The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-07

hundred lives were lost and elghty-nye persons badly wounded. A train filled with Catholic pilgrims left the track and plunged over precipice. The engineer was blamed for not putting on the brakes in going down the steep incline where the accident happened.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities of the United States for the week ended March showed an average decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year of 73; in New York the decrease was 9.7. Ex- elusive of New York the decrease was 45.
 DUN's review of trade on the 2d said that wheat and corn were little high CT, although nothing seemed to justify the rise. Cotton had dropped to the lowest point known. The industries were making very slow gains where they made any. The market for cot ton goods was active.
 Ar New York on the 1st an acci dent occurred in the tearing down of an old building through the walls falling by which at least three workmen were killed and twelve others seriously in jured A few hours after, in another part of New York, one of a row of fivef story buildings being erected collapsed and one man was killed and eleven in. jured, some of whom will probably die. The accident was due to the worthless mortar and the fimsy construction of the building. The contractors were arrested.
 FAILURES for the week ended March (Dun's report) were 250 in the United States against 261 last year, and 3s in Canada against 42 last year.
 IT was believed on the 2sth that all the victims of the White Ash mine ex- plosion, near Cerillos, N. NJ, had been taken out of the mine, the dead num- bering twenty-five and the injured eighteen.
 Ar the session of the National Coun- cil of Women at Washington on the 2sth the divorce law was the subject of discussion and Mrs. Elizabeth E.. Grannis, of New York, advocated a universal marriage and divorce law throughout the federal government, recognizing no divorce except for adultery
 FIRE started in the Kaestner building in the heart of the west side factory district of Chicago. The building was crowded with men and women em- ployes and in the panic which resulted many were knocked down and bruised. In the Lancaster caramel factory, sev- eral blocks from the fire, some one sounded the alarm and 220 children at work made mad rush for the exits and rushing down the stairways, trampled under foot many who fell. Eleven were picked up unconscious by the ambulances. The loss by the fire was $500. O0O well insured.
 PROPERTY to the value of S1, 900, 900 was destroyed by fire on the 27th in the vicinity of Deepwater terminus at Hali- fax, N. S All of the government inn migration sheds, wharves, offices and other buildings burned. Several fire man were injured
 THE excitement at Savannah, Ga., was still great on the 27th over the lec- ture of the ex-priest, Slattery, and citi- zens were determined to uphold the right of free speech against the Catho- lies. Four three-story buildings were blown up, but there was no evidence to prove that the Catholics did it. The police have long list of the rioters and they will be arrested as rapidly as possible.
 lN New Orleans at noon on the 26th Rex, the king of carnival, appeared in a grand pageant based upon scenes and incidents from Fergus Hume's "Chron- icles of Fairyland," fantastic tales for old and young. There were twenty magnificent tableaux in the procession.