The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-23

Jail overpowered the jailer on the even. ing of the l7th and made their escape.
 TIE fast Chicago freight on the Sioux City X Pacific road ran into wild box car" at the river Sioux. The engine and six cars plunged down an embanlr- ment, and Engineer Moorey, Fireman Mckinney and Brakeman Turner were badly injured.
 EX-Gov. CHARLES ROBINSON died at his home near Lawrence, Kan, on the l7th from paralysis of the bladder. He was the first governor of Kansas.
 A DISPATCH from Tokio says that an imperial decree has been issued au- thorizing the raising of a Japanese loan of 50,000,000.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities of the United States for the week ended August F showed an average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of so; in New York the decrease was 40; outside the increase was PAT.
 FAILURES for the week ended August F (Dun's report) were 226 in the United States, against 455 last year; in Canada 45, against 27 last year.
 DUN's weekly review of trade says that large improvement in business was expected from the settlement of the tariff bill, because a vast amount of business has been deferred from week to week in the hope of definite condition. Speculation in corn was active. Pork had advanced 30 cents and lard B cents. Wheat was about cent lower.
 TIE house committee on judiciary has decided to favorably report Sena- tor Hills bill for the exclusion and de- portation of alien anarchists, which passed the senate.
 TIE secretary of the treasury has in- vited proposals for striking 23,777 worlds fair medals Bids will be opened at the office of the director of the mint September 5.
 MANY tin plate works in South Wales which have been closed for some time arc preparing to resume work, in view of the passage of the tariff bill in Washington.
 TIE special house committee to in- vestigate the charges against Judge Kicks, of Cleveland, O.. will not begin work until congress adjourns, and per haps not until fall
 RELIABLE information has been re- ccived at Muscogee, l. T., that the rem nants of the Dalton and Cook gangs of | outlaws have consolidated and num- 1 Der twelve persons.
 t,.ain rrpinFr ,vaSt o1 tho I Atlantic X Pacific railroad was wrecked | by washout at Cubero, N. NJ. The | engine was ditched. James Horton, | fireman, was killed and William Nor | ris, engineer, was dangerously injured. |
 A PROTOCOL has been signed uniting | Guatemala, Nicaragua, San Salvador | and Honduras into one republic, to be | known as the Central American Re- public. Costa Rica was also repre- sented at the conference but the gov ernmcnt declined to sign the protocol. |
 OIL and natural gas in enormous quantities have been struck in school | lands near Mineral creek, miles south. east of Florence, Col, which has been | leased from the state by the Florence oil & Refining Co.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai says: The governor of Formosa has published a schedule of rewards for Chinese who | capture or destroy Japanese ships or kill or capture Japanese soldiers or sailors. The soldiers or sailors may be taken dead or alive. The governor offers 6.000 taels for the destruction of | B big Japanese warship For the de- -truction or capture of small war ship he promises 4,OOO taels, or about q 200. Two hundred taels will be paid for the head of Japanese officer and 100 taels for the head of a Japan. ese p::Tatc,