The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-05

IN Chicago 500 non-union cigar-mak. CTS, employed by F. Vallens & O., are out on a strike and the trouble is likely to spread to other cigar manufacturers. The strike was precipitated by the dis charge of one man.
 THE coal miners of Lehigh, Coalgate and Krebs, I. T., threatened to strike in resistance of the notice given them by the management of reduction of five cents per ton to take effect April 1. The mine owners have to pay the h. dians 125 pounds in royalty for every ton mined, therefore the miners are compelled to mine 2, 2,125 pounds for ton. The miners say tLey will strike if the cut is enforced. Both sides were holding conferences, but refused to make public what action they had taken.
 WORTHY and humane men are as- sembling in Washington to advocate the passage of the Cummings bill for the protection of animals in transit at sea.
 DUN's Review of Trade for the week ended the 30th stated that there was a more active tone in business, due to a belief that no disturbance of the cur rency would be permitted. Wheat was higher through reports that great in- jury to the crop had been sustained. Corn had advanced but little. In pork the rise was sharp
 FAILURES for the week ended March 80 were 2SS in the United States, against 166 last year; in Canada, 80, against 2s last year.
 CLEARING house returns for the week ended March 30 showed an average de- crease as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 29.2; in New York the decrease was 34S; outside, 21.9
 THE steamship Alameda from Samoa brings news of serious outbreak in those islands which would seem to in- dicate that the United States and Great Britain will be called upon to take prompt action.
 FIRE destroyed over fifty buildings, embracing almost the entire business portion of Barry, in Pike county, H., about thirty miles from Quincy. The loss is estimated at $2O0,0OO. The fire started in the opera house after ball and swept away the business district The city building, engine house and jail, every meat shop in the place and the largest clothing house in Pike county were among the1buildings de- stroyed.
 THE watchman's shanty at the junc- ton near Denison, Tex, of the Mis- souri, Kansas x Texas and Houston & Texas Central has burned. After the flames were extinguished the body of an unknown man, charred and with the skull crushed, was found in the ruins. He had been murdered and the cabin fired to conceal the crime.
 SECRETARY MORTON, of the agricult- ural department, in reply to inquiries about the rainfall experiments and controlling precipitation by means of explosions, has sent out a circular stat ing that the results of the lombard ment of the skies for water did not i'm spire the hope that any method of con- cussion could be made commercially successful in precipitating moisture from clouds.
 TIE Hecla coal mine, the largest in the northern Colorado coal district, was reported burning fiercely in three or four places. The fire broke out two weeks ago, but was kept from the knowledge of the 15O miners until the night of the 3Oth, when an explosion occurred.
 ONE of the immense standpipes of the Peoria Water Co. broke on the SOth, killing several people and wound ing others. Two houses were wrecked ! and several barns smashed to kindling wood The scene of the accident pre-. sented desolate appearance.