The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-12

AT Fayetteville, Tenn, Dock KING.
colored, arrested for attempting to as
sault Mrs. Charles Jones near Favetts.
vile. was taken from the Jail by q mob
of 200 men and hanged.
The Wild West show train of Paw.
nee Bill was dashed into by wild car
running down a grade at Pine Bluff.
Ark, and about half dozen persons
were severely injured.
JAMES WARD murdered his father.in.
law, Aaron Hunter, and his brother-in-
law, John Hunter, by cutting off their
heads ut Sullivan, Ind. He was pur-
sued by a mob, but just as he was u bout
to be captured took his own life.
Mrs. NICHOLAS Ohm, JR., and her
father-in-law, Nicholas Ohm, ST., were
killed by being run down on a cross
ing by the Cincinnati express on the
Il. 4 o. railroad near Reilly station.
FoUk Japanese belonging to the
Christian mission in San Francisco,
had meal at q Chinese restaurant re-
Gently and were afterwards taken sick
and the doctor pronounced them poi
soned. After few hours of agony one
died and the lives of the others were
despaired of. 1t was presumed that
the enmity between the two nations
was the cause of the crime
AN edict has been issued by the Chi
cago Telephone Co. forbidding the
girls to report in bicycling costume at
any hour OF the day or night.
A MERRY-Go-RoUND at the Waverly
IN. J.) fair went to pieces, throwing
women and children in al directions.
Four women were so badly hurt that
they had to be carried on stretchers to
ambulances.
STELLA JOHNSON, the 16-year-old
daughter of widow who lives near
Amilla, Fla, was kidnapped and the
nude corpse of the girl, strapped to
log and horribly mangled, was found
floating in small lake about miles
from her home. The girls neck had
been broken and her throat cut from
ear to ear. Her right arm had been
severed from her body at the shoulder.
The propeller Christiana l. Forbes,
running between Bay City and Sagi-
nav, Mich, was burned to the waters
edge on the 4th, a load of prairie hay
on board taking fire. The passengers
were safely landed, but they lost all
their baggage. The boat was rated at
900 and was fully insured.
AN engine used to supply the govern
ment building at Chicago exploded
near midnight on the 4th and the en-
ployes were terror stricken for short
time, anticipating more explosions.
Every one of the 1000 lights went out.
In fifteen minutes, however, they were
at work again. another engine having
been set going.
ABOUT $50 Indians, who have been
working for Frank Vance at Deer
River, Mimi. gathering his hay crop,
went on a strike on the 4th, and cap
turing Mr.. Vance, threatened to burn
him at the stake and scalp him unless
he acceded to their demands. Mr..
Vance, who was badly frightened, got
away from the Indians and remained
in hiding until the red men had gone
back to their reservation. The Indians
were hired by Mr.. Vance to cut hay at
a rate of s.. so a ton and the Indians
were of the opinion that they should
have a per ton.
BY the bursting of a gas main at the
works of the Providence (R. L. Gas Co.
on the 4th five men were suffocated and
a sixth narrowly escaped death.
AT Philadelphia on the 4th John R.
Gentry won the $4,000 race from Joe
Patchen. Time, 2:OSA. 1t was claimed
the driver of Patchen pulled his horse
to let Gentry win the race.
FIRE at Evansville. Ind. on the Sd
destroyed the Heilnan -four mill, an
elevator and 100, 900 bushels of wheat.
The loss was estimated at 100000,
partly insured.