The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

JAMES JEFFREYs, the oldest engineer in point of service on the Chicago & Northwestern road, was instantly killed in a collision near Eau Claire, Wis. Three other employees were fa- tally injured.
 THE telephone exchange at Toledo, O., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 10th.
 REPRESENTATIVE MEYER, of Louisi- ana, has introduced bill for a new post office at New Dreams, at limit of cost of s2, OOO,O ,OOO
 A GREAT scare was caused by infor- nation that the rebel party in Samoa was in the brush about miles from Apia and was about to attack the town. The natives made immediate prepara- tions to resist, while the foreigners ar ranged to board the ships in the har- bor Both British and German war vessels got ready and had armed par ties prepared to land and it is believed that their presence will be effective in preventing bloodshed for the present.
 LATE news from Hawaii stated that a number of prominent royalists had set June l as restoration day. That they expected to be fully armed by that time and, if no help was received from the United States, they intended to make an attack on the provisional government
 Two thousand delegates and visitors arrived at Dallas, Tex, on the 10th to attend the general convention of the Snt,tharn Ra ,fict ahnrnh and at laaSf 10, 900 more strangers were expected.
 LAFAYETTE RICHIE, colored, murder CT of William Stephens in December, 1892, was executed at Gainesboro, Tenn. The condemned man died pro- testing his innocence. Stephens was murdered and robbed of a large sum of money.
 A BOMB was exploded at the residence of Pierre Mason, hat manufacturer, in Paris, France. Nobody was injured but considerable damage was done to windows in the neighborhood.
 Two thousand employees of the Pull man Palace Car Co. quit work on the l1th, the men demanding a restora- tion of 33H per cent cut in wages last year.
 CLEARING house returns for the week ended May II showed an average de- crease as compared with the corre- spending week of last year of 342; in New York the decrease was 42 @; out side, 226
 THREE hundred union carpenters have gone on strike in Newport and Covington, Ky, on account of a reduc- tion in wages
 THE failures for the week ended May Il were 206 in the United States, against 257 last year, and 47 in Canada, against 23 last year.
 BRADsTBEET's review of the state of trade for the week ended May II said that warm weather had stimulated farm work as well as sales in season. able lines of merchandise, but the tariff uncertainty makes merchants buy for present needs only. The miners strike had caused many industrial shutdowns throughout the country.
 A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says: Arrests have been made on a large scale as the result of the discovery of an organization with widespread con- nections called "The Friends of Politic- al Liberty" Hundreds of persons are supposed to have been arrested and among them are number of promi. nent officials.
 JUDGE HARALsoN, of Louisiana, pres ident of the Southern Baptist conven- tion, called that body to order at Dallas, Tex, on the 11th, in the immense tabernacle fitted up for the purpose and holding s, 900 persons
 A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says commerce is paralyzed from the low price of products and the high gold Y,raniun1