder, lthe banner of a free people, who believe in revolution as a remedy for oppression, but who hate, with Kaffir's hate, the rape of a free peo- ple's territory. Gentlemen, you can count me out.'
 1.-The reformers, nearly all of whom were BritOns, were thunderStFuck. They needed Hammond After he had spoken they realized that Cecil Rhodes order must be revised. It was revised. Jameson, however, refused to be called off. He insisted on carrying out his part of the original programme of con- quest. But when he invaded the Transvaal, the Uitlanders, influenced by Hammond, gave them no aid, and the raid failed miserably."
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
BULLY MESTRO SHOT.
Has Killed Over One Hundred and
 Fifty Peasants.

KEY WEST, Fla, May S.-A pas senger recently arrived from Cuba re- ponts that C'andidO Mestro, lieutenant colonel of the local guerrilla of Cruces, Cienfuegos, has been shot by order of Captain Alba, of the same Spanish forces. The passenger alleges tlhait he was in Cruces and saw the dead body He also reports that there were some appalling stories in circulation as to the cruelty of Mestro. He is alleged to have killed over 150 peaceful peas ants and to have mutilated them be- fore they were killed, i'm one case, it is said, cutting off the ears to exhibit them, putting them in a glass of gin and slipping the gin. This, it is said, came Ito the knowledge of the govern ment through his killing a cousin of the wife of Gen. Suarez Valdez. The people of Cruces are reported ito be terrorized by the presence of Mestro and Alba. Alba is said ito be the same man who insulted the German flag in the Caroline islands The Spanish government offered to shoot him i'm order to make reparation to the Ger man government, but it is said did not do so and killed another man in 0nis place.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
WILL PAY NO LICENSE Telegraph Corporations
 Are Exempt.
 Construction of the Interstate
 Commerce Act.
Supreme Court Decision on the Rights of Telegraph Companies
 in Cities.

Among the ordinances of the city of Phoenix one of the most important is that fixing a license tax on Tthe prose cution of almost every mature of busi- ness that is possible for humanity to lawfully engage tn One of the tax charges is that fixing a quarterly li cense of $7.50 for lthe privilege of con ducting within the city a telegraph line. Heretofore the Maricopa & Phoenix and the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix have paid the tax and grum- bled not thereat. But of latte there has come a change unto the systems that have (harnessed the lightning for the commercial benefit of the metropolis of Arizona. The M. & P has been superseded by the Western Union, and rthe s. F., F. 6 P. by the Postal. Upon them, as upon their predecessor, has the demand for tax been made, and be- hold it has not been paid and neither seems it likely to be paid.
 The Western Union company yester- day notified the city authorities that it would refuse to pay the license, as op- posed to the interstate commerce Jaw and therefore illegal. Accompanying the refusal was copy of a decision of the supreme court of the United States in a case wherein the city of Mobile, Alabama, had sued the Western Union for license tax, had recovered judg- ment in the circuit count and was about to sell under attachment property of the company, when an appeal was taken ito the supreme court of the state. The state court affirmed the judgment, when the matter was car ried to the supreme court of the United States. That august tribunal reviewed the case at length and handed down an order of reversal of judgment, stat ing that as the Western Union pene- trated many states with a continuous system of wires, it was a common car rier of the messages of the people and therefore not amenabGie under the terms of the interstate commerce laws to the imposition of any municipal li- cense tax to secure Ito it the privilege of carrying on its business in any mu- nicipalitY.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
THE LOCAL FRUIT CROP Shipments of ApriCots
 from Glendale. A Carload Will Leave Next
 Wednesday.
Large Yield and Good Prices VII This Season Be Se-
 cured.

The prospects concerning the yield and marketing of the coming frllit crop of the Salt River valley are of the most encouraging nature. While the cold weather of the last month has re- tarded the ripening, it has accom- plished the same result in other DOT tions of Idhe coast, leaving Phoenix still pre- eminent in its position as the This will give the same profit on the market as though tlhe fruit mad ma rterialized at the usual time.
 Aprieots Of fhe Pringle and New castle varieties are now ripening in exceptional cases and within two weeks the crop will be on ap its fu,l abun- dance. Last year thS Arizona Inn provement company, the Vlarg gest grow CT in the valley, was too glow in mak- ing arrangements for picking and in consequence lost he apricot crops he fruit ripening and falling to %he ground to rot. To be shipped east, is of course necessary to pick far greener than would be the case with fruit intended for local consumption. This year the company will not be caught mapping. Two fruit packers of the highest skill have been secured from Fresno and a force of over "a hundred picheTs and packers is al ready engaged, ready Ito go ito work with vim when the apricots shall have attained the proper condition.
 It is probable that the first carload of apricots wil be shipped from Glen dale next Wednesday, It will be con signed ito Chicago and will be speedily followed by half dozen other cars be fore the Newcastle crop shall have been exhausted. The fruit will without doubt be the first on the eastern mar l1et and top prices and high profits are anticipated. Among others who wiM ship will be Major J. W. Evans from the old Sharp orchard, the Kay broth CTS and A. Smith
 Crowding closely upon the heels of the Newcastle crop will be that of the Royal variety of apricGts. This is by far choicer variety, and of it fully as much will be shipped as of the earlier kind
 Third on the list will come the seed less grapes of the Thompson and Sul- tana varieties. Again these will lead. as the first grapes on the market. They are uniformly of the highest quality and are prime favoriIte on the mar kets where they are known. Latter will come miscellaneous shipments of grapes and peaches.
 That the year Will be prosperous one with the grower is assured. Much of the California fruit has been frost bitten. The frost ithait found this val ley month ago was of especial se- verify along the coast Here it found the fruit formed and the blossoms gone. In California it found the ap- ricots all in bloom and great was the damage wrought. This of course will tend to advance prices and to the local grower VIII come the profit.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Adjournment Till Monday Congress
 ional Inquiry.

WASHINGTON, May 8.-The house today agreed that when it adjourn to- day 1t be to meet on Monday.
 Bills were passed to quiet title to lands in the persons who purchased the same in good faith without notice and for valuable consideration. and to enable the government Ito issue patents on such lands.
 On motion of Mir. Stahl, Republican of Pennsylvania, a resolution was passed requesting the president to in form the house what if anything, had been done to carry out the provisions in last years sundry civil bill, direct ing him to negotiate with the govern ment of Great Britain for the abroga- tion or modification of an existing reg ulation of that government which re- quires tIhe slaughter of cattle imported from the United States at the port of entry.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
STREET CAR STRIKERS.
Agree to Submit Their Grievances to
 an Arbitration Committee.

MILWAUKEE, May S.-AM is quiet in street car circles today and over a hundred cars are in service. From appearances the backbone of the strike is broken. The company has issued a notice guaranteeing protection and permanent employment to all men who wilt accept places. Arrests last night served to quiet hoodlums.
 All attempts at mediation have proved fruidless. The strikers agreed to submit their grievances to the state arbitration commission with the un- derstanding thalt if a settlement is reached all the old men will be re-em ployed, but the company declined.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
BUILDING INFO ARIZONA. An Important Santa Fe
 Move. Near Connection With South ern California. President Ripley Will Soon Consider the Matter In Los
 Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, May S.-President Ripley Of the Santa Fe system is at El Paso today and is expected to reach Los Angeles Sunday.
 The Santa Fe is projecting an entire ly new lime from Victor in San Bernar- dino county to Silver City, N. M., and it is understood MT. Ripley is coming here to look over the ground and hear the report of Engineer Vaughn, who returned a few days ago from the des- ert with a surveying party.
 The Atlantic & Pacific stockholders several months since offered to sell the road for $16,O00,000. The officials of the latter, however, in view of cheaper railway construction, declined to give more than $9,OOo,OOO for the property
 If tine deal between the two roads cannot be effected, it can be very read fly seen tihat it will become necessary for the Santa Fe to build connecting line and it is for this that the survey is being made.
 Building a rau.way over the recent survey would be of inestimable value to southern California at large IL would also precipitate fight for bus tness between the Santa Fe and South ern Pacific and a great reduction in the present high freight and passenger rates in Arizona and New Mexico would follow .s..
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
FORGED TO THE WALL.

NEW YORK, May S.-The firm of E. & G. Friend & Co.,, wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco at 12O Maiden Lane, failed today. Their attorneys say that the firm has transferred all their out standing accounts and free stock to their confidential creditors to secure claims of about $75,000. The rest of the stock has been under pledges for advances which are said ito amount to S100,00O. There are also unsecured 1iabilities of $25,O0O, making the total indebtedness $200,000.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
WILLIE WILDE FINED.

LONDON, May 4-WiI,ie Wilde, a brother of Oscar Wilde, and formerly the husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie of New York, was charged at the Marl- borough police court today with having been drunk and disorderly on Saturday might last and with having tried to force his way into the Criterion restau
 rant. Willie told the magistrate he was sorry and was fined five shillings
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
BODIES RECOVERED.

CINCINNATI, May S.-Workmen continued their efforts all day at the scene of the collapsed buildings on Walnut street This evening the body of William Lowheide, barkeeper for Drachs, was recoverd. The body of c. F. Andress, president of the An dress-Meara Wall Paper company, was also taken out The remains of Mamie Kennedy were recovered Ln horrible condition. Eleven bodies have been recovered in all.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
DEPENDED HER HONOR.
A Negro Confesses to Outraging a
 Young Girl.

WASHINGTON, May S.-A,l doubt that Elsie Kregio, the 16-year- r-old daughter of a tenant farmer in the outskirts of the city just beyond the geological garden, was brutally killed after defending her honor Monday morning has been removed.
 Irwin W. Ford, a negro, captured yesterday at Harper's Ferry, confessed today that he committed the crime,
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
BUFFALO SUFFERS LOSS BY FIRE

BUFFALO, May S.-Fire in the four story brick buildings, 404 to 4OS, Pearl street, tonight partially burned out the buildings and contents, entail- ing loss estimated at nearly $1OO,- 900. The occupants of the buildings were the Goodyear Rubber company the William Hengerer company and the Excelsior Manufacturing company.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
RICH OIL FIND.

WHEELING, w. Va, May S.-Report today from Tyler county, this state, says that the Victor OH company has struck well which is producing at the rate of 120 barrels an hour. If this rate is maintained it will be the larg- est producer ever struck in America.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
GOLD GALORE.

SALT LAKE, May S.-An important gold discovery is reported near the south end of Utah lake, twelve miles from Provo. Hundreds of prospectors are on the ground today. Reliable as says of ore are said Ito run as high as $75,000 to the ton.
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
CUBANS ON TRIAL.

HAVANA, May S.-The prisoners captured on board the American schooner Competitor will be tried by court martial tomorrow
Arizona republican., 1896-05-09
INDIANA NOMINATIONS.

INDIANAPOLIS, May S.-J. A. Mount of Montgomery received the nomination for governor, and w. l.. Haggard of Tippecanoe was nominated for lieutenant governor.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-05
CAPTAIN WILLIAM BELL.
Death at San Diego of Prominent
Figure i'm the States History,

SAN DIEGO, Dec. A prominent
figure In the early history of the State
passed away to-day in the person of
Captain William Bell of this city. He
was IS years old, and was born in
Beaver County, Pa, on May II, ISL.
In 1852 he argonauted to San Fran
cisco and became a ship builder.
Bells shipyard was a sight of San
Francisco in the sos, and many eX-
citing events occurred there. One or
two hangings took place, and attempts
were made to burn the yard in re-
venge for the prominent part taken by
Captain Bell in Kidding the city of
hard characters. Captain Bell was a
member of the original Vigilance Com
mittee, and helped to hang CORR and
his gang He was a man of great cour-
age and uprightness.
During the twenty-five years of his
residence in San Francisco Captain Bell
acquired a large fortune, owning a num-
Der of vessels in the coasting trade, and
extending his business in all directions.
Captain Bell was the founder of Red
wood City, San Mateo County, con-
structing the first building there. His
son, Robert ]. Bell, was the first white
child born at Redwood City.
1t was in later years that reverses
overlook Captain Bell, leaving him at
the time of his death a comparatively
poor man.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-05
FAILURE AT SANTA CRUZ.
The Proprietor of the Pacific Ocean
House InsOlvent.

SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 4.-John r.
Chace, proprietor of the Pacific Ocean
House, filed a petition this morning
asking the Superior Court that he be
declared insolvept owing to lack Of
patronage.
He makes the following showing: As
sets-Real estate, $4,000; personal
property, S13.9SS; property exempt
from execution, $3.50. Liabilities
Debts due to the City Bank of Santa
Cruz County and loans from individ
uals and small accounts. $50. 229; in
cumbrance on real estate, $1,000: in
cumbrance on personal property, S9.0Il.
Total balance of indebtedness, S16,9o5.
He alleges in the outline Of facts
touching the right of action against
him that he contracted with the City
Bank for the purchase of furniture in
the Sea Beach Hotel for S1O,150 and
the bank still holds one note of $3.50,
but as the City Bank declined to give
bill of sale the petitioner claims that
he is not indebted for that amount and
hence did not include that furniture or
note in the schedule of debts and assets.
Litigation is likely to grow out of this.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-05
TURKISH ATROCITIES.
Reported rIassacres Which Have But
Recently Taken Place.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Rev. JudSon
Smith, Secretary of the American Board
of Foreign Missions, who has been in
this city lecturing at the Union Park
Theological Seminary, received to-day
copy of cablegram which had been
sent to his office in Boston from an
American resident in Constantinople.
The message conveys intelligence of re-
cent outrages and massacres of Arm
enians by the Turks in the villages near
Bitlis and some places remote from
that city, in which 1000 children were
made orphans and 500 women con-
fronted with widowhood and starvation.
The message, which is dated December
list, reads:
"Bitlis appeals on behalf Of 1000
orphans and 500 new widows, many of
them from distant homes, where hus-
bands, fathers and brothers were killed
before their eyes amid dreadful atroci-
ties. They now wander in the streets
of the city begging for food and clothing.
The missionaries entreat every possible
influence to be used to get means to
enable them to care for the unfortunate
ones. Urgency is extreme. Will Ameri-
ca sustain?'
DR.. Smith said to reporter for the
United Associated Presses just prior to
his departure tonight for Boston on the
Lake Shore Limited that he had heard of
other trouble in Armenia through his
Constantinople correspondents, but had
no definite information. He declined to
make known the name of the sender Of
the above dispatch, because the Turkish
officials here were always anxious to use
such information in Constantinople
against the American informers.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-05
RACING EVENTS.
Four Favorites Finish in Front at the
lngIeside Track.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4-Weather
fine. track fast. Four favorites finished
in front.
Five furlongs, two-year- olds, Roll
taire won, Torpedo second, Mercutio
third. Time-1 :0215.
Seven furlongs, selling, Salvable won,
Walter J. second. Crafty third. Time
--1:2SR.
Six furlongs, Bellicoso won, McLight
second, Lobengula third. Time-1: 14I
Mile and a furlong, Captive won, Ost-
Ter Joe second, Fred Gardner third.
Time-1:56.
Six furlongs, Imp. Santa Bella won.
Good Times second, Sport McAllister
third. Time-1:15.
Five furlongs, two-year- olds, Dunboy
won, Scotch Rose second, Sly third.
Time-1 :0134.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-05
AN ARTIST UNDER ARREST.
Charged With Poisoning His Young
and Pretty Wife,

PENDER (Neb.), Dec. Al. Sydney
Toodmanson, an artist, is under ar
rest charged with poisoning his young
and pretty wife.
Mrs Goodmanson died at her hus-
bands office last September under sus-
picious circumstances and the body was
sent TO her former home at Tiskilwa,
H., for burial. A physicians certifi-
cate was secured which stated that
heart disease was the cause of death.
A brother and uncle of the dead woman
were not satisfied. and had the body ex-
burned and the stomach removed which
was sent to Rush Medical College, Chi
cago. for examination. The chemists
report to the Coroner's jury was that
death resulted from strychnine poison
ing.
The brother and uncle came at once
to Pender, and Goodmanson's arrest
followed last night. Goodmanson came
here from Chicago, where he is said to
be we'll known. Relatives of his wife
strongly opposed the marriage, as it
was reported that Goodmanson at the
time was engaged to Chicago girl
Mrs. Goodmanson had $4,000 in her
own right.