The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-23

its convention at Chicago on the l6th. Ex-Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, was elected president; D. w. Wilson, of Elgin, H., secretary, and George Lynn, of Chicago, treasurer.
 A DISPATCH from Lima, Peru, said that the mayor of San Miguel had seized and caused to be burned in the public square of the city all the Bibles and stock of the agent of the American society.
 Ex-REGIsTER OF DEEDS CHARLES RIDER was arrested at Fl Reno, Ok, charged with embezzlement md for mutilating county records
 THE failures for the week ended Janu- ary F (Dun's report) were 395 in the United States, against S73 last year, and sl in Canada, against 60 last year.
 A PASSENGER train on the Midland Terminal railroad was wrecked just above tho city limits of Victor, Col, on the l7th. Thirty passengers were in. jured, two of them probably fatally.
 THE comptroller of the currency has issued circular letter to all national banks on the forthcoming bond issue, asking the banks to aid the govern. ment in popularizing the loan by call. ing the attention of their patrons to the desirability of it as an investment and in stimulating subscriptions there. to.
 THE wheel department of the Penin- sular car works, at Detroit, Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 17th. Loss, S35,000. Two hundred men were thrown out of work by the fire.
 THE secretary of the treasury intends to coin enough of the bullion held against the notes of 1890 to at least re. store the amount of coined silver dol lars to what it was at the beginning of the administration. This will involve the coinage of between SIS, ,OOO. 900 and SIG, 900, 900, and the profit from the coin. age will be added to the free silver in the treasury.
 of Joseph Day, an old farmer in Jack son county. Tenn, and demanded his treasure. On his refusal to give it up he was taken outside and hanged to tree. The men then attempted to make Mrs. Day tell where the money was hidden, and when she refused they crushed her head in with club. No arrests have been made
 A LIGHT engine ran into a crowd of car cleaners who were walking the tracks on the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad at New York on the i7th, killing two women and injur. ing two other women and a man so badly that they will probably die.
 THE American Missionary associa- tion, whose jubilee is to be elebrated in Boston next October, is issuing a variety of circulars, appeals and his torical documents, urging Congrega. tional churches, Sunday schools and Endeavor societies throughout the United States to observe February 16 as Abraham Lincoln memorial Sab bath"
 TwENrY-THREE hundred railroad stock cars were sold at the courthouse steps at Chicago on the 16th for s63O,. GOO. The cars were formerly the prop. erty of the Hicks Stock Co. Last No- vember a judgment was entered against the company for the sum of sl. 34l, ,O00, under a bill of foreclosure filed by the Railway Equipment Co.,. which furnished the cars.
 AT Antlers, l. T., on the 16th Will Green, a painter, shot and mortally wounded H. w. Berry, merchant at that place. The trouble came up over Berry putting Green out of his house the night before.
 TIE Japanese warship Konei found. cred off the Pescadore islands and be tween 20 and 36 men were thought to have been drowned. The vessel was on her way to Tokio, Japan, when she struck Q rock and sunk.