The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-03-05

WHEN Waterman " Nell, OF the
Raney & Berger furnace at New
Castle, Pa. opened the Office door on
the morning of the Goth he found
Superintendent Mart Thompson in
sensible and Mrs. Frank Carlysle dead.
They are supposed to have been
asphyxiated by gas.
RoI.LA O. HEIKEs, of Day ton, O.,
champion target shot of the world,
made a sensational record at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the Goth. He broke 100
targets continuous shooting in min.
utes, 20 seconds, which makes q new
worlds record.
AN official of the Pacific Steamship
Co., at Seattle, WASH, recently made
the statement that bodies of human
beings were systematically snatched
from the cemeteries of that city and
sent as surgery subjects and for scien-
tific purposes to medical colleges in
San Francisco on the vessels Of the
company. The bodies were enclosed
in rough wooden boxes and labeled
merchandise.
INTENSE excitement prevailed In
Guthrie, Ok, on the eth over the re
suit of the official assay of gold dis
covered on the farms of DIR. K A.
Gates and A. P. Cooper, six miles south
west of Orlando, and a veritable AS
scene was enacted. Hundreds Of peo-
pie focked to the new gold fields and
staked lots, which they cannot hold
owing to leases.
AT Smithton. Pa, John A. Wolfe, o
farmer, attempted to drive across the
Monougahela river in a buggy with
his six-year-old daughter. When in
the middle of the stream the horse
was swept from its feet and the buggy
capsized, drowning the occupants.
THE steamer Miowera brought news
of great suffering and loss Of property
in Australia by the extraordinary eli
matte conditions There was unprece-
denied heat on land and 80 corpses
were buried in Sydneyin one day from
sunstroke. Terrific storms prevailed
and crops in a great many localities
were ruined. Herds of stock were
starving and dying for want of water,
and there was distressing array of
marine casualties reported. The town
of Murrurundi was almost entirely de.
stroyed by an electric windstorm.
Two children, aged three and FIVE,
belonging to. Mrs. Hotchkiss, were
burned to death in tenement house
fire at Brooklyn on the Goth.
WILLIAM WALTERS, a colored boy,
was burned to death at New York on
the 25th, through putting naphtha on a
fire to make it burn quickly.
On the night of the Goth mob Of sew
eral thousand persons battered down
the Jail doors at Wichita Falls, Tex.
and got possession of the two prisoners
who robbed the bank and killed the
cashier in that city the previous day.
An improvised scaffold was erected and
both robbers were strung up. THE
Kid" the first one hanged, said that
his name was Younger Lewis and his
parents resided at Neosho. Mo. He
died cursing and jeering. The other
robber had to be given whisky before
he was hanged.
Two robbers entered the City ma
tional bank at Wichita Falls, Tex, on
the 25th and demanded the money of
Cashier Dorsey, who resisted them.
Shooting began, resulting in the death
Of Cashier Frank Dorsey and the
wounding of Bookkeeper p. P. Lang
ford. The robbers secured only few
hundred dollars in silver. They then
mounted their horses. but were after
wards corralled in a large thiclset nine
miles from town and captured.
BEN BROWN, who has travelled all
over the country with circuses posing
as the California giant, was murdered
at Manchester, O., by being struck on
the head by q companion with whom
he was drinking.