The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ANOTHER attempt is being made by Alexander Stewart to break the will of the late A. T. Stewart.
 WEB" FLANAGAN has asked to be relieved as collector of internal revenue at Fl Paso, Tex.
 THE act of the last Michigan legisla- ture permitting women to vote at the municipal elections has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of that state.
 JAMES A. DENMARK, practically the founder of the Knights of Honor, died suddenly at Louisville, Ky. MT. Dem mare was one of the original seven who met at Louisville in 1878 and formed the organiza tion, which, at his suggestion was named the Knights of Honor.
 J. F. MILLER, the oldest postmaster in the United States, died at Gauley, w. Va. aged ss. He was appointed post master there by Jackson in 1852 and has served continuously since.
 YoUNG MILLIONAIRE FAIR, of San Francisco, was in New York with his wife on the way to Europe to remain a year. He says most of the stories about him lately are pure yarns.
 A DISPATCH from Cracow reports the death of Gen. Gourko, governor of Warsaw.
 THE Spanish government has decided to prosecute any Spanish paper which publishes anything from Melilla ex- eept official news,
 THE old home of Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Washington has been pur- chased by the papal legation for n home for Mgr. Satolli.
 MR. MUTCHIER, of Pennsylvania, has introduced bill amending the pen sions laws so as to relieve certain per sons who served in the Mexican war charged with assertion.
 A BILL has heen introduced in the house to relieve those who are charged with desertion who left the army after the surrender of the confederate armies in the late war.
 THE navy department learned that Rear Adm. Stanton, in command of the United States naval forces at Rio de Janerio, had saluted the flag of Adm. Mello. commanding the insur- gent fleet This salute was unauthor- ized by any instructions the admiral had received, and he was relieved of his command.
 REV. DR. SAMUEL w. HADDAwAY, chaplain of the house of representa- tives, is dead.
 CAPT. FREDERICK CHARLES HOWARD, brother of the Earl of Howard and Ef- fingham, committed suicide in Loudon recently.
 HoUsE employees are much interested in having a recess of the house till De- cember, as that would enable them to continue drawing salaries. If adjourn ment takes place their pay stops
 DR. SCHwEINGER, who has returned from a visit to Friederchsruhe. says that he examined Prince Bismarck and found him making fine progress.
 SEvERING, the eminent mathemati- clan, died at Copenhagen recently.
 HoN. LEVI P. MORTON, accompanied by his daughters, has arrived in Paris.
 SECRETARY CARLISLE has called for the resignation of Ross Guffin, collect or of internal revenue at Kansas City.
 IT is said that Capt W. P. Hall, of the Fifth cavalry, will get the very de- sirable promotion to assistant adju- 
 Ex-Gov. CRITTENDEN, of Missouri, to Mexico is in Wash ington urging the freest kind of tariff regulations to encourage trade with the southern republic.
 Mss DAISY GARLAND, daughter Of ex-Attorney-Ge Garland, shot her self dead in Washington. A cross in love was the supposed cause of the rash act.
 GRAVE fears are expressed of the fate of the Arctic explorer Nansen, who was caught in the ice north of Siberia.
 MR WILSON, chairman of the ways and means committee, says the first draft of the tariff bill relates only to the customs department of the bill and that the subject of internal revenue has not been taken up.
 MR BLAIR, of New Hampshire, will not introduce his educational bill in the house. but will give it all the en- couragement he can if it is proposed by some other member.