The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

A BARN owned by John ID. Rockefel-
Ter, valued at $1,000, at Tarrytown, n.
Y, was destroyed by fire. The fire
was probably of incendiary origin.
This was the second fire on the place
within a month and Rockefeller has
offered $1,000 reward for the detection
of the guilty parties.
The creditors Of the First state bank
at Perry, Ok, which was closed short
time ago with $4,000 liabilities and
little assets, have attached the court
house of the county, claiming it was
part of the property of the Richard
sons, who were claimed to have been
responsibility connected with the bank.
THE negroes of the Oak Grove (Ga
settlement assembled at their church
recently to spend the day in religious
worship. Each of the families carried
a basket, and dinner was spread for all
who would partake. Before the meal
was over several left the table on ac-
count of violent sickness. Fortv.one
in all were poisoned and six have died,
with the chances against several more
1t was thought that pies baked in tin
plates two days before caused the
poisoning.
THE failures for the week ended Sep
TENDER 20 Dun's report were 2l3 in
the United States, against 21O last
year, and 80 in Canada, against 40 last
year.
NEWS reached Little Rock, Ark, on
the 10th of the destruction of court rec
ords at Ham burg. The next term of
court in Ashley county was to try 102
persons, a large portion of them under
indictment for running "blind tigers"
Some person having the combination
OF the safe containing the indictments
and eviden ce stole the written evidence
and burned it.
A RECENT dispatch from Hong Kong
said that the Basic mission at Noble,
west Of Swatean, has been wrecked.
The foreigners had abandoned it owing
to the warnings received from other
stations that thousands of rebels were
gathering and looting the property of
the wealthy Chinese.
AN employee of the National Bank Of
Illinois at Chicago has disappeared
with $40 800 Of the banks funds.
Ross c. VAN BoKKELEN, receiving
teller of tne Merchants Loan & Trust
Co., of Chicago, was reported missing
with $4,000
The Amy of the Tennessee had
grand reunion on the 10Th at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge
presided. Gen. o. o. Howard, of the
United States army, was the first
speaker He was followed by Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. and Gen.
Father Sherman, son of the famous
general. closing.
THE next meeting of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows will take
place at Dallas, Tex.
IT was stated on the 18th that Gov.
Culberson, of Texas, was fully deter
mined to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons fight from coming off in that
state and that he would probably call
out the ranger force to assist him, not
withstanding Judge Hurts opinion.
ON the 10Th at Chickamauga, Tenn.
the monuments to the dead soldiers of
Michigan, Wisconsin. Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana and Massachusetts were dedi-
Gated, appropriate speeches being made,
and then they were formally trans
ferred to the national government.
AFTER two days consumed in argu-
ment on the habeas corpus hearing of
Jesse Clarke, charged with prize fight
ing. Chief Justice J. NJ. Hurt, of the
court of criminal appeals at Dallas,
Tex, decided on the 18th that the act |
the penal code was wholly inoper-
alive and Jesse Clarke was discharged,