The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1894-12-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


THE Chickasaw legislature met in
special session at Tishomingo, l. T.,
International capital, on the 10th. The
object of the call was to elect two dele
gates to go to Washington and lobby
congress to defeat any proposed legis-
lation affecting the five civilized tribes
in the present session of congress.
EX-Gov. TMLMAN, of South Carolina,
was elected United States senator by
the legislature on the 18th, receiving
l3l out of 155 votes cast.
| r. L. VAN HoRN has served notice
on Representative Tarsney, of the
Fifth Missouri district, of his intention
to contest the latter's seat in congress.
THE president on the 18th issued an
order extending the civil service laws
to the internal revenue service. The
new order goes into effect at once and
will embrace storekeepers, gaugers and
clerks in the offices of collectors.
THE annual convention of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform league be-
gan at Chicago on the 18th. The
gathering marks the opening of Wig
orous campaign throughout the land.
THE municipal election in Boston on
the nth resulted in the election of the
entire republican ticket.
SIR JOHN THOMPSON, the Canadian
prime minister, was sworn in as mem
Der of the privy council at Windsor,
Eng, on the 18th and soon after adj
journing became suddenly i'll and eX-
PRED.
SENATOR MITCHELL, of Oregon, has in
troduced bill in the senate providing
for the adjustment of the death penal
ty in the army and navy and in places
where the United States has exclusive
jurisdiction, except in cases of murder,
assault, desertion to the enemy in time
of war and aggravated mutiny.
THE president and Mrs. Cleveland
have abandoned their country home at
Woodley for the season und moved into
the white house.
A CABLE dispatch from Yokohama
says when the japanese troops entered
Port Arthur they massacred practical
ly the entire population in cold blood.
There was an uurestrained reign of
murder which continued for three
days. All pretenses that the circum-
stances justified the atrocities are
false. The civilized world will be hor-
rified by the details.
THE pope was suffering from catarrh-
al symptoms on the 18th and was for
hidden by his physicians to leave his
private apartments.
The official vote for governor of
Tennessee was made public on the 18th
as follows: Evans, rep, l05, l04; Tur-
ney, dem, 1O4, $50; Mills, pop, 23,092.
Evans plurality is, therefore, 74s.
THE secretary of the treasury has APP
proved the regulations prescribed by
the commissioner of internal revenue
for the enforcement of the collection
of the income tax. Every person in
the United States who has an annual
income of more than $4,000 must make
a full return of the same, verified by
oath, to the collector Of internal reve-
nue. of the collection district in which
he resides.
THE total number of votes cast for
the Office of governor of New York
was 1,245, 671, of which Levi P. Morton,
rep, received 673,Sls; David b, Hill,
dem, 515,7l I. L. Baldwin, pro-, 49,
sci; Charles b. Matthews, pop, II, 049;
Charles II Mitchell, Soc, 15,SGs; Ev-
erett p, Wheeler, third party dem, 27,-
2O2; scattering, G,499.
A SPECIAL Shanghai dispatch said
that the discovery was reported of
documents signed by the viceroy of
Nankin offering rewards for Japanese
heads.
CARL SCHURz at Chicago was re-
elected president of the national Civil
Service Reform league; George Nc,
Anany, of New York, secretary, and
Silas w. Burt, of New York, treasurer.
The Universal Peace union has for
warded to the emperor of Germany
petition urging his consideration of the
proposition that Germany restore to
France the portion of Alsace-Lorraine
whose occupants speak French. The
petition recited that the measure would
result in the permanent reconciliation
of France and Germany.
A LATE dispatch from Tien-Tsin,
China, stated that Prince Kung had
been made virtually dictator and that
Ii Hung Chang had been reinstated
and his position was frmer than ever.
IL spite of reports to the contrary,
there has been no reconciliation be-
tween w. X Vanderbilt, the railroad
king, and his wife.
MISCELLANEOUS.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the conductors,
engineers and firemen of the Southern