The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-24

HE rOdu IrOu oOuOrd, NdI., up CU Strawberry station, a distance of 32 miles, was lined with dead sheep on the | 17th, through snow and wind storm that prevailed in that section. At one place 4,000 sheep were found frozen to death in one heap where they had tried | to find shelter among the trees. The snow was 9 feet deep on top of them. A LARGE party is organizing at San | Salvador and in Guatemala and Hon. duras to agitate in favor of annexation to Mexico. Another party in Hon. duras and Nicaragua prefers British protectorate. Many families are emi- grating.
 TIE Presbyterian general assembly's biennial session began at Saratoga, N. | Y., on the 17th.
 A DESPERATE fight has taken place between the police and a mob of an- archists who were parading the streets of Roubax, France, shouting, "Vive rInternationale" and "A Bas la | France"
 Two important projects for the in land ship canals have been favorably acted upon by the house committee on railways and canals. Appropriations were voted for surveys for canal to connect the Hudson river and the great lakes and for one between the Ohio river and Lake Erie.
 TIE storm which swept over Lake Michigan on the 18th was the most dis astrous one for years. Eight vessels were driven ashore within the city linn its of Chicago and ten men of their crews are known to be drowned and the boats and cargoes utterly lost The shore for distance of forty miles was strewn with wreclks.
 THE Order of Tonti has assigned to Francis Schunkbrown and the Land Title and Trust of Philadelphia. The assets are about Sl,25O,OOO. The funds of the order are held in Philadelphia. | CLEARING house returns for the week ended May Is showed an average de- crease as compared with the corre- spending week of last year of 27.6; in New York the decrease was 33.7; out side, 10.6.
 IN Cleveland, O., the miners held a final consultation on the 18th, at which it was decided to continue the fight until the operators agree to re- store the old scales.
 DUN's review of trade for the week ended the 18th said that obstacles to improvement of business do not lessen, yet the recuperative ability of the coun- try is surprisingly great under the cir cumstances and the volume of business transacted is large.
 | THE main building of the Hillsboro, O., Female college burned recently. Loss, S40,0OO; insurance, Sl0,O0O.
 TIE failures for the week ended May IS were 22O in the United States, against 247 last year, and 24 in Canada, against | l4 last year.
 THE limit set by the miners union in the Ceur d'Alene Qda.) region for all non-union men to join the union or quit work expired on the 18th. Affairs there have assumed an ugly look. Gov. Mcconnell has been advised that se- rious trouble is imminent and that the militia is powerless.
 | REPRESENTATIVE DUNPHY, of New York, had hearing before the house rules committee on his resolution to in vestigate naval armor plate frauds. He said the frauds for which the gov ernment had already assessed the Carnegie company Sl4O,O0 occurred be- tween November, 1892, and September, 1893. The same class of evidence, he said, showed that similar irregularities occurred prior to September, 1893. TIE celebration at Breeze Cottage, L. l., by the Society of Colonial Danes of the 2O1st anniversary of the estab- lishment of the first post office in Amer ica, was a notable affair, including many prominent people.