The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08

ANhhn AsuoAs Snsf OohuhiG Stut hs LS CNt ten, shot and killed Samuel Clark, aged 15. The boys were playing with guns, and Johnuie pointed his gun at the older brother, not knowing 1t was loaded.
 THE monthly statement of the di. rector of the mint shows the total coin. age at the United States hints during the month of September, 1896, to have been S5.9l5, ,363. 50. divided as follows: Gold, s, TAO, ,9a2. 50; silver, $9,754. 1G5; minor coins, SEQ, ,o26. Ofthe silver coined S2. TOO, 100 was in standard dollars.
 DURING the parade at Iowa's semi. centennial celebration at Burlington on the lst the reviewing stand, con. :aining Vice President Stevenson, Gov. Drake and many other prominent people collapsed and about 30 people were more or less injured.
 A SHEEP herder on the Cascade noun tains, in Washington, was urging 3, LOCO sheep toward the snow line to get grass when they stampeded and knocked him down and HOO of the sheep were smothered and trampled to death and their bodies piled on top of the herder's corpse.
 AN explosion of ammonia occurred at the Schmidt brewery at Indianapo- lis, Ind, which completely wrecked the cold storage plant and badly in jured eight men.
 TIE Minneapolis Baseball club de- feated the Indianapolis on the 1st and won the Detroit Free Press cup, after having captured the pennant. The score was 13 to II.
 MRs. JOHN FLER, wife of farmer near State Center, Ia., was found by the roadside burned to 3 crisp. It was supposed her clothing was ignited from pipe she had been smoking.
 NEAR Tiolgate, O., Nathan Spellman, a drunken boarder in the home of Mrs. Kicker, a widow, attacked Anna Kicker, q girl F years old, and crushed her skull. Spellman afterwards com. mitted suicide by sevcring his jugular vein with razor.
 THE public debt statement, issued at Washington on the lst showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during September of Sl, S06. .034. Total cash in the treasury, SS49, ,642,772
 PART of Benson, Ariz., was washed away and six persons drowned in a flood from cloudburst in the Whet- stone mountains. It was expected that great loss of life and destruction of property will be reported from all along the San Pedro river, wall of water at least l2 miles long being poured into the river.
 A MALIGNANT fever. similar to that which appeared in 1893, has ravaged Turkestan for the past two months Ten thousand persons nave died from the fever, most of the victims being children.
 TIE people of Washington county, Ky, have risen in rebellion and torn down about all the toll gates in the county.
 THE commissioner of Indian affairs at Washington has submitted his an nual report, in which he states that the Indians are becoming adopts in handcrafts and that education has progressed rapidly in the government schools There were enrolled in the schools 23,352 pupils. The commis- sioner lays stress on the need of lcgis- lation to restrict the sale of liquor in the reservation.
 THE large barge Sumatra foundered off Milwaukee on the 3Oth and four men were drowned She had n load of railroad iron and the sea ran high.
 GUS CARLSON. a farmer of Woodbury county, Ia., fell in front of q cornstalk cutter and one leg was cut off below the knee. He cannot live
 Two fishing boats and l5 fishermen were lost in a recent storm on the coast of France near Brest