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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
THE GOLD OUTPUT.
The Director of the Mint's Statement on
 The Yellow Metal.


 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-R. E. Pres ton, director of the mint, in discussing his report on the worlds production of gold and silver in 1894, makes the fol- lowing statement:
 am satisfied that the gold product of the | world will not be less than $a0 I0oJ.0Oo for the calendar year 1895, which will be an increase of O0QOO 900 over I89i. Of this increase the United States will contribute not less than G, G,5OOOU. Colorado will furnish from "a, 50O.090 to sI,000 DO, California s2,000,OOJ and Arizona. New Mexico. Idaho and Montana will make hand- some showings In Colorado the principal in- crease will come from the Cripple Creek dis trict This district altogether will probably produce sl5O00 900 this year. It required some time to convince capitalists that this was a wonderfully rich district. The shipments of rich ore made in the last year have removed all doubts of the future of the Cripple Creek country. Leadvllle will also show m increase this year in the output of gold Some of the mines in this region are very productive. In the Leadville region there are found gold, sil- yer. copper, lead and iron. There is general revival Of gold mining throughout this region California mines are certain to show an in- creased output from this time forward. The establishment of the debris commission fin Call ifornia has given great impulse to hydraulic mining, which is exceedingly profitable Where there is placer mining partic- ularly Tn Montana and Idaho, the prod- uct of gold will not be so great us 1t would have been had there been heavy snows in the mountains. There is shortage of water in those states which serves to hand- icap the miners The returns from quartz mining there are very satisfactory. Some heavy shipments of ore are being made from Helona Everywhere I went in the mining regions of the west saw evidences of great activity and prosperity.
 Not alone in the United States is the output of gold increasing. South Africa has gone ahead of Australia in the amount of tits gold product and will produce this year vast quantity Of the precious metal. Australia probably will contribute s2,000,0O0 or 100000 of the increase. Russia will produce from $2.01O0)O to s3,000,000 more than 1t did last yelr Russia's output last year fell of, but the increase in Siberia this year will be marked, judging from the in- formation have received from our minister at St. Petersburg. Mexico, which con- trbuted si,5JOO0O in gold last year, will make far better showing this year. We gained last year for the gold stool: of the world about i7 00J,0)9 of the gold for merly hoarded iE India. and we have every reason to look for an increase this year and for number Of years to come.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

HALF of the east wall of the Elmore Manufacturing Co. s three-story bicycle factory at Clyde, O., collapsed while all of the floors were filled with work. men. More than dozen men were badly injured. The digging of a trench for a water main caused the collapse.
 TIE twenty-five round glove contest at the Olympic club, New Orleans, be- tween Jack Everhardt, of that city, and Owen H. Zeigler, of Pennsylvania, was declared draw Both men were said to have displayed much science.
 FAMINE prevails in the Smolensk and Paskow districts of Russia, owing to the failure of the crops. The minister of the interior recently set apart 1,50O,. 900 rubles for the relief of the inhab itants of these districts, but the ragged and hungry peasants were said to be crowding about the railway stations inquiring what had become of the money.
 WRECK occurred on the Pennsyl- vania road, near Newport, Pa., in which two persons were killed and sev- eral badly injured. The locomotive and several postal cars were destroyed and a large amount of mail matter was burned.
 TIE board of health has lifted the quarantine and Honolulu is once more a clean port No cases of cholera had been reported for over two weeks.
 A REAR-END collision occurred at Hyde Park, Mass, on the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad in which one man was killed, a woman fatally injured and twelve other pas sengers, including Congressman Elijah A. Morse, were more or less seriously hurt.
 THE London Standard has further details from its Constantinople corre- spondent regarding the execution of the fifty young Turks who were ar rested on a charge of excesses during the recent Armenian riots. The fifty culprits, after trial. were conveyed by night on board Turkish man-of- war, whose boats took them in the .swiftest current and dropped them overheard.
 FIRE destroyed more than SlOO. GOO worth of property in the business part of Mckinney, the county seat of Col lin county, Tex, on the 24th. The fire was near the courthouse square.
 THE probab ble death of J. c. Griffin, assistant chief of the fire department, and loss of $2OO. GOO were the results 'f fire which destroyed the immense store and stock of E. Stark x Co.,, Tancv goods and millinery, at Albany, N. r., on the 24th and which gutted wo other business houses.
 IEKE and Dick Crittenden, two 5herokees, got drunk at Wagoner, I. r., and became so w id that they were ooth shot by deputy mar shal.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

| MANY thousand bushels of corn and many tons of hay and fields of kaffir corn were destroyed by prairie fires near Perry, Ok. A number of farm houses were also consumed. Two In- dian children were reported burned to a crisp, and many people had narrow esca Hundreds of whites and In- dians .Irned out to fight the fire.
 THE University of Virginia had a fire on the 27th which destroyed the lecture rooms and geological laboratory of great value. The loss was estimated at not less than $500, A ROCK ISLAND passenger train crashed into an outgoing freight train on the Cotton Belt railroad near Fort Worth, Tex, recently and the Rock Island engine went over an embank- ment, while thirteen cars were totally demolished.
 A THREATENING letter was found in the palace addressed to the sultan re- gently at Constantinople. An inquiry incriminated fourteen members of the imperial household. All of them were executed.
 A MOB of 150 men attempted to break into the jail at Tiffin, O., for the pur- pose of lynching Leander Martin, who had shot August Schultz, the city mar shal, a few days before, but volley from the Winchesters of Sheriff Van Ness party made them retreat after two of their number had been killed The friends of the men killed vowed vengeance, but the sheriff telegraphed to Gov. Mckinley for troops and three companies of militia were sent to the scene.
 AN explosion in the mills of the Pa- cific Coast Lumber Co.,, at Fair Haven, Wash, destroyed much property and killed three men outright. NOTORIOUS Dick Pine, a member of the Ryan gang of outlaws, was killed by federal officers near Cushing, Ok. FRANCIS J. KIECKHoEFER, chief in the bureau of accounts in the state depart ment at Washington, has been found short in his accounts and Secretary Olney has compelled him to resign. The chief bookkeeper has also resigned.
 BAMDERGER, BLOOM & Co.,, the larc. est dry goods firm in Louisville. Kv.. has failed, with liabilities of S1, 200. GOO and assets about equal
 HAYWARD university defeated Cor. nell at Cambridge, Mass, on the a6tb in the football game by score stand. ing 25 too
 A REVOLUTION has broken ont in Hayti and President Hippolyte was re. ported as being guarded in his palace in Port au Prince by part of hi, army.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


 GREAT excitement has been caused in British official circles about Russia's movements at China and Corea and the situation was said to be so grave that there was likely to be war in which several nations would more than likely take part. British newspapers all agreed that British intervention Tn the far east was necessary.
 NEWS received at Key West, Fla, stated that Gen. Maceo had, by forced marches, reached the province of Ma tanzas, and. with 5000 Cubans, he en- gagged cavalry force of 2,S00 Span. iards in the San Juan valley. After a struggle of four hours the Spanish troops were forced to retreat, leaving 500 men dead on the field. The insur- gents secured all the arms and ammu- milton of the dead Spaniards. This battle was the most important fight since the breaking out of the revolu- tion.
 A CALL has been issued for express sions of opinion from the mem bers of the Junior American Republic through
 
 country toward the revolutionists of Cuba. The call was issued by sub committee of the Chicago committee of 100 on Cuban sympathy, and asked all young people under 2l years of age to send their answers to headquarters, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago. SECRETARY OLNEY's note to Great rst sto, ,,, La . communication of about 8, 900 words. and described the history of the Mon- roe doctrine, pointed out the applica- bility of this doctrine to the boundary dispute in Guiana, and then declared the principle for which the United States was contending, namely, that no European shall enlarge its terri torial dominion on the American conti- nent by means of force. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed Yancey Lewis. of Ardmore, I. T., United States judge for the central district of that territory to succeed Judge Stuart.
 A SPECIAL to the Chicago News from Springfield, Ill.,, said that United States Senator John M. Palmer had au- thorized the announcement that he would not be a candidate for re-elec- tion.
 EX.UNITED STATES SENATOR CHARLES H. VAN WICK, of Nebraska, died on the 24th at Washington of apoplexy, aged Fl years.
 THE secretary of the treasury, it was said, would not coin any more silver into dollars until there was some &C., tion taken by congress on the currency question, and with that idea in view had discontinued all operations at the New Orleans mint and discharged the employees.
 COMPTROLLER ECKELs stated that the single thing that seemed to operate against wholesale demand for Ameri- can securities abroad was the question as to the soundness or uncertainty of our currency system.
 CHAIRMAN CARTER, of the republican national committee, has called a meet ing of the committeeman for Decem- Der 10 at the Arlington hotel, Wash ington, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national con- vention.
 EX-GOv. AMEs, of North Easton, Mass. died at his home in that city on the 22d, aged GA. His health had been failing for long time.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
A MOB REFUSED.
Attempt to Lynch a Murderer at Tifin, 0
 Leads to More Deaths.

Leads to More Deaths TIFFIN, O., Oct. 29.-In an attempt yesterday morning to avenge the mur der of August Schultz, Tiflin's popular city marshal, who was shot in cold blood by Leander J. Martin, alias Will Hams. farmer of Hopewell township last Wednesday evening, two more victims were added to the tragic affair. At 1:30 o'clock mob of 15O infuriated men, many of whom were under the influence of liquor, attacked the jail in an effort to secure Martin and hang him. A volley from half dozen Win. chesters met them and two of the mob were killed.
 It is not believed there will be any further trouble, yet the friends of the dead men threaten vengeance to the guards who fired on the mob, and the dead marshars friends say they will kill Martin if they can get to him. Martin was spirited away to Fremont long before daylight, but this the peo- pie refuse to believe. The names of the guards who fired the fatal volley are known only to Sheriff Van Ness. Three hundred militiamen were guard ing the jail last night.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

FoR the first time in the history of any large city in the United States, Rochester, N. Y. will use no printed ballots at the coming election. Novem. Der 5. It has adopted for use at all municipal, state and national elections the Myers American ballot machine.
 This machine is a push the button" affair, and when the polls are closed the inspectors simply have to unlock the back door of the booth and op. posite each candidates name is dis played the total vote he has received.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

THE suggestion that a great exposi- tion, marking the close of the present century, be held in Washington in tho summer of 1900 is meeting with much favor in the national capital Such an exposition would also mark the cen. tennial anniversary of the founding of the seat of government in the District of Columbia, as in June, 1900, the pub lie offices were transferred to Wash- ington. It is also suggested that each state have permanent exhibition To- cated at the national capital showing its resources as to agriculture, manu. facturiDg, mining, etc.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

THE first assistant postmast-general has sent out letters to postmasters in. closing large cards, to be posted about the post offices, cautioning the public in regard to the proper mailing of holi- day packages Through the ignorance of senders of holiday packages each winter season finds the dead letter of- flee stored high with gifts that go astray. There is an abundance of mail matter intended for foreign countries in this dead letter harvest, and the GUS toms laws of various countries are so different that only careful study can decide upon the entrance of any kind of parcel whatever.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
FIRE IN A UNIVERSITY.
Virginia's State Institution Suffers a Three Hundred Thousand Dollar Loss.

Hundred Thousand Dollar Loss. CHARLOTTEsvILLE,V Va, Oct 28.-The University of Virginia suffered great loss from a fire which occurred yester- day morning. The local fire depart ment was unable to cope with the flames and assistance was obtained from Staunton and Lynchburg, which, however, arrived too late to save the public hall and the rotunda. The fire started in the former building. and a large quantity of dynamite was used on the portico between the rotunda and the public hall, but beyond dis. placing the large pillars nothing was accomplished.
 Attention was then given to the buildings known as the ''Old Chapel" and reading room. These were blown up and the debris saturat ted with water, and the fire thereby was confined to the hall and rotunda. The library, con. taining about l5,O0O worth of books, statues, paintings, etc, was in the TO- tunda. An effort to save the treasures resulted in the getting out of Jeffer- sons statue and three-fourths of the books Everything else was burned. At o'clock the fire was gotten under control. The lecture rooms were de- stroyed and everything in the build. ing, including geological laboratory of great value, a painting entitled ''The School of Athens" a copy of the celebrated production by Raphael. was consumed. The total loss is estimated at not less than S3oO,O with an in- surance of S25,0O on the buildings and contents. The origin of the fire is not Epowu
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

A METHODIST preacher al St. Louis, Mich, delivered sermon on Sunday in which he lilened the Christian race to a game of oaseball-the first base being meditation, the second convic. tion, the third repentance, and the home plate Heaven. The church was decorated with bats, masks, bags and gloves and all the paraphernalia of the national game. This is new line of theological enterprise. and it entities the Michigan clergyman to the pen. nant for sensational preaching.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

THE director of the Illinois state weather bureau proved by statistics ex. hibited before the recent meeting of the weather forecasters the direct connec. tion between great heat and the in. crease of crime. He took the reports of the Chicago police force as the basis of his calculations and demonstrated that the number of arrests in July, August and September was nearly double the number in January, Feb. ruary and March.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
CAUSED MUCH DAMAGE.
Rain Extfngnished Fire Which 300 Me
 UnsuccessfullY Fought.

Rain Extinguished Fire Which 900 Men
 Unsuccessfully Fought.
 CLINTON, Mo-, Oct. 2S.-A spark from a Blair line engine set fire to a field in the northern suburbs of Clinton Satur. day afternoon. A strong wind tended to spread the fire rapidly, and despite the fact that 200 men were soon bat. ting against the flames. the fire burned for miles, destroying corn and fences in its path. One man lost his barn and contents. A friendly rain at eventide extinguished the fire but not until the damage amounted tc thousands.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

A LAKE SHORE train, weighing 5OO,. 900 pounds, recently covered the dis tance between Chicago and Buffalo 5lO miles, in 4s1 minutes Exclusive of stops the run was made in 47O min. utes, an average speed of about 6s miles an hour. The highest rate ot speed was reached between Erie and Buffalo, SC miles in 70 minutes and 1G seconds, or 73 miles an hour. The run was not merely race against time to beat any other record. It was to as. certain at what rate of speed com. mercial train could safely go.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

A MACHINE has recently been invent cd by Kansas City man which will weigh anything from one pound to four tons and at the same time com pute the price of the article whether it be sold by the ton, hundredweight, pound or bushel.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

TIE Indianapolis Journal says: The sugar trust has the trade under its thumb again. Not dealer in the west would dare to sell barrel of sugar not bearing it's brand for fear that. depend ing upon the trust. future supply might be refused him.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

AT the recent reception given to II N. Pillsbury, the young worlds cham pion chess player, at Brooklyn, he ac knowledged that he had for the pas, few years played chess from within the wonderful automaton, "Ajceb. V which has been exhibited all over this country. This clears the mystery which has so long baffled tho public.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
Many Rendered Homeless bv F,ro

BERLIN, Oct. 2s.-A dispatch from Warsaw says that the greater part of the town of Lasocin, Prussian Poland, mas been destroyed by fire, rendering l'aoo persons homeless Five persons are missing and are believed to have been burned to death.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
A Revolution in Hayti.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-A revolutio has broken out in Hayti and Presiaen' Hippolyte is now in his palace in Port au Prince guarded by the majority of the army, which he brought down from the north with him when he over. threw Legitime.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

TIE new United States gunboats Nashville, Wilmington and Helena are designed for river as we'll as ocean service, as they draw only 9 feet of water. They are a vast improvement upon the gunboats that were devised for river service during the civil war.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
The New vigIIsut tcs.

The hoarse shouts of the mob ;nd, cated that the fell work was dona Stole horse, I presume" yentursd the tenderfoot, gesturing in the d; rection of the deceased. "Bicvc,s m they rejoined, not without reyealin, the pain the suggestion of the otbs. occasioned. The end of the age wa. at hand. and progress was squirting in the stretch. h.-Detroit Tribune.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

THERE is to be a motorcycle, or horse
 less carriage, race from Chicago tC Waukegan and return, distance ot 1Oo miles, on November 2 It is ex. pected that several of the motorcycles will make the distance in less than six hours. Some motorcycles from France and Germany have entered for the
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

TIE American Nimrod will soon be able to decide to nicety whether his gun has failed him or not. This he will do by simply removing from the gun barrel a small photographic ap- paratus affixed to it. It will show exactly where the shot took effect. The device is light and easily detacha-
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

IT has been rumored that President Cleveland is going to force the green. back retirement issue to the front in the coming session of congress.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

TIE executive committee of the League of American Wheelmen has made an appropriation to begin a cam paign for road improvement.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

BRUSSELS is to have ship canal that will bring vessels of 2.OO0 tons burden to it's wharves, and the cost will be only $1, 100000.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-10-31

-"Did the captain of the football team keep his head?" "Yes; his head and the upper portion of his trunk."- Detroit Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-19

That's my silent partner, said Tody
Hamilton, when l called attention to tho
fact that he always wore his big diamond
beneath his vest
"a good diamond" no explained, "is
about the best friend in need a travelling
man has. You may think it u case of van
ity, but 1t isn't-at least it isn't with q
majority of the men who wear them on
the road. diamond is the most con-
venient form of portable property and tho
least fluctuating In value You may get
out of money in some PARKWAY town, DO
robbed on the road, lose your money or
blow 1t in on spree. There you are.
Your diamond of tho value of $3.50 will
stand you in for 800. You couldn't got
more than $50 or something like that on q
watch worth $3.50 to $500. So, you'll SEQ
most travelling men wearing good stone.
1t is silent or special partner and stands
by man Mt the right time
Circus men and theatrical people save
their money in diamonds. They see good
many ups and downs, and If they didn't
put their surplus cash into gems they'd let
1t all go and have nothing for rainy day.
An actress can this way both save her
money and DO using 1t at the Same time In
personal adornment. We used to have o
man with the Barnum show who went
through the entire season dealing in dia-
monds with our people. He'd sell them
diamonds, buy them back or loan money
on them which, the posscssors were hard up
and run regular diamond brokers' trade
with us exclusively. "-Pittsburg Dis
match
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-19
News and Notes.

great Photographic camera for taking
full length, life size portraits has been
made and used with much success by a
Dublin firm.
Paradoxical though it sounds, an cleo
trical fan that Is used for cooling the at
mosphere III summer will also, it Is
claimed, increase the warmth of room
in winter.
An Austrian inventor has patented
process for removing the salts present in
sea water by filtration. The water is sim
ply drawn by a vacuum pump through a
section of wood in tho direction of its
fbers.
DR.. Bertillon has discovered new
method for identifying handwriting by en-
larging the letters by photography and
measuring the alterations due to the beat
ing of the pulse.
Experiments are being made in London
with water pipes made of paper pulp, the
object being to provide pipe which will
be unaffected by eectrolysis from electric
railway return currents.
1t is now proposed to clean ship bottoms
easily and quickly by electricity.
The remarkable statement is made, on
competent authority, that the average
amount of friction or power lost by over
coming friction in machinery and mill
work is 80 per cent Of the gross power, the
loss occurring at the fabricated surfaces.