The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
ALARaE fire ragged in Augusta, Ga, on

l "A LhhdE htS oS Oes iu mug uSeos po'soh the 25th. the loss being over $lOO, GOO
 FRED GILBERT, dark horse in the race, who hailed from Spirit Lake. Ia., won the Dupont cup, the wing cham pionship of the world, and fat purse in the pigeon shooting tournament which came to an end at Baltimore, Md, on the 25th. It was said Gilbert never entered tournament before in his life.
 THE failures for the week ended Oc. tober g (Dun's reporO were o3l in the United States, against 23l last year, and 3s in Canada, against 52 last year.
 AT Livingston, Ala, three small children of Granville Lancaster, a farmer, were roasted to death recent. ly. They were locked in the house by their mother while she called on Q neighbor, and the house burned down.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin. cipal cities in the United States for the week ended October 25 sho wed ap average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of 25.7; in New York the increase was 34.3; outside New York the increase was 16.4.
 AT New York on the 24th Henry of Navarro easily defeated Clifford and Santa Anita in a great handicap race. EARLY on the morning of the 24th fire broke out in the rear of Whitney & Powers grocery store at Galesburg, O., spread rapidly and destroyed two squares, containing twenty buildings, including about all the business places in town.
 AT Nashville, Tenn. Dibbrcll Walker, of Cookeville, was shot and killed by young Terry, also of Coolseville. Some time ago Terry's brother killed Walk CTS brother in the mountains, and since then there has been bad blood between the families.
 THE dead body of Smith Crane, once a wealthy cattleman. was buried in the potter's field at Chicago. He was the first to take consignment of cat tie to Liverpool from Chicago. Finally he took to drink, and from that time his downfall was rapid.
 THE fast freight on the Norfolk & Western ran into drove of cattle near Max Meadows, Va, on the 23d, wreck ing the train. The engineer, colored brakeman and another man were in- stantly killed.
 JIM UMBRA and Mexican John,"I two members of Zip Wyatt's band. stole fifty head of cattle belonging to Ben Chapman and his cowboys gave chase. They closed in on the despera. does l5 miles from Cantonment, Ok. and after a fusillade of bullets the bandits surrendered. The cowboys identified the cattle and hung the two men to the first tree.
 TIE town of Fort Deposit, Lowndes county, Ala, broke the record on babies recently, two mothers giving birth to three children each and an. other mother capping the climax by having four children at one birth. All the babies were said to be healthy and the mothers doing well.
 PRESIDENTS day at the Atlanta ex. position on the 23d was said to have been success. President Cleveland after reviewing the troops made an ap. propriate speech and then held an in. formal reception. The courtesies tc the presidential party wound up al night with reception at the Capital City club.
 Mss FRANCES WILLARD was re-elect. ed president of the national w. c. T. U.
 THERE was a sudden spurt of activ. ity at the Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco on the 3lst. between seventy-five and a hundred men being put to work all night to finish up the armament of the battleship now lying there. This was the first time that a night force had been worked at that yard for years and it was considered somewhat remarkable.