The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-22

| J. '. THOMPSON, the fugitive cashier of the defunct First national bank of l Sedalia, Mo-, has taken out naturallza. tion papers and has become citizen of the republic of Mexico.
 GREAT excitement prevailed at Lex. ington, Ky, on the 16th and a lyuch- ing was highly probable. Mrs Mary Hudson, wife of prominent farmer, was assaulted bya negro named Henry Smith, who was captured and placed in jail. large mob of angry people surrounded the jail and it was said hundreds of others were on the wat there to do violence to the negro.
 A DISPATCH from Clearfeld, Pa., on the 18th said that eight men were killed and ten seriously hurt by ths premature explosion of blast near Mehaffy on the Pittsburgh X Eastern railway.
 THE failures in the United States for the week ended the 10th (Dun's report) were l96, against 229 last year. THE schooner Ellen, British vessel, was recently fired upon by a Vepe- zuelan gunboat in the Caribbean sea and, although the captain sent the British flag to his mizzenmast head, the gunboat ignored it and continued firing until the schooner hove to and the Venezuelans searched the vessel and then allowed her to continue her voyage. The matter has been reported to London.
 JAPAN was visited by terrible storms | it,r lot oIl hat devastating effects to the havoc wrought by the wind! It was cal culated that over 1000 people lost their lives, many being drowned.
 AT Spring Valley Sheriff Clarke, of Princeton, arrested over thirty of the men who ran the negroes out of Loca- tion. He was assisted in the work by fifteen armed deputies.
 REFRESHMENTS wire workers of the country met at Cleveland, O., and or ganized the Federatedo Association of Wire Workers of America, independ- ent of the American Federation of La Dor.
 GEN. s. B. MAxEY, a noted exc on- federate general, died at Eureka Springs, Ark, on the 18th. He was a resident of Paris, Tex, and at the breaking gut of the war raised the Ninth Texas infantry for service in the confederate army.
 FIRE in the lumber mills at Fairfield, Me, on the l4th destroyed property to the amount of $l00, 000
 A BENzINE tank exploded at the Peer less foundry at Findley, O., on the 18th and in an instant the building was wrapped in flames. Two men, William Adams and William Bemis, were prob ably fatally burned. Ten oil stills caught pext and one after the other exploded. Next two tanks of crude conta ming 12,OO0 gallons took fire, sending up red columns of flame 200 feet into the air. mammoth tank of 3O,O00 barrels was fired into with a cannon, letting the oil run out.
 ONE person was killed and score of others injured in rear end collision at Camden, N. J., on the 18th. An ac- commodation train crashed into an ex- cursion train carrying a lot of colored Sunday school children, and the latter train caught fire and a young colored boy was burned to death.
 UNDER the name of Ida Gilchrist, Mrs. Johnson, who is as black as coal and lived in a shanty at Cleveland, O. {, advertised in a matrimonial paper for a husband, saying that she was pos sessed of fortune. She received pro- posals of marriage from all parts of the country and she told them that she could not get hold of her money and asked for loan. It was said that she received money from many of her distant admirers. Her husband was also implicated in the swindle. They were arrested on the charge of fraudu- lently using the mails.