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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
GREAT NAVAL. BATTLE.
Trial of Strength Between Japanese ana Chinese War Vessels-Seyeral Chinese Ships Reported Sunk.

A Trial of Strength Between Japanese and
 Chinese War yessels--Several Chinese
 Ships Reported Sunk.
 LONDON, Sept. 20.--Dispatches re- ceived here from Shanghai confirm the report of a severe battle fought on the Value river between the fleets of China and Japan. These dispatches also agree i'll saying that the Chinese ships were escorting troops bound for Corea. The battle was fought on the bay at the mouth of the Value river. The Chi nese troops were in the Second army corps, composed entirely of Hua- nese. According to Chinese version, there was no thought of surrender on either side. The ships of both nations, it is admitted, were terribly damaged. The Japanese had the advantage of the weather and so maneuvered that both the Chinese boats and transports had to fight it out.
 The Chen Yuen, these dispatches say, after fighting her guns to the last, was sunk by torpedoes, and smaller Chinese vessel, which was unarmed, was blown up The steel cruiser Chao Yung. it is added, was so damaged that she had to be bcached to escape capture. The Chinese Yang Hei was also driven ashore and has become hopeless wreck. The Chinese claim that three Japanese warships were sunk-their names are not given in these dispatches. The news of the naval battle has created intense excitement.
 Another dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chinese warship sunk was the Chi Yuen, although it is be- lieved that a mistake has been made, and that the important Chinese war ship sunk by torpedoes is the battle ship Chen Yuen, the flagship of the Chinese northern squadron, com manded by Adm. Ting.
 Further dispatches from Shanghai dated yesterday announce that in the naval battle off the Yaule river the entire Northern fleet of China was en- gagged, reinforced by some ships of the Foo Chow squadron. The Chinese are said to have been hampered by want of room to maneuver. The number of Japanese warships is not stated and many of their vessels were stationed off Ping Yang inlet at the mouth of the Ia Tong river. Their number in the Gulf of Corea was probably small.
 The Shanghai advices say that it is significant that two or three Chinese transports which were conveyed by the warships of China have not re- turned and it is rumored that they were all blown up, with the loss of all hands on board. From Chinese garri- sons it is gathered that the loss on both sides in the naval engagement will reach several thousand.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
THE VICTORY coMpLETE.
Ano vaps Literally Wiped Out the CelestIals
 m the Late Battle-The Chinese Lost IT,

Tho Japs Literally Wiped Out the Ce,estIa,.
 m the Late Battle-The Chinese I.ost T .
 900 Mon, A1o'' A''
 LONDON, Sept. 19.-A dispatch re- eeived here from Ping Yang, Corea. dated Monday, says that every hour auus to the crushing character of the ohlnese defeat. It is added that the first estimates were slightly under the actual facts and the total of the Chi. nese losses during the two days battle IS now said to be over r, 900 men killed, wounded and prisoners. The Japanese cavalry IS continuing the pursuit of the ohinese who succeeded in escaping and attachments of troopers continue bringing in squads of captured Chi neSe.
 The Chinese prisoners who were not wounded were paraded yesterday morning in circle of Japanese troops and It was seeu that they numbered l4,3OO. It is probable, however, that thls number will be increased during the next few days by the prisoners who are being constantly brought in by the Japanese cavalry. Many of the Chinese captured were found in the quiet portions of tho city.
 Besides Gen. Too Fonlz Wal, com mander-in-chief of the Manchurian army, who fought desperately to the last and only surrendered when he was badly wounded, the Japanese cap tured four other important command CTS of the Chinese forces, namely: Gen. Tso Pack Woi, Gen. Wei Ink Wei, Gen. Nayu Row Eng and Gen. Sci Kin Lin, practically all the effect i've Chinese staff.
 The Chinese prisoners are to be sent to Japan in patches of 1000 on board Japanese transports at anchor in the Ia Tong river.
 DISGRACE TO II HUNG CHANG.
 LONDON, Sept. 19.-A dispatch from Shanghai says that an imperial cdict has been issued depriving Viceroy Lii Hung Chang of his three-eyed peacock feather, because of his mismanage. ment of the Corean campaign. Tataoati Shang, it is reported, is intriguing against Iii Hung Chang through the emperor's favorite teacher.
 The Pall Mall Gazette's Shanghai correspondent says the Japanese are rapidly advancing upon Monkden. The correspondent also says that it has been reported that Viceroy Lii Hung Chang has been deposed.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
They Favor the Election Of United btatee Senators by Direct Vote of the People.

They Favor the Election of United Btatee
 Senators by Direct Vote of the People.
 COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 20.-The demo- cratic state convention met at 10 o'clock a. m. yesterday, with Hon. Frank Hurd, of Toledo, as temporary chair man. MT. Hurd made an address.
 The platform denounces the last gem eral assembly of Ohio, Gov. McKinley's administration and the American Pro- tective association. It favors liberal pensions, ''currupt practice" law, limiting amount of money to be ex- pended by candidates and jaw pro- hibiting free passes on railroads
 The convention by d vote of 467 to 32S declared in favor of the election of United States senators by the people. This is regarded as being tantamount to an indirect censure of Senator Brice. The movement was engineered by Con- gressman Tom Johnson.
 Milton Turner, of Guernsey, one armed soldier was nominated for sec retary of state. The other nomina- tions are: Judge of the supreme court, James D. Ermiston, of Hamilton; mem Der of the board of public works, Harry E. Keefer, of Tuscarawas; state com missioner of common schools, Dr. J. A. Leech, of Franklin.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
THE KENTUCKY WAR.
The Son of Col. Breckinridge Succeeds
 Stabbing His Man.

Stabbing His Man.
 LEXINGTON, Ky, Sept. 22.-Desha Breckinridge had sensational alterca- tion with James Duane Livingston, formerly of New York city, in the Phoenix hotel yesterday. Livingston was standing at the news and cigar Desha Breckinridge came in and bought package of cigarettes. Livingston spoke to Desha and extended his hand, saying, Tt is all over now; we ought to be friends. Shake hands"
 Breckinridge, with an angry look on his face, replied, "No, you one-horse scoundrel, 1 will not take your hand. You profess to be a mans friend and then stab him in the back"
 Livingston replied to this by saying that he had done nothing of that kind, when Breckinridge called him - liar Then Livingston struck at Desha and knocked his glasses off, follow ing this up with blow on the neck. Desha reached for his hip pocket and instantly flashed in the air long, bright blade of big dirk. Both men were pale as death. Livingston. in a moment of desperation, grabbed at the glittering blade which Breckin- ridge had aimed at his heart. The knife went between the second and third fingers of Livingston's right hand, cutting the third finger to the bone. Livingston grasped his right hand with his left in order to stop the terrible flow of blood that was dyeing the tiling of the lobby. The hotel clerks and several bystanders rushed in and seized Breckinridge, and at the same instant Matt Lane, a strong Breckinridge man, ran up and said he would take hand in helping Desha.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
So Bradstreet Reports It-Greater Activity
 in Many Branches of Trade.
 Nn,sr Xnnu Gor,A -Rrnd d afraatfs

So Bradstreet Reports It-Greater Activity
 in Many Branches of Trade.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Bradstreet's to-day says:
 The condition of general trade this week is an improvement over one week ago, in that favorable features reported then have been maintained The surprisingly good reports Of business south and, with some exceptions, west nre indicated by our special advices from Baltimore Nashville, Chicago, St. Louis, Port land, Ore, and San Francisco. Balti- more jobbers in all leading lines report the volume of merchandise distributed fn excess Of expectation, especially dry goods, in Georgia and Alabama, except in fruit and coal regions. Other southern products being in good supply, orders continue liberal and mercantile collections easy. Nashville, while reporting n0improvement over favorable features made last wees, noCeS the continu- ancc, and the collections are prompt One sale is reported of I0,0O0 tons of southern pig Iron this week.
 Activity reported in almost aIl lines at Chi cago a week ago is continued. merchants being satisfied with the situation. Far western buyers, who used to buy in eastern markets, are purchasing stocks at Chicago Greatest activity is shown in dry goods, clothing milli- nery and shoes. Wool too, is active, one lot of 700,0O0 pounds having been sold to Rhode Island manufacturer St. Louis manufactur- CTS and jobbers of clothing and hats report business heavier than in their preceding ex- periences in like periods. Sales of millinery and dry goods are larger, as well as those of lumber The seasons shipments Of wheat from Portland, Ore, and San Francisco have begun, one vessel having satled this week from the city first named and six from the Golden Gate. Sales in the larger cities on the Pacific coast have increased in all lines. Receipts Of Alaska salmon have been very heavy and ex- ports promise to be cOrrespondingIy large.
 Heavier exports of wheat from New York city, San Francisco and Montreal have further increased the weekly total of wheat (and flour as wheaD exported from both coasts Of the United States and Canada within six days, as exclusively reported to Bradstreet's. such total being 8 3537 900 bushels. Last week the like ag was 4.72i,0O0 bushels In 1892 it was 3-7II 900 bushels. The year before that 4,71l 900 bushels, but in the third week Of Septem Der, 1890, it was only l,l55,0)) bushels.
 The price movement this week is downward, cotton having sold to within two points of the lowest on record. and wheat having gone on sufficiently to make another "lowest record" for that cereal. Other decreases are shown in hogs and cattle at western markets, based on heavy receipts, Bessemer pig iron steel billets, Indian corn, oats, naval stores and refined sugar.
 There are 21s business failures reported in the United States this week, against 223 last week, and as compared with 3i6 in the third week of September 1893 In that week of 1892 there were only l7i business failures reported but in 1891 the aggregate for the week was 250.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
THE ODD FELLOWS.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Elects Officers The Next Session VIII Be Held at Att lantic City.

The Sovereign Grand Lodge Elects Officers
 The Next session VIII Be Held at Att
 lantic City.
 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 19.-The business session of the sovereign grand lodge yesterday morning reassembled in Lookout convention hall and the question of the next place of meeting came up. Washington city had a de- tcrmined set of delegates working for her, but they were in the minority and Atlantic City was chosen. When the election of officers for the ensuing year came up. Representa- tive Morris, of Kentucky, nominated Deputy Grand Sire John w. Stebbins, of Maryland, and he was immediately elected. For the office of deputy grand sire Hon. Fred Carleton, of Texas, was el5cted. Theodore Ross, of New Jersey, was unanimously reelected as secretary and Isaac Shepherd, of Penn sylvania, was unanimously reelected treasurer. After some routine busi- ness the meeting adjourned. The grand parade was an hour late in nov ing. The column reached the corner of Ninth and Market streets at Q o'clock The streets were packed and jammed with people. After the parade the visitors were driven over Mission ary ridge to Bragg's old headquarters. At night brilliant reception and re- union in honor of the past grand rep resentatives was held in the First Bap- fist church auditorium
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
A Knotty Tariff Onestion.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-J. Magnon, a snake charmer, and Arthur Katzhem, a circus rider, have applied to Judge Lacombe, of the United States circuit court, for a judicial opinion as to whether live animals can be classified as tools of trade" when they are used by their owners solely to aid them in their vocation. The animals in ques- tion are twenty-eight snakes, tiger, horse and 8 dog which arrived here on March 30, and which were classified by Collector Kilbreth as live animals, and subject to a duty on same. The owners claim they are ''tools of trada" and therefore exempt from duty.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
THE CORN CROP.
United States Win Raise About 1900, O,OOO,-
 900 Bushels.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20-The World yesterday morning published de- tailed statement from hundreds of western towns, showing a heavy short age in the corn crop. The World says: The biggest crop raised by any country is Indian corn and the United States is the country that raises it. In a good year the United States produces 2,0O0,- 100000 bushels of this staple and has produced more. At the average mar ket price these 2.OO0, GOO, GOO bushels are worth Sl,O0O, GOO, 900, or about ten times as much as the gold production of the whole world for q year. A severe drorght has greatly reduced the yield. just how much is what many people would be very glad to know, and the World, therefore, prints reports from nearly 200 correspondents throughout the corn region.
 These reports cover the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mis- souri, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
 The twelve states include the great corn belt of the United States, and in an average year produce about 75 per cent. of the corn crop. The govern ment report makes the yield this year LIDO, 900, 900 bushels, but most all the corn authorities say this is too low
 These reports indicate about two- thirds of an average crop, or in the neighborhood of 1900, 900, 900 bushels. The greatest reduction has been in the states west of the Mississippi, and their loss has been heavy. Kansas, which raises more than 15O, 900, GOO bushels in good year, reports only 42,OOO,0O bushels. But the states east of the Mississippi river, where rain is more certain quantity, pull up the average.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
Dynamite Gun Batteries.

WAsHINGToN, Sept. 20. 1.-The war de- partment has been notified by Major Phipps, president of the ordnance board, which conducted the recent tests of the dynamite gun batteries at Sandy Hook, N. Y., that the guns worked well and that all of the re- quirements of the contract have been met. Consequently the battery and plant will be accepted and the Pneu- matic Dynamite Co. will be paid S16o,- GOO for one s-inch and two 15-inch guns, with all of the boilers, cora pressors and machinery, the shells used in the test and ten reserve pr O. jectiles for each gun.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
NEW TARIFF LAW.
A Decision as to When the Act Went Intc
 Effect.

Decision as to When the Act Went Into
 Effect.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-The ques- tion of the date upon which the new tariff law went into effect, involving the question of rebates on goods i'm ported between August l, the date fixed in the enacting clause, and Au- gust 20, the date when the bill became law, which was raised by some of the New York importers and is now under consideration by the New York board of general appraisers. was referred at the request of Appraiser Sommerville to Solicitor of the Treasury Reeve, by Assistant Secretary Curtis. Solicitor Reeve has carefully looked into the precedents and after a thorough ex- animation has rendered decision. AL though the decision has not been made public, it is understood the solicitor holds the law did not go into effect un- til it was officially promulgated by the state department, August 27. It is gen orally believed at the department, however, that the importers will not be satisfied with decision of the treas ury department to this effect, but will insist on carrying the question into the courts
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
STOCKS OF GRAIN.
Bradstreet's Comparative Statement of the
 Available Supply.


 Available Supply.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Special cable and telegraphic advices to Bradstreet's covering the principal points of accu- mutation in the United States, Canada and Europe, indicate the following changes in stocks of grain last Satur- day, compared with the preceding Saturday
 Available supply United States and Canada, cast Rocky mountains, wheat, increase, 2,OG1,O 900 bushels; corn, in- crease. 345, ,O00 bushels; oats, increase, ell, ,OOO bushels; United States, west of Rockies, wheat, increase, 207, ,O00 bush els; afoat for and in Europe, wheat, decrease, 73G,O ,OO0 bushels.
 Larger increases of domestic wheat stocks, east of the Rocky mountains, not reported in the visible supply, in- cluding 465,0O0 bushels in northwest ern interior elevators; 50l, ,0O0 bushels at Manitoba storage points; 100000 bushels in Chicago private elevators, and 65, 1000 bushels at Newport News. Corresponding increases include 2O3, ,OO0 bushels in Minneapolis private eleva. tors, and 50, 1000 bushels in New Orleans.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
PLAYRooMs FOR CHILDREN.
They Form an Important Part In the Hap
 piness of the Young People.

They Form an Important Part in the Hap
 piness of the Young People.
 There is not one woman in twenty who knows what an important part a play-room may be made to serve in the household economy and in the economy of her own nerve force.
 We have a room set apart for the bath, for the preparation and consump- tion of food, one dedicated to cere- monious usage only, and one where sleep is invoked; then why, when the household is made up of special depart-. ments, is there so little provision for the amusement of those members of the family who engage the whole time and attention of tired mothers?
 1t requires little thought and inge. nuity to furbish up play room it such an attractive way that the children will be content to pass most of the day there, but many dollars need not be spent, for costly things pail upon a child's taste far sooner than simpler and cheaper ones.
 It is not enough, though, that this room should be sunny and bare and that the children have the privilege of bringing into it all sorts of odds ana ends of their own finding. Kindergar- ten methods applied to home training insist that the mother shall place ob- jects of pleasing form and color in the hourly sight of little ones. Pretty lith- ographs may well crowd each other on the walls.
 Cut out the pictures of beasts, birds, men, women and children pasted on the door-panels make museum that may be depended upon to stop baby's crying many and many time. Japanese tile books are to be had for a trife, the quaint, beautifully-bordere pictures making highly interesting setting around the fireplace. Japanese dolls peeping around the corners of picture frames or from behind the clock arc vastly amusing to the toddlers. An old hair-cloth sofa can be improvised into capital stage-coached, or, indeed, into anything the moment demands of it. A screen covered with Christmas cards, if placed across one corner, makes a snug house; across another corner it conceals Robinson Crusoe's cave, or Ali Baba's cavern, and in the diversity of play-room inventions the value of the screen is beyond reckoning.
 There should be an old table with drawer in which are slates, pencils ana box of cheap paints. Soap bubble pipes are a necessity, and game of battledore boon. An inscription put on both sides of the door of the play room should read: "Who slams me hurts everybody. Y. Herald.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
OWENS THE NOMINEE.
The official Count Gives Him Two Hundred
 and Seventy Plurality.

The OficlaI Count Gives Him Two Hundred
 and Seventy Plurality.
 CINCINNATI, Sept. 19.-A special from Lexington, Ky, says: There is abso- lutely no doubt that w. c. Owens has secured the nomination as the demo- cratic candidate for congress from the Ashland district. The official returns of the various county committees show plurality for Owens of 270 over Breck- inridge. While Breckinridge seems determined to have a contest before the district committee at Frankfort next Saturday, there is no doubt that the committee will refuse to throw the nomination to BreclSinridge, as such action would, in the opinion of conservative democrats, completely disrupt the democratic party in this district. Several strong Breckinridge men were interviewed yesterday, and all expressed themselves opposed to the contest. They say that Breckinridge is undoubtedly defeated, and believe that it would be bad policy to stand against the will of the people. A num- Der of bets against Owens were paid yesterday.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
TRAIN WRsCKER CAUGHT.
Would-Be Bandit Taken in by Lehigh
 Valley Engineer.

BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 2O.-A bold at temptat train wrecking was frustrated and would-be bandit captured Tues day night by a Lehigh Valley engineer. As passenger train was nearing Up ton, miles west of Batavia, it jolted against some obstruction which nearly lifted the engine off the track. Stopping the train the engineer found Il huge boulder on the track. Not far away an undersized man could be seen scampering away up the track. The engineer gave chase and overhauled him. The captive proved to be an Italian and gave the name of Tony Ross. He was taken to Buffalo and turned over to the police. Yesterday morning he was held for trial. He says he knew it was pay day on the road and he wanted to rob the engi- neer.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
THE EARTH SINKING.
A Sensational Story from Southwestern
 Kansas-As Bad as the Treacherous Mis-

A Sensational Story from Southwestern
 Kansas-As Bad as the Treacherous Mis-
 souri.
 WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 22.-Land is caving in toward the center of the earth in the vicinity of the junction of Har- vey. Butler and Marion counties in this state. Great excitement prevails among the people and many of them are get ting away. The disasters are of the most unaccountable origin, and the state geologist has been summoned to investigate the disturbance of the earth formations. There was no shock felt when the ground caved in bearing any resemblance to an earthquake.
 Near White Water, on the farm of Thomas Essington, an area of 40X90 feet sunk to a depth of 2S feet, and when a man was let down into the hole his weight alone sunk it feet more. This occurred Thursday, and about the same moment an area of 75 feet square sunk at Plum Grove a depth of $50 feet. This was on the farm of Sid Jones, the sliding-in carry ing threshing machine and separator with 1t. Water poured into the latter hole from underground in sheets of water till it was filled nearly to the top, but the hole at White Water is still dry, although it is supposed that the caved-in earth is resting upon a vast body of water. Both places are some or miles apart.
 At Annelly, some 10 miles from White Water, there were several small cave-ins ranging in depth from to 40 feet The theories are various, but none of them so far are scientific.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-27
Riot Among Negroes.

HoUsToN, Tex, Sept. 19.-Sherif FL lis and deputies were called to Clancy vile, Q suburb yesterday morning to quell riot. A negro boy had been re- handed to jail, and when Deputy Con- stable Newton Meyers took hold of the boy he was attacked by the mother, who proved to be veritable tigress. She was using Meyers up, when he pro- ceeded to subdue her with q knife. This enraged the blacks, and soon a mob of 300 collected for the purpose of lynching Meyers. Meyers was placed in a house by whites, locked up and guarded, and but for the timely arrival of the sheriffs posse would have been lynched. Several of the leaders of the mob have been arrested and others will be-