The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERsONAL AND pOLIrTCAL,


 attorney at Cincinnati, has forwarded to Washington his resignation, with the request that it take effect January 1. His term expires then.
 MAJ. JOSEPH w. WHAM, paymaster U. S. A, has been ordered before the retiring board at Washington by direc- tiou of the president.
 TIE inquest held upon the remains of Prof. Tyndall, who died recently in London, resulted in verdict to the ef- feet that he came to his death from an overdose of chloral.
 SENATOR VEsT has introduced in the senate bill providing for the pension ing of surviving paymasters' clerks and their widows.
 A CANVASS of the democratic mem bers of the house shows that while many of them object to features of the Wilson bill very few of them will carry their opposition so far as to vote against it.
 THE correspondent of the London Times at Rio says that the revolution in Brazil is due to the arbitrary meth ods of President Peixoto.
 Col. PORTER INGRAUX, probably the oldest lawyer in Georgia, died at his home in Columbus
 REFRESHMENTS CoCKRELI, of Texas, has introduced a bill to- ratify the agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes in the Indian terri tory. The bill authorizes an appropri- ation of s2,O0o, 900 to carry the agree ment into effect ~
 THE president has nominated Joseph B. Doe, of Wisconsin, to be assistant secretary of war. .#
 CAPT REUBEN A. RILEY, the father of James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, died at his home at Greenfield, Ind, of pneu- monia, aged "A.
 THE German-Roumanian commercial treaty has been approved by the treaty committee of the reichstag.
 MRS. ARTHUR MILLER, known on the stage as Amy Gordon, is practically an object of charity at Galesburg, H., having become an outcast through in- temperance.
 THE attorney-general has received and accepted the resignation of Lewis Miles, United States district attorney for the southern district of Iowa.
 ACTING SECRETARY CURTIS, of the treasury department, intimates that the government would interfere should any attempt be made to give practical effect to the suggestion of Gov. Waite, of Colorado. that Colorado make silver legal tender and provide for its free coinage at state mint ....
 TIE prince of Wales is now grand master of the English Freemasons.
 TIE report of Sir Gerald Portal, the British consul general for German east Africa, will advise the extension of the Zanzibar protectorate to include Ugan- da
 MR RICHARD MANsFIELD, the actor, was compelled to break his engage ment at Cincinnati on account of an at tack of the grippe. AT Anderson, Ind, R. D. Grimes, dry goods merchant has assigned. Liabil- ities s6O, GOO, with nominal assets about the same.
 IT is rumored that George J. Gould has had Mrs Zella Nicolaus, who is su- ing him for s40,0O0, indicted for at tempting blackmaiL
 THE Portuguese cortes has been dis solved
 | Nj. DUPUY has assumed the presidency of the French chamber of deputies. Ex.PREMIER CRIsPI has been asked to try his hand again at forming an Ital- ian cabinet
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 ADM DE CANA has joined the forces of the revolutionists in Brazil, and the movement to overthrow Peixoto seems to be gaining ground daily.
 MR. GLADSTONE was reported indis- posed on the Sth Nothing serious was apprehended
 A DISPATCH from Cairo reports that the British ambassadorship to St Peters burg has been offered ts Baron Cromer, who, it is expected, wil accept Baron Cromer is now British political agent and consul-general at Cairo.