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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
SWEPT BY STORM AND FIRE
Portions Of the Northwest Visited by San,I-
 storms and Mad tlames

| Portions Of the Northwest Visited by san.I- storms and Mad Flames.
 ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct 2l.-The Amer ican and Canadian northwest have
 been swept by sandstorms and icy
 blasts for the last few days and the winds have famed smoldering prairie fires and started conflagrations in southwestern Minnesota and South Dakota, but the bulk of the disaster has fallen upon both sides of the Rcd river valley in Minnesota and North
 Dakota and extending for many miles into Manitoba. Houses, stables, live stock, grain stacks and hay have been consumed in all directions in the province and half a dozen people all told have lost their lives and a score or more have been seriously burned and permanently maimed. Re. ports have come in of the cremation of horses attached to vehicles. that had to be abandoned by the drivers on the trails. and dozens of cattle grazing on the plains were either burned to death or so seriously burned that they had to be killed. It is estimated that 250,0O0 bushels of grain and nearly l,OOo,ooo tons of hay have been de. stroyed. At times the whole atmos. phere seemed to be on fire and great masses of flame shot into the air fully 100 feet high. The Red and Assina. boine rivers, wide as they ere, were no check to the torrents of fire; the flames passing over them, as though they were but ditches.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

|
 A CABINET meeting was held at Washington on the 18th, all the mem.
 bers being present. The Cuban situa. tion and many matters of foreign pol icy as we'll as domestic administration occupied the attention of the president and his advisers.
 ApgIcEs from St. Petersburg on the 18th stated that Russia might inter. vene in the present Corean trouble and assist in making Corea independent of foreign interference.
 JOHN l.. WALLER, formerly consul for the United States at Tamatave, island of Madagascar. who was sem fenced to twenty years imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with the Hovas against the French authorities in that island and taken to France, has been removed from Clairvaux prison to the prison at Mines, capital of the de- partment of Gard, the climate of the latter place being better suited to the prisoner, who was far from enjoying good health.
 THE Spanish consul at Tampa, Fla. {, on the 17th was said to have received m official dispatch that Gen. Campos was no longer commanding the mili- tary affairs of Cuba, but he denied the report Passengers arriving at Tampa from Cuba, however, reported that Gen. Campos was in Santiago com pietely insane.
 ALI the mem bers of the cabinet ex- cept Secretary Morton and Postmaster General Wilson gathered at the white house on the 18th in answer to sum- mons from the president, and the first informal cabinet meeting for several months was held, probably for the purpose of enabling the ca binet officers to report to the president the state of business in their departments.
 IT was reported on the 16th that Brazil had recognized the Cuban in- surgents as belligerents.
 A REGENT special from Des Moines, Ia., stated on good authority that the republican state central committee had completed poll of the preferences of the republican candidates for the legislature in the matter of resubmis- sion of the prohibition amendment and had found that majority of them favored resubmission.
 MRS. CLEVELAND and her children left Gray Gables, Bnzzards' bay, Mass, for Washington on the 18th.
 THE New York World received dis. patch from Foo Chow, China, on the 18th, stating that as a result of the British consul's interview the viceroy had agreed to execute immediately eighteen more vegetarians accused of l missionaries. Five British | were there to back up the | demand of the consul.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
VERY COOL OUTLAWS.
They Rob a Couple of Stores and Say They
 Will Call Again.

Will Call Again.
 ARDMoRE, l. T.. Oct. 2l.-Saturday night at Dougherty, IS miles north of here, three masked men entered a drug store, and covering the proprie- tor and bystander with pistol loot. ed the safe and cash tills. The rob bers then went to the store of Hugh Hardy, who was alone in the building. and upon his refusal to open up the safe, he was dealt heavy blow on the head by one of the desperadoes, rendering him un- conscious, and the money drawer was then rifled and articles from the store taken. After informing the resi- dents of the little town that when there was money enough in sight they would call again, they mounted their horses and rode away. Mir. Hardy will recover. There is no clew as to the identity of the robbers.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
The Oldest Son of John w. lIackay ThroWI
 from n HOrso.


 from m Horse.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 21.-A cable gram received here late last night from Paris announced that John w. Mackay, J., oldest son of John w.. Mackay, was thrown from @ horse in Paris Thursday and died Friday night without recovering consciousness. The deceased was about 25 years of age, having been born at the Grand hotel in this city in 1870. He and Clarence, aged about 23, were the only children of the millionaire, the Princess Co., lonna being stepdaughter. For the past six months he and his brother had been spending their vacation in Europe, partly with their mother, part ly with their stepsister, Eva, the Prin- cess Colonna; and at the time of the fatality the two brothers and the princess were in Paris together Mir. Mackay, Sr., is in this city and received only brief cablegram announcing the accident and death. Efforts to obtain particulars were fruitless Mir. Mackay is overcome with grief.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
DEFIED THE POLICE,
Chicago Mailman Held ths Officers at
 Bay for sixteen HOors.

| Chicago Mailman Held ths Officers at Bay for sixteen floors.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.-Armed with a
 Winchester rifle and a revolver, a mad
 man detied the police for hours yester.
 day at No. B Woodland park, in one of the most aristocratic residence dis
 tricts of the city. Barricaded and locked in second story room. com manding complete view of
 the park, the lupatic splintered doors, shattered window panes and tore holes in the plaster of the room. with bullets from his rife, while he shouted defiance to the p6. lice and others attracted to the scene. The insane man was G. S Merwin, of the firm of Rogers, Brown S Co.,, pig iron dealers. After seventeen hours of effort, the police, by strategy, over. came the madman. Although he had fired liO shots from his rifle and revolver, Merwin injured no one, but number of people had narrow escapes. After every other attempt to capture the insane man be- fore he should kill some one or injure himself had failed, sulphur was burned in the furnace. All the registers were closed excepting the one in the room occupied by Merwin. In an hour after the sulphur fire was started. Merwin, partly overcome by the fumes, laid down on his bed and was captured with but feeble resistance.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
KANSAS PRAIRIE FIRES.
Four Counties In the Western Part of tho
 State heavy Losers.


 State heavy Losers.
 ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2l.-A special from Topeka, Kan, says: During the past four days destructive prairie fires have swept over parts of four counties in western Kansas and large scope of country in eastern Colorado. The fire which has caused most damage started in the western part of Finney county Thursday and spread to Greeley county, burning over strip of country 4 miles in width, over 20O,- 900 acres in all. A great deal of grain, broom corn, brush and forage was destroyed, together with barns, hay in the stack and outbuildings. In northern Finney county much damage was also done. In Wichita county another fire started near the town of Halcyon and covered territory 3 miles wide by 7 miles long. Four houses were destroyed and many hay stacks and grain riclss ruined.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
MIR. eILeERT.s GREAT He.r
How He Utilized Sand Crabs to C.&
 in R Tima of Great N.~<a eno

How He UtiIised Sand Grabs to Getc. in . Time of Great Need.
 wv. A. Gilbert is good man to o. camp hunting with. He knows a fs,s
 little tricks that are valuable in .. plenishing the larder when all ord;-
 nary ways fail" said c. S. Beerbowe,
 to a group of sportsmen. "T went
 with him once and came pretty ne.s
 starving to death. The only thinp wa
 had to eat was crabs. Now crabs arc good enough for a change, but they no,I on your appetite when you are com. pelled to eat them as a steady d;a, One night while in my tent thinking of home, fireside, friends, and coninr' ing mp the menu of the Jacksopvilla free lunch counters, Gilbert came to, my tent and said:
 What. weeping, old man? Don't weep. I didn't know you were that hungry. I have a last resort. If ;s sure to work, and we will have plentr of meat. l have way of catchinr rabbits that will not fail. The secret was imparted to me by an old hunte, on his deathbed. I promised never to, use it unless in actual want. Come we will try it.
 "'What kind of meat are you going for@ l asked.
 Rabbits he answered. The rab- bit, you know, shares the hole of the sand crab. Under this beach we tread on here are thousands of rabbits spuo. Iy sleeping in the homes of the sand crab
 "'Yes,' said I, but you can't get them out and I almost wept with dfsap.. pointment.
 "The only answer he gave me was the whistling of tune from an opera. Finally Gilbert spied sand crab. He caught him just as the crab was about to vanish down his hole. He caught another and another. Finally he had bagged a dozen. I was too weak to help him.
 "rhen he sat upon the beach and sawed tallow candle into half-incn bits. He lighted a match, melted some of the tallow on a crabs back. stuck the bit of candle in it, lighted the candle and liberated the crab, which for his hole and into it he went. Mir. Gilbert spread shrimp net ,ver the hole. It got too hot down .here for the rabbit. for we could smell fur scorching. The rabbit made bolt for the open air, and he was our meat, Altogether we caught an even ten
 "Yes, Gilbert is a great man. Great head. ."-Florida Times Union.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

PREPARATIONS are being made at the Missouri state university to manufac. tnre anti.toxine. Prof. Graham ex. poets to have supply ready for distri. button by February 1. Anti-toxine is now being used in Germany as q ore. ventive of diphtheria. The claim has been made that the injection of half a cubic centimeter-less than one.fiftb of an inch--of the strong serum will give immunity to a child not alread V attacked by diphtheria.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

PITTSBURGH, Pa., has been using nat. oral gas since 1884, and though the supply near at hand will be exhausted within two years, arrangements are under way to pipe it from West Vir. g'mia. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says thas, though some of the industries of the city have gone back to coal for power, the value of natural gas to that region has been enormous. It predicts that 'an era of smokeless fuel in the form 'of coal gas and coal dust is at hand, and that the natural gas will not be seriously missed
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Seven Hundred People Homo,e.a

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 21.-Fire broke out yesterday morning in Algiers. and before the flames were finally subdued destroyed about 100 small buildings and about twenty more pretentious structures, including the courthouse and number of handsome residences. All the records of the Fifth district (Algiers) were burned. The loss will probably exceed Sl5O,0Oo; insurance light
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
THE VENEZUELA DISPUTE.

The St. James Gazette Says Lord Salisbur,
 Has Sent an Ultimatum to Presiden,
 CrespO.
 LONDON. Oct 2l.-The St James Ga zette says it is in position to state that Lord Salisbury has sent an ulti matum to President Crespo, of Venezu ella, demanding reparation for the ar, rest of policemen at Uruan, and stating the terms upon which Great Britain will definitely de. terminc the boundary dispute, of Venezuela. The ultimatum is either on the way to Venezuela or, possibly, has by this time been actually de. livered. Lord Salisbury and Mir. Chamberlain, the colonial secretary. both agree that it is necessary to end the frontier dispute at once, even if ii had to be accomplished by force.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

A siM6tnAR alleged discovery regard Ing electricity, described by J. R. carries witL it the potcntiality of everything through which it passes.and patients can be n1edicated in succession or simultaneously be given of medi- cine without particle being lost, as it is solidly inclo.'ed. He thinks il probable that, with . continuous wire and sufficient elecirG motive force. 8 medical dose might be sent from san Francisco to New York. Hnd hospital could send dose by wire from the laboratory to a patient l.1 any part Q: the builliIg.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

IN one of the aristocratic residence portions of Chicago G. $. Merwin sud
 denly went insane in the middle of the
 night of the 10th and for seventeen hours he defied the police, barricading himself in room and firing out of the Window at everybody passing, crcat- ing consternation in the vicinity. Finally the police closed all the regis ters they could and put sulphur in the furnace and he was soon captured The madman had fired altogether 14O shots from his revolver and rifle, but fortunately no one was injured.
 JOHN w. MACKAY, Jr., eldest son of the we'll known millionaire, was killed in France recently by being thrown from his horse and his head coming in contact with q tree, causing concus- sion of the brain. His body will be embalmed and brought over to Amer ica.
 BY an explosion of gas nt the Knicls. erbocker colliery, operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.,, near Shenandoah, Pa., three per sons were fatally and six others se- riously injured.
 THE mining village of Stockton, Pa has been practically wiped out by fire. There was high wind blowing at the time, and before the fire was under control, twelve dwellings had been de- stroyed.
 THE Pullman car Columbia, valued at Sl35,0o0, has left the shops of the Pullman company at Wilmington, Del, for Washington, whence it will take President Cleveland and his party to the Atlanta exposition. It is one of the finest in existence.
 REPORTS received at the weather bu. reau at Washington on the 2Oth indi- cates that the present drought was one Of the severest, most prolonged and general known in the United States since the bureaus organization. There were few places which showed aE exception to the general condition. but in no large section of the country, un- less perhaps in the northwest and far west, did there appear to have been a heavy rain for the past two months or more.
 ON the night of the 18th. at Dough. erty, l. T.. three masked men entered a drug store and footed the safe and cash tills. The robbers then went to | the store of Hugh Hardy and the l money drawer was rifed and articles from the store taken. After inform ing the residents Of the little town that when there was money enough in sight they would call again, tbey mounted their horses and rode away.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

TIE boiler in N. K. Dillard's mill or
 Slough creek, 22 miles northeast o
 Paris, Tex, exploded. killing the engi
 neer and seriously injuring five or si, others.
 DURING fight at colored cake walk near Moorestown, N. J.. Jame.
 Haggerty, colored, shot Charles Me Kim, Mrs. Silas Vessels, George Whit. taker and Charles Wiman, none oi whom were expected to recover. Some one shot Haggerty in the back. Hi! wound was considered mortal. FREDERICK AWE, JR., went down into a we'll at Milwaukee on the 18th and was overcome by gas His father and Charles Smith, his brother-in-law,tr tried to rescue the young man and also sue cumbed to the gas. The three bodie. were recovered. Each of the men had large families.
 THOMAS SLIMHIR and Hans Hansen were hanged at St. Quentin, Cal, on the 18th for the murder of the second mate of the American bark Hesper on the high seas. They were going to kill all the officers and seize the vessel, but were only able to carry out part of their programme.
 A FERaYBoAT having sixty passen. gers on board collided near Cairo, Egypt, with steamer which was at anchor and capsized, and fifty of those on board of her, mostly workmen, were drowned.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week ended October IS showed an aver age increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of 2l.9; in New York the increase was 27.0; outside New York the increase was 14.0.
 Ar Hampton, S. C.. William Blake, Sr. Jason Blake, Prince Graves and William Frazier were convicted of the murder of Raymond Mears. William Blake was recommended to the mercy of the court and sentenced to life im- prisonment. The other three were sentenced to be hanged. As the con- stables were on their way to jail with the prisoners, they were overpowered by a number of men, who took Will liam Blake and carried him to the woods and hung him to large pine tree. They were dissatisfied with the verdict.
 A DYNAMITE blast prematurely ex- ploded near Sharpsburg, Ky, and three men were killed.
 AT Champaign, Ill.,, the Empire Cord. age Co.'s large twine mill was de- stroyed by fire. Loss, S10O,OOO; in- sured.
 TIE quartermaster-genera of the army has made his annual report. He asserts that the United States cavalry mount is superior to that of. any for. eign army.
 A DESPATCH from Havana said that the prisoners in the Santa Clara jail mutinied and four of them tried to make their escape. The guards fired upon them and killed two.
 AN explosion occurred on the l6th on a steamship nt Kung IIai, near Kin Cho. The steamer was loaded with troops, and it was reported that GOO of them were killed.
 TIE judge acknowledgement of the United States army has submitted bis annual report to the secretary of war. showing diminutiop in the number of trials for deserti,,n, due, it was to fewer captures on account of the reward having been reduced from sGo to Sl0.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
More Riots In China

LONDON, Oct@I.--A dispatch received here from Shanghai says that it is re. ported that anti-foreign riots have oc. cured at Chang-Pu, 50 miles southeas, of Annoy, and at Fu-Kien, where the chapels of the English missions were destroyed, the mandarins openly re. fusing to interfere.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

THE Massachusetts Man Suffrage as- sociation opened headquarters in Bos- ton recently and will make an active campaign against woman suffrage ir municipal politics.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

SECRETARY MORTON is having some statistics prepared for bulletin ot information which show the farm mortgages amount to per cent of farm valuation. It also appears that the railroad mortgages on roads in this country amount to 2s per cent. valuation, and thus it will be made tc appear from the information given that the farmers are troubled less with indebtedness than are the railroads
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

A NEW 18-inch gun tested by our navy department at distance of 4, 4,OOC yards sent projectile weighing 1,loO pounds through sheet of steel l5 inches thick and l2 feet into the earth 6eYond
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Counterfeit BilIs From Italy.

NEW YORK, Oct 2l.-At the exami. nation of several men arrested with counterfeit s silver certificates, it was shown that the commercials were made m Italy and shipped to this country in the guise of macaroni It is hinted that the disclosures may result in di. plomatic correspondence between the United States and the Italian govern. ment
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

TIE St Louis Globe Democrat says: If silver advances even two or three cents year the gap between it and gold may soon be bridged. Gold pro. duction is growing 50 rapidly that that metal may decline in price. An ad. vance in silver and decline in gold, if kept up long enough, would solve the silver problem.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

CORN has been going abroad for some time at the rate of 100000 bushels a week. it is reported, or nearly ten times as much as was exported last year. and more than double the ex. ports Of 1892 and 1891. Europe has been slow to learn the value of Indian corn. but is beginning to have better knowledge of one of natures finest productions.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

WITH the admission of Utah as the forty-fifth state, only Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma will remain to let in. The admission of these three territories will bring the number of states up to forty-eight, at which figure 1t will probably stand for long time.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
An Illinois Mayor In a Tad Rox

DANvILLE, H., Oct. 2l.vMayor Will. liam kunyan has been indicted by the grand jury for malfeasance and mis. conduct in office. It is charged that the mayor made arrangements to pro. tect a gambling game run by W. S. Bradley.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

TIE army officials, it was said, are to make experiments with condensed soup, concentrated hash and coffee lozenges. Compressed meats already are success, and if the other schemes be made to work, soldier may carry n weeks rations in his hip pocket.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

THE Cleveland (O.) board of trade has adopted a resolution asking the commercial bodies of the cities throughout the country to take action favoring a shorter presidential cam- paign next year. as the excitement of politics is detrimental to business pros. Dcrity
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

TIE London Speaker says that "pop. ular sentiment in the United States enthusiastically favors every insurrec. tionary movement which aims at the removal of European flag from Amer. lean soil" That is really what the Monroe doctrine means
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

MRs. JOHN A. GROVER died at Lara. mic, Wyo. recently of starvation. She had taken no nourishment except a glass of milk for over two months From 200 pounds in weight she wasted away to seventy-fve pounds.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Burned to Death.

CHAMPAIGN, H., Oct. 2l.-The re. mains of Henry Bradie!d, aged & years and unmarried, were found in the ruins of the Empire cordage fac. tory burned recently. The body was reduced to a mere crisp. No other em. ploye is missing.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
What Was Georges Amtction,

"Who was George Washington, papa?' said little Pittsburgher, who had heard of the father of his country for the first time.
 He was a boy who couldn't tell a lie?" replied the papa, impressively.
 Was he born dumb, papa?' was the next question.-Bay City Chat.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

TIE returns of the recent school elections in Connecticut showed that the women cast only 1906 votes, as compared with 3.a41 iI 1894 and 3,s0G in 1893 This seems to imply that the women do not care much about the ballot after they get it.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

FIRE losses in the United States and Canada for September amounted to Sl0, 766, 300, and for the nine months of the year to s06,277, ,90O. This is a de. crease of sl, l,5OoOoO compared with the same period in 1894, and S25, GOO, 900 short of the nine months record of 1803
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24

A REGENT dispatch from London stated that the revision of the Bible had been completed, including the Apochrypha, and that it would shortly be issued.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
CURRENT COMMENT.

BrsRor II. M. TURNER, of the A. M. E. church, after recent tour of Africa urges more strongly than ever the migration of negroes to Liberia.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Sunk In Collision.

SAuLT STE. MARIE. Mich, Oct. a1.- Early yesterday morning the steamer Gilbert collided with and sunk tn, America in Hay lake channel. Tn, Gilbert was un;njured. No lives wer, lost.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-24
Not Natural.

Examining Physician (Premium Life Insurance Co.)-Did your father die a natural death?
 Applicant for Policy-Nope; we had three doctors