The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13
MISCELLANEOUS,

FAILURES for the week ended the 7th Dun's reporD were 200 in the United States, against 227 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 43 last year.
 BARRIERS living along the Little Wa bash river, near Grayville, Ill.,, re- ported fish dying in large numbers The steneh caused by the dead fish was said to be unbearablc. It was thought the fish were poisoned by eating weeds in the sloughs during the high water JOSEPH WEAsTHAY. miner, was killed by the premature explosion of a blast in the Carbondale mine near Des Moines, la.
 THE Johnson steel works at Lorraine. O., has closed down and 500 men were thrown out of employment The sus. pension was owing to lack of orders TWELVE persons lost their lives through the burning of a gliding fac tory in Christiania, Norway, on the 7th. Three of the victims were chil- dren who were burned to death.
 DAN CREEDoS, the Australian mid dleweight, was said to be training at Dubuque, Ia., for if endly four.round bout with Sharkey. who bestcd Cor bett in San Francisco. The sparring exhibition will be given in Chicago theater in few weeks.
 IN the yacht race for the Meteor challenge cup at Cowes, Eng, on the 7th Ailsa won over Satanita and Brit annia.
 THE Park theater, Tugby's museum and other buildings at Niagara Falls, N. Y., were destroyed by fire early on the Tth. The International hotel was on fire several times, and the guests fled to the streets. The loss will reich S250.O0
 AN incendiary fire at Knightsvilie- Ind, originating in Salliday's grocery store, completely destroyed three large business rooms and ,consderab ble mer. chandise.
 FOURTEEN hundred employees of the South Chicago Shipbuilding Co. have struck because the iboys who heated rivets were cut from .S1.5O to $l.25 day.
 FRANK C. ARMSTRONG, who was in Washington on the 5th and who is member of the Dawes Indian commis- sion, stated that the prospects for reorganization of the government of the Indians, througha;division of their lands in severatty and other measures, and expressed the belief that at the coming session of the tribal council some definite step will be taken.
 THE tramp who robbed and shot Thomas Hall and his Son at Hunter- town, Ind, and then escaped to big swamp. was caught by the posse who went after him and lodged i'm jail
 THE secretary of the interior has approved the swamp land Hist No. 24, consisting of 40 acres in the Spring field (Mo.) di>trict.
 MRS. ANDREW JOHNSON, of South Moline, Ill.,, poured coal oil or her kitchen stove and the can in her hands exploded. She was fatally burned.
 A DESPERATE state of affairs exists on the Gogebic range in nOrthe rn Michigan, all the mines. with two ex. ceptsqns, having shut down and the being on the verge of starvation.
 REPORTS from West Virginia on the 4th indicated an almost complete de- structipn of the wheat and oat crops by ineesSant rains
 THE Christian brothers, the noted bandits who escaped from the jail at Oklahoma Citv, Ox., about year ago, were recaptured on the 4th near Loco, l. T. Hunger had driven them from 'heir re'raat and they stole some pro- visions and officers followed after them ana took them off their gnard.
 FIRE started in the telephone ex. chanre nt Concord, vl!ae Ia miles rom Knoxville. Tenn, on the 5th and acstroSed dozen business houses Joss, sao,co); insurance, S4,0lO