The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-29

THE sngrain carpet weavers of Phil
 adelphia, who struck several weeks ago for an increase of per cent. in
 wages, have won the fight. About
 5000 operatives were involved. AN extensive confiagration occurred
 at Tione, in Austria. Fifty houses
 were consumed and 100 families rem
 dered homeless.
 TIE Salt Lake, Utah, county repub-
 lican convention on the 23d nominated
 Mrs. Lillie R. Pardee for the senate and Mrs. E. B. Wells for the house of representatives.
 A PARTY of white laborers visited
 the Alexander fruit ranch at Ander- son, Cal, which had been leased to Chinamen, and drove the Mongolians from the place. After the Chinese left the packing house was set on fire and over five tons of dried fruit, with all the appliances of the plant, were de- stroyed. The feeling against China men in that section was very bitter
 AN attempt was made to blow up the eastbound Northern Pacific train with dynamite about l mile east of Butte, Mont, recently. Nearly the whole train passed over the dynamite before it exploded. The last coach. filled with passengers, was badly shattered, but DO one was injured.
 H. B. MARTIN, of the executive board of the Knights of Labor, declared at Minneapolis, Minn., recently that the boycott against national bank notes, urged by General Master Workman Sovereign, would be put into effect after Labor day, September 2, and all knights and their friends would refuse to take bank notes and that by Decem- Der it was expected the boycott would be in full swing and have good eff feet on congressional legislation.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended August g show an aver. age increase as compared with the cor responding week last year of 10.7; in New York the increase was l4.7; out side New York. G5.
 THE Grand Rockland hotel at Con- gers, N. Y., was destroyed with all its contents on the 22d. Some of the guests lost all their clothing and left for town wrapped in blankets. The owner of the hotel said his loss would be S40,000 over the insurance. The building cost S65, GOO and the furniture SIS, 1000.
 A MAN named Hall was driving a wagon loaded with nitro.glycerine to the magazine on the top of Bully Hill, outside the city limits of Franklin, Pa., on the 22d, and was within l5O feet of the building when the stuff ex- ploded. The wagon and horses were blown to atoms and not a vestige of Halls remains were to be found. The | shock was so great in Franklin that windows were blown out and num- Der of chimneys were knocked down.
 FOREST fires were raging in the vicin- ity of Deadwood s. D.
 A PEREMPToRY demand. it was said, | would soon be made by the United | States upon France for the release of | ex-Consul John Waller and that satis- factory indemnity would be required for his arrest and imprisonment, with a probable request for commission to determine Walters rights in Mada- gascar.
 AT New Richmond, O.. on the after noon of the Fist, a mob took Noah colored, from the jail and hanged him for the murder of Frank. lin Friedman, nearly 80 years old and president of the First national bank of that place. The victim confessed his crime.
 NEAR CGur d'Alene four carpenters, while endeavoring to extinguish a fire on a burning bridge on the Northern Pacific railroad, had their retreat cut off and they had to jump into chasm I36 feet deep and were dashed 10 pieces