The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Tur converter in the Frankstown

| metal in nll directions. Seven men
 were reported more or less injured and
 seriously burned. All were taken tc
 the hospital. A man named Watson
 was probably fatally burned.
 AT New Orleans on the 18th all the
 buildings fronting on the river be.
 tween Elysian Fields street and
 Esplanade avenue were destroyed by
 fire. Loss, $500, 900; partly insured.
 THE town of Manchester on the
 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail
 way. 40 miles from Cincinnati, was re.
 ported almost wiped out by fire on the
 18th. It has population of 1,5oO
 AT Ceylon, Ind, the pay car on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road was
 wrecked and three men killed and sev- eral badly injured through an open switch
 A DISPATCH from Quincy, H., stated that A. J. Miller, ex-mayor of Canton, Mo-, and Henry Clay were drowned in the Mississippi river on the lsth They were out sailing when the boat cap sized. THE failures for the week ended October IS (Dun's report) were 263 in the United States, against 253 last year, and 46 in Canada, against 43 last year. T COMMANDER BALLINGToN BOOTH, of the Salvation army, has announced that the big Salvation congress will be held in Chicago this year. It will last four days, and will be during the lat ter part of November Mir. and Mrs. Booth will lead the exercises and all the national staff officers will be pres ent The Auditorium has been en- gagged for the occasion.
 THE official report of the Lake Mo- honk Indian conference reached the Indian office at Washington on the l7th. Among other thing the report declares the reservation system was an insuperable obstacle to civilation and should be abolished. the tribal organi- zation destroyed, and lands allotted in severalty, the Indians intermingled with the whites and the Indians treat ed as other men.
 JOSEPH RAMSEY, Jr., has been ap- pointed general manager of the Wa bash railroad, vice Charles M. Hayes, resigned. Mir. Ramsey will assume the duties of his position about January 1.
 AT the breeders meeting at Lexing. ton, Ky, the sensation on the 17th was the breaking of the worlds 2-year-old race record by Tommy Britton, he lowering it half second, trotting the mile in 2:l5H.
 Gov. MCINTYRE, of Colorado, has de- clared quarantine against Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Sheep from these regions can be ad- mitted within the state only on their being found to be free from contagious diseases after an inspection. This proclamation does not apply to sheep that are to be transported through the l state by rail.
 ALEXANDER B. MCDoNALD, of Ro- chester, N. Y., recently made the 100. mile run from Erie to Buffalo on his bicycle in hours and 55 minutes, beat ing the best previous time by 3l min. uteS
 ORLANDO STEVENS, the Ottumwa Ua. wonder bicycle rider, reduced the 4 mile unpaced record on the l7th at Hedrick in the sensational time of 2S l-5 seconds, lowering the worlds rec. ord for that distance.
 CHIEF CONSUL POTTER, at the coming session of the national assembly, L. A. w., in February, will try to get racing under the sanction of the league abol. ished and have the league confine its attention to the matter of good roads, hotel rates, etc.
 GEN. JOHN GIBBoN has been elected grand commander of the Loyal Legion ,f the United States.