The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

| AT Louisville, Ky, a military and civic parade was held on the 17th in honor of the arrival from Washington of the historic cannon donated by the United States government to the citi- zens and Grand Army committee. Busi- ness was generally suspended, and the people of Louisville turned out en masse to receive the relics. One of the cannon was in service on the federal side and the other on the confederate side during the war. It is the inten- tion of the committee to have the can non melted down and made into sou venirs for distribution during the com ing encampment next September.
 MIKE KING was hanged at H elen- wood, Tenn, on the I7th for the mur- der of w. A. Beck. It was the first legal execution in the county, and a large crowd was present. The con- demned man broke down completely on the scaffold.
 FIVE miles of nets, said to belong to E. R. Edson, of Cleveland, O., were seized on the 17th by the Canadian gov ernment cruiser near Rondeau, it being claimed that they were in Canadian waters.
 A TWO and half story wooden tene- ment house occupied by several French families, in Coventry, miles from Providence, R. l., collapsed on the 17th and three persons were killed and eleven injured. It was thought that two of the latter were fatally hurt The building had been raised to per- init the building of another story be- heath it.
 THE four-masted barkentine Jose phine, Capt McCleaR, which sailed from Rio Janeiro. Brazil, April IA with S2O0, GOO cargo of coffee for Baltim ore, Md, went ashore recently on Little island shore. Her crew were rescued by the United States life saving crews.
 TIE Spanish steamer Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost on the 17th off Capones during a typhoon, and only two of those on board were saved.
 TIE Illinois house has passed the senate bill appropriating S6j, ,OOO to erect monuments to mark the position occupied by Illinois troops at the bat ties of Chicka mauga, Lookout mountain and Missionary ridge.
 MosEs KRoHN, of Cincinnati, has been elected president of the Cigar Manufacturers National association in session at Chicago.
 FOUR men were killed recently in freight wreck near Walkerton. Ind.
 IT was estimated that there were 30, 900 head of cattle on the Mexican border awaiting inspection for admis- sion on the 18th. About half were in- tended for the market, and the other half for feed CTS and grazing cattle. It was an n ounced at the treasury and the department of agriculture at Washington that arrangements had been completed for the border inspec- tion service, and soon the work would be moving along smoothly.
 Two prisoners escaped from the pen- itentiary at Laramie, Wyo., on the night of the 18th, through tunnel which they dug. They placed dummies in their cell beds and this successfully blinded the guard until the hole on the outside of the building was found by the outer guard.
 THE British steamers Esmeralda and Martina collided off Armor Light on thu coast of France and the Martina sanH. E.egen of her crew are missing.
 Ar the convection of chiefs of police in Washington on the 14th the ques- tion of receiving rewards for the cap- ture of criminals was discussed. The consensus of opinion was that the whole system was wrong and vicious in its effects.
 IN woods county, Ok. farmers who mad been narassed by claim contestors organized and attempted to drive their opponents from the country by white cap methods As a result twenty-eight settlers have been arrested on the charge of conspiracy and much bad blood stirred up. and it was believed ,here would yet be number of kill .ngs.