The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-24

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 barkation, signed by several hundred citizens of Lawrence, Kan, was pre-. sen&ed in the federal senate on the 18th by Mir. Peffer.
 FULLY 4,500 devotees of pugilism met in the Seaside arena at Coney Island,
 N. Y., on the 18th, to witness the bat tie between Tommy Ryan and Jack Dempsey, the 'Nonpareil." Dempsey was not in it from the start, and at the end of the third round the decision was given to Ryan. Dempsey was badly | punished.
 DUN's trade review of the 18th said there were some good signs, but busi- ness generally was hesitating, the at titude of congress on the currency question retarding trade. Wheat had sagged off one cent and corn had de- clined. Cotton was steady. There were large dealings in wool, much of the increase being in foreign wool.
 AT Wharton, Tex, ,Sorrell Bros barn, together with feed, 200 live hogs, forty bales of cotton and two wagons, was burned recently.
 SishEthiN" houoO lCpui hc toi ehS pi ih cipal cities of the United States for the week ended January IS showed an average increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of 6.7; in New York the increase was ST; out side New York the increase was 4.5.
 ALL business was suspended in Butte, Mont, on the 18th, when the bodies of thirty victims of the terrible giant powder explosion of the 18th were consigned to their graves. The military, civic societies and all fire de- partments of the state marched in the procession and all buildings were draped. Behind the dead firemen rode James Flannery, sole survivor of the crew.
 SAM c. HoTALING, a farmer living near Fairmont, Minn., bought Win chester rifle and killed his wife and her mother and father. He then fled to an unoccupied house, where a sher- ifs posse pursued him, and he was killed by shot in the temple, the posse stating that it was self-infiicted.
 WHILE crossing the Mississippi river on the ice at the Calhoun Club house, Hardin. Ill.,, Miss Ida Trem bling and Miss Mollie Rodgers broke through the ice and were drowned. The bodies were recovered.
 Ar Hamilton's saw mill, near Alto, Tex, boiler exploded and four men were killed and several others badly scalded
 PRESCOTT, Ariz., was recently visited by severe rainstorm which lasted for twesty-seven hours Much damage to property was done, a dozen dwellings going down and as many families rem dered homeless.
 THE striking drivers and outside men in the coal district about Massillon, O., have given up their fight because of the suffering of their families and of those of regular miners who were un- able to work.
 REFRESHMENTS of the five civilized tribes of Indians were heard on the 17th by the senate committee on Indian affairs. They opposed any arbitrary change by the national government in the method of controlling affairs in the Indian territory, urging that the Indians held their possessions through treaty rights and that they were com potent to attend to their own affairs.
 THOUSANDS of people witnessed a heart rending scene at Brooklyn on the 25th. Frank Tolrieka, 15-year- old boy, was struck by trolley car, and with his legs nearly severed above the ankles, he was wedged between the forward wheels and the motor box. In that position he remained for forty five minutes gasping in agony It was to move the car back or for ward without crushing out the little life left in the boy.