The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-09

A TERRIFIC explosion of gas took place in the No. 6 shaft T the Lehigh
 & Wilkesbarre O., tt Sugar Notch,
 Pa, killing one person, flAtally injur- ing another, and wounttug five more. A TEkR1BLE explosion occurred in
 the Giles mine, uearsNGfd, Col, on the
 Sd, in which three ume0uwete instantly
 killed and two otkers bbAdly hurt
 When the men wentsto'work they took
 about 80 pounds of gisht powder down
 in the mine with .them, and shortly after they reached rthe bottom of the shaft aud wont to'wo4k the powder in some anknosvn wasrsxploded. Ar ClintoE, III. son the 3d Ed Pollen,
 formerly employed at the Illinois Gen.
 tral railroad, mt rdered his wife ahd
 mothor-inlaw aud then attempted sui. eide by throwing himself in front of an eastsound frsieAt train. Jealousy was
 given as Ihis reason for committing the
 horrible deed. At night great crowd of excited ucittEcns assembled in front of the jGM. butsslayor McGill addressed
 them and saidlPolen would die of his injuries and sahe crowd finally dis.
 persed.
 AOoOTyDrNG'4o Bradstreet's Financial
 Review on tho 4th the first quarter of
 1896 presented the largest list of actual failures in business in the United Statss- thosolin which liabilities ex. eeeded assets, ever reported for like period The total was 4.512 or 700 more thsniin 1894, and l.443 more than iu the firstsHuarter of 1893, increases of
 IS. lu Nud Is7 per cent. respectively.
 Liabilities 'of those failing this year amount to s62, SIS, 600, an increase of 30 per cent. ,'as compared with year ago.
 LETTERS received from the Canadian boundary report the death in Rainy river Of Col. A. F. Naff, a United States dep~ty marshal, and an entire party of explorers, in all probably eight men. They were on their way to investigate reports of, the timber stealing by Cana diaas along the boundary and were ascending ''the river in sleighs and broaue through the ice.
 A NHgseo' on . Chicago street car seized a'woman's pocket. book and then jumped from the car. The woman screamed .shd the conductor and mum Der berdfpassengers followed the ne. gro Whe latter soon saw that his es. cape yves thopeless and. taking a razor from his pocket. he coolly faced his pursuers and drew the blade twice across his throat and died almost in. stantly.
 Ar Corniug, O., Thomas Branigan. n newspaper rman, killed his wife and himself because of jealousy.
 TIE gssment workers of Baltimore, Md, who had been on n strike for five weeks, declared the strike of and re. turned aowork on the 3lst. Over 5000 had boon out
 TIE members of the c. A. R. at Chel. sea, Mass, were reported agitating for the renavat from the public schools of Montgomerts History of the United States
 WHAT may develop into a strike that will paraly1e the building industry in Chicago for a long period was begun | on the Both. About 800 carpenters went out. but the trouble was expect. | ed to spreudmntil every one of the 13.- poo carpenters in the city had ceased work. The ,trouble was about an eight-honr day agreement between bosses and carpenters
 THE fonr-story. brick building at lo4 and I26 foltor street, Boston, has been destroyed by fire. Loss. sl50.0O0.
 SECRETARY HKR BERT has decided to ise messengerfpigcon service for coast defense. Specially designed coops are o be built at 2O different points along he Atlantic coast, and many hundreds 'f homing pigeons will be placed in hem. Additional lofts will later be iu Q continuous chain and liter time be extended to the Pacific oast.