The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-01-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

l for congress in the Seventh district to oppose Col. w. c. P. Breckinridge. | Gov. FLOWER, in his message to the i New York legislature, announces that the state is free from debt, and recom- mendS that measures be taken to do away with direct taXatio::. A SPEECH of Senator Morgan, made in 1883, has been dug up which shows | that he at that time favored free trade for coal.
 EDITOR HART, of Fl Paso, Tex, is asking the government to use its good offices with Mexico to remove the boy colt on his paper.
 IT is said to be probable that the president will withdraw the nomina- tion of Hornblower as associate justice of the supreme court REV. B. F. GAsToN, known as the "Liberian Moses" who was under bond at Atlanta, Ga voluntarily surrendered and went to jail
 NEWS has been received from Rio Grande do Sul to the effect the insur- gents have captured Bage after siege of a month. Advices from Rio Janiero say the bom bardment of the city by the insurgent warships continues HUGH O. PENTECosT, whose appoint meut as assistant district attorney Of New York occasioned considerable comment, has declined the office.
 PRESIDENT HARPER, of Chicago uni versity, announces that John D. RoclSe- feller has given the college S5O,OOO for books and equipment Mir. Rockefeller had already given the college about S3, 800, ,000.
 ORLANDO B. POTTER, fnancicr and ex-congressman, died suddenly in New York. He was taken with fit on the street and died before physi- elan could reach him. MT. Potter was 70 years old and native of Massa- chuSetts.
 SENATOR FAULKNER was married to Miss Whiting at Hampton, Va, on the Sd.
 A RUMOR from Rio de Janeiro says that if the revolution is not ended by an immediate and decisive naval en- gagement it will shortly be terminated by an arrangement between the two parties.
 QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred upon the ameer of A ghanistan the honorary knighthood of the Grand Cross of the Bath.
 SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado, says he is in favor of the admission of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to statehood.
 FREEBoRN has been sworn in as a member of the Kansas board of char ities and the republicans recognized him.
 A DETACHMENT of marines has left | Kiel for the scene of the German trou- ble in the Cameroons. THERE is opposition to the proposed income tax in certain quarters, but it is likely to go through the house as a feature of the tariff bill. The senate may, however, substitute a duty on sugar for the income tax.
 THE pension office has decided, in view of the act of congress of Decem- Der 23, 1S93 it no longer has right to withhold the pension of Judge Long, of Michigan, and has directed he again be placed on the pension rolls.
 SIGNOR COLAJANNI, member of the Italian chamber of deputies, who has just returned from Sicily, says it is not politics but real famine that has in duced the masses to revolt.
 THE venerable Elizabeth H. Peabody, of Jamaica Plains, is dead. She was one of the advanced educators of the coun- | ,,,- |, nd ,voc bnr,, ;p MocSa ob uca+tS ;r, 1894.
 THE first state dinner was given to the cabinet by the president and Mrs. Cleveland at the White house on the 4th.
 REPRESENTATIVE DE ARMoND, of Missouri, introuduced a bill proposing the removal of the capital to the Mlssis' sippi valley.
 HARRY KENNEDY, the noted song writer and ventriloquist, is dead.
 UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM LINDSAY was re-nominated by accla nation by the joint democratic legisla tive caucus at Frankfort, Ky.
 A STARTLING report has reached Lon don that French force in Senegambis
 had killed Capt Landy and twenty-si,
 soldiers of a British West India regi
 ment.
 MR. GLADSTONE will leave Londo1 for Biarritz on January 20, where h'
 will be the guest of his friend, Mir Armistead.
 NEW YORK society is breathlessly awaiting the advent of new socia star in the person of Mir. Sam Hall, ; Georgia swell.
 MISCELLANEOUS. GREAT distress prevails in the dis trict of La Puglia, southern Italy, ant disturbances are feared. THE railroad commissioners of Mis- souri have filed complaints agains various express companies chargin. violation of the order to reduce charges JUST before daybreak fire, starting il the business district at Hot Springs Ark, destroyed half block of stores with loss of S75, 900. For time full,
 5000, 900 worth of property was threat
 ened.
 l AN important meeting of the direct 7 orS of the New York & New Englan, : Railyvov Cc Xyas bald at tho oA;,as z,