The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-01-04

VERY bad news comes from Rio de Janeiro. It is is announced that the unfortunate city which has for months past been suffering from the ravages of war is now a victim to yellow fever in the worst form.
 IN Southampton, England, while a cylinder was being sunk at the wharf to be used by the American line of steamships it exploded and caused the death of several workmen.
 PUGILIsT MITCHELL was arrested at Jacksonville, Fla, to prevent his fight ing. He was committed for trial and at once applied for writ of habeas corpus.
 HLLsBoRo, Tex, has met with seri. ous calamity by fire. It started in Rosenbaum's dry goods store. The loss was S275, 0O0
 THE jury in the Anna Wagner poison- ing case in Indianapolis Ind, has re- turned verdict of not guilty.
 EMPLoYEs of the Electric Street Rail- way Co, in Peoria, H., have been noti- fled that they will be expected to work fifteen hours instead of twelve, without increase of pay.
 CHRIS EVANS, the noted bandit part ner of Sontag, has escaped from jail at Fresno, Cal.
 OFFICIALS of the Northern Pacific are charged with wrecking the road.
 ANDREW COATES, commander of the state sailors and soldiers home at Monte Vista, Col, is very sick man, with little hope of recovery Mai. Coates gained an enviable record in the war He volunteered from New York state, and for years after hostilities ceased was prominent in the councils of Tammany.
 AT Pine Hill, Ky, in a general fight four men were wounded. Ben Pike re- ceived 100 bird shot in his breast and arms and pistol ball through the upper portion of his left leg. Isaac Misal was shot through the right breast, the ball passing out at the hip killing him.
 DR. J. w. READ committed suicide at Atlanta, Ga., by shooting himself in the head with shotgun.
 A MOTION has been made in the chancery court to sell the Memphis Appeal Avalanche by the trustees, Messrs A. D. Gwynn and R. J. Nor gan.
 burned to death in LaGrange. Ga. She fell asleep before the fire and the flames caught her dress.
 THE Macon Ga Evening News went into the hands of a receiver recently. Mir. II. ?. Moore was appointed tenn porary receiver Liabilities estimated at 5000 and assets at SIP, 000.
 THE American Association of Breed CTS of Jacks and Jcnnets met at the Maxwell house, Nashville, Tenn. Presi- dent Leonard, of Missouri, was re.elect- ed president and J. E. Fulton secretary.
 THE annual meeting of the Colorado State Forestry association was held at Denver, Col, lately. A resolution was passed calling for the passage of the McRae bill before congress for the preservation of forests
 LAwRENCEvILLE, H., has been prac- tically wiped out by fire Among the burned buildings were Lave x Boyd's clothing house, T. C. Watts grocery, T. Roberts general store and Buchan- ans general stores.
 SUPERINTENDENT GADsDEN, of the money order service, will sign orders early in January making 1I5 fourth class post offices money order offices, and extending postal note facilities to fifteen offices in various parts of the country
 THE thirty-horse power boiler in the saw mill of Macdonald X Waldice, near Peru, Ind, exploded, wrecking the building and instantly killing George Macdonald, brother, and Bid Mac Donald, son of the proprietor.