The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

MRs. AL GREssES, living miles east of Hennessey, Ok, put a dynamite cap in the stove with the dirt she had swept up from the floor. It exploded, breaking the stove to pieces, tearing off her right hand and binding her It was thought she would partially re- cover her eyesight.
 THE fifth annual convention of the Young Women's Christian association met at Pittsburgh, Pa. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Grace Whit ney Evans, of Detroit, president; Mrs. D. w. Messer, of Chicago, and Miss Mary B. Stewart, of Detroit, vice presi- dents; Flora Shank, of Indianapolis, and Carlotta Codding, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., secretaries. The reports showed membership of 29,459, with an in crease of thirty associations during the | year.
 PATRIOTS day was celebrated at Acton, Mass, on the 10th, by the dedi- skirts of the town which mark spots of historic interest in the revolution and the marking of the graves of 100 revo- lutionary soldiers with the tablets of the Sons of the American Revolution. | CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended April 19 showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 1.3; in New York the increase was 1.6.
 THE American Industrial union was to be formed at Chicago on the 2lst, and national officers and directors elected. In the declaration of prin- ciples the most striking was that which seeks to establish universal eight hour day. The time for the effort was set for September, 1897.
 Two men were killed and seven in jured by the collapse of hoisting ma chinery in the Chicago Ship Building Co.'S yards at South Chicago on the 18th, one of the guy ropes breaking and knocking down some girders on the men working on the deck of half completed vessel.
 TIE regents of the California uni versity have been informed by the ex- ecutors that the bequest of the late J. c. WilmerGing of trust fund of S4OO,- 900 for the building and maintenance of a school of trades for boys was ready to be turned over to them.
 THE pope, through the congregation of the propaganda, has addressed let ter to the Canadian bishops. condemn ing the frequenting of Protesta or neutral schools by the Catholics of Manitoba.
 GEN. JOHN B. GORDON commander of the United Confederate Veterans urges the members of the order all over the country to be present at the fifth an- nual reunion to be held the latter part of May at Houston, Tex. He repre- sents that projects of great importance will come up, among other things the marking and caring for the graves of the unknown dead who are buried at Gettysburg, Cairo and other battle fields and in other cemeteries, and the formulation of plans for a mutual re- lief and beneficial association.
 The story recently sent out from Guthrie, Ok, reporting a battle at Tishomingo, Chickasaw nation, be- tween followers of Gov. Moseley and 200 armed Indians, during which six men were said to have been killed out right and eight wounded, was declared by the Chickasaw authorities as being absolutely without foundation.
 THREE hundred men employed by the Chicago City Railway Co. in the con- struction of its electric lines have struck because their request for an in- crease in wages from Sl.25 to S1.5O per l day was refused.