The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-08


 ended the 2d said that the season was too far advanced for great activity, but the volume of production was well maintained. Breadstuffs were little higher, but pork and hogs were lower. Cotton was depressed. Waiting for re- tail trade depressed the textile manu- lecturers and concessions in price had been made to effect large contracts AT Chillicothe, O., on the 2d, John S. Johnson, the world renowned bicyclist, paced by quad, rode third mile in 32 2-5 seconds, and half mile in 5i 2-5 seconds, over a kite shaped track breaking the worlds record for that distance made by Sanger at Waltham, Mass, recently.
 TIE sheriff of Sevier county, Tenn, has arrested fourteen members of the whitecap band who took part in the battle in which three men were killed recently. The Browns confessed and gave the names of the others who have now sworn to kill their betrayers, but are kept in separate cells.
 A PORTLAND, Ore, dispatch stated that the ship Fanny Dulard had ar rived at Port Blakely, bringing news that the Ivanhoe, which had been over due a month, sank with all on board September 2S. The Ivanhoe was the ship on which eX-United States Minis ter to Bolivia Grant was passenger.
 CHARLES SWEENEY, the eX-baseball player, who years ago made a phenom- enal record as pitcher in the Providence club, and who afterward played as a star in the St. Louis and Cincinnati teams, has been convicted of man. slaughter at San Francisco and will be sentenced to term in the state peni. tentiary. Several months ago Sweeney shot and killed "Con" McManus during drunken row in saloon.
 TIE American board of commission CTS for foreign missions in Boston has received cable message from Turkey, reporting a great fire at Hadiin, by which 2,000 people were rendered home less. Hadjin is town situated in the Taurus mountains north of the plain of Galicia.
 A SENSATION has been created by the announcement of the board of health of Chattanooga, Tenn, that several cases of child murder had grown out of the insurance of the lives of infants, which was being pushed among colored peo- pie by certain insurance companies. The work of these companies was de- nounccd and the board urged 1egisla- ton to prevent such traffic.
 A PASSENGER train of the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railroad was held up on the lst near New AL bany, Miss, by three masked men and the express car was footed.
 ANOTHER interior department clerk died on the 30th of smallpox and two more were stricken with the disease.
 A ROCK drilling contest for the cham pionship of the world was in progress at Leadvilie, Col, on the 31st Seven teams were entered from Leadville, Telluride, Cripple Creek and Red Cliff. A Leadville team had beaten the worlds record of 30 5-16 inches by drilling 3lX inches in fifteen minutes.
 AN Australian steamer was wrecked off New Zealand recently and ll2 pas sengers were drowned.
 TIE steamer Tormes struck Crow rock near Milford Haven, Eng sTwen- ty-one men, including the captain and officers, were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved.
 TIE Milwaukee, Wis, Malt and Grain Co.'S elevator was destroyed by fire on the 3lst. Loss about S40,000.
 FIRE in the shops of the Newbury- port, Mass, car factory destroyed that large wooden structure. The flames communicated with the large five-story wooden shoe factory of Bully X Usher, and that was consumed. Several frame dwellings were also burned. Loss, ESQ., OOO.