The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-04-04


 FIRE broke out on the 9th in the house of Israel Higby, farmer at Northport, l.. l., and his daughter and 14-year-old granddaughter were burned to death. The daughter had first saved her aged father and mother and had then rushed into the burning house after her daughter, when she was never seen again. %
 TIE girls in the Illinois home for juvenile offenders at Chicago indulged in another riot on the 29th. At a given signal they began to scream and then pulled down the partitions between the sleeping rooms and smashed the furniture. The patrol wagon, filled with policemen, hurried to the scene and, after a hard struggle, during which the girls fought like wild cats, they were all locked up in strong rooms.
 ALFRED MARTIN and Henry James, miners, were crushed to death in the Sleepy Hollow mine near Central City, Col, by mass of dirt and rock which fell upon them in drift. SAM MCWMLIAMs alias "Verdigris Kid" and George Sanders, an outlaw of lesser note, were killed at Braggs, I. T.. while robbing Madden's store. The bodies were taken to Fort Smith, Ark, and delivered to Marshal Crump, that the government reward of S250 for the body of "Verdigris" might be collected. Joe Morris, clerk, was also mortally wounded in the affray.
 TIE thirty girls confined at the state home for juvenile female offenders at Chicago took advantage of the pres euce of the representatives of the board of management to show what they could do in the way of rioting on the 2sth. They smashed nearly all the crock cry in the house, broke windows, threw the contents of the pantry about the premises and filled the air with shouts | It required three wagon loads of police | to quell the riot, and it was necessary to carry the majority of the girls to | their rooms by main strength, and to leave policeman on guard throughout the night at the door of each room oc- cupied by the girls. The outbreak was caused by the alleged partiality shown 1 by the management to one of the girls. TIE Commercial bank at Cincinnati has closed up. The bank was one of the oldest in that city, but had long been weak.
 | TEN persons were arraigned at Water ford, Ireland. charged with murdering woman. The evidence showed that Mrs. Cleary was sick and her husband and father and the others, supposing i her to be bewitched, forced noXious | concoction down her throat and held her over fire until she was dreadfully burned The torture next day was re- peated by pouring oil over her body and then lighting it and she was burned to death. The husband and others thought they were burning witch and that she would disappear up | the chimney.
 | MALCOLM & WATERBURY, bucket shop traders, being short on pork, have failed. Their liabilities in Chi cago were small, but in Iowa, it was said, they would reach 5O,O0O, and in Omaha sG.O0O. The firm did an exten- sive business in Illinois, Missouri, Ne. brasha and Iowa, and had a number of branch offices in those states. | FOREST fires were reported doing much damage to farms and farm prop erty in Brown county, Ind.
 | UNIVERSITY and high school profess. ors of all ages and representing many of the leading educational institutions of the United States attended the clas' sical conference which opened at Ann Arbor, Mich, on the 27th.
 | THE business section of Oregon, H., was destroyed by fire. Loss, S5O,0Oo.
 DISPATCHES received from Shanghai said that there were thirty-eight cases of cholera in one day among the Japan csc troops at Port Arthur.