The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph ard Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| Ork on 'Ihe Ethics of Hard Times, attributing financial stringency large ly to the credit system.
 PRESIDENT REMNANT, of the Sant: Fe, has published card denying tha there is any npleasantness between him and General Manager Frey ant strongly indorsing the latter
 A MASS meeting was held at Malta tt protest against the curtailment of tn, liberty of the archbishop of Malta by the marquis of Ripon.
 THE house committees on territorie. has made a favora ble report on the bil admitting New Mexico into the union
 MR. BAILEY, of Texas has introduced in the house a bill to repeal the stat utes that provide for the retirement ot officers of the army and navy and stop ping the pay of all officials heretofore retired.
 MORE talk of the Franco Russian and German-English alliances bringing or war is being started by foreign news papers
 THE funeral of the late Mayor liar. rison, of Chicago. was most imposing one. Several affecting incidents oc, cured.
 THE bill introduced by Congressman Black, of Illinois, ex-commissioner of pensions, to repeal in toto the Indian depredations act of 1890, is attracting considerable public attention and has caused the claim agents much trepida- tion.
 THE Nicaraguan assembly has passed an article of the new constitution which has been framed especially to hamper foreigners. If any foreigner resident there should make a claim of any kind against the governmeu. he will be exiled at once
 SIAM is increasing her army, which will shortly consist of 30, 900 men, raised by conscription.
 MAJ. GEN. SIR C. C. TEEsDALE, V. C. E. A. r. c. M. G., C. E., EeT mates.y's master of ceremonies and at one time equerry to the prince of Wales, and who accompanied the latter to America, is dead.
 MRS ROOSEVELT, wife of the newly appointed first secretary of the Ameri-
  ously i'll from an overdose of laudanum, taken by mistake. She was Miss Belle Astor, second daughter of the late John Jacob Astor.
 THE British parliament reassembled on the 2d
 DETAILS of the late fighting in Ma shonaland, South Africa, showed that hn Ma l ,iHA tY, h., ha a.. of the British were terribly effective. The ground was literally strewed with dead and wounded Mata beles in fifteen minutes.
 Ar a caucus of the republican alder men at Chicago George B. Swift de- feated Martin E. Madden for the may orally nomination. The republicans have control of the council and the nomination was almost equivalent to an election.
 CARDINAL CARLO LoRAUNZI died in Rome recently. He was a native of Perugia, having been born there in 1891. He was created cardinal in 1889.
 ARTHUR FARRAR, one of the best known Chicago capitalists, died of nervous prOstration recently. He leaves a very large estate, all of which he has accumulated in Chicago since 1868.
 THE story published in a New York paper that the Brazilian government was negotiating for three United States warships was denied at the navy de- partment.
 THE house committee on territories has ordered favorable report on the bill admitting Utah to statehood.
 MR. COOPER, of Indiana, introduced bill authorizing states to tax national bank notes and greenbacks and all other notes circulating as money.
 DELEGATE SMITH, of Arizona, has in- troduced bill granting all desert lands except mineral to the states and territories in which the lands are To- cated for educational purposes.
 THE president has issued the regular thanksgiving proclamation for Thurs day, November 30.
 A TELEGRAM was received in London stating that another battle had oc- cured with the Matabele and that King Lobengula had been captured.
 TIE silver leaders in congress have banded together to carry the fight into the next congressional campaign with the hope of electing free coinage congress.