The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-06

LEMEN BROs. circus train, bound for Negaunee to Escanaba, Mich, collided with northbound ore train on the S1st Both engines and two circus cars were wrecked. Three horses were killed and two injured. Five of the circus employees were injured but none fatally.
 WILL OWENS was legally hanged at Warner, near Pine Bluff, Ark, for shooting his wife and then beating in her skull with hoe.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended May 31 showed an average increase as compared with the corre- spending week last year of 15 ,; in New York the increase was 2o.4; outside New York, s.9.
 ATTORNEY THOMAS TYRE fell from a fifth story window at Lebanon, Ind, recently and alighted upon his baby in its carriage. The little one was killed instantly and Tyres neck was broken. He was cleaning a window in his office when he lost his balance and fell.
 THE boiler at Deals sawmill, near Townsville, Caldwell county, $. C., ex- ploded on the 3lst, resulting in the in- stant death of Fireman Ed Deal, Fire man Fender Oxford and Gordon OK ford, and fatally injuring Reuben Jones, who died five hours later.
 IN honor of Decoration day and at the request of post lO4, G. A. R., of New York, Gen. J. Meredith Read de- posted a splendid wreath on the 3Oth upon the tomb of Gen. Lafayette in the Pischus in the Faubourg Saint An toine at Paris The wreath was in- scribed, ITO America's Friend"
 THE coinage at the United States mint at Philadelphia during the month of May amounted to Ss, 25i, 1862. 10. The number of pieces coined was 3,944, ,335, as follows: Gold, 46s, 255; silver, 646,- 72O; base, 2,sSO, ,S60
 DECORATION day was observed at all the principal cities in the country in the usual way, many cities having inn posing parades in the afternoon. At Chicago the monuments to the Rock of Chickamauga" and the confederate dead were dedicated. At New York Gov. Mckinley made an oration at Grants tomb. The veterans turned out in large numbers at the national capital and held services at Arlington. Jerry Rusk's monument was dedicated at Viroqua, Wis. At Salt Lake, Utah, 2,OOO children join ed in the parade and ex-Congressman Bartine delivered the oration.
 THE secretary of the interior has de- cided to expend S30,O00 put at his dis posal by congress in the improvement of the Hot Springs, Ark, reservation, in work along the main reservation, and not on the Wilmington reserve, as has been anticipated.
 THE two welterweights, Tommy Ryan and Mysterious" Billy Smith, of Boston, fought at Coney Island, N. Y., recently. It was anybody's battle until the seventeenth round, when Ryan fought Smith all over the ring and would have knocked him out in the next round if the police had not interfered. The referee declared it a draw, according to agreement.
 AT Krebs, I. T., Hugh Williams, miner, shot Jack Doyle, another miner, killing him instantly. The shooting grew out of a personal difficulty.
 A DISPATCH from Des Moines. Ia, of the 30th stated that in a number of places in that county seventeen year locusts, the scourge that impoverished the northwest a number of years ago, had made their appearance. Last sea- son it was announced by scientists that the locusts might be looked for this summer.
 AN explosion occurred on the Turk ish torpedo boat Destroyer at Kie- which was being built at the Germania ship yards, by which seven men were killed and twelve injured.