The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-10

cipal cities of the United States for the week ended January 4 showed an average decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year of 4.6; in New York the decrease was 3.2; out side New York the decrease was 6. 1. BARRETT SCoTT, the missing ex-treas- urer from O'Neill, Neb., was positively declared by the sheriff of Fairmont, Minn., to have passed through that city on the 3d, bound east on train. Orders were sent to arrest him.
 A FIRE at the Southern Illinois Hospital for the Insane occurred early on the 4th. No lives were lost, the fire commencing in the roof giving ample time to get the patients out. The loss was large.
 A VERY bad explosion of powder oc- cured at the Mover works of the w. J. Rainey Co. at Uniontown, Pa., recent ly. At least six foreigners were seri- ously injured and one other fatally hurt. The men carelessly handled a lxeg of powder and it exploded. The building was torn to pieces and the men were blown 50 yards in all direc- tions.
 THE failures for 1894 Dun's report) were 13,ss5 in the United States and 1856 in Canada. The liabilities, United States, $l72, 992, 1856; Canada, S17,6l6,2l5 IT has been ascertained that 322 fish ermen belonging to Hull, Grimsby and Yardmouth were lost in the recent gale.
 JUDGE BUSTED, of Dubuque, la, has decided the A. o. U. w. case. His de- cision is against the ''loyals," the judge holding the order to be life in- surance company and not secret so- ciety. The ''rebels" refused to pay assessments for death losses in the south caused by yellow fever in 1882. The suit was of great interest to sev- eral other orders of the kind.
 TwENTy-oNE coal mines in the Pitts burgh, Pa, district were idle on the 4th and it seemed probable that many more would close down. The miners refused to work at the rates offered, claiming they could not make living. The situation was growing serious.
 THE new four-story brick block on Lake street, Cleveland, O., owned by the Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Co.,, was destroyed by fire on the Sd. The building was worth S60, 900 and the oc- cupants probably suffered loss of Sl00, 900 or more.
 ON the recommendation of Post master-General Bissell the president has issued an order extending the civil service regulations to all superintend- ents of stations in the post offices of the United States. The order takes effect immediately upon its promulgation.
 IN Boston Raphaelo Mareno, 8 years old, was found dead in bed and Ra- phaelo Mareno, his cousin, and Ra- phaelo Sireno, ST, and Raphaelo Sireno, Jr., were found unconscious in their rooms from inhaling Illuminating gas which had escaped from leaky main in a tenement house.
 EIGHT farmers, near Westbrook, Conn.,, caught two tramps who had as- saulted teacher who refused to give them money, stripped off their ragged clothing, tied them to a tree and gave each about twenty cuts with whip and ordered them to leave the neigh borhood.
 SEVEN persons were injured in rail- road wreck which occurred on the Philadelphia X Reading road short distance below Germantown, Pa, on the Sd. The collision was between passenger trains. Both engines were badly smashed and two cars completely wrecked.
 By the explosion of sewer gas in the basement of Edward Keeley's saloon in Chicago the saloon was wrecked and eight men seriously injured.
 THE Miller hotel at Lancaster, Ky, burned on the 1st and four people were cremated.