The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS,

AT washington all the government departments were closed and Decora- ton day was observed by an elaborate programme. Several congressman took part in the exercises as orators in the different cemeteries, and President Cleveland and members of his cabinet were among the audience. The day was also observed in other cities with very elaborate ceremonies.
 TIE town of Viggianello, Italy, was shaken by an earthquake on the 3Oth. A number of houses were destroyed, but so far as has been learned nobody was killed. The people are camped in the fields.
 Ar Vancouver, B. C., the Frazer river has become raging torrent. Whole villages on the banks of the stream fwere floating and eight lives were known to have been lost At Morris steamers sail right across where farms used to be. The damage done to the Canadian Pacific railroad is very seri- ous. Every farmer and rancher at Hatztic prairie is ruined. The Salmon Arm bridge has collapsed.
 THE Denver Coxey army, numbering 1000 men, has decided to take ad- vantage of the flood to float down the Platte river to the Missouri and then on to St. Louis.
 FIVE people have lost their lives by drowning at Smiths Falls, Ont. Alex Lindsay took Mrs. Ingram, a neighbours wife, and his brothers three children, aged respectively 8, l2 and l3, out for a sail. When a little distance out the boat capsized and all were drowned. The bodies were recovered soon after.
 TIE indictment against Col. Fred C. Ainsworth for manslaughter, growing out of the collapse of Ford's theater at Washington, in which more than a score of government clerks were killed, has been ordered quashed.
 AN explosion followed by a fire oc- cured in a distillery on the ground floor of the double tenement house 449 Suffolk street, New York, and before the firemen could complete the work of rescue Lizzie Yagea, aged years, was suffocated. Twenty families tenanted the building. The explosion and fire cut them off from the stairway. Eff teen children were thrown from upper windows into blankets below. Some of the older ones escaped by creeping on narrow ledge of the second story to the window of the next house. Four adults were injured.
 TIE communists of Paris have de- cided to repeat the demonstration of the 27th in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise every week until they shall no longer be molested by the police.
 Ar Boscobel, Wis. an Iowa contin- gent of Coxeyites, after waiting all day for transportation, took forcible possession of the passenger train go- ing east and could not be ejected
 THE president has approved the bill for the sale of the lands of the Otoes and Missouris in Kansas and Nebraska.
 THE effects of the coal strike are se- riously felt at Dubuque, Ia.. among the manufacturing institutions and rail roads. One factory burns corn. Others are using wood and one or two have closed down. The Illinois Central railroad, to husband its supply, has taken off one train on each division. Dealers have very little coal on hand.
 A TREASURY statement shows that the expenditures of the government for the eleven months of the current fiscal year have exceeded the receipts by $7?, ,0OO, 900. The figures indicate de- ficit for the twelve months of about $7s, ,OOO, ,OOO.
 ON the 3lst many cities in Colorado were reported to be flooded by the in- cessant rain, causing the rivers to over flow their banks. Several fatalities were reported from Pueblo. Much damage to property occurred and bridges and tracks of railroads were washed away. The storm extended all over eastern Colorado.
 CARL BROWN sent letter to Justice Field, of the United States supreme bench, asking his release from the dis trict jail, stating that he was being de- tained unlawfully there. Justice Field turned the papers over to the clerk . without comment.