The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-21

killed and several of the others in. jured.
 CAPT. WooDsoN, agent of the Chey. enne and Arapahoe Indians at Darling. ton, Ok. has received instructions from the commissioner of Indian affairs to inform the Indians that unless they abandon the custom of plural mar riages ghost dances and the use of mescal, their rations will be cut off.
 Ar Mercer, Pa., fire destroyed the large four story brick fouring mill of William Houston and also that of Cal. win 6 Young near by. The loss was $50, ,OO0. The mills were the chief in- dustries of the place.
 DURING terrific electrical storm at Norfolk, Va., a large frame house situ- ated on farm near Ocean View was struck by lightning and burned to the ground and two of its occupants per- ished in the flames. The house was occupied by about 25 colored persons who were engaged as strawberry pick CTS.
 FAILURES for the week ended the 18th were, according to Duns Review, 224 in the United States, against sl1 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 37 last year.
 WHILE the street trailway,company at Milwaukee was operating all its lines on the 18th and there was little or no distur rbance, the busses were heavily patronized as against the patronage of the cars, and there was general boy colt. The cause of the strikers was being advocated by every labor union and business of all kinds suffered with the railway company.
 AT the session of the general confer. ence of the African Methodist Epis- copal church at Wilmington, N. C., on the 18th Rev. H. E. Parks, D. D., of Kansas City. Mo-, was elected general secretary of home and foreign mis- sionS
 CoMMANDER.IN.CHIEF WALKER, of the c. A. R., on the 18th, from the head quarters at Indianapolis. Ind, called attent tion to the fact that some posts have been engaged in political work and some officers have been using their official positions to further the interest of certain candidates He deprecated all such action and demanded that it be discontinued.
 A FIRE inside the penitentiary at Ed dyville. Ky, destroyed the shoe, broom and spoke factories, involving loss of slOO, OOO Four hundred convicts will be idle for time.
 A DARING bank robbery was perpe- trated at Buffalo, H., on the 14th. At noon two masked men entered the bank just as Carl Kloppenb burg, the cashier, was locking up the safe pre- paratory to going to dinner. Kloppen- burg was the only person in the bank at the time. The robbers seized him from behind, bound and gagged him and then took all the money in the bank, amounting to Sll,0O0. and es. capped.
 FRANK HARDING, aged 27 years. of Quincy, H., shot his mother in the spine and then attempted to shoot him. self, but the bullet passed through his clothing. He was locked up at the police station. He was said to be subject to spells of insanity.
 WITHDRAWALS of gold from the fed- cral treasury make it appear certain that unless congress enacts relief leg islation another bond issue will be re- qufred before December. It was the generally expressed opinion of friends of the administration that Mir. Cleve- land would not wait for the occasion to call an extra session in the summer, but would send message to congress after both houses had adopted an ad- journment resolution, insisting that they should afford some relief to the treasury before going to their homes