The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-07-11

SluVcu lHdu the uolier or the electric works at Carthagenia exploded, de- stroying three houses, killing ten per. sons and wounding eighteen others.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended July 5 showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of l4. Q; in New York the increase was 16.2; outside New York. 19.6
 FIVE persons dead and thirtv-three injured was the record of accidents of the 4th in Chicago.
 PosTMAsTER-GENERA WILsoN offers a reward of $l, 900 each for the capture of the three post office robbers who escaped from jail in New York city on the 4th.
 TERRIBLE riot occurred at picnic at Siberia, Ind, on the 4th in which 1000 men and women participated. Three men were killed outright and tifty-four persons wounded, many of whom were women. The dangerously wounded were taken to a Catholic church and twenty were expected to die. The occasion was German Catholic picnic and an interruption by apti-Catholics, loaded with bad whisky, was the cause of the trouble.
 A NUMBER of men were drinking in a beer garden at Bernadotte, H., on the 5th, when a fight was started about a woman. Knives, revolvers, stones and all kinds of deadly weapons were at once brought into use. A desperate battle took place in which 100 men took part, and the result is that three of them were fatally wounded and several others were carried off the ground suffering from various kinds of wounds.
 FREDERICK HELLMANN, a well to dc mason contractor of Chicago, murdered his wife and four children and himself on the night of the 4th by turning on the gas and causing death by asphyxi. ation, It was at first supposed that their deaths was an accident, but il developed at the coroney's inquest that the wholesale murder was calmly planned, and that the man intended to kill himself and end the existence of the members of his family.
 AT Mobile, Ala, Thomas Norville, colored, was hanged in jail on the 5th, for the murder of Louis Coleman, col. ored, whom he killed last summer. This was the third legal execution at Mobile in year.
 REPORTS from several towns near oh hn ct tnI hot extensive forest fires were raging among the farming communities, many farmers having lost homes, barns and crops.
 THE board of managers of the pro. posed Colorado industrial and mining exposition at Denver have resolved to postpone the enterprise indefinitely. A gloomy outlook for financial SUD- port was given as the cause of the failure.
 THE city council of Silver City, N. M., has refused to levy tax for the payment of interest on it's bonded in debtedness amounting to $50, 900, thus practically repudiating the bonds. The debt was refunded three years ago at per cent.
 A CASE of wholesale poisoning oc, cured at Hyatt's station, Ind, in which thirteen people were affected three of whom may not recover, Thomas Faith, who runs a sawmill and boards his help, bought bread of q German neighbor named Inglehart and every person who ate the bread became violently sick.
 IN the village of Romeo, H., hut containing five women was blown tc atoms by dynamite placed beneath il by the rejected lover of one of the women. All the inmates were injured three perhaps fatally. The terpetrator was arrested.