The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE archbishop of Kingston, Ont. has cabled to Hon. Edward Blake, NJ. P, the sum of e300, Icing the first in- stallment of subscriptions to the cause of home rule.
 THE Brazilian minister in London has received the following dispatch from Rio de Janeiro; ''There is abso- lutely no truth in the statement that prisoners have been executed without trial"
 A DISTINGUISHED company assembled in the senate chamber on the 27th to witness the funeral ceremonies over the body of the late Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. At the conclusion of the services the committees of the senate and house followed the coffin to accom- pany it to Georgia
 THE marriage of M. Jules Patenotre, French ambassador to the United States, and Miss Eleanor Louise Elver- son, daughter of James Elverson, the Philadelphia publisher, took place on the 27th, Cardinal Gibbons performing the ceremony
 COMMANDER VERNAY LovETT GAMER ON, the distinguished African traveller, while hunting with Baron Rothchild's hounds at Leighton Buzzard, Bedford shire, Eng, was thrown from his horse and died four hours later.
 THE remains of Senator Colquitt were inferred in the Risehill cemetery at Macon, Ga, on the 2Sth, with impress sive ceremonies.
 THE pope cabled the apostolic bless ing to the newly welded M. Patenotre and his wife, nee Miss Elverson.
 THE czar of Russia is reported suffer- ing from liver affiiction.
 THE anti-insurance-combine bill has passed the Iowa senate. It makes it unlawful for insurance companies to combine to keep up rates and provides penalties and fines from s10 to $500.
 A BILL to provide for the free and un- limited coinage of silver has been in- troduced in the senate by Mir. Stewart (rep.), of Nevada, and laid on the table for the present
 PREMIER CRIsPI opened the interna- tional medical congress at Rome, Italy, in the presence of the king and queen, on the 29th.
 COMMENTS by the silver men in the senate and house make it evident that free coinage bills will be introduced and attempts made to pass them as result of the seigniorage veto.
 THE Iowa house has passed the woman suffrage bill giving women the right to vote for city, town and school officers and on the question of issuing bonds
 Gov. NoRTHEN, of Georgia, has ap- pointed Speaker Crisp as senator to fill the place of the lately deceased Sen ator Colquitt
 GEORGE TICKNoR CURTIS, the noted lawyer and writer on political econo- my, died of pneumonia on the 2Sth at New York, aged sl.
 SIR JAMES HANNEN, one of the most learned and able of England's judges, is dead, aged 73.
 THE president sent message to the house on the 29th vetoing the bill for coinage the silver seigniorage
 Gov. JONES has presented his mes sage to the two houses of the Choctaw council. He recommends the appoint ment of two commissioners to meet the United States commissioners about territorial government and lands in seveTalty for the people of his nation.
 SPEABSP CRISP has notified Gov. Northen by telegraph of his declination of the appointment of United States senator for the unexpired term of the late Senator Colquitt In his telegram Speaker Crisp says very large major | ity of the democratic members of the house have united in the request that he continue to serve as speaker for the remainder of the session, and a sense of duty impels him to decline the appoint ment.
 SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, has issued card to the effect that he left the republican party more than two years ago because that party was in favor of the single gold standard and is now populist
 RUMoRs that the silver men will at tempt to secure an amendment to the tariff bill by adding a provision for free coinage were denied by senators of all shades of opinion.
 JUDGE DALLAS filed an opinion in the United States circuit court at Phil adelphia, holding that Chinamen can not be naturalized.
 CONGRESSMAN WILSON was at the ranch of Congressman Ben Cable, at San Antonio, Tex, on the SOth, where he will remain until able to resume his work at Washington, He was reported we'll enough to drive out
 MISCELLANEOUS,