The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AN imperial edict has been issued in China depriving Viceroy Lii Hung Chang of his three-eyed peacock feather be- cause of his mismanagement of the Corean campaign. It was also report ed that the viceroy had been deposed.
 THE president has appointed Charles II. Mansur, of Missouri, assistant comp troller of the treasury.
 LEVI P. MORTON was nominated for governor of New York in the state re- publican convention held at Saratoga on the 18th on the first ballot, receiving 532 votes out of 750.
 TIE official returns of the various county committees in Kentucky show plurality for Owens of 270 over Breck- inridge.
 Gov. FLOWER declined renomina- tion for governor of New York.
 EDWIN GOULD denies the report that his sister, Anna, now in Paris, is en- gagged to Prince Francis of Battenburg. This is the sixth engagement of Miss Gould rumored within the past year.
 MRS. F. K. HUNT, the president of the Women's Anti-Brecllinridge asso- citation, of Lexington, Ky, has received letter from Miss Mary Desha, sister in-law of Col. Breckinride, now resid- ing in Washington, thanking her for what she did in defeating Breckin- ridge for renomination.
 A TELEGRAM from Shanghai, China, said that the Japanese fleet attacked the Chinese fleet at the mouth of the Value river, Corea, on the 18th, where the Chinese were disembarking troops. The Chinese had one ship sunk, one burned and two stranded and partly burned. It was also reported that two or three Chinese transports were miss ing and thought to have been blown up with all hands on board. The Jap anese were supposed to have lost three ships.
 TIE state democratic convention at Charleston, s. C., nominated ticket, all Tillmanites. The platform in- dorses the Ocala platform, as well as the Chicago one; demands the free coinage of silver at the ratio of l6 to 1, and indorses the dispensary law as the best solution of the liquor question.
 THE Ohio democratic state conven' tion, at Columbus on the 10th declared in favor of the election of United States senators by the people by vote of 467 to BPS.
 BLAKELY DURANT, familiarly known as ''Old Shady" died on the 10th. He was the body servant of Gen. Sherman during the rebellion, and was feelingly mentioned in the latter's memoirs. He was the "Old Shady" of the familiar war melody.
 THE state convention of democratic clubs of North Carolina met in Raleigh recently. The principal object of the convention appeared to be desire tc awaken renewed interest in the early construction of the Nicaragua canal. | AN examination of the tariff law al the treasury department disclosed the fact that it contained no provisions whatever for n duty upon imported fruits, preserved in brandy or other | spirits. 1t is probable, however, that the department will decide the best way out of the dilemma is to assess | duty on the spirits, ana the 1rults SUD sequently according to the rate pro vided for each tariff in the act.
 TIE Washington state republican convention at Spokane had tilt over the silver plank in the platform Finally the plank providing for fret coinage at the ratio of lG to l wa beaten by vote of 224 to 261.
 DR RAFAEL NUNEz, president of tho republic of Colombia, has died O gastric fever. He was born September ! 2S, 1895,