The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

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from Toronto, Ont, Il bold robbery was
committed in the Canadian Pacific rail-
way station. An unknown robber sand
bagged the night operator, rendering
him insensible. The safe was then
blown open and So, 500 of the Dominion
Express Co.'S funds stolen. The op.
orator was SO badly injured that he
was unable to give coherent account
of the affair.
ANDREW J. ScOTT,' colored, was
hanged in the Jail yard at Charleston,
w. Va, on the 4th for the murder of
his wife by poison. This was the first
hanging that had taken place there
since John Brown and his men paid
with their lives the penalty of their in
surrection thirty-six years ago.
SURROGATE FITZGERALD, of New
York, has returned to David Mcclure,
appra User of the Jay Gould estate, his re-
ports on its value in order that the col
lateral inheritance tax may be levied.
The report values the personal proper
ty Of the estate at $50, 1884, $50, and the
real estate at g., 600. 600 The resid uary
estate amounts to s73,2s4,s47
As the result OF six weeks spree
William C. Henry, an engineer on the
Wabash road at Springfield, I'LL, shot
and fatally wounded his wife and then
fled, but his body was found after
wards in corn shock in the suburbs,
where he had committed suicide.
HARRY j. L. MARTIN, for seven years
teller of the Commercial national
bank, of Chicago, was arrested on the
4th on warrant sworn out before
United States Commissioner Foote by
National Bank Examiner McKeon,
charging him with mbeZZlement.
REPORTS received from di fferent parts
of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey on the 4th indicated that the coun-
try was suffering from a drought of
large proportions. In some places
there was almost famine on account
of lack of water The farmers were
complaining of the lateness of the crops
and in numerous instances were CON.
PEELED to carry water distance of 2
miles for cattle. But little rain had
fallen since July l.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended October showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1876;
in New York the increase was l6. 6;
outside New York the increase was
100
s. w. LAMoREAUX, the commissioner
of the general land office has made his
annual report to the secretary of the
interior. He stated that there was
decline of land Office business since his
previous report, and makes several re-
concentrations on subjects connected
with his bureau, amongst them being
land office for Alaska.
In some portions of Colorado inches
of snow fell on the 4th. Dispatches
from Salida and Buena Vista said that
considerable damage had been done in
orchards, the damp snow breaking
many branches off the trees.
THE South Carolina constitutional
convention by an overwhelming ma
jority, has adopted a clause forbidding
the intermarriage of white person
with any person who has any negro
blood whatever in his or her veins.
This, in connection with the suffrage
clause, will have the effect of disfran-
chising the mulattoes.
SECRETARY LAMONT issued an order
on the I'd detailing Gen. Miles to do
duty in Washington as general of the
army and Gen. Ruger, now on special
duty in Washington, to the command
of the department of the east, with
headquarters in New York.
A BIG fire occurred in Cambridge. O.,
on the morning of the I'd, the Lyndon
hotel and many stores and their con-
tents being destroyed. The city fire.
mon were powerless to control the
flames and had to send to adjoining
towns for help. The loss amounted to
over 10000; insurance, less than half.
THE monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint showed coinage dur
ing the month of September to be as
follows: Gold, S7,543,57a silver, s473.-
l66; minor coins, S6l,414. Total coin
age. Ss.07S, 653.
The Texas legislature passed the bill
prohibiting pugilistic encounters in the
Lone Star state in exactly three hours
on the I'd. The bill passed the senate
ny IL vote Of 81 ayes to nay, and In
The house by ITO ayes to 5 nays.