The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-23

I es,rly hour on the 17th the boarding house of Mrs. John Hewitt was wrecked by a dynamite explosion. Mrs. Hewitt , and her daughter were taken out of the wreck unconscious. Mrs. Hev7itt was injured internally and her daugh- ter's legs were crushed. Four other occupants of the house were slightly injured. Mrs. Hewitt was living apart from her husband and when he ap- peared at the scene of the disaster Mrs. Hewitt accused him of causing the out rage.
 A NUMBER of warehouses and facto- ries near the leather market at Der mondsey, London, covering 11S acres of ground, have burned. The loss was estimated af Sl, ,O00, ,OO0
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended May F showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 3.7; in Ne w York the increase was 505; outside New York, 9.2.
 THE failures for the week ended May F (Dun's report) were 211 in the United States, against 219 last year, and 37 in Canada, against 24 last year.
 JOHN HowERToN, white man, was recently strung up by the neck by mob at Marion, Ky, for an assault on 16-year-old girl. The jail where the man was confined was stormed and the prisoner was seized and strangled in slaughter house.
 THE wool growers at Del Rio, Tex, were reported on the 18th as storing enormous quantities of wool in the hope that the commodity would ad- vance in price.
 THE west end of Coney Island N. Y, was visited by a conflagration on the 16th. Altogether about 100 buildings were either destroyed or greatly dam aged and about thousand people thrown out of employment. The esti- mated damage was S250,0OO.
 THE governor of Texas has issued a quarantine proclamation, to go into effect May l5, preventing the intro- duction of splenetic or southern fever into that state by railroad ship ments or otherwise.
 THE bodies of eight workmen were picked out from the ruins of the Peck, Haskell lS Cobb's saw mill at West Bingham, Pa, on the 14th Five were dead and two of the three others have since died. A belt broke and while it was being repaired nobody paid any attention to the boiler, which was making steam at prodigious rate. It burst and the mill was entire ly demolished. Parts of the boiler were thrown hundreds of feet. The victims were horribly mangled, having their heads crushed to jelly and be- ing recognizable only by their cloth ing.
 A BIG fire occurred in the yards of the Dwight Lumber Co.,, which occupy about two blocks square, at Detroit, Mich. The loss was estimated at slOO,- GOO.
 BY the burning of the residence of Thaddeus Brown, farmer residing t mile from the village of Bryan, O., his | wife perished in the flames and his | 5-year-old son was fatally burned.
 IT was learned on the 18th from the | driver of the mail stage between San Carlos and the abandoned post, Fort Thomas, Ariz., that the renegade Apaches had fight with the Indians on the reservation, killing one squaw, injuring several others and carrying one away.
 THE convention of the Catholic Knights of America at Omaha, Neb., on the 18th considered the proposition of inviting Catholic bodies of similar character to consolidate with it. No definite action was taken, but the indi- cations were that something of the kind w5uld be done