The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-08

A SPECIAL from Lynchburg, Va, said that Gen. Early was steadily weaken ing He could last only few days at best.
 CLEARING house returns for the week ended March } showed an average de- crease as compared with the corre- spending week of last year of S9.0; in New York, 43 6; outside, 30.2
 WORD came from the opal mines near Caldwell, Idaho, of the finding of the largest opal in the world. It was said to be as large as hens egg and with out flaw. It was estimated that the gem would dress S25 carats.
 IT was reported from Harlan county, Ky. that Len I've, a negro, who mur- dered Miss Bryant, near Williamsburg about year ago. had recently visited Harlan county, where he kidnapped a farmers daughter and kept her se- creted in the woods for>s time, un- til party of hunters found her They waited for his return when they caught and tied him and proceeded to skin him alive, and before he was dead the girl built fire on his head and he was roasted alive.
 A LATE dispatch from Rio Grande Do Sul said that the insurgents had been defeated at Sarandi, losing 400 killed. In addition many prisoners and guns were captured by the government forces
 AN explosion in the separating build ing of the Repauno Chemical Co at Gibbstown, N. J., wrecked the build ing, and workman, Levi Evans, was blown to atoms
 PRITcHARD, Bella and Nickulinec, the entombed miners in O. T. Williams & Sons slate quarry at Williamstown, Pa., are still buried in the tunnel where the cave-in occurred. All hope of find | ing the entombed men alive has been abandoned.
 DUN's Weekly Review of Trade on the Sd stated that during the past week more works had started up than had stopped, but reductions in wages still continued. Continued weakness ap- peared in the price of metals. Receipts and exports of wheat had been only half of last years. There was de- crease in the number of failures, the number in the United States for the week ended March 9 being 264, against 206 last year and 42 in Canada, against 45 last year.
 JOSEPH WALLwITZ, alias John Mall witz, sentenced to twenty years in the New Jersey state prison, sawed the bars of his cell door the other morning and gained access to the corridor, where he lassoed Keeper James T. Waters and choked him into uncon- sciousness. Center Keeper James P. Lippincott appeared on the scene and the convict secured the gun of the un- conscious man and killed Lippincott. Walwitz was recaptured.
 ALL the parties to the Corbett-Mitch- ell fight now are safely out of the hands of the law. The last legal ac- tion against them in the courts was re- moved, when Attorney-General Lamar nolle pressed the case against Pugilist Charles Mitchell for fighting by pre- vious appointment" and also the cases against the Duval Athletic club mem bers and others for aiding and abet- ting fight by previous appointment This action was the logical sequence of the acquittal of Champion Corbett
 JAMES OLIVER, of LaMas county, Ky, killed himself because a few of his friends tested him concerning an ex animation into his right to draw pen sion.
 REvoLTING tragedy occurred al Eugene, Ore, the other night Albert Moss, youth 20 years old, in frenzy of rage attempted to assassinate the whole Coleman family. After shoot ing and killing one woman. badly in turing another and fatally woundinq an old man, the young man sent bull let through his own head and died.