The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-10-17

| A WOMAN known as Gaetana Stomol
has been arrested for poisoning TWEEN.
ty.three children with phosphorus al
Catania, Sicily. She administered the
poison by mixing it with wine and pre-.
vailing upon the children to drink It.
The woman confessed and offered as
an explanation that she wanted re-
venge for the death of two of her own
children who had been bewitched.
ANTOINE HOFFMAN, the anarchist,
who murdered Police Inspector Baum.
garten on June II, last, was put tt
death at Prague.
Four men were killed and sever
others fatally injured as the result OF
an inexplainable accident Mt the Cleve
land (O.) rolling mills on the 18th
Without warning the casting house
the largest building of the plant, col.
lapsed, burying many of its occupants
in the debris Charles Wakefield was
cooked to death by molten iron.
MRS HARRIET RYAN, aged 65 years
of Wilton, N. Y, was burned to death.
The woman, who had been demented
for some time, secured some matches
and set fire to her night cloth ing
She ran out into the field where she
was found burned almost to crisp
A COSTLY rear end collision occurred
on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie rail
road at Beaver Falls, Pa. on the 10th.
The wreck was due to an unusually
dense fog. Fifteen freight cars and
one engine were renoered entirely
worthless, causing loss of $50, 1000.
A DISPATCH stated that La Paz, the
capital of Lower Califor MIA, Mex, had
been destroyed by hurricane. The
storm was followed by tidal wave,
the waters in the bay rising to an un.
precedented height, invading that por.
ton Of the city fronting on the bay
and carrying out to sea men, animals
and debris of wrecked buildings as the
tide subsidized.
HENRY MEYER, a boy II years old, of
Toledo, O., objected to his sister giving
birthday party at their home, and in
order to discourag, any future at
tempts in the same line, mixed two
ounces of croton oil with the coffee
that was served to the guests. As re-
suit twelve of the young people who
attended the party were in serious
condition and fatal results were ex-
pected from some of them. The lad
was arrested.
A DISPATCH on the 10th said that for
two months severe drought had pre-.
vailed in western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Ohio and parts of Indiana.
On the Monongahela river 5000 miners
were idle because the barges could not
carry the coal on account of the low
stage Of water in the river. Many es-
adjustments on the Ohio river had
been obliged to shut down for want of
water, and farmers were selling their
stock because of the difficulty in water.
ing them.
The British steamer Napier, bound
from Cronstadt to Rotterdam, was in
collision of the island of Aaland with
the British steamer Livonia of Leith.
The latter vessel sank and fourteen OF
her crew were drowned in spite of the
efforts of the Napier's crew who, how.
ever, succeeded in rescuing ten men.
FoRTY-FIvE persons, claiming to be
descendants of the earl of Antrim, met
in Chicago recently and took initial
steps for getting shares in the $50, O0O,.
600 estate left by the earl.
THE Saranac (Mich.) Advertiser Office
and car factory were destroyed by
fire on the 9th.
The school board of Perry, Ok, has
been ordered by the court on a writ OF
mandamus to admit colored children
to the white public schools. Colored
children demanded entrance to the
white public schools on the 18th and
again on the Sth.
REPORTS from Stokes Bay, Ont, said
the steamer Africa, on Lake Huron,
went down with all on board.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
A FERRYMAN's yawl boat, in which
six persons were crossing the eastern
branch of the Patapisco river at Balti-
more, Md, on the 18th, was capsized
and four Of its occupants were drowned.
IT was given out authoritatively on
the 18th that the fight between Corbett
and Fitzsimmons would surely take
place at Hot Springs, Ark, on schedule
time. In order to comply with the
laws of Arkansas the contest will be |
limited to a number of rounds, the |
referee being vested with full power
to stop the contest when, in his opin-
ion, it becomes brutal, the contestants |
to box with soft gloves.
OFFICERS who arrived at Paris, Tex,
recently from the territory bring news
of the butchering of an aged negro
woman named Louisiana Fisher, near
in the eastern part of |
the Choctaw nation. A day or two
ago her body was found in the woods.
Her head was cut off and number of
long, deep gashes were in her body.
Suspicion rests upon some Choctaws
named Impson, who believed her to be
n witch and lived in constant terror of
her.
A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred at
Conn, on the 18th, two
parts of broken train coming to.
gether and ten cars loaded with trot-
ting horses, live stock and other ex-
hibits from the Danbury fair were
crushed and thrown down a 4O-foot