The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-01

JOSEPH HAY, uBcu Ao, WI .Ic uuutiuk ducks on the Salt Fork river in Okla. homa, looked into the barrel of his gun while loading it and it was accidental ly discharged, blowing the top of his head off.
 HARVEY w. POOLE, a ten-year.old boy, was smothered to death while playing in wheat bin in an elevator at Hagerstown, Md.
 TIE first delegation of 75 miners from Missouri to Leadville, Col, arr rived over the Denver & Rio Grande railroad on the 25th. The train was met at Malta, three miles out, by two companies of militia. They escorted the train to the city, where it was met by 500 men with two Gatling guns and the men were taken to the Emmett mine.
 LULU KERLIN, of East Franklin, Ind, was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from q grate. She lost her presence of mind and ran into the street.
 Two men committed daring rob- bery at the Union Foundry Co. s office in Chicago on the 25th. The treasurer of the company was engaged in filling the employees envelopes with their pay when the robbers held him up. The president, superintendent and two clerks were in the room at the time. The robbers got l,GoO.
 A FREE fight occurred during po- litical demonstration at Elwood, Ind, on the 25th in which Joseph Martin, Samuel Salvin and Hosea Templeton were probably fatally stabbed and a number of others were hurt.
 AT Buffalo, N. Y., Peter Kamm killed his wife with hatchet and then cut his own throat. They had been sep arated for several months.
 THE American record was broken by four men in the 24-hour bicycle race at Chicago on the 18th. The score at the finish was: Gimm, 4s6 miles l, ll5 yards; Waller, 4s2 miles 96s yards; Schinner, 462 miles 5G7 yards; Miller, 459 miles 233 yards, and Myers, 427 miles ss7 yards. It was seen early in the day that the American record was certain to be wiped out and it appeared to be equally certain that the worlds record of 533 miles 1,403 yards, made by Rivierre, would not be touched.
 AT the 24-hour bicycle race at the Coliseum at Chicago on the 24th C. w. Miller did 50 miles in the remarlta ble time of I:54:25 3-j, the previous record being a:ll:G 4-5.
 JOHN FITCH, colorcd, was lynched near Chapel Hill, Charleston county, Ala. He had broken into the room of Miss Harrington q few evenings ago, but was driven away. He was after wards arrested and was taken by a masked mob and lynched while en route to jail.
 MASKED men broke into the Gretna jail, near New Orleans, and took out Jim Hawkins-a negro who had been confined on a charge of assault and battery on a little white boy-gave him a brief time to pray and then hanged him. The cause of the lynch. ing was his generally bad reputation, the people having a dread of him.
 TIE sawmill of Smalley Bros X Woodwork at Bay City, Mich., was destroyed by fire on the 23d.
 A NEW rule is to become operative on the Wabash railroad on and after Oc- tober L A record will be kept of the offenses of any employe and when six have occurred the employe will be dis charged and his situation be given to the man who has earned the highest number of white marks by attention to his duties.
 JouN COINS was recently sentenced at Franklin, Ind, to four years im- prisonment for stealing five chickens.
 TIE people of Washington county, Ky, have risen in rebellion and torn down about all the toll gates in th- county.