The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-30
RonERr TUCKER, father of Herbert

| ROKERT lUCkER, 1aCner or Herbert
 Tucker, who was assassinated near
 Lexington, Ky, some time ago, assisted | by Scott Van Meter, well-known
 farmer, captured Andy Martin, negro
 6 years old, and at the point of pistol
 tried to make him tell about the mur-
 der of young Tucker The old negro
 knew nothing of the m urder and could
 to an orchard near town, dug grave,
 pinioned his arms and legs and buried
 him for nearly twenty minutes They
 told him they would kill him if he told
 on them. The old negro was in a bad
 condition. The men have been arrested.
 JOHN EGAN, strike manager of the
 General Managers association, ap-
 peared before the federal strike com
 mission at Chicago on the 24th. He
 was asked if it was the policy of the
 railroads to settle strikes by force and
 he replied in this case it was. He de- nied ill an angry manner that he used and employed railroad men to burn and destroy railroad property during the strike. Superintendent of Police Brennan gave an account of how the police handled the disorder growing out of the strike. Several other wit nesses gave unimportant evidence.
 PHILIP PETTUs, who murdered his wife at Helena, Ark, in April, 1893, because she refused to live with him, was hanged in the jail yard of the courthouse in that city on the 24th. Pettus and his wife were colored.
 THE Portland bark Gray Deering, from Rosario, South America, to Bos. ton, was lying off Cape Cod with large cargo of wool, waiting for the new tariff bill to become law. Un- der the present law duty of II cents per pound would be collected. Under the new law the cargo can come in free. It was estimated the consignees would make over SS0,00O by delaying the vessel.
 THEgreat textile strike at Fall River, Mass, has developed into lockout, notices being posted in the mills on the 29d that every mill operated by the manufacturers association would shut down indefinitely. This will cause about 2j,000 operatives to be idle.
 TIE yacht Saxon has arrived at Peter. head, returning from scientific expe. dition to the Arctic regions. She re- ported that she landed Prof. Aubrey | Battye, the ornithologist. and one com | panion on kolquev island, 100 miles | from the Russian coast, on June 9. The i Saxon. however, was obliged to aban. don Battye and his companion on ac- | count of the heavy seas and the ice, | which threatened the destruction oi | the yacht It was hoped that the ex- plorers would be rescued by the next | Russian gunboat which visited the island.
 RECORDS of all members of congress ! who will run for reelection this fall | are being compiled by the Knights of Labor executive committee and their votes on the questions pertaining to the interests of the laboring classes looked into. It was said that these records would be used in the various cam. paigns for or against the members.
 NEAR Lamoure, N. D., the boiler of a threshing engine on farm exploded. killing John Lind and Louis bSiS' Ahc AabtSr was pAo"H loV ieet and frightfully mangled Four men were more or less injured.
 A TRACTION engine belonging to An. drew Ross exploded on the farm of Hiram Berksmith, miles south of By. ron, III. Hiram Berksmith was blown to atoms, and Andrew Ross, who was the engine, was so terribly in. lured that he died a few hours later Five boys, from Q to IA years old, were near the engine and were sc badly torn and scalded that it is thought three of them cannot recover. Two other men received slight in. uries.