The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-28


 THE Methodist general conference at Cleveland. O., made the following cleo. tions on the 22d: Dr. Buckley. editor of the New York Christian Advocate; Dr. Moore. editor of the Western Chris. tian Advocate at Cincinnati; Dr. Ed. wards, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate at Chicago; Dr. Jesse Bowman Young, editor of the Central Christian Advocate at St. Louis. Dr. Hurlbut was reelected secretary of the Sunday School and Tract soci- ety and Dr. Payne of the board of edu- cation.
 A BILL was introduced iI congress on the e2d by Mir. Kirkpatrick to grant rights of way over the public domain in Kansas and the Indian territory for | a pipe line for the transportation of oil, crude and refined. The bill grants for the purpose only strip of land 50 feet wide.
 ALvA E. SHEPPARD, Q jeweler, mur- dered his cousin, Mrs. L. E. Aweny, and then cut his own throat at San Francisco. The woman was addicted to the use of morphine and it is be- lieved from a note left by Sheppard that he considered it his duty to kill her, religious ardor having impaired his mind.
 JAMES E. DEWITT was hung at Gray son, Ky., on the Fist in the presence of over 5000 people for the murder of his wife. They were separated, but he waylaid her. choked her to death and hid her body in the woods. He did not want the sentence commuted, he said, as sleeping or walking his wife's glaring eyes and screams haunted him. Ar the Presbyterian general assem- bly, at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 22d the report on Sabbath observance de. nounced all work on Sunday, excur. sions, ball games, bicycle riding, Sab. bath social entertainments, the Sunday newspapers, and Christian people were scored for their lax observance of Sum day. The resolutions adopted re. affirm former deliverances as to the perpetual binding obligation of the Sabbath.
 AT Judson. Ind, Barney Roberts. while on drunken spree shot and killed City Marshal Newkirk. A mad. dened mob gathered and Newkirk fled. If caught lynching was probable.
 THE boiler in the Davidson Bros. sawmill, near Marietta, Ind. exploded recently and three persons were fatal ly injured and six others more or less injured. The boiler head was blown 200 feet away.
 THE report was recently current in San Antonio, Tex, that Dan Stewart had succeeded in making a match be. tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons and that the fight would take place on Mustang island, near Corpus Christi, Tex. The report also said that the kinetoscope company was putting up large purse for the winner of tho fight
 TIE 66th annual general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of the United States began at Birmingham, Ala. on the 2lst. Rev. A. W. Hawkins, of Decatur. H., was elected moderator, and Dr. J. NJ. Hubert, of Lebanon, Tenn, stated clerk.
 THE supreme council of the A. P. A. finished its business at Washington on the 18th and then adjourned. Kansas City was selected as the place for the next annual gathering. The advisory board was abolished, its duties being placed in the hands of the supreme executive board.
 MRs ASyA ROURESpFcR aftemr,ted to pour some coal oil. as she thought. on the fire. By mistake she picked up the gasoline can. There was an ex- plosion and she and the baby in her arms were enveloped in flames and both were burned to Q crisp The house also caught fire, but the fire de. pertinent saved it