The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-09
C1EARIye house returns for the prin- |

CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended May showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 15.2; in New York the increase was 2S.7; out. side New York, 5.4.
 AN awful tornado occurred on the afternoon of the 3d in the section around Sioux Center, Ia. Schoolhouses were blown down and teachers and pupils perished in the ruins. Many residences and barns were also demol- ished. One man reported that his house was blown away and all his family killed and that in his neigh borhood 2OG or 300 must have lost their lives. Owing to the darkness and ex- citement the exact number of killed could not be ascertained. People were also reported killed at Sibley and Perkins. The Sioux City & Northern track between Perkins s, Doon was washed out for several miles.
 ED WEsTBRooK, an 1S-year-old negro, who killed another negro in dispute about dog, was hanged at Americus Ga., on the Sd.
 TIE Red river line steamer E. R. Wheeler struck snag and sunk, 5( miles below Alexandria, La, recently. No lives were lost
 MUCH excitement was caused at Guthrie, O., on the I'd by the arrival of deputy marshals with the dead bodies of George Newcomb, alias Bitter Creek, alias Slaughter Kid. and Charley Pierce, alias Dynamite Dick, two ot the most notorious outlaws in the ter ritory. They were killed in Pawnee county at the house of the Dunn brothers, who were protecting them. by Deputy Marshal Sam Schaffer at the head of six other deputies.
 A DISPATCH from Huntington, w. Va, on the 2d said that all the miners on the Norfolk & Western railway were out, except 1,2O0, who were in the Northwestern company's mines. A desperate effort was being made to have them join the strike and it was thought if they did not come out there would be trouble. Strong guards were stationed at all the bridges, coal tip pies, etc, and two companies of militia were held in readiness to go to the scene of the trouble.
 AN order recently issued by the post office department at Washington in structs postmasterS to examine closely all printed matter which looks like the work of type writer, and unless it is easy to determine whether it came from a printing press or a typewriter, to charge ? cents postage on every piece. Typewriter matter goes at let. ter rates, while circulars printed on a press take the l cent rate.
 THE night express on the Chicago X Alton railroad, northbound, was at. tackled near Carlinville, H., by three masked men who climbed over the ten. der and ordered Engineer Frank Holmes to stop the train and immedi. ately began firing. Holmes was killed at the first fire. The assailants, after shooting the engineer, jumped off the train and escaped. It was not known whether robbery was intended or not. Engineer Holmes in the morning, when going south at Carlinville, compelled some tramps to get off the train and it was thought some of these men were his murderers.
 Ar Louisville, Ky, Fulton Gordon followed Dixon Brown, son of Gov. Brown, and Mrs. Gordon to a house on the 9Oth, and. finding them in a private room together, fired at Brown, infict- ing wound from which he died in a few minutes. Just before. his life ended, Brown fired one shot, which wounded Gordon, possibly fatally. Gordon then turned his weapon on his wife and shot her through the abdo. men, killing her instantly. Brown had only recently been divorced from his wife.