The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-27

cipal cities in the United States for the week ended June 2l showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 2A.o; in New York the increase was 30l; outside New York, 152.
 REV. FRANK KING, colored, of Port land, Ark, became infatuated with Deacon William Toney's wife and trouble arose between them When they met on the street recently the preacher shot Toney in the abdomen. He was locked up, and after dark mob of infuriated negroes repaired to the lock-up, took King to tree and lynched him.
 THE bank at Rainy Lake. Minn., was robbed recently by two masked men. One engaged the cashiers attention while the other came up behind him, hit him on the head, stunning him. About SG,O00 was secured. There was no clew to the robbers.
 JAMES SAUNDERS, a negro living about l2 miles from Port Gibson Miss, killed his wife because she accused him of brutality to his daughter by former marriage. The brother. of the mur- dered woman, with about 200 blacks and fifty whites, went to Saunders house at night and lynched him.
 NEAR Tunnelton. w. Va, on the 21st lightning struck a dynamite magazine and an awful explosion followed. Sev- cral persons were killed and much property was damaged.
 Mas. SANFORD GILLIs, wife of well to do farmer near Shellsburg, Ia.. poi soned herself and three of her children and all four died. She was known to be insane.
 A DISASTROUS freight wreck occurred on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southern railway near Bedford, Ind, recently. A through freight train jumped the track, fourteen cars were ditched and four tramps were killed. Three car loads of cattle were crushed to death.
 FORTY thousand dollars worth of se- curity, purporting to be backed by the credit of Los Angeles, Cal, that were being peddled among some of the lead ing financial houses of the east; were pronounced to be forgeries. The bonds purported to be sewer and public i'm provement bonds bearing interest at 10 per cent.
 THE discovery has been made that myriads of grasshoppers are dying near Brighton, Col, and there seemed to be promise that the pest would be wiped out by means of some unknown disease or agency.
 TIE Osage Indians have always dis liked the negro race and kept them out of their reservation as much as possible. They have now determined to be rid of them for good. the national council recently having passed the fol- lowing: That from and after the passage of this act the negroes resid- ing within the 0sage nation shall be ordered to get out. Any citizen of the Osage nation shall be subject to fine of $50 for the employment of any negro on this reservation" The attorney general of the nation has issued d proclamation that this law will be en- forced on and after July 1.
 EARLY on the morning of the 18th while Ava Reidel, Hattie Reidel and Hattie Litz were at work in a laundry in Chicago, one of them saw a white draped figure before the window and ran shrieking for help After short time the figure again suddenly ap- peared and with an unearthly groan glided into the darkness The three girls swooned and when found half an hour later were still unconscious Physicians say that Ava Reidel will proba bly die. There is no clew as to who perpetrated the rhostlv trick.