The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS,


 TIE steamer Ocean collided with the barge Kent near Sister Island light, Lake Ontario, and both vessels were sunk.
 THE prospect of a settlement of the miners strike by joint conference com mittees meeting at Columbus, O., has come to naught, so far as the Pitts burgh, Pa, district is concerned.
 PREMIER RosEBERY's colt Ladas won the English Derby on the eth in can ter by a length and half in 2:45 4-5. The Derby is worth S25, ,OOO in gold coin to the winner. It is S-year-old race over l 19 mile course.
 THE big rolling mills at Newburg, O., have closed down for want of fuel. 1t is estimated that between 5000 and A. 900 men are idle as a result of the shut down.
 THERE was a battle at Little's coal mine, near Pekin, H., on the 9th, be- tween a sheriff's posse and gang of strikers. Two men were killed and several wounded. It was feared that a number of miners in the shaft were suffocated. The sheriff was forced to retreat. PeEin was reported wild with excitement.
 BY an explosion of gasoline in the Troy steam laundry at Portland, Ore, five Chinamen were burned to death and four others seriously injured, one fatally. The building and all its con tents were burned.
 THE Boot and Shoe Workers Inter- national union have voted to hold the next convention in Boston. The plat form adopted by the American Fedora tion of Labor at its Chicago convention was indorsed.
 TIE city of Chicago has filed twenty eight suits against as many railroads for amounts aggregating more than S2 ,OOO, 900 for damages resulting from the construction of viaducts over vari- ous streets.
 THIRTY thousand miners on the isl and of Sicily on the 7th were reported starving and hopeless of an improve ment. They were threatening to burn the crops on the various estates, and declare that if they are condemned to ] die of hunger others shall share their fate.
 THE United States revenue cutter Bear was reported on the 7th as being fast on the rocks at the entrance of the harbor of Sitka, Alaska, and was being rapidly battered to pieces by the waves.
 JUDGE WINTERS, of Indianapolis, Ind, has declared another dividend of 10 per cent. in Iron Hall affairs.
 THE German national bank, of Den- yer, Col, did. not open its doors on the 7th. It was one of the oldest banks in the city. At one time the banks stock sold for S335 share. The bank was closed during the panic last summer, but subsequently, reopened on an agree ment with the stockholders.
 THREE hundred commonwealers,c conn posed of Poles, Bohemians and Aus trians, started from Chicago on the 7th for Washington. The aggregation was commanded by Joseph Rybakowski, who claims to be Russian nobleman. The army was escorted from the city by detail of police.
 R. E. LANGDoN & Co.,, of Minneapolis Minn., have secured a $2,O0O,O00 canal contract in Arizona. The country to be irrigated is 100000 acres, mostly in Maricopa county, and the water is to be obtained from the Rio Verde. The canal will start above Phoenix and will be no miles long.
 JUDGE EWING, of Chicago, rendered a decision recently that a citizen of the United States cannot acquire title to real estate by inheritance when the inheritance has to be traced back through alien ancestry, for the reason that such alien ancestry is without in heritable blood, which is necessary to transmit an inheritance from one per son to another.
 BILL DALTON, the notorious outlaw, was killed at Giddings ranch, 90 miles north of Ardmore, l. T., on the sth.