The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-11-19


Ala, by train robbers,
who had torn up rail and fastened it
out Of line. Two mail cars, the bag.
gage car and two first class coaches
were shattered, but only three persons
were seriously injured. Bloodhounds
were set on the trail Of the wreckers,
who failed to got any money, but no
clew was obtained.
THE 22d annual convention of the
National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union was called to order by Miss
Frances E Willard ut st. Louis on the
18th. There were about 500 accredited
delegates present and as many more
visitors from every portion of the coun-
try. Miss Willard made her address
and the other officers read their re-
ports, which showed the organization
to be in q prosperous condition. The
national executive committee has de-
cided to report in favor of observing
March 20 each year as W. c. T. U. day.
THE Western Freight association has
authorized all roads in the association
to reduce Minnesota rates on potatoes.
The cut caused food in the potato
market at Chicago on the 18th. which
brought about q blockade in the freight
yards there.
A RECENT dispatch from New York
stated that a plan of campaign had
been completed by the interdenomina-
tional committee, which was recently
appointed to further the work of for.
eign missions throughout the country,
and that the Evangelical alliance
would be asked to designate Sunday,
January 10, 1897, as day to be set
apart for preaching and prayer by the
pastors of the United States and Can.
ada for the evangelization of the
world.
FANNY ScHoFIELD, q country girl "a
years old, has been lodged in the coun.
ty Jail at Oswego, N. Y, on the charge
of administering arsenic to two small
children of Albert Field, of Colose,
whose hired girl she was
A FIGHT occurred in q saloon in
Leadville, Col, at an early hour on the
12th in which five men were stabbed,
and one at least will die. Fifteen or &c
men were engaged in the affair, which
was an outcome of the miners strike,
the strikers calling some Austrian
miners scabs.
The committee on foreign affairs OF
the Bolivian chamber Of deputies ha.
reported in favor Of the recognition Of
Cuban insurgents as belliqerents.
THE Porter brick works at Chester
ton, Ind, resumed operations on the
9th, 1900 men returning to work.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Bombay on
the 18th stated that in II districts OF
the Deccan and Concan l,250, 900 peo
pie were believed to be on the verge Of
starvation. The dispatch added that
riots had occurred at Shahabad and
Kazod.
AT the session of the farmers ma
tional congress at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th resolution was adopted
urging the incoming administration tc
speedily adopt all practicable methods
to obtain the concurrence of q sufh
cient number of nations tn secure in
ternational bimetallism, with unlimit
ed coinage of gold and silver as equa
money of ultimate redemption.
memorial is also to be presented tc
congress, praying for protection to al
farm products.
OFFICERS recently had a battle In
Greer county, Ok, with some Mexican
horse thieves, in which one thief was
killed and several men on both sides
wounded. The officers Jailed five OF
the Mexicans at Arapahoe.
The westbound Union Pacific fas
mail train met with an accident neal
Ogallala, Neb., about one o'clock or
the morning of the 18th by which foul
passenger cars were ditched. Pa
humphrey, of Grand Island, Neb., wal
the only person hurt.
Two children of William johnson
locked in a room at Jacksonville, Ind.
during their mothers absence, fount
some matches and played with them
bur ming down the house, together
with four others. The children wer.
rescued.
Jimmy Ryan, of Cincinnati, and Lor
Beckwith, of Cleveland, started a finish
fight at lis on the morning of the lOtf
for $500 and the gate money. The mer
were both welterweights. It was 9
smuggling match for ten rounds. The
Nottingham marshal then got afte,
the crowd, but they escaped arrest and
the fl ght was called a draw by Il
referee.
The time-honored ''lord mayor
show" took place at London on the 9tf
and the new lord mayor, Mr.. A. Eau
del.Phillips, was formally installed IL
Office. 1.-THE banquet at the Guild hal
Mr.. Bayard responded to the toast Of
''The Ambassador" Lord Salisbury
said that the Venezuela boundary wa.
all but settled, owing to the United
States. In regard to the troubles ir
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