The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-29

address experimenting the national guards for their conduct on the 18th and 1Tth at Denver and Cripple Creek.
 AFTER hearing which lasted nearly eight hours Judge Chetlain decided that he had the power to prolong the date of the execution of Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, and he therefore extended the time two weeks, and ordered trial to begin on the 24th to determine the sanity of the murderer.
 THE fifth international penitentiary congress is to meet at Paris in June, 1895, and the United States govern ment has been invited to participate by sending delegates thereto and by causing reports statistics and docu- ments to be contributed for embodi- ment in it's proceedings. The attorney general has referred the matter to con gress.
 THE Chinese customs authorities have finally granted permit allowing the tank steamer which arrived in Shang- hai several days ago loaded with petro- leum to discharge her cargo.
 TEN families on Lord Dillon's Lough Glynn estate near Castle Reagh, Ire land, have been evicted.
 THE stonecutters of the city of Mil waukee are on a strike for the enforce ment of the eight-hour rule and an ad- vance in pay. They now receive &, 20. They demand s4 day.
 TIE students of Buda Pesth, ad- mirers of Louis Kossuth, the dead Hun garian patriot, broke the windows of houses not having marks of mourn ing, and entered the theaters and hoisted mourning banners over the boxes The police and military were necessary to bring about order.
 FAILURES for the week ended the 23d were PA in the United States, against PIT last year; in Canada, 50, against 26 last year.
 DUS's Review of the 23d said that business grows larger, but not more profitable. Prices of commodities do not rise, but on the whole are lower. The demand for cotton goods was fair ly large. Wheat cotton and pork had declined little Corn was q cent stronger. Cattle were low.
 TIE dynamite works of the Acme Powder Co. at Black Run, Pa, were destroyed by an explosion. Five per sons were killed and one badly injured.
 ArTY-GEN OLNEY submitted to the secretary of the interior an opinion on the Cherokee bond contract He sus- tains the latter's decision that the Cherokee nation has right to assign the s6, 6io, ,00o bonds to E. T. Wilson & Co., of New York city. The contract accordingly will be recognized by the department.
 BUFF" HIeGINs, the murderer oi Peter McCooey, was hanged at Chicago on the 2Sd
 THE board of audit gave out officially OF the 23d that John Y. McKane's ac- count with Gravesend, N. r., was so muddled that he apparently owed the town s7OO, ,Coo.
 A STRIKE was inaugurated on the lines of the Robinson Electric Street railway at Toledo, O., on the 22d, 1ls motor men and conductors refusing to take out their cars, pending the rein statement of four men alleged to have been discharged for uuionism. The wires were cut in many places.
 BILL GALLAGHER a cowboy, was shot and killed at Meeteeze, Wyo., by Johr Witham, another cowboy. whom he at tempted to shoot for interceding for a woman whom Gallagher was beating
 JUSTICE O'BRIEN, of the supreme court, has denied the application for 2 writ of habeas corpus in the case O John Y. McKane. In his remarks Jus tice O'Brien scored McKane's lawyers for their repeated appeals to the same judge.