The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-11-14

NeW IOTh' uhS W@'S cScuping rom
 gas stove in the room. The police
 were of the opinion that the death O.
 both was the result of accident.
 SECRETARY SMITH has sent to tht
 president a draft of the proclamation
 opening the Neg Perees lands to settle
 ment.
 THE Chicago Evening Post asserted
 on the Sth that the Nicaragua cana
 would be built by New York and Lon
 don capitalists and that all attempts tt
 secure financial aid from the United l States government would be aban
 doned. Between 70oao, ,006 and $s5
 0,o0Q, had been guaranteed. THE president has approved an amendment to the civil service rules
 which will result in bringing many postmasters and employees within the classified service.
 DURING a dense fog in Chesapeake bay on the sth the Norfolk and Wash, ington iime steamer Newport News ran down and sunk the tug Katie. The crew of the steamer Louise, which was near the scene of the accident, hearc the two vessels crash together and the cries of the men in distress, but the fog was so heavy that they were una ble to render any assistance. When they arrived at the scene of the disas- ter they found the bodies of the cook and fireman floating near the sunlsen tug.
 EUGENE V. DEns, president of the A. R U., stated recently that no strike had been declared on the Great North crn system.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of 1s 9: in New York the increase was 23, outside New York the increase was 12.5.
 PRACTICALLY all O. the Clyde n gineers were idle OR the 7th, as the bulk of them had refused to go to the ship-builders locking out 25 per cent. of the union. employees in their yards, and the extent to which the other industries were affected was in- calculable, for when the skip-building on the Clyde is at stand-still a gen. eral stagnation of business in the west of Scotland is the result The coal anG. iron industries were most affected, and of miners and iron workers will probably be thrown out of work
 MoNA MCDONALD, the ls-year old son of II. D. Mcdonald, proprietor of the Oxford (Kan.) Register, was murdered in Chicago on the 7th by one of three burglars whom he surprised while at. tempting to rob house where he was Mcdonald entered the house alone and found the burglars at work. One of them shot him through the head as soon as he stepped inside. He lived only few moments. All the men 
 SAN FRANCIS co paper said that the Fair will case has been settled out of court, and what promised to be bit ter contest over an estate valued at $40, ,O00, 900 has been abandoned. Those interested in the matter, however, de- nied that there had been any compro- mise made.
 TIE seven gas companies in Brook yn have determined to consolidate. The proposed capital is s3O,OOO, ,OOO
 AN attempt was made to wreck a Great Northern westbound passenger rain near Columbia Falls. Mont. A | orch was applied to a bridge, and the ire was just gaining headway as the rain dashed on to the bridge. The engineer applied the air brakes and the rain was stopped on the bridge. A 'eward has been offered for the appre- tension of the person who s.tempted l wreck the train