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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
PRENDERGAST HANGED.
The Assassin of Mayor Harrison Dies Upon
 the Scaffold.

The Assassin of Mayor Harrison Dies Upon
 the Scaffold.
 CHICAGO, July 14.-Within the gloomy walls of the Cook county jail Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Carter II. Harrison, of this city, was hanged at 11:4s o'clock yesterday morning. His neck was broken by the fall and he was pronounced dead just nine minutes after the drop fell. It was expected that he would create scene on the scaffold, but only slight nervousness was exhibited while his arms and legs were being pinioned. His carefully prepared speech was not delivered, he being dissuaded by Sher- if Gilbert not to attempt to do so. He refused until late last evening to re- ceive spiritual consolation, but when night fall came on he asked that Father Muldoon be admitted, and when the priest retired he at once went to sleep and rested well all night.
 As the hour for the hanging drew nearer, Prendergast showed some signs of slightly increasing nervousness. But on the whole he was remarkably calm and well collected. Throughout the jail the officers and other attaches remarked about his behavior, for it was the general opinion that he would weaken badly good while before the hanging.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
AN OPEN SWITCH.
An Indiana Passenger Train Ditched and
 Fireman and Engineer Killed.

An Indiana Passenger Train Ditched and
 Fireman and Engineer Killed.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 14.-Train No. 2, on the St. Louis division of the Big Four road was running 45 miles an hour when at Fontania, it struck an open switch and went down an em- bankment about 8 feet high. En- gineer Charles Mohrman and Fireman Charles Fleick were buried under the wreck, ground to pieces The engine, baggage car, express car and day coach were piled in the ditch broken mass.
 The wreck is undoubtedly the work of a lawless mob of miners that pos sessed Fontana all yesterday and stopped and sidetracked five Big Four freight trains to show their sympathy for the railroad strikers. The trouble was so threatening that Sheriff Stout, of Vigo county, and several deputies went to Fontana yesterday afternoon. No passengers were seriously injured
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph end Mah.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PH1I.LIP CROSBY, grand commander of the Scottish Rite of the southern juris- diction, died suddenly at Washington on the 9th.
 THE Japanese government has char tered sixteen steamers with the inten- tion of landing 10000 troops in Corea. Strong achievements will also be held in readiness in Japan. War is regarded as inevitable and the Japanese gov ernment has forbidden the native press to make mention of events happening in Corea.
 r. H. SANFORD, we'll known as the Chicago manager of the Standard Oil Co. and vice president of the Louis vile Oil trust, committed suicide by shooting himself at the Hotel Met ropole the other morning. He was supposed to be very wealthy, but was worried over the financial situation.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has decided to appoint commission to arbitrate the present strike at the request of a John w. Hayes, general secretary of the K. of l..
 SPEAKER CRISP was renominated for congress on the l2th in the Third dis trict at Hawkinsville, Ga.
 GEORGE GOULD, for the Vigilant, has challenged for the Victoria cup. The rules of the club require eight months notice, but it is expected that the rules will be waived in favor of the American yacht, in view of the circumstances of the challenge.
 THE house managers of the confer ence on the tariff bill have made de- termined fight against the $ of cent differential OF refined sugar, and the senate conference has stood out very stubbornly for the schedule substan- italy as it was agreed to by the sen- ate. Representative McMillin is lead ing the fight on the extra duty on re- fined sugar, and so far has shown no disposition to yield. The advocates of a duty on coal and iron ore were more hopeful on the 18th that the senate provisions will be allowed to stand un- altered
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
HEAVEN OR BOSTON.
Either Would Suit the Young Lady Who
 Studied Geometry.

Either Would Suit the Young Lady Who.
 Studied Geometry.
 A few weeks ago one of the dealers at the Fulton market engaged a young woman to fill the position of bookkeep-. CT. Before long he noticed that when ever customer went up to the desk to pay, she was found to be deeply ab- sorbed in book.
 ''She's reading a novel" thought the dealer. But day after day went by,- and the book appeared to hold her att tention as absorbingly as ever. The. young woman's habit of reading an noyed customers, who did not like to be kept waiting for their change. So- the dealer decided to speak to her about it.
 ''See here, Miss Blank" he began, q don't like to have you read novels dur ing business hours"
 The young woman looked up in as-- tonishment
 Il am not reading novel," she re- piled. Il never do read them"
 "Then what is that book you keep. your eyes on all the time?"
 "Why, it's Euclid"
 And who wrote it?'
 Then the young woman in a streak. of great compassion, explained that she. was stIdying geometry.
 And do you keep that sort of thing up all the time|' her employer de- manded.
 Certainly, sir"
 Miss Blank, don't believe young lady of your tastes will suit me for a. bookkeeper.. Heaven, or Boston, is. your home."- I. Journal.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
STATE OF TRADE.
Bradstreet's Weekly Report-The Business Paralysis That the Strike Has Caused.
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Bradstreet's Weekly Report-The Business
 Paralysis That the Strike Has Caused.
 NEW YORK, July 14.-Bradstreet's state of trade says:
 During the greater portion Of the week gen. eral wholesale business at Chicago, and at centers within the territory tributary, has been practically paralyzed by the railway strike. Larger eastern cities felt the effects of the tie-up in restricted receipts of live stock, meat and produce, while western manufact- urers and merchants suffered loss through in- ability 10 secure supplies and raw materials from the east The railroad strike and boy colt in part repeated the effects of the recent soft coal strike by shutting up a large number of important industries in the central west through want of fuel.
 But perhaps no more favorable time from the point of view of the merchant and manufact- urer than the midsummer of 1894, after the panic season of 1893 could have been chosen to precipitate so widespread railroad tle-up- when business was already so generally and severely restricted. A number of small strikes are reported, but there are 25,000 fewer idle men because of strikes on Friday this week than last.
 Iron, steel. lumber. shoe, wool and cotton manufacturing industries at large eastern and western centers have practically no shipments and commercial travellers throughout the cen- tral western states generally have been com pelled to leave the road.
 The worlds stock of wheat has declined during the past fourteen weeks about 6,00O- 600 bushels more than in the same portion of last year which is significant in view of the insistence in the trade that invisible domestic supplies are most exhausted. Exports of wheat, flour included, both coasts United States and Canada this week equal 2,377, 900 bushels compared with 1850, 900 bushels last week, 4,l34 900 bushels in the second week of July last year. 2.5s3,00O bushels in that week two years ago and 900 bushels three years ago There are 229 business failures in the United States reported this week, against l64 last week and compared with 39s in the second week of July and with l66 in that week two years ago. 34 business failures in the Dominion Of Canada, against 39 last week, 26 in the week year ago and 24 in the week two years ago.
 Aside from influences already referred to the feature of the week at Boston, as at other east ern centers, has been higher prices for grain and provisions, although more ease is now re- ported
 Buffalo reports increased live stock ship ments from Indiana which would have gone to Chicago, and Baltimore a smaller trade from the west and fewer orders than expected from the south. A fair volume of business in shoes is reported from Philadelphia, and practically no noteworthy movement at Pittsburgh.
 All western centers report railway trans portation restored, built will be some time be- fore anything like complete restoration Of con- ditions before the strike can be attained.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
RreckinridDe Is Bitter.

LEXINGTON, Ky, July 14.-At Boards, in Oldham county yesterday, Con- gressman Breckinridge spoke to a large crowd. He ai'raigned Hon. w. c. Owens, his chief opponent, for mak- ing serious charges against him. He challenged Mir. Owens to prove the truth of his assertion s, or stand before the people branded as liar. He ridi- culed the canvass of Maj. Henry Clay Mcdowell, and repeated his assertions that Henry Clay and Richard NJ. John son had disgraced their districts and were returned to coIagress to do much good.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

TIE New York World says that let ters have been received from all parts of the United States for information about the little gray toad that was dug up under seventeen feet of hard pan on the premises of Henry Tender son, in the southern part of Tacoma. Trees which were saplings about the time Columbus landed were growing in the four feet of soil on the top of the hardpan until Henderson felled them three years ago. This fact leads many to the conviction that the toad must have esconced himself in the hardpan formation few dozen centuries before that epoch
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
A FEW matters of importance are still

A FEW matters of importance are still before the house committees. Fore most among them is the Pacific rail road problem, upon which the commit tee is exclusively engaged. Next in importance comes the banking bill which has been given into the charge of a subcommittee. The report in the investigation of the Homestead armoI plate frauds by the committee on naval affairs is yet to be made and the labor committee is working on proposed ar. bitration laws. The immigration com. mittee is expected to recommend some minor changes in those laws.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

REPORTS from United States consuls in Mexico to the state department warn Americans against immigration to Mexico with a view to permanent settlement with insufficient means or without informing themselves in re. liable way as to the prospects of earn ing Hvings. Many Americans have been induced by alluring statements as to the cheapness of coffee raising, etc, to emigrate to Mexico within the past year and some have lost their all by doing so. There are good oppor- tunities in Mexico for enterprise, fru- gality and thrift if backed by the re- sources necessary to success in new country
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

ONE of the deepest wells in New York city is that just finished for the Manhattan Life Insurance Co.'S build. ing, at No. 64 Broadway. It is an eighteen-inch hole drilled to a depth of 1,O6O feet, of which 1,O3O feet is through rock. It produced after three days continuous pumping seventy gallons of water per minute, sufficient to supply the immense building with all the water that was needed. It was one of the most difficult wells to drill that has ever been undertaken in New York, on account of the character ot fhe rock
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

JOSEPH PULITZER, proprietor of the New York World, has presented to the city of Paris, France. a bronze group, F feet high, reproducing Bartholdis work portraying the founders of Amer jean independence Washington and Lafayette) which was exhibited in the Salon of 1892. The authorities have accepted the gift and the group will be placed upon a stone pedestal to be erected upon the Place des Etats Unis.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

THE steamer Port Philip, Capt. Grey, completed voyage of over 10000 miles when she came into port at Brooklyn a day or two ago. She started from Glasgow on August last and went to Freemantle, West Australia, and Syd. ney, N. S. w., thence up to the Fiji islands, thence to Japan and China ports, loading with spices and tea for this country. While at the wharf in Singapore on May IS sudden tornado struck the town, and the curious part of the circumstance to the nautical mind was that the barometer did not move the slightest trifie, either before or after the squall.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
Another Russian Plot Nipped.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 14.-The police of Kirpitschnaja recently arrested a Polish student who was suspected of being a member of a nihilist society. Upon searching hislodgings an English. made bomb was found and another student and the latter's sister were inn plicated. The brother and sister, 1t appears, had long been sought after by the police. The judicial inquiry which followed is said to have revealed an extensive plot against the life of the czar.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
REFUSED TO AID DEBS.
Building Trades Council of Chicago De
 clines to Aid the A. R. U.

clines to Aid the A. R. U.
 CHICAGO, July 1.-The Building Trades council of Chicago, which had deferred action until the regular meet ing last night, instead of voting with practical unanimity to assist the A. R. U., was actually unanimous in refusing such assistance, this radical change be- ing due solely, as all its members averred, to the slight put upon the com mittee of seven by Debs and Sovereign in attempting to settle the difficulty without them.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
Condition of Missouri Banks,

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July 16.-Sec- retary of State Lesueur has just issued statement showing the condition of the banks of Missouri at the close of business on June ?. The resources are: Incorporated banks, S45, ,665, ,O93 43; pri- vate, $7,19o, ,247.3s; St. Louis, $46, ,2O9,. s33. ss; Kansas City, $2,0s3, ATS. s6; grand total. SlO2. .O4s, ,653,55.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
Instructed for De Armond.

RICH HILL, Mo. July 16.-The conven- tion of Bates county for the election of delegates to the senatorial and con- gressional conventions was held in this city Saturday. Resolutions were adopt ed indorsing the course of Hon. D. A. De Armond, our United States senators and the state platform. The congress sional delegation was instructed to vote for De Armoud.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

LOUIS ScHoRF, signing himself "The Son of the Father of Time" is the latest aspirant for the mantle of Moth CT Shipton. Recently he handed to Mayer Walbridge, of St. Louis, scroll, written in German, and filled with fantastic drawings in which the end of the world was prophesied July {, 1895.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

ABOUT BIO, 1000, 900 is what the Amer ican Railway union sympathetic strike has cost the city of Chicago, the rail roads of Chicago, the state of Illinois, and the government of the United States. In the first days of the strike Vice President Harahan, of the Illinois Central road, is said to have made the statement that the strike was then costing the railroads running out of Chicago a cool quarter of million a day. Afterwards the strike developed such magnitude that conservative authorities placed the daily cost of the trouble to the roads at double Mir. Ha rahan's estimate for many days.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

TIE Louisville X Nashville road has determined to make war on the Amer jean Railway union, considering it a dangerous organization. An order has accordingly been issued requiring all members in the employ of the road to withdraw from the order. No man known to be member will be permit ted to go out with train without show ing a certificate of withdrawal.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

THE Matin, of Paris, declared that the police of that city had been in formed that an anarchist with several bombs recently left the United States for England, bound for France, to carry out plot hatched in the United States to explode bombs simulta- neously in the Elysee palace, the sen ate chamber, the chamber of deputies and the palace of justice there.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19

THE London Chronicle, commenting on the state of anarchy that reigned in Chicago on the 9th, said the lesson of it all is that modern conditions de- mand some collective control over the gigantic capitalist combination,
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
CURRENT COMMENT.

supplies of fresh meat had been so cut off in Connecticut that the people were subsisting almost entirely on vegeta- bleS and fish.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
Instructed for Burton for Congress.

LAMAR, Mo-, July 16.-The repub- licans of Barton county Saturday elected delegates to the congressional convention at Carthage. The conven- tion instructed for c. c. Burton, of Nevada
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
Treasury Cash Balance.

WASHINGTON, July l6.-The cash bal ance in the treasury at the close of business Saturday was $121, ,2eA SO6, of which $64, ,2O4, ,533 was gold reserve.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
THE PASSING OF PENTECosT.

HENRY GEORGE has, in his time, had
many followers of many stripes. Among
those who have borne the curious spots
and stripes of strange theories and unu'
sual doctrines was the REVEREND HUGH
o. PENTEcosT. The reverend" Is a relic
of the past when PENTEcosT stood In
the pulpit and proclaimed the gospel oil
the Lowly Nazarine.
After fifteen years of ministerial life,
he progressed" beyond the simple Scrip.
lures, and knelt at the shrine of the
Apostle of the Single Tax. Proselytes
have ever been enthusiasts, and HUGH
soon outstripped HENRY in his wild the
cries and unbaked plans. He printed a
sheet called the "Twentieth Century" in
order to propagate his doctrines, and
"look into the future" in cold type.
Soon afterwards he read a history of
the Chicago Anarchists in which one Of
the Long-haired Unwashed wept over
what he called their martyrdom. Pen
TECosT at once caught on to the idea Of
Anarchistic martyrdom, and howled for
the red flag.
His sermons and lectures have pro-
claimed the fallacy of Holy Scripture,
the wrong basis on which government is
founded, the mistake OF, having things as
they are, and the error Of people gener-
ally in not occupying the lurid doctrines
of the Communists.
But PENTECosT has been a bowler for
Tammany. Boss Croker, who always re.
CARDS the laborer as worthy of his hire,
arranged for the Reverend" to be
made assistant district attorney.
When the appointment was made, the
New York journals devoted themselves
to publishing the gentleman's fantastic
record from alpha to omega. These pub
locations were brought under the eye Of
COLONEL FELLOWS, the district attorney,
and the record was shown Boss Croker.
The papers raised such a howl, that PEN
had to be turned down and his
appointment withdrawn.
And the festive e~x.preacher and pres
ent proclaimer of pessimism will not
hold down the chair next to the district
attorney. Tammany is just now posing
as the organization Of respectability and
decency-- and it couldn't stand the "Rev-
PENTECosT.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
THE TAN.

The ways and means committee have
decided to recommend to congress that
all incomes amounting to four thousand
dollars and over be taxed at the rate Of
two per cent. This places the seal Of ad'
ministration approval on the scheme, and
1t is almost certain to be carried out.
The men of plethoric purses will then
bear their part of the burden of gov.
ernmental support. This tax will not
touch the pocket-book of the poor man
His income falls below the measure of its
schedule.
The majority of mankind are poor, and
therefore such a measure is popular.
But it also carries out the ends of jus.
tice.
The object of government is to regulate
society and TO protect property. The
first object is carried out in the protec-
ton of mans person from physical injury,
and the second in the protection of his
property.
Every man pays his portion for the
protection of his person. If he possesses
no property he rightly pays nothing for
the protection of property. Money has
a property value and is a proper sub
ject for taxation.
Property may be defined as a surplus
over the actual requirements of existence.
Incomes above q certain figure, deter
mined by the cost of subsistence, become
property. They go beyond the actual
requirements for the sustainment Of
physical man, and become a proper sub,
ject for taxation.
The tax on incomes is q fair method
Of raising revenue BIT the question
arises, where should the limit be
placed ?" If incomes are taxed at all,
ought moi all incomes that are above the
actual amount required for existence TO
be taxed - And who shall determine the
figure at which the actual requirement,
end and the surplus begins?
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
We STORY OF YE DOGGE.

Once in ye very Olden TYNE a Merchant
sayd too an Eddytor. Il doan't thynke adver-
tizing payes."
Let me show yov.' said ye Eddytor. ~
will pvt l lyme in my papyr and not charge
yov q pennie."
"All right" replyed ye Merchant, land we
will see"
So ye Eddytor pvtte vs. line in his papyr:
WANTED A DOGGE. JOHN JONES, 25;
w Old Street.
Now vt happened that 400 Peple cache
brovghte a Dogge on ye next daye thereafter,
80 that Mister Jones (Which was we Merchantts
Iayme) was overrvnne with Dogges.
"Synce there are so manye Dogges," said he,
II thynke l might make some byiness and will
give you a pcnnie for cache DOgge."
Ye people tOOke ye pennie each for his Dogge
because there were SO manye DOgges, and
Mister Jones SKINNED we 400 DOgges and made
bootes and gloves from we 400 hydcs and thvs
mayd
A Big FORTUNE
and thereafter added to Vt by advertiDngi in we
EddytOr's papyr.-American Grocer.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
DURHAM, n. &.
THE o FOR 1884

Will be conducted with a
large majority of pen and a
small sprinkling of scissors.
Will fight fair, and be
honest with friends and foes.
Will continue to print the
news, as news goes.
Will be a paper for the
home and the freside, as
we'll as for the office and the
factory.
Will be independent, bear
ing the imprimatur of no
party and wearing the
shackles of no man.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
LETTERS.
A List of Letters Waiting Owners In the
Durham P~ostofice.


List of unclaimed letters remaining il
the Durham postofice, advertised Decem
Der 80, 1898:
A-Alston, Bette.
B-Brown, Jas; Bean, Ed Barr, S. R.
Bailey, Miss Louisa.
C-Carroll, Beny; Cain, Islenna
Clark, S. NJ; Chisenhall. James t; Cop
ley, J. H.; Carrigan, N. A; Cole, W. P.
D-Davis, S. L; Davis, Robt.; Davis
W. W.; Dixon, Mrs. Della.
ELLIS, Matilda.
F-Ferrall, J. S.
G-Gettings, J. c.; Godwier, H. A.
H-Hopkins, Dea; Hopkins, Arch
Hinnen, r A; Hutchins, W. S; Hollo'
way, Geo; Holder, Arlendo.
J-Jeffries, Miss Julia.
L-Laue, Thomas E; Lawrence, VII
liam.
Psychologists, Ann; Pratt, Susan
Pain, Learner.
R-Rawlet, Stephen Riley, Geo; Rol-
Inns, Mrs. Laura.
S-Snipes, B Shields, W. S; Sorrell
Nena; Strayhorn, J. E; Smith, E. W.
T-Turner, Ann Thomas, Lizzie.
W-Waler, Ned; White, NJ A Walker,
Kate; White, Mrs. Charlie.
w. A. ALBRIGHT, p. NJ.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-04
Truant

When slumber's robes around me | would
draw,
(For Night has sent nelled the starry sky ,
The POI tails of my thought-land open wide
And through them reckless thoughtlings
swiftly fly.
With tireless pinion through the darkling night
They wing their flight from glittering star
to star;
Through all the boundless realms of space they
fly,
Chasing the n~ight-queen in her crescent car.
Through all the darkness with unwearied wing
They fly the universe in strange unrest.
But day, with garish sunbeams, scarces them
home.
Within the eyr:e of the brain they rest.
The NIGHT-HAwK.