The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

A FIRE that caused the loss of three lives and nearly sl0O,OO0 worth of property visited Ladonia, Tex, recent ly. Nine houses, eight of which were brick, situated on the west side of the public square, and much of their con- tents were consumed.
 CARROLL D. WRIGHT, United States commissioner of labor, stated in his recent annual report to the secretary of the interior, that the work of the cen sus office was now substantially com. pleted and that the tables were in the hands of the printers. He also stated that he would be ready to report to congress by December plan for per manent census bureau.
 CLYDE DAVIS, aged l4 years, of St. Mary's. w. Va, was run over by the Bryan special train. His mangled re- mains were found on the track.
 THE Eeight-year-old mute son of An drew J. Andrews,o of Irville, O., secured his fathers gun during the absence of the family and pointing it at his baby brother fired, killing him instantly. The fratricide was not thought to be accountable.
 FULL advices from Cedar Keys, Fla. [, late on the 2d showed the almost total destruction of the town and the loss of 90 lives. It was feared. however, that the loss of life at Cedar Keys proper is as nothing in comparison with the number of spongers and fishermen who hn ported that nearly 100 vessels were anchored on the sponge bar and that all of them but 20 were lost. As these boats carried from four to ten men each, the loss of life must have been great. Reports from 7G surrounding towns showed that e persons were killed and 62 injured. These were the known casualties.
 A PASSENGER train was held up on the 2d by masked men about 20 miles from Albuquerque, N. M. A deputy marshal on the train took in the situa- ton and killed one of the robbers. The hold-up was failure financially, the robbers securing no money.
 THE Alamo hotel at Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire on the 3Oth, the guests barely escaping with their lives and losing all their personal property.
 A RECENT Pittsburgh, Pa., dispatch stated that the proposed big window. glass trust had collapsed.
 THE Farmers and Merchants four ing mill at Montrose, Col, was burned to the ground. Loss, S5O,OOO; insur. ance, S25,0O0.
 THE semi.centennial celebration of Iowa's statehood opened at Burlington on the lst. At an early hour cannons boomed from the bluffs, bells rang and whistles blew. The parade, the grand. est ever seen there, started at II a. m. and was witnessed by 25.OOO people. Gov. Drake and Vice President Steven. son rode near the head of the column. Brass bands from all over the state were in line. Floats representing the progress of Iowa from lS46 to 1896 were also in line.
 THOMAS NEwKIRK and Henry Ash croft, who lived on Long Fork, near Lexington, Ky, quarreled over Miss Mary Dean and decided to settle their differences with Winchesters at 5( paces. They stood up before each oth CTS unerring fire until both fell dead
 GEORGE BARNUM, an old hermit anG brother to the late snowman, P. T. Bar nun, was found in his hut in the wood. near Harrison, Mich., with his pockets turned inside out, his money gone anC his head crushed in.
 As result of having eaten tainted fish, 25 students of Concordia college at Milwaukee were made dangerously i'll on the 1st.
 THE steam gin of J. l.. Moorehead a Grapevine, Tex, with 160 bales oi cotton, was destroyed by fire.
 A HURRICANE swept over Savannah Ga., on the goth doing damage to the amount of S75o,oOO and causing the ] loss of nine lives