The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-28
THE WEST.

ernor of Nebraska next year. THREE clearinghouse keepers, who have been stealing their table supplies from Santa Fe trains, were arrested in Joliet, III.
 THE Galesburg, H., Paving Brick Co., plant was destroyed by fire. Loss, S2O0, 1000; insured. There was a sus- picion that the fire was incendiary. THE statement was current in Chica- 20 that the famous Davis will case had been compromised and S11, ,0O0, the estate of Andrew J. Davis, the Mon tana millionaire, will thus soon be di- vided up among the heirs.
 AT Deadwood, s. D., Rustic Trevis and Maggie McDermott quarreled over man with whom both were in love and the former shot and killed the lat ter.
 TIE steamer Wheeks, which recently ran ashore on the beach near Michigan City, Ind, went to pieces during the late terrific gale. She had just changed hands for slSO,O and preparations had been completed to relieve her from her perilous position.
 JOHN P. HOPKINS, democrat, was elected mayor of Chicago over Swift, republican.
 CHRIS HANSON, formerly postmaster at Poplar, la., was arrested at San Francisco, accused of having robbed registered packages.
 THE delegates to the liberal city con vention, at Salt Lake City, voted all most unanimously to disband the party.
 AT Dubuque, h., the United States grand jury reported on the Van Lewen pension fraud cases. There are twenty eight separate indictments against Van Lewen. There are eleven separate in- dictments against Dr. Kissella, charg- ing him with conspiracy, accepting bribes and altering returns.
 JUDGE CONRAD overruled the motion for a new trial in the Des Moines, la, grave robbery cases and sentenced Dr. John w. Schaetfer to six months in the penitentiary and fined two of his assO- ciates, J. w. Sloan and James Martin, S2OO.
 Hoe cholera is raging in the vicinity of Webster City, la, and many hun dreds of hogs have died.
 REPORTS of the railway commissioner of Ohio show that not one passenger was killed in the state during the year ended November l5.
 FOUR men fell from a scaffold at Kokomo, Ind, and all were seriously injured.
 THE latest gigantic mining enterprise to h, ,, ,1 lA ,e l, driving of a tunnel under the Pitkin gold belt in Gunnison county. The tunnel will cut the belt of gold 1.2O0 feet below the surface and encounter such gold producers as Monte Vista, Toronto, Legal Tender and others.
 TIE Hebrew charity ball in Chicago netted SlS,00O. The largest sum real ized in previous years was sl5,O
 IN Breckinridge, Col, John Roher. a miner, is under arrest, charged with having attempted to assassinate Bank CT Eagle by throwing bomb into his bedroom.
 TIE miners employed at the Slope coal mine of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Co.,, at Salinville, O., have struck against a l5 per cent reduction. Fifty day laborers also quit work rather than suffer 30 per cent. cut.
 THE wool growers of southern Colo rado and northern New Mexico are preparing petition to Gov. Waite ask ing that an interstate convention in the interest of that industry be called in Denver at an early date.
 TIE Masonic temple at Adrian, Mich. built in 1865 at cost of SS5, 0C9, was burned.
 THE rumored withdrawal of the Frisco and Atchison from the Western Passenger association is denied by Chairman Caldwell.
 MRS. L. DEvERE, who was burned at Aspen, Col, by the explosion of an oil lamp, is dead. The two children, who were also badly burned, cannot recover.
 REGISTER JAMES MALONE, of the Per ry, Ok, land office, was indicted by the grand jury for permitting filings that are claimed to have been made during the absence of proper filers.
 FIRE caused by an explosion of a kerosene can set fire to the cable house in the bottom of the Chicago and Minonk coal mine at Minonk, H., and 300 men who were at work at the time had narrow escape from death.
 A DESPERATE shooting affray occurred between Watchman r. NJ. Byrd and John w. Harris, at Hanford, Cal, in which both men were fatally wounded. Some time ago Byrd arrested Harris, since which Harris has often threat.