The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-10

Ar the national encampment of the G. A. k. at St. Paul, Minn., on the 9th Mai. Thaddeus $. Clarkson, of Omaha, Neb., was elected commander-in-chief; Gen. J. H. Mullen, of Minnesota. senior vice commander; Charles w. Buckley, of Alabama, junior vice commander; A. E. Johnson, of the department of the Potomac, surgeon-general, and Rev. Mark D. Taylor, of Massachusetts, chaplain-in-chicf.
 THE Northwestern Millers' associa- tion, known as the flour trust, has gone to the wall.
 THE First national bank of Helena, Mont, failed on the 4th with S4, 800, GOO liabilities
 ARTHUR HAYNE was hanged at At. lanta, Ga, on the 4th for killing his friend, Will Spinks, in a fight last March while both were drunk.
 MYSTERIOUS" BILLY SMITH and Jim Ryan, of Australia, fought at Astoria, O., on the 4th. It was billed as a ten round go. but the fight was given to Ryan in the seventh because of Smiths foul fighting.
 THE c. A. R. veterans held business session at St. Paul, Minn., on the 3d and listened to the reports of officers. Gen. Walker placed the membership of the organization at 3s4,406 Kansas has 440 posts and 14,7l0 men; Missouri, 402 posts and 15.557 men; Nebraska, 274 2 hold the next encampment at Buffalo, N. Y.
 THE United States Veterinary asso- citation, in session at Buffalo, N. Y., elected Dr. N. S. Osgood. of Boston, president, and reelected Dr. $. Stew art, of Kansas City, secretary.
 THE American Social Science associ- ation, in session at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. elected James B. Angell, of Ann Arbor, Mich, president.
 NORFOLK, Va, had $20O,OOO fire on the Sd. A hundred poor families were made homeless.
 THE Oklahoma supreme court has handed down an opinion which makes Charles F. Beach, a prominent and wealthy New York man, and well- known Cincinnati woman bigamists, and will, by its interpretation of the divorce law, create consternation among the thousands from all parts of the United States who have secured Oklahoma divorces. The ground for reversal on error was that the man was never resident in good faith of the territory or of the county in which the divorce was granted.
 THE boiler of sawmill exploded at Garrett's Bend, w. Va, killing the pro. prietor and fatally injuring his son. Two others were also badly injured.
 A SQUAD of militia has been sent to Ontonagon, Mich, the village which was recently devastated by fire, to protect the supplies against the raids of the half-crazed sufferers, as the strong fight back the weak, leaving the latter to starve.
 THE whole population of Broadlands, Ill.,, turned out with bloodhounds tc hunt for Miss Lizzie Pearson, who had disappeared from her brothers home and she was finally captured several miles away from home, and then it was seen that she was insane.
 THE official call for the 23d annual convention of the National Woman's Christian temperance union has been issued. The convention will be held in St. Louis, November l3 to IS.
 THE dead bodies of Lou Wilson, ( farmer; Mrs. Wilson, his wife, and g four-year-old son were found on theil farm at Neponset, III. All had beer shot through the temple and Wilson held revolver in his hand. No cause for the tragedy was known.
 A BOILER of threshing machine ex ploded at Sanilas Center, Mich. on the lst and three men were killed and two others severely injured.