The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28


 that the surprising success of the new loan had given confidence to investors and business men and encouraged many to hope that a real recovery was beginning. The prices of farm prod ucts had not improved nor had cotton advanced, although the receipts had decreased.
 THREE hundred men, comprising half of the force of the Trench expedi- tion in central Africa are said to have been killed, while the remainder have been driven from the line of march and their retreat has been cut off by, natives. g'J
 THREE bandits held up the Frisco westbound train near Aurora, Mo, on the night of the 22d. They made the engineer and fireman break open the express car door, but the messenger had made his escape, and as they had noth- ing with which to open the safe, they disappeared in the darkness without getting anything.
 SIX lives were lost and S75,090 worth of property destroyed by fire which broke out at Hot Springs, Ark. on the 22d and swept over four blocks of build ings.
 A DISPATCH from Vienna says that twenty persons were frozen to death in Galicia in two days recently and that the severe weather continued through out central Europe. The lake of Zurich and the southern half of the lake of Lucerne were entirely frozen over.
 AT Rippon, near Charleston, w. Va, Robert Hill was unmercifully chastis- ing one of his sons, when the boy ran to the mother for protection. The father then beat the mother. The daughter, Cordelia, secured revolver and fired at her father, killing him. The child was taken before justice and an indictment for murder wasfound against her within few hours after l the homicide.
 TIE business portion of the village of Hamilton, N. r.. was destroyed by fire on the goth. The loss will reach S4OO. .O00.
 Gov. ATKINSON has been called on by the citizens of Harris county, Ga., for protection from the depredations of negroes who it was believed were on the verge of uprising. The negroes fired the house of Capt. Clark, com mander of the Gordon troops, and much of the equipment of the com pany was destroyed. The negroes were banded together in secret socie- ties and have been doing all sorts of | depredations. HARRY C. STILLwELL., a young clerk in the employ of the Bank of California, San Francisco, shot himself though the heart recently. He had been caught in the act of abstracting a $50 treasury note off bundle of notes in the bank. He was discharged and then took his | life.
 WusHIRE, O., was the scene of a double tragedy recently. Samuel Young, in fit of jealousy, made his young wife leave his house. He fol | lowed and overlook her and stabbed her three times in the side with a butcher knife. She managed to reach her sisters house about an hour after boing stabbed, and picking up her g. months old babe fell to the floor and died before anyone reached her Young went home and hanged him self. He was 70 years old and hi: wife 2l. Jealousy was the only cause attributed for the rash act. ~ A FREE-FoR-ALL fight took place or the 2lst at the republican city conyen ton at Chicago during the discussion of credentials The delegates armed themselves with canes and chairs anC pounded each other energetically and indiscriminately. The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, resulting ir many bad bruises and sadly battered hats. Police interference stopped thu
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