Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-08-29

New YORK, Aug. 26-Hilton Hughes
d Co., (once A. T. Stewart & Co, have
made an assignment to g. M. Wright.
Among the banks the failure lie regard
ed ss due to the gradual decrease of
business. The firm has been taking
stock several weeks and recently was
Understood to have received 100000
which hiss been used in reducing liabili-
ties. 1t Is reported that Siegle, Cooper,
d GO will take the overstock of Hilton
Hughes Il Co. No statement has yet
been m4de IS to the liabilities and as
sets. All the windows show drawn
blinds 10 the big building, taking 10 the
whole block surrounded 10y Ninth and
Tenth streets and taking Fourth ave.
and Broadway. Employees are notified
that their services are no longer re-
quIred.
SANTA Rosa, CALF. Aug. 25.-What lie
believed to have been an attempt to
poison q whole family was made near
here this morning by John Sllvers,
farmer living at Bellevue. Silvers took
a big dose of arsenic to Kill himself
AS soon as the faulty found what had
been done they sent man to town after
the doctor who arrived at the place IN
time to save Silvers' life. Silvers' wife
was taken violently i'll, the children say,
just before breakfast, and they saw
their father standing by the stove. He
bad the coffse-pot in his hand and q
package of some kind of stuff. They
| believed he put some OF the arsenic il
the coffee. Mrs. Silvsrs will also re-
cover. Silvers says be took the arsenic
| to commit suicide AID will try it again
! at the first chance.
MILwAUKEE, Wis. Aug. pa special
to wisconsin" from Houghtop,
Michigan, gives the particulars of the
fire which destroyed Ootonagon. The
| fire originated in q swamp just south of
the Diamond Match Compsny's mills.
| A forty mile gale swept the flames be-
fore II, aud the planning mile, box fac
| tory and immense dry kilns were sooD
| in ashes. The flames then descended
| on the business and residence quarter OF
| the city, and the finally lodged in 65
million feet OF sawed lumber on the
docks. The destruction OF the village
was complete, barely q dozen houses in
| the surburbs remaining standing
| The onslaught of the flames vas SO
sudden that barely one in twenty sue
ceeded in saving any effects. The heat
was so intense that people were CON-
PEELED to seek shelter usder trees and
driftwood along the lake shore.
Many walked to Rockland. Is miles
away. There are about 1900 men, wo-
| men and children without food or
| shelter. Many are insufficiently clothed
and suffered severely last night. The
Diamond Match Company lost mills
and buildings worth neerly 5000, 600 and
lumber worth nearly 81, 100000.
New YORK, Aug. 25-Arrangements
| are being completed to give Lii Hung
Chang royal welcome on his arrival on
the st. Louis in the lower bay on Fri
day next. 1t has been decided by the
navy department that nineteen guns
constitutes the proper salute to the Chi
nese statesman. The details Of his re-
ception by the fleet have been left en-
tirely with Admiral Bunce. Lii, it is
understood, will go aboard one of the
vessels Of the feet, while the others will
act as an escort. The naval demonstrs-
ton as at present contemplated will only
lover the day of Li's arrival. On FRI
day morning the fleet will move down
the bay, and taking position, will await
the ST. Louis. Ii will then be taken
aboard one OF the war vessels. AS the
vessel passes by, each chip will run to
the fore truck the Imperial colors of
China and will fire salute.
The Chinese ambassador will be re
ceived by Mayor Strong, acting in bis
official capacity as the chief magistrate
OF the City of New York. on Tuesday
next at the Merchants Club, of which
the mayor is member. 1t has been ar
ranged that Monday will bs Brookyn's
day for receiving Lii. The mayor, after
receiving Lii in the Merchants Club,
will drive him up town under an escort
of national guards of the State of New
York. Lii will review the various regi-
ments and watch their drills. He will
then be treated to display of the evo-
lutions of New ork's firemen, who will
parade with their enginss, etc. The dis
tinguished visitor will be rendered q
dinner Ht the Merchants Club, where
be will be the guest of the mayor. All
Chinatown will have q chance to see Lii
Hung Chang. On Tuesday afternoon,
Septem Der ], the Viceroy and his suite,
escorted by the regulars OF the Uhiteo
States army, will make his public entry |
into and through the Chinese quarter.
The intimation received by Lii from |
Pekin that be cut his travels short in |
the West has given rise to the report |
that his presence in the Chinese capital |
is needed at this time to put O stop To-
the activity of those officials who have
have since bis departure, been plotting |
his downfall. This, however, is not
thought in Well informed quarters, to be
the real reason for Lie practical recall.
1t ia the commercial treaty with Japan
that requires the Viceroy's immediate
attention. Lii Hung Chang was the I'M
perial commissioner appointed to nego-
tiate such treaty with Japan. He bad
to relinquish the work when in the midst
OF it to attend the coroDstion of the
Gear.
Chang Yin Hoop, q member OF the
Tsung- li-Yameu and former minister
to the United Sta!es, took up the threads
of the negotiations where Ii Hung
Chang had dropped them. Now the
treaty is ready to be signed The Chi
nese government wants the Viceroy to
put the Flushing touches to the docu-
ment and the Japanese government is
only too glad to have his signature sffix-
ed to il. Thus two nations ere impati-
entity waiting for his return.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-United States
Minister Terrell, at Constsntinople, ca
bles the state department that great
bloodshed and rioting occurred there
last night. Several hundred Armenians
were killed and ar the time tho cahle