The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Italians and Huns were running things at the mines round Walston and Punxsautawney, Pa, to suit themselves on the Fist. The citizens feared that there would be an attack on the En- glish-speaking miners and their fam flies. There was great excitement and troops were expected.
 TIE board of regents of the Okla homa Agricultural and Mechanical col lege has elected to the presidency of the institution Maj. Afford, of Wash ington, formerly president of the Maryland Agricultural college.
 AT Saginaw, Mich, Newell B. Par sons, late confidential clerk for Wells, Stone X Co.,, who was convicted of stealing S463, 900 worth of railroad bonds from his employers, has been sentenced to five years in state prison.
 FIRE broke out at the Agnes cabinet assisted by fierce wind, spread furi- ously, and within an hour eight or ten other factories were burning. Alto gether twenty buildings were gutted and many others were damaged by fire |, and water. The estimated damage is G2OO, ,OOO.
 A BIRMINGHAM, Ala, special of the 21st said the fire in the Mary Lee mine was still burning in spite of all efforts to extinguiSh it. Of the fifty men who were overcome by the heat and dragged out four were dead and two expected to die.
 EXTENSIVE floods have prevailed the last four days ia southeastern New Mexico and western Texas. The Hume of the Pecos Valley Irrigation X I'm provement Co.'S canal and the Texas Pacific railroad bridge were carried away by the flood in Block river. JACOB JONES was fatally hurt and his son Robert instantly killed near Wal bridge, Ky, by the explosion of a saw mill boiler. The building was com pletely wrecked.
 MoLAcH, 2:17, by Strange, died at Rush Park, la, on the 2lst He was expected to go in 2:1O this season, and was valued at S2O,OOO He was the property of Chicago parties.
 Ar Warrier, Ala, a house occupied by negro miners was dynamited and six men were injured.
 NEWS has been received of a double tragedy in Crawford county, Ga. Wart Dent and o. P. Wright had diff ficulty in Dents store. Wright cut Dent across the abdomen. Friends in- terfered, and Wright went across the street and was followed by Dent, who, with entrails protruding, plunged a pitchfork into Wright's breast and broke the fork to pieces over his head. Both men will die.
 WHILE cleaning out a street cistern recently at Springfield, H., George Williams, aged 35, married. was suffo- cated by sewer gas and died almost in stantly. Reuben King was overcome and died a few hours later.
 J. NJ. TOWNSEND, president of the Anti-Lynching league, has written a letter to Miss Frances Willard asking her to retract or defend statements she is alleged to have made regarding the negro while in England, that she thought lynching sometimes justi' fable.
 CLEARING house returns for the week ended June 22 showed an average de- crease as compared with the core spending week of last year of 1S.0; in New York the decrease was 24.5; out side, 9.1.
 SAN ANTONIO, Tex, was chosen as the meeting place of the next National Travellers Protective association.
 Col. ScoTT NEwMANs promising colt Greenboy, died at Lexington, Ky, or the 2lst. Greenboy was yearling by Greenlander, out of Mary Ann, and was one of the most promising colts ir the state. Mir. Newman valued him al S1O,OOO.
 IN a match race for 5000 side be tween Saladin and Mascot the forme, paced the first heat in 2:0S16, the fast est mile ever made in race at Bel mont park, Philadelphia.
 TIE Indiana miners in state conven tion have declared the strike off.