The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-04-25

SIR BEDIvERE, the most famous St. Bernard dog in the world, died at the Argyle kennels at Little Rock, Ark, of gastritis. MT. Pratt, proprietor of the Argyle kennels, bought the dog two years ago from Col Reick. of New York, for $S, ,000. Sir Bedivere won the first prize in every bench show in which he has participated both in Europe and America.
 PHMADELPHIA had bad fire on the 10th which destroyed a cracker fac tory, a chemical factory, liquor store, chair factory, harness factory and eight or nine dwelling houses. The loss will foot up S3O0,0Oo. Several per- sons were badly hurt by falling walls.
 The National Association of Heavy | Hardware Dealers convened in annual session at Louisville, Ky, on the 10th. THE main business portion of Ard more, I. T., for six solid blocks, was burned on the 10th, sixty business houses being entirely destroyed. The loss was estimated at from S5OO.O00 to | $500, GOO. The United States court and | jail were also destroyed and the vault | of the courthouse was cracked and the court records partly destroyed. The fire was said to be incendiary. THE failures for the week ended April 19 Dun's report) were 24l in the United States against 2l9 last year. THE coroner's jury concluded its in | vestigations in the case of Durant, the alleged murderer of Minnie Williams and Blanche Lamont in Emanuel church at San Francisco, and rendered a verdict declaring Durant guilty of | the murder of Minnie Williams. AT Chicago on the 10th Samuel M. Rice was chosen president of the whisky trust, to succeed Joseph B. Greenhut, deposed.
 THERE was another violent earth quake shock at Laidbach, Austria, on the l7th. It was found that the re- cent subterranean disturbances had damaged 9s per cent. of the houses at Laidbach, and traffic and business there have been suspended.
 TIE interior department was await ing Gov Renfrow's argument in sup port of the right of Oklahoma to select indemnity school lands in the Kickapoo Indian reservation, and no steps look ing to the opening of that land will be taken pending its receipt.
 THE National league opened the cham pionship baseball season on the 18th with Brooklyn at New York; Philadel- phia at Baltimore, Cleveland at Cincin- nati, Boston at Washington, Pittsburgh at Louisville and Chicago at St. Louis.
 DEPLoRABLE accounts of the condi- tion of crops were received from the section around Austin, Tex, as a result of the unprecedented dry winter and spring. The prevailing winds had been from the north, blasting fruit and whitening oats, which will be total failure. Cotton seed had routed in the ground and whole plantations will have to be replanted. Corn was willing; trees, which usually have a crop of young nuts at this time of the year, were just budding.
 THE walls of the nearly completed Tretz building at Gloversville, N. Y., collapsed on the 18th. Two painters of JohnStown, Adam and Washington Veeder, were buried in the ruins and two plumbers were badly injured. ONE of the mines of the Crescent Coal Co.,, at Gallup, N. M., caught fire and fifteen men were almost suffocated from the smoke and gas. They were carried out of the mine after the fire was extinguished.
 FIVE young women, members of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at New York, were recently poisoned by arsenic. The drug, it was thought, was administered by young woman who was taken into the household to enable her to study their methods oi work, they belonging to church so. ciety.