The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-12-12

CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December 8 showed an av-
erage increase rs compared with the
corresponding week last year of 70;
In New York the increase was 81;
outside New York the increase was
40
AN explosion occurred Mt the maya.
zines of the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo
Co., IS miles south of Toledo, O. Two
magazines exploded, causing two
shocks No one was killed. The
shocks were plainly felt in Toledo and
all surrounding towns.
The heaviest windstorm for many
years visited the coast of Halifax, N.
s, on the 9th. Great damage was done
to shipping interests, although so far
as known no lives were lost. Alto
gether about twenty schooners werc
wrecked and stranded
ArToRNEY-GENERAL HARMON, in his
annual report, shows that the number
of criminal cases pending in the fed.
eral courts July 1, 1895, was l2,495. He
calls attention to the fact that too
much of the time of the supreme court
is occupied by criminal appeals and
suggests that such appeals be disal-
lowed, save in capital cases He also
calls attention to the growing abuse of
the writ Of habeas corpus
In answer to a call signed by Mayor
Strong, Chauncey NJ Depew, Martin
r. Mcmahon, Andrew Dickinson,
Charles A. Dana, John j. Garnett and
other we'll known New Workers met
on the 5th and organized for reunion
and parade of the veterans of the civil
warm the streets of New York July 4,
1896.
Ice dealers in Chicago have about
perfected trust to control prices.
The Chaffee block, the largest bust.
ness structure in Allegan, Mich.
burned at an early hour on the 9Th.
Loss, 500, 900; partially insured. Sew.
eral persons had narrow escapes, but
no one was seriously hurt.
The New York Evening World said
that a trust, comprising almost every
tack factory in the country,
had been organized and the price of
tacks advanced to almost double the
former rates.
diers' home met at Washington on the
5th and decided to recommend to con-
gress that an appropriation of 500, 900
be made for erecting barracks at the
home and also for the
erection of quartermaster's building.
The additional barracks to be provided
are to accommodate about 1000 more
inmates. 1t is also proposed to provide
\ ward for the insa ne.
NEAR Watonga, Ok, recently, Judge
W. X. Hill, who had bought a lot of
nay at sheriff's sale, was attacked by
\. II. Lookabaugh, the former owner,
Ind fatally injured with pitchfork.
The affair was the outcome of law
suit over an account for SO worth of
which had been in court for
several years.
A PART of the crew of the sponging
schooner Shamrock, which arrived at
Tampa, Fla, recently, reported that
while at st. Martins reef heavy
capsized the schooner and
Xix negroes, who were below the |
were drowned.
THE Lafon Old Folks Methodist |
ZONE and the Lines Orphans and
Widows home at New Orleans were |
the other morning. They were
10Th colored charitable institutions. |
There was a quarrel between the laity
md clergy over the control of the old
olks' home and it was presumed that
he bitterness engendered led to the
ire. Two men were seen saturating
he Lafon home with oil and then set
ing it on fire and were fred upon by
leighbor The fire afterwards spread
o the orphans home. All the inmates
we're rescued.