The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-01

i intense In the towns Tn the vicinity. Every home and cabin of the settlers had been burned and it was thought | the Indians would continue their work all down the Teton river valley in | Idaho.
 TIE international geographical con gress was formally opened in London on the 2Gth by the duke of York Among tho Americans in attendance is Gen. A. w. Greeley.
 JOHN HICKS house was burned at Big Stone Gap, Va, and four of his children perished while his wife and one child were badly burned. The fire caught from stove and burned very rapidly, while the family were asleep
 CHARLES ENLow, aged 20, was dead and Charles Duflin, aged Is, was dying from the effects of fight at Marietta, Ind, on the 26th. 1t was the result of jealousy, and the object of their love was married woman. Duffin was brought to his parents and, though in dying condition, was compelled to furnish bond for Sl,0G0 to appear upon the third day of the September term of the circuit court.
 A TRACTION engine broke through a bridge across Salt creek, 10 miles from Zanesville, O., on the 2Gth. Frank Dickerson was instantly killed and William Bowser fatally injured.
 THE work of the post office inspect ors who have been 'spotting" the let fa, par rria,.S t,, ha laIs throughout the country, continues to bear fruit. Assistant Postmaster-Gen. eral Jones has sent orders to the post masters at Indianapolis, Toledo and Syracuse, N. Y., to suspend or dis charge a number of their carriers on charges of loating and intemperance.
 TIE preliminary report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller for the year ended June 30, 1895, was pre- sented to Secretary Carlisle on the 25th. Total receipts from all sources were Sl43 245.07S, decrease from the receipts of lS93-4 of 8, 922, ,472. The percentage of cost of collection, includ- ing the income tax and sugar bounty was g s4; for the previous year S2.7O.
 A SPECIAL from Croton, la, on the 18th, told of an alarming diphtheria epidemic there. All the children in some families had died. Quarantine had been established.
 IT was reported at Pocatello, Ida, on the 18th that fifty-nine white people had been killed by the Hammock Indi- ans near Jackson's Hole, but the re- port was not believed. Four hundred Indians had joined the BannocSs on Fall river and were preparing to make an onslaught on the whites.
 THREE fatalities were reported from Oklahoma on the 2jth. George Sal mon, from Ponca, was drowned in a pond on Sylvester Soldani's ranch, in the Osage country. An s-year-old son of James Burke, near Norman, was drowned while bathing, and at Paw huska the little daughter of Barney Plowondon was fatally scalded by fall ing into a kettle of boiling water.
 A DISPATCH from Pocatello, Id., on the 24th said that the Indian war had broken out in earnest. Hammock In- dians had killed a settler, his wife and child in the Salt river valley, and the white men had pursued the Indians and killed six. The settlers were gathering at points for mutual protec- tion. Indian Agent Teter had tele. graphed to Washington that nothing but the intervention of soldiers would settle the difficulty and save the lives of innocent people. Gen. Coppinger had been ordered to the scene of the disturbances by Secretary Lamont.
 TIE rumor that Chief of the Secret Service Hazen would be removed from osSee has been denied in Washington.