The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

l A SPECIAL session or Lne leglSlatur( is called to convene at Tishomingo, I T., on the 10th to appoint delegates tc
 Washington to thwart action of con gress on the territorial bill.
 THE attorney-generars annual report to congress was made public on the 4th and showed the affairs with which the department of justice has had tc deal during the past year have been ir some particulars of unusual interest and importance.
 Ex-Gov. LEON ABBOTT died at his resi- dence in Jersey City, N. J., on the 4th. The governor had been suffering from diabetes long time and this was the cause of his death.
 SECRETARY CARLISLE is arranging the machinery for the collection of the income tax with evident confidence that the necessary funds for its opera. tion will be forthcoming in the near future He has submitted an estimate of S500,O00 for the employment of 30S additional deputy collectors, ten extra revenue agents and other expenses in the execution of the statute, and is now acting with the expectation that con- gress will speedily provide the sum re- quired.
 Fix. Gov. oDEN BOWIE, one of the veal. thiest men in Maryland, died at "Fairview," Prince Georgc's county, on the 4th. He was born in the very house in which he died, November 10, 1926.
 A REGENT dispatch from San Francis co said that Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, of Kansas, was about to purchase farm in the San Joachim valley, California, and would live there after her time was up as president of the Kansas board of | charities
 COMMANDER BALLINGToN BooTH, of the Salvation army, was reported critic | ally ill in Chicago on the 5th. The sick chamber was kept in total darkness and absolutequiet,a and all visitors were for bidden to see him.
 THE national council of Switzerland has requested the federal council to re- sume negotiations with foreign gov ernments for the establishment of in- ternational regulations upon the labor questions.
 TIE Turkish government was re- ported sending out official statements denying the truth of the Armenian outrages.
 REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN, of Nebraska, has introduced into congress joint resolution providing an amendment to the constitution, making the president ineligible to a second term.
 DR. JOHN MILLS BROWNE, formerly surgeon-general of the navy, was re- ported dangerously i'll at Washington on the eth, as a result of stroke of paralysis involving the whole of the right side. His recovery was doubtful.
 THE democratic senators held eau GUS on the 9th and the cloture propo- sition was defeated. The steering committee was directed to prepare an order of business which would present for the consideration of the senate cer- tain subjects named.
 THE president has awarded to Capt. Frank D. Baldwin a medal of honor, by direction of congress. for dis tinguished gallantry in action with Indians near McClelland Creek, Tex, November :, 1874. Capt. Baldwin is now Indian agent at Anardarko, in the Kiowa country.
 THE Alabama w. c. T. U., which has just closed meeting at Birmingham, have decided to pay the expenses of a woman to go to Montgomery to remain during the entire session of the legis- lature and lobby for the passage of general prohibition bill in the state. Only five counties have prohibition now and fund is being raised by the wom- en to begin an organized fight to make Alabama prohibition state.
 TIE first session of the reichstag in the new palace erected for its use at Berlin was marked by a disordcrly scene, growing out of the refusal of socialist members to cheer for the em- peror.
 CoNGREssMAN-ELECT A. J. CAMPBELL, of the Tenth New York district, is dead
 TIE members of the Dockery com mission, created at the last session of congress, who have for some time past been conducting an investigation into the workings of thc general land of flee for the purpose of instituting re- 1 forms in that branch of the govern ment service, if necessary, have com pleted their work, but were not ready | to make public their recommendations |
 A DISPATCH from Warsaw, Russian | Poland, says that Gen. Gourko, the | governor of Warsaw, received tele- gram from the Russian minister of the | interior conveying to him an order of | the czar not to interfere with the | affairs of the Catholic clergy or to i'm pose any orders upon them.
 COUNT FERDINAND DE LEssEPs, the | French engineer, the builder of the Suez canal and the lead | CT of the unsuccessful Panama canal | project, died on the 7th aged 80. He | had been in failing health for months and at the time of the Panama canal | exposures his health was so precarious that the great scandal was kept from him.
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