The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Amsterdam. 10000 diamond cut
tiers struck upon the refusal of the en-
ployers to adopt conditions upon which
the cutters trade union insisted.
THE failures for the week ended Sep
TENDER 81 (Dun's report) were ZIG in
the United States, against 235 last
year, and so in Canada, against IS last
year.
GEN. JOHN C. BLACK, United States
district attorney at Chicago has re-
ceived instructions to investigate
the alleged combination of Chicago
packers to control the price of beef.
The order came from Attorney-Gen-
cral Harmon. who inclosed a state
ment of the suspicious regarding
the alleged trust prepared by Sec
rotary of Agriculture Morton.
FIRE damaged the Omaha & Grant
smelter in Durango, COL, to the extent
of $50 600, The fire caught from the
boiler room and for two hours the en-.
tire plant was in danger. The three
story sampler was ruined, together
with much improved machinery.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire ragged in
the western half of the Cherokee strip
and swept everything before it on the
27th. The fire started south of Kiowa
and it was thought it would end at the
Southern Kansas railway, but it
jumped the track and got clean
sweep for a distance of 100 miles with.
out anything to stop it. Many cattle
and goat ranches suffered. Three
homesteaders' houses north of Alva
caught fire and burned to the ground
with their contents.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa Nelson Miller
two other colored men and two col
ored women were found guilty of the
murder of four Hungarians on the
eth. Miller and his associates in Oc-
tober last, with the use of dynamite,
blew up a Hungarian boarding house
on the mountain side with the object
of robbing the victims. Sixty persons
were in the house at the time and four
of them were killed.
SECRETARY SMITH promulgated an
important decision on the Goth, which
concerns twenty-one claims in Okla
homa, near Ell Reno, and about 500
claims in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
country. BY some muddle two allot-
ments were made to some Indians and
the secretary ruled that in all cases
where double allotments were made
the one taken last was the one that
should go to the Indian and the other
be opened for settlement under the
general law. This will throw all the
claims in original Oklahoma near Ell
Reno to the whites, and force the In
dans over into the Cheyenne and
Arapahoc country to their second allot-
ments.
The excursion steamer Macatawa
was burned to the waters edge on the
2Gth at Chicago and two of the crew
were supposed to have persisted in the
flames. The fire broke out in lum Der
yard and the flames, famed by lively
breeze from the lake, swept across the
slip and enveloped the Macatawa.
FOREST fires were reported raging in
the vicinity of Carbonate, Pa. The
villages of Forestville and Richmond
were surrounded by fire and number
OF cattle had persisted.
Gov. CULBERsoN, of Texas, issued a
proclamation at midnight of the Goth
calling special session of the legsla-
ture on October to pass law to pre-
| vent prize fighting in that state.
by the explosion of a lamp in the
| dwelling of Leon Kuchinsky at Pitts
bnrgh, Pa, his two daughters, aged q
| md S, were fatally burned. DR.. l.. s.
Mcdonald. who rescued the children
rom the flames. was severely burned
!"d viii probably lose the sight of one
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