The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-27

IN view of the prominence in the United States of Labor problems, the state department has just published statistics, gathered from consular re. ports from Germany, relating to labor insurance, voluntary and compulsory, in that country.
 CHARLES PETERSON shot his wife on the goth at New York, killing her, and then with the same weapon killed him. self, Jealousy for which there appears to have been no ground was the motive. Five young children are left orphans by the tragedy.
 TIE whole New Castle coal mine, near Seattle, Wash, was reported to be on fire, and it was feared the mine would become wreck, involving q loss of $500,O0O. Coal creek was pour ing into the mine, but it will take sew eral weeks to thoroughly flood it, and when the fire is extinguished it will take four or five months to pump it out. About 250 men are made idle.
 CHINESE highbinders have inaugurat- ed reign of terror in the Mongolian HudI dU odh I uCSS bandits, among them many ex-convicts, who have escaped the deportation clause of the exclusion law, are driven to desperation through poverty, and burglaries, robberies, and shooting and sta bbing affairs are daily occurrence. Chinese women of the worst class and small traders are the most frequent vic- tins of high hbinders who are pillaging right and left.
 SENATOR QUAY has introduced bill authorizing the secretary of the treas ury to purchase the land contained in block 29 of Columbia heights, suburb of Washington, as site for residence of the president of the United States. The bill limits the price to s per foot and the total appropriation to Sl ,OO0,- 000 Representative Richardson, of Tennessee, has introduced a similar bill in the house.
 JOHN CROWN was hanged early on the morning of the 18th at Hartford, Conn.,, for the murder of Albert Slsin- ner on October 6, 1893.
 TIE National Guards, the military order of the Sons of Veterans, was dis solved on the 10th at Chicago, after three hours lively discussion in secret session. Representatives were present from a. number of states.
 GEORGE DIXON, champion feather weight pugilist, and Young Griffo have been matched to fight twenty-five rounds before the Seaside Athletic club, Coney island, on January 10, for a purse of S3,000.
 TIE Cologne Gazette has published letter about the massacres in Ar menia. Those Armenians, it states, who submitteds were bound to stakes and their limbs were cut off with saws. In other cases the victims were disem- boweled and their eyes gouged out. Children were thrown into boiling oil and women were tortured and burned to death. The churches were plum dered and burned and about forty priests were massacred.
 TIE long-contested patent suit of the United States against the American Bell Telephone Co. was decided at Bos- company. The suit was bill in equity for the repeal of letters patent issued to Emile Berliner for cont bined tele- phone and telegraph system, assigned to the Bell company, which they never put in use and prevented others from using. The value of the patent was said to be 8, 1000, ,0OO. Bell telephone stock fell several points in consequence of the decision.
 JOHN E. BIELBY, the cashier of the Central national bank of Rome, N. r., confessed that he was a defaulter to the amount of S27,OO0. He speculated in stocks and a downward market caught him.
 Ar Freiburg, Saxony, 150 persons were poisoned by arsenic being put in some bakers rolls. One child had died from the effects.