The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-30

ACCORDING to t. Washington alspatc ten President Crespo, of Venezuela, has been advised by President Cleveland to make an effort to re-esta blish diplo- matic relations with Great Britain, and the president of the Venezuelan republic now has the subject under com sideration. There was strong belief at Washington that diplomatic rela- tions between Great Britain and Vene- zuela would be re-established and an arrangement made to submit the boundary question to arbitration.
 PRINCE HENRY, of Battenburg, hus- band of the Princess Beatrice, of En- gland, who went to Ashantee in a special capacity and who contracted fever there, has died The queen and Princess Beatrice were said to be pros- trated with grief.
 GEN. THOMAS EWING, who was knocked down by a cable car at New York recently, died on the Fist He was at one time thief justice of Kan- of the 11th Kansas volunteers. He will be remembered for his famous "Order No. H." depopulating the counties of Missouri that bordered on Kansas
 SHARON FULLER and George Holt, colored, were fatally shot, and Frank Stewart, white, angerously injured in a quarrel over cards at Dingess, w. Va.
 DESPITE official denials the report spread at Havana that Maceo had cap- tured the city of Pinar del Rio. A Spanish warship left Havana hurried. ly on the 23d, carrying battalion of re- Inducements and several light field pieces, for the scene.
 IT was reported on the 24th that the house foreign affairs committee had de- cided to report a resolution mildly cen surfing the United States am bassador to England for his recent speeches in reference to home politics.
 THE Chicago Tribune said on the 24th that a complete dismemberment of the great Santa Fe railway system was likely to be the result of the re- cent reorganization of the main lines from Chicago to Albuquerque, N. NJ. Less than year ago the Colorado Midland was dropped and month ago the Atlantic x Pacific was given up, and now the Santa Fe management in tended to relinquish control of the St. Louis & San Francisco road. They have conceived the idea that these lines are burden on the main line re- gently reorganized.
 A RECENT telegram from Constanti- nople said that an offensive and de- fensive alliance had been concluded between Russia and Turkey by which Turkey agreed, in the event of Russia going to war, to close the Dardenelles to warships of all nations. It was said to be probable that France would be included in the new alliance. Dis patches from Paris and Vienna, how ever, denied the truth of the report.
 COUNTY TREASURER PULLEY, at Dam vile, Ind. was said to be short in his accounts S5O,OOO.
 IN the international chess tourna- ment at St. Petersburg Lasker in creased his total wins on the 23d to II, a total which none of the competitors could reach, and won the first prize. Pillsbury, the American, was third in the race.
 THREE men were killed and four seriously injured on the 2lst by the ex- plosion of acetylene gas in building at New Haven, Conn.,, occupied by Eng. fish & Mersick and F. Pheglar & Co.,, hardware manufacturers. The explo- sion set the building on fire, and it was destroyed, with its contents, the loss amounting to slOo,OOO. There were 40 people in the building at the time of the accident, and for time the report was current that fully half of these had perished.