The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-15

J. D. SAIR, one of tue men who robbed the bank of Sherburne, Minn., and shot the cashier and bystander, was surrounded in farmhouse by posse, when he jumped through win- dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon and got into cornfeld. Then seeing that there was no chance of escape the robter shot his own brains out. AL most the entire amount of money stolen was found on the dead man.
 THE Jasper county jail burned at Paulding, Miss, during the night of the 9th. and two prisoners, E. A. Strickland, charged with forgery, and Mollie Daniels, crazy negress. were cremated. Strickland had stated that unless opium was brought to him he would burn the jail.
 A MAN entered the bank at Hardee, Ia., on the 9th, covered the cashier with a revolver and demanded the proceeds He was handed over S7oO and made his escape.
 RANDOLPH FALLS, farmer sold load of cotton in Birmingham, Ala. and then left town for home with two negroes They camped out in the woods for the night and the next morning the farmer was found with his head crushed in and his pockets turned inside out.
 THE Brainard (Neh) bank was prac- tically demolished by burglars, who attacked the safe with dynamite. Cashier Smith engaged in battle with the burglars and drove them away. No money was lost, but the safe ana building were wrecked.
 A DISPATCH from San Antonio. N. M, stated that the United States mail coach was held up by masked men, 70 miles out. The mail sack was cut open, rifed and the stage horses stolen. There were no passengers aboard.
 JOSEPH PENTACosT, of Guthrie, Ok., was reported as lying very low from the effects of bite from a spider. Within a short time four people have been bitten in that city and n dozen at other points in the territory, all sui. fering greatly and one dying. Those who are bitten suffer bad effects for months after the first sickness is gone.
 A NOTICE was posted on the doors of the Cape Ann Savings bank at Glouces- ter, Mass. on the sth, stating that the institution had been closed. Soon after came the news that George J. Marsh, for more than quarter of century the trusted treasurer of the bank, had shot himself at his summer home at Annisquam. He was short In his accounts.
 TIE telegraphers' strike on the Cana. dian Pacific railway was declared off by a committee of the Brotherhoods of Engineers, Bremen, Conductors and Switchmen acting as a conciliatory medium between the railroad company and the strikers.
 THE National Wholesale Druggists association met in annual convention at Philadelphia. President Eliel, of Minneapolis, :n the chair.
 FOUR footpads held up two book. makers returning from the Ideal Park track at Chicago on the 9th and SC. cured Sl. 446.
 IRWIN PorTs, farm laborer at Flem- ington, N. J., was reported to have gone raving mad through the persecu- tion of whitecaps.
 SERIOUS forest fires were reported in Manitoba and many farmers have lost all their crops.
 Two men were injured, one probably fatally, by a runaway horse crashing into crowded street car at Chicago.
 TIE International Brotherhood Of Railway Trackmen of America was in biennial session at St. Louis recep ely, about 40 delegates being present
 A WHITE boy, l3 years old. shot col. ored woman at Abbeville, $. C., be- cause she owed him quarter and did not have the money to pay him