The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-27
MIsCELLANEOCS.

uA FIRE on the 2Oth at Seattle, Wash, destroyed S200, GOO worth of property of the Consolidated Street Railway Co.
 THE officers of the National Labor federation in Indianapolis, Ind, were said to be preparing call for meetings to be held in every city in the United States on the 30th for the purpose of denouncing the Debs decision. Presi- dent Mcbride, of the federation, will sound the keynote with rousing speech against the decision. The ob- ject is to secure the passage of law by the next congress defining the right of workingmen and abolishing govern ment injunction.
 WHILE Warden R. L. Allen, of the Joliet penitentiary, was at the ball game at Washington with Comptroller Eckels, Dick Shoot, a noted pickpocket, recently released from the Joliet prison, spoke to Allen and warmly thanked him for his past kindness. Some time after he had gone Allen started to get some money from a pocket and then discovered that he had been robbed by Smoot of S25O and fine gold watch.
 ANTHONY JOHNSON, colored, was le- gally hanged at Dumas, Ark, on the Fist for murder.
 INDIAN AGENT WOoLsEY has instruc- tious to lease the allotments of the Ponca Indian reservation and will be- gin doing so about the 2ith inst. These allotmentS, 400 in number, embrace some of the richest land in the Indian territory and will be leased to actual farmers at 25 to 50 cents an acre a year for a period of five years, with the privilege of renewing the lease in- definitely.
 A RECENT dispatch from Dallas, Tex, said that D. A. Stewart had let con- tract calling for SIS, 1000 worth of dressed lum Der, which was to be used in the construction of the big amphi- theater to be reared for the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight next October. Dan Smith, of New York, has been ap- pointed press agent of the syndicate behind the contest. Such was the faith in the ability of Stewart and his conferees to bring off the big battle that fund of S5O,OO0 had been sub scribcd and put in the bank to the credit of the construction and promo tion departments of the enterprise. WILLIAM NELSON, postmaster at the national soldiers home, at Milwaukee, was arrested on the goth, charged with the embezzlement of S1, 1s9 56 of the funds of the office.
 FIRE started in the gun shed of Light battery F at the Presidio at San Fran cisco recently, and before an engine arrived the building was consumed. The shed contained eight four-inch rifcd guns of the latest pattern, each of which cost about S3.O00. The guns were badly warped and the carriages so twisted that they were absolutely ruined. A number of valuable stores were also in the building, all of which were damaged so that they are unfit for use. The total loss is S30,000. The origin of the fire was unknown.
 NEAR Mount Gilead,N. C., two broth CTS, Andrew and Mann Rhodes, guar. reled about some family matters. Sarah Rhodes. their mother, seized and held Andrew while Mann, with knife, cut him open, killing him.
 ALL archbishops and bishops in the United States have been ordered by the pope in second degree to promul. gate the previous one concerning the obligations of Catholics to remain out of the Knights of Pythias organization. TIE jury in the Laidlaw-Sage case returned to the court room at New York with verdict in favor of the plaintiff. They awarded Laidlaw $40,- 600 damages. A stay in the case was granted until next September. Laid. law was the clerk behind whom Sage hid when the bomb was thrown at him. He was badly injured.