The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-25
CLEARING house returns for the prin-

| average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of 3.1; outside New York the increase was 7.5.
 A NEW YORK dispatch stated that FitEsimmons had signed the articles of agreement for fight with Corbett for the worlds championship. Corbett made several concessions to the Aus tralian. The weight of the gloves are to be five ounces.
 JUDGE BIERER, of the Oklahoma su- preme court, has removed c. W. Bugee, county attorney, and the county com missioners of Beaver county, for mal- feasance in office and misappropriating county money.
 OTTO WoNIGKETT, aged el, and Henry Ermisch, aged 19, were hanged in the jail inclosure at St Paul, Minn., on the 10th for the murder of a barkeeper, whom they were attempting to rob May 9 last.
 FAILURES for the week ended 0cto- Der 19 (Dun's report) were 253 in the United States, against 341 last year.
 DUN's review of trade for the week ended the 18th said that the domestic trade reported by railroad earnings in October was 34 per cent. less than last year. Business had not yet reached expectations and it was evident that the loss of part of the corn crop and the low prices of other great staples had affected the buying power of mill lions.
 TIE federal grand jury at Chicago on the 10th returned an omnibus in- dictment against Debs and the officers of the American Railway union and a large number of persons charged with participation in violence and the ob- struction of the mails and commerce on the different roads last summer. In all sixty-nine persons were included in the blanket indictment.
 HIGHWAY robbery is becoming so common between Tahlequah, I. T., and Fort Gibson that the average drummer who makes that point has come to consider the holdup as part of the programme attending trip over the road, three knights of the grip having had the honor of meeting the notorious Cook gang in three days.
 FIRE at the county hospital at Dem yer, Col, recently caused great excite ment among the patients, but all were removed without injury. The fire started from an electric wire in the building occupied by the consumptives and was extinguished by the fire de- partment.
 BASEBALL men representing six cities gathered together at Philadelphia on the 18th and after six hours delibera- ton announced the formation of the American Association of Baseball clubs, with circuit made up thus far of Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn in the east, and Chicago, Pittsburgh and club is to be located in St. Louis, De- troit, Columbus or Buffalo, with chances favoring the latter.
 AT Louisville, Ky, the ill-fated new Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge was the scene of another accident on the l7th. Three were hurt, one per- haps fatally. The accident was caused by the falling of part of the false work under the fourth span, which had just been completed and locked.
 FIRE started in the San Jacinto hotel at Houston, Tex, and spread rapidly to the St. Joseph's infirmary and ad- joining buildings. Sisters Doleral and Jane were burned beyond recognition, and Sister Clothilde was also fearfully burned. Two patients were missing and there was no doubt they had per ished in the flames. Several stotes were also burned, including ". l.. Foley's dry goods house, the largest in the city. The total loss was 5000; total known insurance, S1jl, l,5O0.