The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleanod By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| iNooluNOh iAi tAiN oVhtbt hh luNNSbl gation of the late election in Alabama.
 w. II. Skaggs, chairman of the Kolb committee, telegraphed him that he could furnish conclusive evidence of the most stupendous frauds ever com mitted on the American continent. Dallas county, Senator Morgan's home, gave 5 5,700 majority for Oates. We have a list of the votes polled in that county in every precinct and the total is less than 2,0C0."
 JOIN QUINCY ADAMS, eldest brother of Charles Francis Adams and member of the great family of statesmen, died at his home at Mount Wollastin, Quin- cy, Mass, on the l4th.
 BLUEFIELDs has been retaken by 2, 900 Nicaraguan troops, who arrived from Rama and Grayt%wn on trans | ports, flying the United States flag. On their approach the United States ma rines, who had been on duty ashore, returned to their vessel. The resident Americans, being thus abandoned, be- came very indignant, and many of them removed the national flag from their | houses and stamped it in the streets. They then hoisted the British flag. THE conference committee of the two | Houses have concluded the considera- tion of the sundry civil appropriation | bill and will report an agreement.
 TIE National Colored Democratic league met in Indianapolis, Ind. on the 14th and were to be in session for several days. President c. II. J. Tay- Tor delivered his annual address. Be- tween thirty and thirty-ive states are represented. Taylor was reelected president.
 THE house committee on pensions has agreed to the senate bill to pension Mrs. Ada J. SchwatlIa, the widow of Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka, the Arctic explorer, at SS0 month.
 A PRIVATE telegram from Yokohama says that seven Chinese vessels were sunk in recent engagement with the Japanese.
 A PRETORIA, South Africa, dispatch said the rebels were murdering the Boer farmers and were burning their homes. A body of 100 Boers proceeded to the relief of the occupants of the government buildings of Agatha, which were besieged by the rebc ious Cafiirs.
 TIE tooth anniversary of the birth of William Cullen Bryant, the poet, was celebrated at Cummington, Mass, his native place, on the l6th.
 THE senate has passed the house bill authorizing fourth-class postmasters to administer oaths to pensioners.
 Tr laf ton on the 16th for Gray Gables for few days absence under the advice of his physicians, in the hope of shaking off n malarial attack from which he has been suffering for several days.
 ALDACE F. WALKER has been ap- pointed receiver of the Atchison, To- pelSa & Santa Fe railway in place of J. w. Reinhart, resigned.
 THE necessity of immediate and thor ough organization to push bimetallism to the front was discussed at special conference of the American Bim etallic league, which convened at Washington on the 10th. Thirty or forty members of the league from various states were present. Gen. A. J. Warner, president of the league, acted as chairman, and among those present were Senator Stewart, of Nevada Congressman Pence and Bell, of Colorado; Judge Shelton, of Connecticut, and C. $. Thomas, of Colorado.
 RECENT dispatches announced the death of the king of Siam. The British war ship Rattler has been dispatched to Siamese waters to anticipate possi- ble trouble over the succession.
 PRESIDENT A. c. FISK, of the Pan American Bimetallic league, on behalf of that organization, has sent a notable statement to the special committeee of the United States senate investigating the industrial depression and the rem edy. He said the views submitted ex- bers of the association.
 REPRESENTATIVE BAILEY, of Texas, desiring to rid congressman of all com plicity in office seeking, has introduced the following bill: That from and after the passage of this act no senator nor representative Tn congress shall directly or indirectly solicit or recom- mend the appointment of any person to office under the United States; pro- vided that this act shall not be con strued to apply to the offices of the house or the senate.
 TIE Missouri republican state con vention at Excelsior Springs nominated Judge William Robinson, of the Twenty-eighth judicial district, for the supreme court; John B. Kirk. of Jack son county, for superintendent of schools, and Joseph Flory, of St. Louis, for railroad commissioner. The plat form declares for a system of protec- tive duties and the enactment of laws to prohibit the immigration of anarch- ists; favors q free and impartial ballot; extends sympathy to Hawaii in at tempting to establish arepublic; favors the largest possible coinage of silver and against monometallism, either of gold or silver, and condemns the pen sion policy of the present national ad- ministration.
 FULL official returns of the election for supreme judge in Tennessee have ota,. x,fs A,,A,N