The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-11-28

CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities In the United States for the
week ended November 22 showed an nv.
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 10. |;
in New York the increase was IS. O;
outside New York the increase was
1911.
HENRY OLIVER, president of the de
funct Columbia national bank, was
recently arrested at Tacoma, Wash,
charged with embezzling SO, 500 of the
banks funds. He was also charged
with having paid George Boggs, ex.
city treasurer, $500 to deposit city
money with his bank.
IT is announced that Senator Hill, OF
New York, has leased residence in
the most fashionable quarter of Wash.
ington. and it is further limited that he
contemplates matrimony.
REPRESENTATIVE OTEY, o Virginia
congressman, has announced his pur.
pose to introduce bill to appropriate
$27, O0O, 600 for the benefit of ex-confed.
crate soldiers, conditional upon an
equal amount being appropriated by
the states in which the confederate
veterans live. His proposition is
founded on the plea that the S27. OOO,-
600 represents the proceeds of captured
property turned into the federal treas.
ury during the war and that the people
of the south have moral claim for
the money.
THREE persons lost their lives by an
incendiary fire in a cabin at Stony
point, near Brownsville, KY. The
cabin was owned by Gibson Arm
strong, colored, who, with his wife and
two daughters. and niece, Mollie Whit.
ney. were asleep when the fire broke
out Nancy Armstrong and Mollie
Whitney were burned to death. Fan.
ME Armstrong was SO badly burned
that she died. The others were un.
harmed. James Wright, stepson of
Armstrong, had quarreled with his
foster parent the day before the FIRE
and he is suspected of arson.
A FIRE broke out at the corner of
Van Buren, and Franklin streets, Chi.
cago, on the ed and one woman was
killed by jumping from the window
and four firemen were killed by falling
floors.
CHARLES HURD. negro, who mnr-
dered Jasper d. Kelley, a young white
man. was taken from the Jail at Wart.
burg, Morgan county, Tenn, and
lynched at midnight recently by mob
of 200 masked men.
The Home Market club had its IN.
nual banquet at Boston on the 21st H.
Clay Evans, of Tennessee; Charles En-.
Dry Smith, of Philadelphia, ex.minister
to Russia and editor of the Philadcl.
phia Press, and ex-senator Warner
Miller, of New York, made the princi-
pal speeches. American wages for
American workmen and protection to
American markets was the keynote of |
the remarks, and every mention of
Thomas b. Reed or William Mckinley
called forth great applause. Covers
we're laid for GOO
JOHN MONTGOMERY his wife and a |
farm hand were found murdered near
Ore. All three had been |
shot with rifle and the murderers
made good their escape. No motive
was known for the crime.
PARTICULARS have been received at |
San Francisco of the sinking of the
Italian bark Brom Carlo off the Horn |
by the British ship Condor. The
officers and fifteen sailors sank with
The ship.
Rev. j. Z. HORNE, of Madison coun-
~, Tex, brought news to Bryan of the
ynching of negro in remote part
If that county recently. He was ac-
used of riding horse over a little
white girl in the road. inflicting seri-
,us injuries on her. Later develop.
nents showed that the mob got hold of
he wrong negro and the guilty one
made his cscape,