The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

MlCHAElI FlILGEhALD duu ms Danu of forty-three industrial delegates have arrived in Washington. The delegates are the most intelligent in appearance of any of the armies of the unemployed that have reached that city. They have petition to present to congress, but have not as yet made any plans con- cerning the manner of presenting it. The petition is strongly socialistic in its nature, and goes much further than the Coxey plan.
 THE house committee on election of the president and vice president has voted to make favorable report on the bill of Representative Tucker, of Virginia, providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. The report was agreed upon by nearly unanimous vote.
 M. CAsIMIR-PERIER, premier, and the other French ministers have handed in their resignations to President Carnot.
 THE Bimetallic league at Washing ton declared itself as unalterably op- posed to the further issue of interest hearing bonds and in favor of the free coinage of silver and gold at ratio of lG to 1. It recommends system of currency that will insure per capita circulation of $50, declares it the duty of the secretary of the treasury to coin the bullion now in the treasury and de- mands the issue of S450, ,000, 900 of non- interest-bearing notes of small denom- nations.
 ADvICEs received at Vancouver, B.. C., on the 23d stated that the trouble that had been brewing in Corea had broken out and Chinese soldiers were being poured into the country. Three thousand insurgents, fully armed, sur prised the governors palace at Sing-la- Too and put him and forty officials to death.
 c. II. J. TAYLOR was confirmed by the senate for register of the District of Columbia.
 | GEN. DANIEL HASTINGS was made the | unanimous choice of the convention for governor at Harrisburg, Pa. Wal | ter Lyon was nominated for lieutenant governor and the rest of the state ticket was made up as follows: Auditor l hblOo ol secretary of internal affairs, James w.. Latta, of Philadelphia; congressman at-large, Galusha A. Grow, of Susque- hanna, and George F. Huff, of Vest moreland.
 DR. TALMAGE, pastor of the Brook | lyn tabernacle, had a narrow escape from death on the 23d. When 30 miles from Pueblo, Col, as the train ap- preached small bridge the engineer saw that it was in bad condition. It was too late to stop and so he pushed on full steam and crossed it with a rush. The piers had been washed away, leaving only rails to hold up the | bridge. The passage of the train practical shook it to pieces so that it would be impossible for another train to get over without accident.
 TIE seventy-ffth birthday of Queen Victoria was celebrated in England on the 24th.
 MR. GLADsToNE's right eye was suc- cessfully operated on for cataract on the 24th.
 TIE senate bribery Investigating committee on the 24th began an in | quiry into the connection of the sugar trust with the tariff legislation. E. J. Edwards, author of the Holland" let ter in the Philadelphia Press, was eX- amined. The committee sat behind closed doors. Gov. FLOWER has vetoed the bill pro- hibiting tlse display of foreign flags on public buildings.
 TIE senate committee on Indian af- | fairs has authorized 8 fa' orable report on the bill providing for 'he opening of the Uintah and Uncomfeghre Indian reservations in Utah.
 | SENATOR PERKINS has introduced in | the senate bill intended to grant the use of Springfield rifles ar.d their equip ment now on hand and not needed for use by the regular army, to the militia of the various states and territories. | These arms are to be distributed upon the requisition of the governors of the various states, but are to remain the property of the United States. They are to be charged against the appro- priation to provide arms to the militia.
 THE senate bribery investigating com mittce has sent the testimony taken in the first part of its inquiry relating to attempted bribery of Senators Kyle and | Hunton to the printer and expects tC report to the senate within few days the result of it's investigation It is understood the report will entirely ex onepte Senators Hunton and Kyle ir the matter.