The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
 THE Church Missionary society, of London, has received telegram from Lagos, West Africa, announcing the death of the famous Niger missionary, Bishop Hill, and his wife.
 THE nomination of William H. Horn blower to be an associate justice of the l United States supreme court has been adversely reported on by the senate | judiciary committee.
 TIE officers in command of the artil- lery and engineers in upper Italy have been ordered to put the Actresses on the Italian-Swiss frontier on war | footing. The coast batteries on the gulf of Genoa will also be put in better condition.
 REV. PATRICK A. CoRRIsAN, D. D., of | Hoboken, died at Jersey City, N. J., aged 5S years, In the events which have kept the Catholic church of the United States in turmoil for the past few years Father Corrigan took a prominent part He was a vigorous supporter of Archbishop Ireland.
 THE Kentucky legislature reelected Senator William Lindsay. He received 97 democratic votes; Fultz, republican candidate, SS; populist 4.
 NJ. FLoBERT, inventor of the carbine bearing his name, is dead.
 THE Colorado legislature is in special session.
 IGNATIUs DoNNELLY has been re- elected president of the Minnesota Farmers Alliance.
 THE Oklahoma democratic central committee has resolved for single state hood or nothing.
 JUDGE LEWIS R. AIKEN, one of the oldest jurists in the west, died at Den yer, Col, of apoplexy. He was na- tive of Windsor, N. H., and was well known in Omaha and Galesburg. III.
 THE widow of William Makepeace Thackeray, the noted author, died in England recently. She had been in- sane for over forty years.
 THOMAS Il. CARTER has resigned as chairman of the executive committee of the republican national committee, and Joseph II. Manley has been elected to the vacancy. This does not, of course, displace Mir. Carter as chairman of the national committee.
 PRIVATE telegrams from New Ro- chelle, N. Y., announce the very dan gerous illness of Augustus Thomas, the playwright, author of Ala bama, "In Mizzoura' and other dramas
 M. DUPUY has been elected president of the French chamber of deputies by a vote of 290 to 67.
 PROF. OSWALD SEIDENsTICKER, of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the highest authorities in history of the Germans in America, is dead.
 MRs. CAROLINE TALBOT the Quaker ess who has preached all over the United States and England during the last twenty-five years, died recently at Mount Pleasant, O.
 THE first of the series of three grand receptions that are given each year at the White house took place on the nig ht of the 1lth, when President and Mrs Cleveland entertained the diplomatic corps.
 CARDINAL GIBBONS has received ca blegram announcing the appointment of Rev. J. ?. Donahue, rector of the cath edral, Baltimore, as bishop of Wheel ing, ". Va.
 JOHN CARROLL HOVER, for twenty years custodian of the Lincoln monu- ment at Springfield, H., died suddenly recently.
 Gov. HUGHEs, of Arizona, is in trou- ble. Indications are that he will be called on to retire in the near future.
 R. F. PRESTON has been confirmed director of the mint