The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-21

THE Vandalia express was wrecked near Terre Haute, Ind, on the 18th by head-end collision with switch en- zine. Nobody was killed. Considers. ble damage was done by many of the cars catching fire and communicating the fire to some freight cars near by. Two Adams express safes were taken from the wreck at white heat, some of the coin inside having been melted.
 A SPECIAL from Chippewa Falls, Minn., said that party of hunters dis covered three men dead in an old shanty. The supposition was that they had been hunting wolves, using poison to kill them and had accidentally got the poison mixed with their food.
 JOHN MILLIGAN, the negro murderer of Gabe and Hannah Clark, was hanged at Oklahoma City, Ok, on the 18th. Milligan entered the house of the Clarks on the night of November 3, 1893, and killed them with an ax. Milligan was only 21 years old. He died coolly, say ing he was going straight to glory. This was the first legal hanging in Oklahoma.
 BY the flashing of flames from the door of an annealing furnace in the Sharon (Pa.) iron works five employees were frightfully burned. Strauss, one of the men, seemed to lose all reason and began running through the mill, his clothes all aflame. He was caught by the mill employees, and their quick work saved him from being burned to crisp.
 l A HUNGARIAN woman, whose hus- band had been killed in the mines two years ago, started through the woods with her daughter from Mammoth, Pa. to neighboring town to buy tickets to Hungary with $500 she had saved, when both were waylaid, robbed and murdered. Two Hungarians were miss ing from the place and were suspected of the crime.
 | EX-Gov. CAMPBELL. of Ohio. at din ner on the 18th drank some water and suddenly rose foaming at the mouth, | exclaiming: My throat is burning" | A physician was immediately sum- moned and administered antidotes. Investigation showed that the servant had placed bottle of ammonia in the | ice chest and it had leaked into the drinking water.
 | ON the 14th all was quiet at New Or leans. The colored screwmen resumed work on the wharves under the protec- | tion of the state troops. The white | screwmen preserved a threatening silence, but none made a move which would cause the militia to use force to suppress it. The militia were under orders to report the next day. FIRE at Laramie, Wyo., destroyed the building of the Trabing Commercial Co. with n large stock of goods. The | loss will probably reach $50, ,000 with about S6O,O 900 insurance. The store ad- | joining was crushed by the falling walls and the stock buried under the ruins Four men were injured and one is dead. A university student, who was buried with others under falling wall, cannot live.
 WHILE blast was being made in a stone quarry at Birdsboro on the 9th a 300 pound rock fell on George Ream- stine, fracturing his skull. He died the next day. John Lloyd was badly injured.
 TIE striking white screw men at. tackled the negroes employed in their places on the levee at New Orleans with revolvers and rifles Several ne- groes were killed and many others se- | riously wounded. The white men de- clared that no negro should appear on the levec front and the police were powerless to do anything. The purser of British vessel was among the | wounded and international complica- tions may ensue. The militia were under orders. The general merchants condemned the ship agents for bring ing negroes to take the places of the home men.