The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10

CHAMPION COkBETT and his party
reached New Orleans on the 4th. Local
sports said Corbett was not in good
condition, his face being very much
pinched and there was dull look
about his eyes and the opinion was ex-
pressed that the champion showed by
his conversation that he was building
up foundation to get out of the fight
If possible.
NEAL SMITH, q negro convict, who
recently assaulted young white
woman at Cole City, Ga, after beating
her into insensibility, was taken from
the prison guards by mob from Ten
nessee and Alabama and shot to death.
Great excitement existed but no fur
Their trouble was expected.
ONE of the largest fires that has ever
occurred in southeastern New England
broke out in one of the mills of the
Warren Or. ~ Manufacturing Co.,
just after midnight on the Sd and be-
fore it was gotten under control it had
swept through three large cotton
mills, two warehouses, small sheds,
freight cars and other property, caus-
ing loss estimated at 81, 1875, 900. The
local fire department was totally mad
equate to cope with the flames and had
to appeal to adjacent towns.
IT was said at the treasury depart
ment at Washington that the case Of
the Chihaman Gee Hop, who claimed ad.
mission into this country at San Fran
cisco on the ground that he was nat
uralized citizen of the United States,
presented no novel features. The law
was very plain on that point. The act,
approved May 6, 1882, provided that
hereafter no state court or court of the
United States shall admit Chinese to
citizenship, and all laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed"
HENRY J. Mccoy, general secretary
of the Y. M. &. A., of San Francisco,
who was cited for contempt for telling
Juror Truman that If he did not hang
Durrant, the suspected murderer of
Blanche Lamont, the people would
hang him, was fined $3.50, with the
alternative of five days in the county
Jail.
AT Silsterville. w. Va, citizens
burned gambling house kept by AL
bert Barton during Barton's absence.
The gamblers wife, attempting to es-
cape, jumped from the second story
window and was fatally injured. Bar
ton had been repeatedly warned by
citizens.
Gov. CULBERsoN signed the anti
prize fight bill on the Sd and prize
fighting in Texas hereafter will be
punished as felony. There was
much bitter feeling at Dallas against
Gov. Culberson. Many usually con-
sentative citizens openly declared that
he ought to be burned in effigy. The
governor, however, was kept busy
opening kilograms from Maine to Cali
fornia congratulating him on the pas.
sage of the law.
ANDREW CAIN and William Grose,
coon hunters Of Montpelier, Ind, mad
vertently built a fire over some nitro
glycerine that had been buried in the
ground. An explosion followed blow.
ing both men to atoms.
The 6-year.old son of Andrew Van
dyn, of East Liverpool, O.. was burned
at the stake on the Sd by five compan-
ions and so badly injured that he can
not recover. Some men happened to
see the performance and ran to the
boys rescue, but his clothes had taken
fire and he was badly burned, and the
said it was impossible for
him to live. A wild west show exhib-
tied in the city about month ago,
and since that time the boys of the
town have been playing Indian.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has commut- !
ed to imprisonment for life the death |
sentence imposed upon Clyde Mattox,
Of Kansas, who was 20 hang on Octo-
Der II for killing an old negro named |
John Mullens. in Oklahoma.