The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

S. Otis of the Twentieth infantry, to be brigadier-general of the United States army, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Gen. Carlin.
 DAVID II. AMEs, who was reported to have fought with Gen, Jackson at New Orleans, died at Jerseyville, ill., re- gently, aged 1O2 years.
 A PROMINENT Mexican merchant says that the revolutionists are a body of determined and well armed men.
 DAILY fighting continues at Rio, and the sympathy of the people is said to be rapidly turning to De Mello.
 SIR JOHN DRuMMoND HAY, British ex- minister to Morocco, is dead.
 A MoNTEvIDEo dispatch says that the elections have resulted in the favor of the government in the proportion of three to one.
 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER JOHN SON has retired from the commission.
 HoKE SMITH will retire from active practice of law and will probably re- move from Atlanta to New York
 THE Princess Colonna, title finder and daughter of Millionaire Mackey, has resolved to sue her husband for di- vorce. She complains of indignities, the prince being a notorious gambler.
 A DESPATCH from Rio de Janeiro says the insurgents have captured the town of Curitiba in the state of Sac Paulo.
 A TELEGRAM received at Cape Town from Petersburg reports the capture of King Lobengula by Commander Raaf
 BISHOP D. A. PAYNE, founder of Will berforce college and fifth and senior bishop of the A. M. E.. church, has died at his home at Wilberforce, after de- voting seventy years of his life to re- ligion and education among his people.
 THE new French cabinet is as fol- lows: M. Spuller, premier and minister of foreign affairs; M. Raynal, minister of the interior; NJ. Burdeau, minister of finance; NJ. Faure, minister of com merce; Gen. Loisellon, minister of war; Adm Rienunier, minister of marine.
 JOHN B. THATCHER has been given permission to remove the bureau of worlds fair awards to Washington.
 A DISPATCH from Odessa, says that Gen. Gourko is suffering from aortic aneurism and his active military career is therefore closed.
 THE president has appointed John R. Proctor, of Kentucky, civil service com missioner in place of George D. John ston, removed.
 THE first elections in New Zealand under the female suffrage law have been held They resulted favorably to the government. The women voted in large numbers, giving their support mainly to those candidates who pro fessed Christia nifty and favored tenn perance.
 AMERICAN residents and consuls in Germany celebrated thanksgiving at Berlin at fine style.
 SECRETARY HERBERT, of the navy de- partment, has submitted his annual re- port. He strongly recommends adher. ing to the policy of building up the navy as rapidly as possible.
 M. SPULLER has declined to form a French cabinet, and now it is reported that M. Casimir-Perier will undertake the task.
  show that the sentiment of the people is rapidly turning to De Mello and that Peixoto is losing ground.
 JUDGE E.. C. BILLINGS, of the United States district court, died recently al New Haven, Conn.
 THE duke of Leinster died at Carton in County Kildare, Ireland, one of hi' three country seats, of typhoid fever He was the fifth duke of Leinster.
 CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM LILLY dieC suddenly at Mauch Chunk, Pa.
 THE German reichstag by a vote O 1fS to 126 adopted the Centrist motion to readmit the Jesuits into Germany. LADY EVELYN MoREToN, sister of ttS earl of Ducie, whose conversion to the Roman Catholic church created quite { stir in England a few years ago, ha! now, it is announced, returned to tho Protestant church.
 MGR. SAToLLI, speaking at Washing ton, declared himself warmly in favo of Catholic schools.
 THE new brigadier-general, Otis, ha been assigned t6 the department O Columbia.
 IN Dublin Alderman Dollion has beel elected lord mayor.
 GEN. LYON FREMANTLE has been ap pointed governor of Malta
 HERR ANNo, formerly director of tn Royal Berlin theater, died recently il ! Berlin.
 | MISCELLANEOUS.
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