The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-16

DUN's review of trade for the week ended August 10 said that the advance | ip corn disclosed belief that the in. jury to this crop had been great. Pork products were little stronger. The l business in boots and shoes was healthy. | The sales of wool would have been | large 1T there had been sufficient stocks available.
 WHAT is supposed to have been an attempt to blow up Packingtown at Chicago occurred on the night of the 9th. The explosion took place in a wagon filled with empty boxes. The report was like that of a cannon, but | the only damage to property was the destruction of the wagon and boxes, which were reduced to kindling wood.
 A DEKALB, Tex, special says about 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th crowd of boys and men met in a small prairie miles south of town and were playing baseball. A shower came up during the game and they all ran to n large oak. Lightning struck the lECc anu StNCh NtIC iu' About dozen others were hurt and it is thought some of them will die.
 IN duel with pistols at the City of Mexico Senor Jose Vrestagui, chief of the Mexican stamp department, was killed by Francisco Romero, well known congressman. The duel was the result of quarrel over a woman. D,y Co z CfAl1 In Na atxy York city, upon which eight men were at work, two were killed and others hurt internally.
 CHAIRMAN HATCH. of the house com mittee on agriculture, has reported favorably on the bill to prevent the adulteration and misbranding of foods and drugs The accompanying report states that the adulteration of foods has reached alarming extents. 1t urges that the bill overcomes the evil without creating an army of food and drug experts.
 Ar an early hour on the 9th over one-third of Dawson, Minn., was burned, and the hardest kind of work alone saved the rest of the town. The loss is about S35, 900.
 THREE incendiary fires were started at Anol<a, Minn., recently. Aid was called from Minneapolis and special train was sent with hose trucks and tiremen.
 TIE report of the Indian office on the Kickapoo lands has been completed and all that remains for the interior department to do in the premises is for the secretary to approve the report be- fore the lands are opened to settlement on the day fixed by the president, giv- ing at least thirty days notice. It is believed generally by interior depart ment officials that the formal prelimi- naries will be completed in season to permit the opening of the lands in about six weeks.
 THROUGH the efforts of the district commissioners and leading citizens eighty commonwealers, comprising the Calvin and Thomas divisions of Frye's army, left over the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for their homes in Cincinnati and Los Angeles.
 Ar La Salle, H., in attempting to arrest a Polish miner named Joseph Schurman, he was fatally shot and two deputy sheriffs were wounded with saber thrusts. Miners hearing the noise rushed to the scene and an at tempt was made to mob the deputies. The militia were called out and the mob was finally dispersed. A state of intense excitement prevailed and it was feared there would be more blood shed.
 TIE grand lodge of the American Protestant association, comprising rep resentatives from all lodges through out the United States, assembled in annual convention on the sth at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The work was mostly of a secret character. The convention was to be in session three days