The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-12-19

By delayed explosion of powder
and dynamite, four men were killed ct
LaFollette, Campbeu oOunty, Tenn,
on the 18th and four other men were
missing and their bodies were being
searched for i'm the mass of earth and
rock that was dislodged by the explo.
Sion The explosion occurred on the
works of the LaFollett railroad, where
new railroad is being projected.
Three kegs of giant powder had been
placed in l6-foot hole and four sticks
of dynamite were also added to the
deadly charge and q fuse attached, but
the charge failed to go off. The men
re-entered the hole and then the ter
rifle explosion occurred.
Tine failures for the week ended De-
cember 10 Dun's reporD were 1913 in the
United States, against 849 last year,
and 50 in Canada, against 10 last year.
FIRE in the wholesale and manu-.
featuring district at Council Bluffs,
Ia, on the 18th caused loss of more
than $3.50. 900. 1t started in frame
warehouse owned by the Weir-Shugart
company and the flames soon COM
municated to the great brick ware
house of the Deere-Wells company.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 18th
said that the American Red Cross So
ciety had decided to accept the duty
of distributing the relief funds for the
Armenian sufferers in Asia Minor and
had issued an appeal for aid Accord
sn- roAa hnr
We're $1,000 utterly destitute people in
that country who will have to be as
sisted until the next harvest, and the
demands OF the suffering people were
urgent
THE eolored men in conference at
Detroit, Mich, adopted plan of per-
manent organization on the 18th. The
name selected was the National Fed
Grafton of Colored Men. An address to
the country was adopted, stating the
objects of the organization, which
were, in brief. to look after the social
and political rights of the colored race
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has reap.
pointed the members of the court of
private land claims as follows: Joseph
r. Reed, of Iowa. to be chief justice.
and Henry c. Sluss, of Kansas, Wilbur
F. Stone. of Colorado. William Murray,
of Tennessee, and Thomas c. Fuller,
of North Carolina, to be associate JUS
tices. Their terms had expired.
THE Hotel Kensington, at Charlotte,
n Y, sum mer resort burned on the
12th. Loss, 100000.
AT an early hour on the 1oth R. b.
Bolton, who was sitting asleep on the
edge Of the depot platform at Berwyn,
12 miles north of Ardmore. ]. T., was
struck on the head by passing engine
and instantly killed. Deceased was six
feet eight inches tall, timer and
lived at Oakland, L T., where he left
a family
ARRANGEMENT have been completed
which assures the Yale.Princeton-
Memphis athletic club game of foot.
ball at Memphis on December g. A
picked team of Yale and Princeton vet
Grams will play side by side, the first
time in the history Of college football.
AT the session of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at New York on the
10th President John Mcbride was ex.
onerated of the charges that during
a strike in Pennsylvania he had nc.
copied a bride. The executive COM
mittee was instructed by resolution to
prepare charges to President Cleveland
against Secretary Carlisle for violation
Of the eight-hour law.
AN explosion, caused by a defective
boiler, occurred at the Pitts agricul-
tural works at Buffalo. N. Y, on the
18th. George OConnell, fireman, was
fatally injured, and John Doyle, engi-
neer, seriously hurt.
THE national conference of colored |
men opened at Detroit Mich, on the |
18th, with many prominent negroes
present.