The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-03-19

IT was rumored at Washington that
instructions would 20 to the command
ants of military posts to be careful in
future as to whom they admitted to
view the posts and that there would DO
more cautious editing of matter pub
lished in army reports, so as to guard
against foreigners obtaining knowl-
edge of the resources of the United
States in case Of war.
The Clarksdale oil mill at Vicksburg,
Miss, was burned on the 18th with an
immense quantity of seed. The loss
was 500, 900, only partially insured.
PADDY PURTELL, OF Kansas City, won
the fight with Nick Burley before the
Manhattan Athletic club at New York
on the 18th in the seventh round.
The tobacco warehouse ut Lancaster,
Pa, occupied by c. w. Kendig. was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the l2th, to-
gether with between 700 and 800 cases
of tobacco. There was an insurance
of $4,000 on the tobacco, which will
fully cover the loss The fire was sup
posed to have been incendiary.
AT the Central coal works, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, near
Charleston, w. Va, Is miners boarded
q car at the pit mouth to ride down the
incline to their tipple. The rope broke
and the car rushed down to wreck ut
the bottom. Seven men were killed,
three fatally and three badly hurt.
A PULLMAN sleeping car on the Chi.
cago & Eastern Illinois was taken
possession of by an armed maniac on
the night of the 12th and held by him
against all the crew and passengers.
The police at Terre Haute, Ind. finally
succeeded in arresting him. The ma
MAC was identified as J. d. Cummings,
a prominent merchant of Englcwood,
Ill.
THE failures for tho week ended
March l3 (Dun's reporD were 300 In the
United States, against 266 last year,
and GO in Canada, against 81 last year.
WHILE the three children of Willis L.
Blackman, a prominent Chicago citi-
zen, were returning home from party
on the night of the 10th the carriage in
which they were in was struck by c.,
b. g. Q. train at the railroad crossing
in Hinsdale and the coachlnan aad two
of the children were killed and the
other one severely injured. Both of
the horses were also killed and the car.
rage smashed into kindling wood.
The Morrow farm near Beaver, Pa,
has been purchased for the purpose OF
erecting Masonic ma tional university.
Work will he commenced on the build
ings soon.
INSPECTORS of internal revenue
seized the entire plant Of the Vermont
Manufacturing Co., makers Of butter
inc, at Providence, r. /.
SOME miscreant threw a switch on
the Union Pacific railroad hear Poca-
tello, Ida, for the purpose of wreck.
ing the early morning express on the
18th, but fortunately the engineer saw
him and reversed his engine, and, al.
though the train left the track, no one
was injured.
An attempt to rob the First national
bank at Germantown, O., was made at
$3.50 on the morning of the 18th, but
the robbers used SO much giant
powder that the bank was wrecked and
the town aroused. The door of the
vault, weighing 800 pounds, was thrown
30 feet. The vault con tanned $40, 900 in
cash and other securities.
GEORGE TODD, wife and family, in
Logan county, O., awoke and found
the house on fire. One child was
burned to death, a girl will die and the
father and others were badly burned.
FIDEL TRIrscHLER, banker and coun-
Gilman of Allentown, Pa, shot and in
stantly killed his wife in bed at five
o'clock on the morning of the 10th and
then fred two bullets into his own
brain. Insomnia was supposed to be
the cause.