The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-27

ported short Of cash and there Is little prospect of an improved condition till the second installment of taxes comes in November. Slate officials are ot the opinion that it will be year at least before the state is on safe four. dation.
 THE famous pacing stallion, Jos Patchen, lowered the worlds stallion pacing record by one-quarter of . sec ond, going the mile in a:03 flat on the Rigby Park (Me.) track on the 2lst. Two of the judges watches showed the time to be one-fifth of 8 second less than 2:O3.
 A DRAW bar on Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern freight train dropped out on the track at Madisonville. O., throwing the two cars next to the ca boose over to the other track An ex- tra freight was passing and ran into the two cars, killing fireman Harry Hall, of Chilicothe, and demolishing six cars.
 NEAR Mckinney, Ok., J. l.. Carr and James Scott quarreled over girl and agreed to enter q 24-foot ring and fight it out in an old-fashioned way until one should give up, but both be- came exhausted and could fight no longer.
 DALLAS BRUCE, white man of Caro- line county, Va, attended the recent confederate reunion in Richmond and then disappeared. A search for him resulted in the finding of the body cut into pieces and packed into several pickle barrels at the house of his negro mistress. Each portion of the body had been put into the bottom of bar rel and carefully covered with pickles and strong brine poured over the whole.
 MICHAEL AND JOHN CUDAHY, the Chi cago packers, have entered into an oil deal of enormous proportions. They have purchased in Wells and Adams coun- ties, Ind, the entire plant and wells of the Northern Indiana Oil Go. Follow ing their purchase they placed with the National Tube x Pipe Co.,, of Pitts burgh, a S5oO,o00 order for six-inch oil pipes for an underground oil line ITO miles in length and extending from the oil fields to Chicago.
 FIRE destroyed the house of John Feldbach at Watertown, $. D., burning him to death. together with his two daughters. Tillie and Matte, aged IS and 16 years.
 FIRE destroyed the Vanwert (O.) in. firmary and the 30 inmates barely es- capped with their lives and in their night clothes Two were badly burned, an old woman had both arms broken and dozen suffered slight in. juries. Most of the patients had to be dragged from their beds and forcibly carried out of doors
 AN order will soon be issued from the post office department at Washington for material reduction of the carrier forces in large cities. This is to bring the cost of the service within the ap. propriation made by the late congress.
 A CLoUDBURsT struck Mogollon, N. M., recently, drowning John Knight and an unknown Mexican, rendering about 100 families homeless and badly damaging the property of several min. ing companies. Hardly a business house in town escaped damage. THE secretary of agriculture was re. ported ready to let contracts for seeds to be distributed under congressional frank during 1897. To facilitate work the United States has been divided into six districts. District two, for which the sum of ST, 7,044 isavailable, includes Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Az, onl
 ON the Geosirio sugar estate in Cuba 20 peaceable Cubans were shot and bayoneted in cold blood by Spanish troops. The authorities suspected that the proprietor was paying tribute to the insurgents to be allowed the privilege of operating.