The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

| TIE agricultural department Angus fruit report shows that the apple con dition advanced during July from G4.' to G57.
 THE Mahansett hotel, a fashionable hotel on the Long Island coast, wa. destroyed by fire. The guests saved most of their baggage Loss, Sl0o, ,00o
 THE r. F. V. train on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, which left Washing ton, ran into an open switch at Ra vensworth, Va, about 1915 a. m. or the 18th and four of the six passenge, coaches were badly wrecked. Several lives were reported lost and 15 or % passengers injured.
 THE town of Rama, on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, has been sub merged by the overfowing of the rivers Siqua and Rama. The losses have been | estimated at Sl,O0O. OOo. The town eX ports bananas to the United States. THE story in detail by the explorer himself of Dr. Fridjof Nansen's arctic expedition and the adventures of his party, together with the scientific re. | suits obtained, were given to the world | by the London Chronicle on the 18th. The statement was very lengthy. THREE men were shot and one badly hurt in conflict which occurred at Cleveland, O., on the evening of the i4th between party of the Brown company strikers and several non union men who were going home from the works.
 WILLIAM II. WHIrLoCK was hanged at Somerville, Tenn, for the murder of Constable W. D. Holiday. Whitlock died protesting his innocence.
 THE eastbound special mail train from Chicago on the Lake Shore road, ran into a washout 70 feet long and 30 feet deep near Otis, Ind, on the 18th. The train plunged into the big hole and Engineer James Griffin and Fire man Michael Roache were almost in- stantly killed. No others were in jured.
 AN explosion occurred at Somerford's $ sawmill near Navasota, Tex, on the 18th and three men were killed and several others seriously hurt. The ex- plosion was caused by the water in the boiler getting too low
 THE National Retail Butchers Pro- tective association. in convention at Denver, Col, on the 18th, instructed its police committee to enforce the boy colt previously ordered against all meats handled by the Armour Packing Co The action was taken because. it is alleged, the Armour company under sells the retailers in restaurants and hotels.
 PROBABLY 90 lives were lost and the whole Pine creek valley, near Pitts burvh, Pa, eight miles in length, was devastated by a great flood caused by cloudburst on the 18th. At De Haven oil tanks, barns and other buildings were swept away and the water was eight feet deep on the main streets and many people fled to the hills.
 A DISPATCH from Jeanette, Pa. on the 18th stated that the Fort Pitt dam had broken. Houses were flooded to the second floor, many of the occupa n ts barely escaping with their lives.
 A LOUISVILLE, Ky, dispatch stated the warm weather and hot winds were proving disastrous to the apple crop in that state.
 THE Popolo Romano, of Rome. re. calling the lynching of Italians at New Orleans in 1891 and referring to the recent lynching in that city of three Italians, urges the Italian government to call the attention of the European powers to the strange position of for eigners in America and to promote the collective action of the powers.
 ELI WoFFORD. chief of police of Tah- leqnah, I. T.. and Charlie Proctor, a deputy sheriff, were killed, and Leon- ard Williams, q sheriff. was mortally wounded in row over spilling some whisky about ten miles north of Tahle- quah.
 JAKE KILRAIN, of Baltimore, Md, has signed articles to box Frank P. S'avin. of Australia.
 LIZZIE DAVIS, of Red Cloud. Ind, shot her husband because he accused her of going to Sabbath school to meet the superintendent. She was arrested.
 DROUGHT of three months dura- ion was broken around Malvern. Ark. Vn the 10th by heavy rain.