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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
A SHiPWRECK RECORD.
Tho Spanish Government Has Been Pa
tlcularlv Unfortunate.

Tho Spanish Government Has Been Par
ticularlv Unfortunate.
The recent loss of the Reina Regente
recalls the fact that Spain, once the
greatest naval power OF the world, has
lost not less than six hundred men-of-
war in shipwreck since the beginning
Of the sixteenth century. There is am
pie documentary evidence to that
effect and the greatest disasters to the
Spanish fleets are here recounted in
their chronological order:
OF the fleet sent against Algiers in
1918 under Admiral Don Hugo de Mon.
Gala thirty vessels foundered in a
storm, with 4, 900 men on board.
Another expedition against Algiers,
sent by Emperor Charles ", in 1541,
lost i4O vessels on the rocks of Moroc-
co, $500 men losing their lives.
OF the fleet that sailed in 1862, under
Gen. Mendoza, to deliver Oran from
the Mussulmans, twenty ships, includ.
ing the flagship. with the above-named
general on board, never returned.
A year later, in the fall of 1868, a
cyclone in the bay of Cadiz sent fifteen
of the governments best caravals to
the bottom.
In 1858 the famous Armada, believed
to be invincible, met her doom in the
English channel, eighty-one out of lac
vessels sinking with most of their
crews. The loss of men is estimated
at $4,000
Fourteen of Admiral Don Antonio
Navarro's vessels foundered in a storm
off the Mexican coast near San Juan
de Ulloa in 1890.
Six years later fearful storm in the
Biscayan bay caused the loss of forty
one vessels belonging to the fleet of
Admiral Martin de Padilla.
Not long after this Admiral Marquis
de Santa Cruz lost ten vessels, with o..
300 men, on the Corsican coast.
After long pause Gen. Jose Pizarro
lost five men-of-war in an engagement
with the English in 174l.
Within the last 1875 years the records
are much easier of access and the
figures can be given absolutely correct.
In this time the Spaniards lost twelve
large battleships under steam and
twenty-one first-class sailers, with
1870 guns; twenty-tree frigates. with
800 guns, and more than 100 gunboats,
torpedo boats, briggs, galeotes, etc. The
loss of life in this period is conserva.
lively estimated at &c, 500 men.
Thus the worst enemy of Spanish,
supremacy on the seas seems to be
other than man. More than double
the number of ships have been lost by
the inclemency Of the elements than
were lost in battle. Philadelphia
Record
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
A WATER FAMINE.
Portions Of Pennsylvania ana New jersey
Without Needed Rains for Months.

Portions Of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
without Needed Rains for Months.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 5.-Reports re-
ceived from different parts of eastern
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Indicate
that the country is suffering from a
drought Of large proportions. In
some places there is almost famine
on account of lack OF water. The
farmers are complaining Of the
lateness of the crops, and in numerous
instances are compelled TO carry water
distance of miles for the cattle. But
little rain has fallen since July 1. The
Delaware, Lehigh and Bushkill rivers
are lower than they have been in
thirty-five years. Along the latter all
mills operated by water power have
shut down. Throughout south Jersey
the drought is being most severely felt.
From all parts come complaints of the
crops being damaged, and in some in.
stances total loss.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
FALL TRADE PROSPECTS.
FiEurcs from Il. q. Dun Co. Which Show
That Prosperous Times Are Approach

FIEurcs from Il. q. Dun b Co. which Show
That Prosperous Times Are Approach
Ing.
NEW YORK, Oct 5.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says: Com.
mercial failures in the third quarter o.
1898 were 2, 792, with liabilities of S32,-
l67, ITO, averaging Sli,T2l per firm,
against Sl0,02s last year, about IS per
cent. more. The rate of commercial
mortality, 2a4 failures in quartz,
for every 1000 firms in business, is
lower than last year, and the pro.
portion OF defaulted liabilities to
the solvent business represented
by payments through clearing houses
10 but 2.40 per $1,000 against 9. n last
year. The defaulted liabilities per
firm in business average SEQ. 90 against
S26. 80 last year. The defaulted liabil.
tiles of the manufacturing class aver.
age $50, s65 against $40, 763 in the same
quarter last year; in trading Ss,577
against Sc, 443 last year; and the bank
ing failures, not included above, have
been 81, with average liabilities Of
$4,000 against SllO,O36 last year. In
eAS SuAu "uCu III AdlluTcA Lu0
average liabilities in prosperous years
falls below $4,000, the number below
two in 1000 firms, the defaulted liabil.
tiles were below So per 81, 900 exchange,
and below S25 per firm in business.
Thus the analysis indicates a condi-
ton approaching, but not yet reach.
ing, one of general prosperity. Highly
important comparisons of prices this
week show. about September 80, the
lowest range ever known for wholesale
prices OF all commodities, notwith-
standing advances since March of
20 per cent. in cotton goods,
40 per cent. in boots and shoes
and IS per cent. in iron and steel
products, wilhelm wooden goods there
has been scarcely any advance, and in
all food products taken together fall
of II per cent. Comparisons show a
fall in food products Of 23.2 per cent.
in the five years since October, 1890, in
wooden goods 22.5 per cent, in iron
products 1874 per cent. and in cotton
goods 12. Sc per cent, while boots and
shoes are little higher and leather and
hides much higher than five years ago.
Failures in three days have been 2O7
in the United States, against 219 last
year, and Al in Canada, against 40 last
year.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
ENGLAND JERKED UP,

Tho President and His Cabinet Decide to
Uphold the Monroe Doctrine In Regard to
Venezuela.
New YORK, Oct 5-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: The
great international question of the
hour is the Venezuelan boundary dis.
pute. Secretary Olney has prepared q
dispatch to Ambassador Bayard which
will soon bring the matter to an issue.
This dispatch is of most positive
and uneq uivocal nature. AS soon as
1t shall be placed before the British
government it will raise On issue which
can be settled only by the retreat of one
or the other governments. The stand
taken by the United States in this dis
patch is one that involves the oldest
and most sacred traditions of the Mon
roe doctrine. ....
Few more serious questions have
presented themselves to an American
administration within recent years.
The decision OF the president and his
ca binet advisers, after careful discus.
sion and painstaking investigation,
is that the bold and consistent
policy shall be adopted, and this
policy has been formulated in the dis
patch to Ambassador Bayard. The
dispatch meets England's rejoinder
with reaffirmation of the principles
of the original contention ex-
pressed in phrases which leave
no possibility of doubt as to the
meaning of the earnestness of
the United States. 1t does more. In
polite but frmf and significant words
Secretary Olney declares it to be the
belief of the United States government
that the territorial claims which Great
Britain has set up in Venezuela are
in the nature of an attempt to seize
territory on the American continent
to which she has no legal right"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

PITTSBURGH, Pa; Oct. 5.-Eddic
Dyer, 12 years old. and Edwards Alley
were stealing ride on Pennsylvania
railroad freight train yesterday even
ing. Becoming frightened at a brake
man, who threatened him with arrest,
Dyer tried to jump off, but fell be-
tween two cars. The wheels of one
truck passed over his legs, breaking
them. A fireman rushed to his assist
ance and jerked him out from under
the train with such force that he
was thrown upon another track in
front OF another moving train. His
body was ground to pieces.
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TO AID CUBA,
Great National Sympathetic Mass Meeting
at Chicago Proposed.

at ChicAgO Proposed.
CHICAGO, Oct 5.-Every mayor of
every city, town and village through
out the United States will be advised
and requested by the executive COM
mittee of the Cuban sympathetic mass
meeting, held in Chicago last Monday
night, to confer with the most prom
inent and public-spirited citizens to
arrange for a national mass meet
ing the night of Thursday, October
81, for the purpose of awakening
a kindly feeling toward the suf-
fering and patriotic Cubans, who
are struggling for liberty. The com.
mittee will also call upon every prom
inent organization in the country for
the cooperation of its branches in
every section. Churches of every de.
nomination and fraternal and benev.
client societies will also be called upon
for assistance in making the mass
meeting on October 81 u great wave of
public opinionand sy mpathy for the
Cuban cause from the Pacific to the
Atlantic and from British Columbia to
Mexico
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
LAND MATTERS.
Tho CommisaiOner Of the General Land
Office Makes n Nenort


Office Makes Report.
WASHINGTON, Oct SIS. w. Lamo-
reaux, commissioner OF the general
land office, in his annual report to the
secretary of the interior, declares that
the decline of land office business noted
In the last report still continues. Com.
pared with 1894 there has been de-
crease in land entries of l9,095, and of
0,Ol6,6s5 acres entered upon, decrease
of final entries of 1854 and $50, O59
acres entered upon, and q decrease of
cash receipts Of S734,S7 The business
OF the office for the fiscal year ended
June 30 was us follows: Cash sales,
4l7,37s acres; homestead entries. g..
0O9, 491 acres; state selections, SEQ, 1870
acres; railroad selections, 1867, 479
acres; swamp land patents, 244,774
acres; Indian allotments, 81. 455 acres;
Indian lands sold, 42.54s acres; total
cash receipts, S2,03S, asa; patented or
certified with the effect of patenting
to railroad companies, s,lS4. $3.50 acres;
surveys accepted by the land Office, TO-
leo, $50 acres.
The total area OF vacant public land
In the United States is as follows: Sur
veyed sl3, 1897, SIS; unsurveyed, 2s5, 245,-
GOT. The land office has examined and
has in process of adjustment twenty.
two land grants to railroads. The in
terror department has approved the
findings of the land Office regarding
the land grant adjustments in eleven
cases, and ten other cases for final ad-
justments have been submitted to the
denartment
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
,AsT SLAVE NICrioN.
Held at Savannah a Year and . Hail
twas Hefore the War.

~
TWAS Before the War.
lost great slave auction held In
tns occurred just a year and
@ nsW before the war--viz., in October,
ia" ~ the race track in Savannah.
lS'' ,Ioves we're the property of Pierce
lH. ,.r picturesque and prominent
hu''a , ,t that day in Philadelphia So
nsar' who is to-day only remembered
eE, tor;nc been the husband Of Fanny
lila the actress, reader and author.
Nv family name was Measc, but he
ms s,.;,ed a fortune in lands and slaves
i iuam his grandfather, Maj. Pierce
Iv Of South Carolina, on condition
p",' hs should take the latter's name.
'' TrtIer's inveterate passion for gam
,,;nr ont him into financial difficulties.
" said that he lost twenty-six thou
nI dollars on a single hand-four
s,nsss AGAINST four kings held by his
'tTrolly, to meet his losses, Butler
..as forced to sell his slaves. There
,rsrs nine hundred and lightweight of
,Som in all. The sale took two days,
na,,irc three hundred and three thou
sar8 eight hundred and fifty dollars.
pr,ler had chosen u good time to sell.
year later his negroes would not
b.rs been worth dollar head. But
,hs sale would have been more profit
.hIa had it not been announced as one
~ lis conditions that no division of
families would be permitted. Hence,
IN order to secure a good slave, buyers
often had TO take with him infirm or
AGED relatives. Out of this limitation
crew memorable tragedy. Tom Pate,
q we'll known Vicksburg trader, bought
a, the sale man, his two sisters and
his wife. with the guarantee that they
sbould not be separated. Disregarding
this Pate sold the sisters, one to Pat
Somers, a brother trader, and the other
to resident of st. Louis. What legal
rights negro had in the south were
well protected. Somers was told of
the guarantee, and he sent the girl
hack to Pate and demanded his money.
A quarrel was the result and Somers
was shot dead. Ten days later his
nephew killed Pate and died from
wounds received. The feud was kept
up until every male bearing the name
of Pate was wiped out and then the
war liberated the sisters.-N. Y. Her.
AID
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS.
State Nominations Made by Acclamation-
The Financial Plank.

xHe luhnCibl
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 4.-The repub-
lican state convention was called to
order at 9 p. m. at the Funke opera
house, by Hon. John L. Webster.
temporary chairman. Not all of the
1857 delegates to the convention were
present at the opening. Still there were
several hundred of them. The tempo
rary organization was made permanent.
The work of the convention was
by reclamation, and goes down in the
political history of Nebraska as the
most harmonious meeting of republic.
ans ever held in the state. All the
nominations were by reclamation, and
are: Justice supreme court. s. l..
Norval. Regents state university,
Charles A. Morrell, II. L. Gould.
The financial plank of the platform
says: Favoring the use of both gold
and silver standard money, we oppose
all monetary legislation that would re.
suit in either gold or silver monomet.
allism, and demand the maintenance
of national currency, every dollar Of
which, whether in gold, silver or paper,
shall be of equal value and of equal
debt-paying or purchasing power.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct 5.-Neal
Smith, negro convict, who recently
assaulted a young white woman at
Cole City, Ga, after beating her into
insensibility, was last night taken
from the prison guards by a mob from
Tennessee and Alabama and shot to
death. Great excitement exists and
even the guard who had charge of the
convict, allowing him to go about as
trusty, was roughly handled. No
further trouble is expected.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
RIDDLED WITH BUCKSHOT.
Ex-State Senator Hughes Killed by George
Rockers at AntOnitO, oil.

Ex-State Senator Hughes Killed by George
Rockers at AntOnitO, tOi.
ANTONITO. Col, Oct. 5.-George Reek.
ers, a saloonkeeper in Connejos, shot
and killed ex-State Senator John w.
Hughes yesterday. Hughes went into
Rockers saloon and got into an argu.
ment with the proprietor, who ordered
him out of the place. According to
Eeekers' story, he took shotgun load
ed with buckshot and ordered Hughes
out. Hughes, he says. cursed him, and
as Hughes opened the door to go out
he threw his hand back to his hip
pocket, to where he usually carried
his gun, and then Rockers fired. the
shot taking effect in the right side of
his abdomen. There was q woman at
the bottom Of the trouble.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

GUTHRIE, o. r.. Oct. 5.-Last winter
the legislature passed bill making
train and bank robbery punishable by
imprisonment for life. The first men
to be convicted under this law are
Tullis and Henry WEIGH, in the district
court at Tecumseh. They robbed an
old man named Ross in the Kickapoo
country last May, getting 81.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
In Favor of Senator Squire.

WATERFOWL. N. Y, Oct. 5.-Judgc
Williams, Of the supreme court, yester-
day delivered an opinion in the cele-
brated suit brought by Philo Osgood
and others against United States Sem
ator Watson c. Squire and others. in
volving the title to between $1,000. 600
and So, 600, 900 worth of property in the
city OF Seattle, Wash. The judge de-
cides in favor of Senator Squire.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
Wisconsin Methodlsts for Women.

RACINE, Wis, Oct. 5.-The Wiscon-
sin conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, in session here to-day,
voted on the question of the admission
of women as delegates to the general
conference The vote resulted: For
the women, 100; against, 1; neutral, %.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-The steamship
Spree, which sailed from Bremen for
New York on October /, carried $780,
900 in gold, and the steamship Fuerst
Bismarci,, from Hamburg on October
3, carried $3.50, 700 in gold.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
Frightful Accident.

TACOMA, Wash, Oct. "a frightful
accident occurred on the line of the
Tacoma Traction Co., near the city
limits, in which dozen persons were
more or less dangerously hurt and two
will probably die from the injuries re-
ceived. The accident was a head-end
collision, and was due to a heavy fog
which enshrouded the track
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

New YORK, Oct 5-Surrogate Fitz-
gerald has returned to David Mcclure,
appraiser of the Jay Gould estate, his
reports on its value in order that the
collateral inheritance tax may be
levied. The report values the personal
property of the estate at $50, 1874, $50,
and the real estate at So, 100000. The
residuary estate amounts to S73, 224, SAT.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
First Hanging since John Brown.

CnARLnsTowN. w. Va, Oct. Am
drew j. Scott. colored, was hanged in
the Jail yard here to-day for the muir
der of his wife by poison. This is the
first hanging that has taken place here
since John Brown and his men paid
with their lives the penaltS Of their
thirty-six years ago.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
A silent Appeal for Help.

When your kidneys and bladder are in
active they are making a silent appeal for
help. Don't disregard it, but with Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters safely impel them
to activity They are in immediate danger,
and it is foolhardness to shut one's eyes to
the fact. Be wise in time, too, if you ex-
perience manifestations Of dyspepsia, ma
laria, rheumatism, constipation or nerve
trouble. The Bitters before meal adds
zest to it.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
Best Of All

beneficial manner, when the springtime
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for
all the family and costs only so cents; the
large size 81. Try it and be pleased. Man
u.actured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

WHETHER or not sin dates from the first
apple-eating, it is pretty generally conceded
that new habits were acquired by our first
parents very soon after their indulgence in
the fruit Of the apple tree.-Boston Tran
script,
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

THE statistician is not given to figurative
expression, Notwithstanding he is given to-
expressing himself in figures. Young Mems
Era
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY.
A Brisk Campaign Against the Sachems
Will BE Carried On.

VIII DIG VHrr1AO On.
NEW YORK, Oct 4.-The first steps
toward union of the political forces
opposed to Tammany in the coming
campaign were taken in meetings Of
the chamber of commerce and of rep
resentatives of various anti-Tam-
many forces yesterday wherein
1t was resolved to put a
fusion ticket in the field and to con-
duct campaign against Tammany
under the direction of a committee of
fifty organized on the lines Of the old
committee of seventy.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

BEEcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
CSC G It the book free) at your druggists
and go by it. Annual sales 5000, 900 boxes.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

DEspIsE not any man, and do not spurn
anything; for there is no man who hath not
his hour. nor is there anything that has not
its place.-Rabbi Ben Azai.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

IT SEEMS So --"Papa," said Harry, "when
boy keeps on doing something wrong Of
his own accord, he's willful, isn't hel"
''Yes," said Mr.. Rigid. "Then IL he doesn't
do nothing of nobody else's accord, he's
won'tful, isn't hei''-Harpcr's Round Table.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

MORE EARLY HISTORY Eyes, see you're
q new woman, Eve" said Adam, but IN
take the risk. You haven't any past."-1Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

WOULD you kill the weeds in your gar
den. plant it with good seed; il the ground
be well occupied there will be less need of
the hoe.-A. Fuller.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

SHE-sThat was very pretty for Mr.. Ise.
lin to kiss his better half after the race"
He-"Ycs, it was pretty; but remember -
Yonkers statesman.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

CURE your cough with Hale's Honey OF
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
THE TAYLORS STILL SAFE.

The Day Set by the Court for the Hangings
Passes without Action.
CARROLLToN, Mo-, Oct. 5.-Yester-
day was the day set for the hanging of
the Taylor brothers for the murder OF
the Meeks family, but Judge Rucker
granted stay. pending an appeal to
the supreme court. The appeal will
not be heard before next April.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

AFTER six years. suffering, was cured BY
Piso's Cure.-MARY THOMSON, 29Ia Ohio
Ave, Allegheny, Pa, March 10, '94.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

The only liberty that man, worthy Of
the name ought to ask for, is to have all
restrictions, inward or outward, removed
that prevent his doing what he ought.-F.
w Robertson
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

THE END OF THE VAcATIoN.-He lin leav-
ing)-"I think have said good-by to you
before, miss" She" Well, Pm always
glad to say good-by to yOu."-Truth.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

You can cram these words into mine
ears against the stomach of my sense
Shakespeare
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

THOUGHT is the blossom, language the
opening bud, action the fruit behind it.
Beecher.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

81, 0ohuuctor-"See here, we don't
.ppp. at the station" Tenderfoot-
s,oa Gou see my ticket calls for you to
n.y. op mere" Conductor latter a mo-
be- H. Well let it go; we'll pro ba bly,
anyhow" '"e'e somewhere
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

Two princes only contributed pa
prs 70 the geographical congress, and,
fy enough, both got their money
run 'on' Monte Carlo. One is Prince AL
,' s' OF Monaco, whose revenue come
tby from the gambling house,
I nn he has married rich wife, the
Ia'. dc Richelieu, daughter of the
d., banker Heinc. The other is
Pee ee holland Bonap;S'te. the SON of
;n me- rierre, who shot Victor Noir
Immediately before the Franco-Prus.
brn,t war and grandson of Napoleon's
da 'ner Lucien. lie married the
wh uSn'er and the millions of NJ. Blame,
MAJ o ran the tables at HON burg and
t,,,a carlo and lost his wife within
-"o years after the marriage.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

nincs, oooSs-"Why is everybody run
domn olobbs-"There's mad dog
500 Ia we street" Blobbs-.I don't
Slobh" 'oat should make people run.
ss - But there's policeman
at ft"-Philadelphia Record.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

n u NOV me She man who would 20
ons ,nr alone, and will show you
'-Fe!tham ~ " a''n'''ea 'hefe'
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.