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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

SEVEN people were asphyxiated, one
fatally hurt by jumping from win
dow, and five others were more or less
injured by fire in the residence Of
James r. Armiger, prominent
jeweler at Baltimore, Nd, on the 23d.
The fire started from an overheated
furnace fue in the cellar.
A REVIVAL meeting at McColloch
church, near Portsmouth, O., ended in
a bloody encounter and the interior OF
the church being wrecked, the row be-
ing started by one Pyles bringing
charges against Crabtree.
On the authority of gentleman who
enjoys the confidence of President
Cleveland, the statement was made
that if congress adjourned without
currency legislation along the lines
suggested by the president, he would
call special session and force the
issue upon the country as being the
one question of paramount Importance.
COMMANDER DARLINGTON BooTH, of
the Salvation army, announced at New
York on the esd to the members of his
staff that he had decided not to relin-
quish command of the army in the
United States and that under no cir.
cumstances would he take orders from
England. This was taken to mean
that he will reorganize the army in
this county on an independent basis.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Reform Press association
convened at Dallas, Tex, on the ED,
Is states being represented. Resolu.
tions indorsing the Omaha platform
and declaring against the invasion OF
America by the pauper labor of Europe
were adopted. Paul Vandervoort, OF
Nebraska, was elected president, and
J. A. Parker, Of Kentucky, correspond
| ing secretary.
EX-CONGREssMAN MICHAEL. D. HAIR.
TER committed suicide by shooting
himself at Fostoria, O., on the 22d.
BILL NYE," the noted humorist,
died ut his home near Asheville, N. c.,
on the oad Of paralysis, aged 46.
THE Confederate'museum was opened
in the Davis mansion at Richmond.
Va, on the 32d.
Ex-Gov. FLOWER inaugurated boom
for Chauncey Depew as a presidential
candidate at dinner in New York on
the ed.
THE Union Republican club held a
meeting at Washington on the ed tc
cele brate the 4Oth anniversary of the
birth of the national party.
THE cotton mills of the Swift Creek
Manufacturing Co., near Petersburg,
Va, were destroyed by fire, causing d
loss of 500, 900 and throwing 200 people
out of employment
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

THE executive board of the National
Live Stock exchange of Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City and Omaha were
given a hearing by the senate commit
tee on agriculture recently. They
asked for reciprocal legislation which
would open foreign markets to Ameri-
can live stock. 1t was stated that the
association contained 1000 members,
and that the live stock interest was
the largest single industry in the
world. They complained of the re-
strictions placed upon importations of
American cattle by foreign countries
on the baseless charge of being dis
eased.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Neil.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


THE Daughters of the American Rev
olution finished the election of officers
on the 2lst at Washington. Mrs. Mat
tie A. Howm is Kansas representative;
Mrs Ethel b. Allen, Missouri's; Mrs.
c. M. Barnes, Oklahoma's, and Mrs.
Walter A. Duncan, Indian territory's
The body of the late Theodore Run
yon, ambassador to Germany, was on
board the steamer Havel, which ar
rived at New York on the 2lst. The
remains were conveyed to Newark,
where they will lie in state in st. Paurs
Methodist Episcopal church until the
funeral.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, in denying a
pardon to F. NJ. o. Holster, convicted
in Oregon of forgery in pension case,
said that he was decidedly in favor OF
strict punishment in cases which in.
volved the 'swindhng of the poor and
needy veteran"
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution, in convention at Washington,
unanimously elected Mrs. Stevenson,
wife of the vice president, as president
general
The Whitney presidential campaign
managers for the states OF Mississippi
Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama
opened headquarters at the Grunewald
hotel, New Orleans, on the Goth.
SECRETARY OLNEY on the Goth re
ceived a cablegram from the United
States am bassador at Paris stating that
the president of the French republic
has signed the papers for ex-Consul
Walters release.
THE candidacy of ex-senator Charles
F. Henderson, of Nebraska, for the re
publican presidential nomination has
been announced at Washington by his
friends
Miss CLARA BARTON, president OF the
American Red Cross society, has ar
rived at Constantinople and was re-
ported organizing system for the dis
tribution of relief to the suffering
Armenians
THE fifth annual congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
began in Washington on the 18th be
hind closed doors. There was large
attendance of ladies from nearly every
state in the union.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
NO, FORMAL PROPOSALS.

Tho st. James Gazette Says No Actual
Agreement Exists to Arbitrate the Vene-
Euelan Question.
LONDON, Feb. 2l.-The st. James Ga.
zette says that the rumors in circula-
ton as to an actual agreement to sub
NIT the Venezuelan question to arbi.
tration having been arrived at between
the governments Of the United States
and Great Britain must be received
with caution, adding: "We can state
with confidence that the proposals
made are absolutely unofficial and that
no suggestion has been formally made
by either government"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

The dread affection of tuberculosis
was located in the wrist of patient
by DR.. James BURY and Electrician
Charles e. Scribner at Chicago on the
21st by means of the cathode rays.
The full extent of the malady was
measured A clear negative was de-
veloped in half an hour 1t showed
the carpal bones were matted together
in the tubercular growth so as to stop
the circulation.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

In spite of the formal declarations Of
The imperial chancellor, Prince Hohen.
lobe, in the reichstag that Germany
was not prepared at present to issue
Invitations for monetary conference,
the German bimetallists still hope
that an international conference will
be called and they have determined TO
resume active agitation both in the
reichstag and outside of it.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

two miles from the
village of Langtry.
In the center of a
canvas wall. about
200 feet in diameter,
the ring as
pitched. The board
floor was covered
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

FIVE rare coins were received at the
treasury department at Washington
in payment of the recently issued
bonds. They were SIS gold pieces, dat
ed from 1912 to lsi7, and were stamped
with ID" the mark of the old Dahl.
omega mint in Georgia. This mint was
seized by the confederates at the out
break of the war in 1861.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
Last Trip Until the wedding.

INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, Feb. 22.-Gen.
Benjamin Harrison left yesterday for
New York accompanied by his secre-
tary. 1t il understood that this will
be his last trip to New York until next
April, when he and Mrs Dimmick will
be married.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

THE coroner's jury at Centerville,
Ia, found that the double murder by
George Jones and his suicide were
caused by insanity, the result of smok.
ing cigarettes. Jones signed q petit
ton to the legislature to pass an anti.
cigarette manufacturing bill the day
OF the tragedy.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

The United States is climbing up
rapidly in all forms of mineral produce
ton and before the new century be-
. gins will lead all other nations in coal
mining. -
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
CHIcAGO'S COTTON SHOW.
It VIII Open August 1 Next aud VIII Con
tlnue Three Months.

time Three Months.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2L-The Chicago and
Cotton States exposition, as it has been
named, will open in Chicago August l.,
1896, and will run three months. This
was determined at to-day's session of
southern delegates and Chicago BUSH
ness men. The convention adopted
the report Of the committee appointed
yesterday to formulate a plan. The
plan is that the southern states will
collect the exhibits, bring them to Chi
cago and install them at their own ex.
pense. Chicago will provide buildings
for the exposition, with not less than
100, 900 square feet of floor space and
will pay all the cost of maintenance.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. 22.-Near
Omaha, small town near this city,
John Boots and his son were telling
timber. A small child was playing
near them, and as tree started to fall
Boots saw the child in danger. In try.
ing to rescue the little one the tree
crashed down, killing them both.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

one minute and
thirty-fve seconds
of actual fighting.
Fitzsimmons played
the same old game
he has so often
played before, lead
ing on his opponent
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

A NEW religious sect near Perry, Ok,
calleu ,the Church of God, profess to
cure all sickness by prayer and when
they fail it is given out that the sick
person has devil.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

JOHN WRIGHT recently died at his
home in Santa Rosa county, Fla, aged
1os years. He had been blind many
years, but was mentally sound. He
left four generations of descendants.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

THE new Bible prepared for the Chi.
cago public schools has been complet-
cd. 1t was prepared by committee
from the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish
and other denominations and is nom
Sactarian
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

TUE vacancy in the executive com
mittee of the American Anti-Saloon
league has been filed by the election
of Archbishop Ireland. of st. Paul, and
he has accepted the office.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

AT Montreal, Cam, Catholic priest
was imprisoned for refusing to dis
close in court the secrets heard in the
confessional.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

A DELEGATION representing the tea
trade of the United States appeared
before a subcommittee on the ways
and means recently to advocate the i'm.
position of a duty on tea.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
SYNDICATE GAINING WEALTH.
The Treasury Department Has Decided
Favor of Morgan 4 10.

WASHINGTON, Feb. CO. The treasury
department announced to-day that
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. and asso-
ciates, under their bid for 100000, 600
of United States four per cent bonds
of 1925, made in accordance with the
recent circulars of the secretary of the
treasury, are entitled to receive bonds
of the face value of about 81, 700. 600 in
addition to those of which they have
already been notified. Exact figures
cannot be stated until returns from
various sub.treasuries are fully verified.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
THE FIGHT Is ON.

There is an intense rivalry betw...
the watermelon and tomato prow.|
az to who can produce the earliest g.,
zer's Earliest Watermelon ripened u
1895 in So days. That record is To ~
beaten, and Salzer pays 500 to the wiz
ner! Then on tomatoes the record =.
$50 days the Earliest Tomato" in 1sa.
was 6S days. That's to be beaten ana
$50 paid. Salzer challenges the wor,s
to produce earlier melons, tomatoes
csbbages, radishes, peas or sweet corr
than he offers. Get his mammoth 90,
alogue. There is money in it.
If you WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SYN
It with 12c. stamps to the John A. Sale,
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, you will 90,
free their great catalogue and pack.
age of the yellow rind watermelon SEN
sation. IA
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

THE retail druggists OF Chicago have
combined to drive patent medicines
out of the market and te stop rate cut.
<snn
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

RECENT dispatches stated that the
sun was cooking the grapes on the
vines in Australia.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
THE BIG FIGHT.
The Neutrality-suspicious. Contest
Pulled or in Mexico.
Maher Knocked Out in Ono Round and In
Less Than Two Minutes-Fitzsim.
mons Now the Champion Of
tho World.

LANaTRy, Tex, Feb. 22.-Peter Ma
her was knocked out by Bob Fitzsim-
mons Yesterday in the first round, after
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
MI arch

April, May are most emphatically tn,
months for taking good blood purifier
because the system is now most in need
of such medicine, and because it more
quickly responds to medicinal qualities.
In winter impurities do not pass out of the
body freely, but accumulate in the blood
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

A COLLECTING agency in New York is nm
by women exclusively, which seems 10 dis1
prove the adage a woman's work is neve,
dun.-Texas Siftings.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27

LET dogs delight to bark and bite:
To do so is their fate,
They can't be turned; they never Learned
You see, to arbitrate. ~
Washington Star
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
April

The best medicine to purify, enrich and
vitalize the blood, and thus give strength
and build up the system, is Hoods Sarsa.
parilla Thousands take it as their Spring
Medicine, and more are taking it to-day
than ever before. If you are tired, cut of
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-27
WI av

sorts" nervous, have bad taste in the
morning, aching or dizzy head, sour
stomach and feel all run down, a course
Of Hoods Sarsaparilla will put your whole
body in good order and make you strong
and vigorous. 1t is the ideal Spring
Medicine and true nerve tonic, because
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14

Fred GllleSple visited b n0rtherny
Hills Wednesday and Thursday.
Smith is the proudest man
in town over his new bicycle.
Charley Conger was in from his
ranch Saturday sizing up the clerk of
the courts Office with a view to going
after it in the coming campaign.
Allen McMillen, we'll known in Hot
Springs, was quite badly but not SO
riously hurt at Edgemont last week by
falling from the top of a building.
H. w. Cation, Of Rosebud, and F. D.
Headlee, of Salem, s. D., arrived We'd
nesday O their wheels and at once
proceeded north to take in the Hills.
Ed Clark was over from Ardmore
Saturday last attending the republican
central committee meeting and look
ing after the chances for capturing
the Office of clerk of courts.
Harry Gayhart visited his folks near
.Ardmore last week, going on his wheel.
He made the first II miles in one hour
and ten minutes, though the roads
we're muddy most of the way.
j. F. McNay, dishwasher at the
Evans, had his hand badly burned
Sunday by some of his assistants pour
ing too much lye into the water, and
he dipped his hand into it not know
ing that any one had meddled with it.
He will be Qaid up several days.
Col. John j. Steadman, ex-depart-
ment commander of the G. A. R., who
will be we'll remembered by many of
our people as visiting here last year,
has arrived with his wife and they are
stopping at the Catholicon, where they
will remain several weeks. Col. Stead
man is an eloquent and effective cam.
paigner and we hope that he may be
procured to make some speeches in
the Hills. Maj. Anderson assures us
that Col. Steadman will gladly do what
he can for republicanism while here
and that he possibly may be induced
to fill afew other appointments. Those
who heard him at the camp fire here
will be delighted to hearhim again and
will hope for an early appointment TO,
him.
Men Harris had rather a thrilling ex.
perience with a rattlesnake the other
night. He has been sleeping out doors
lately, fixing up a bed on the ground
He was awakened by some horses, ano
when he arose to drive them away
upon stepping to the side of the bee
clothes his foot touched a big RATHER
No one knows just how high or fal
Ken jumped, but he got away from his
snakeship, procured q light and al
armful of rocks and without n great
effort got the scalp of the snake. which
lay coiled up at the edge of the bed
ding. Ken shudders yet when he ex
hibits the ~rattlers, and says that while
he knew politics makes strange bed.
fellows, he never thought it would
come to this.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
Three Grand Oriental entertainments.

Under the auspices of the C%ongrega-
tional church and the I. 0. o. II. of
HotSprings, three magnificent, oriental
entertainments will be given at the
opera house. The first will take place
Friday evening. August Dist, and will
consist Of Il panorama Of fine views of
Rome. the ruins of Pompeii, Greece
and the Holy Land. On Monday and
Wednesday evening August 9th and
Doth. Egypt, the land of pyramids
and mummies will be given. These
two lectures on Egypt will consist of
more than 1GO fine views thrown on Il
large screen by powerful oxy-hydrogen
light and the accompanying lecture
will be given by Rev. H. v. Rominger,
who made atour around the world and
spent several months in Egypt and
Palestine. He will speak from per-
sonal observation of the stupendous
ruins, arts and civilization of ancient
Egypt with glimpscs of the land as it
now is. A genuine Egyptian mummy
will be exhibited; rot a riecc of a
mummy, but u splendid specimen of a
whole one secured through DIR. Brugsch,
subcurator of the museum at Cairo
and relative of the historian of Egypt.
1t will be shown together with the sar-
cophagus in which it was found and is
as fine a specimen as can be seen in
any of the great museums of Europe.
A full description of this mummy
and the art of mummifcation will be
given at the last entertainment. The
Portland Oregonion in speaking of
this lecture given at the Morguam
opera house in that city says: "The
Morguam grand was we'll filled last
night, the occasion being the delivery
of a lecture by Rev. H. v. Rominger Of
East Portland, on 'Pyrmids, Temples
and Mummics of Egypt The speaker
caught the attention of the audience
by Il glowing eXordium. He sketched
briefly and eloquently the achieve
ments of the ancient Egyptians in the
arts and sciences. His description of
Cairo and its manifold attractions was
u wildly drawn word picture. In COL
clusion he gave Il most interesting &C
count of the process of preparing
mummies, exhibiting at the same time
a remarkably we'll preserved specimen
of Il woman who no doubt was part and
parcel of the life which thronged the
court of the Pharaohs. Mr.. Rominger
held the pleased attention of his nu-
merous and intelligent audience
throughout" Admission forthe course
has been placed at the low sun of 50
cents. Single admission % cents.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
Men Wanted.

Twenty men wanted to work in Pine
Ridge brick yard; two months work at
Is cents an hour. Good board $3.50
per week. Write or apply to
w. P. ALsEP, Pine Ridge, s. D.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
ro k.n... Citx .pd In. south.

10 NA3uHAB OIty 8uU tu0 SOUCus
There's only one QUICKEST route
the Burlington. Nearly 12hours faster
than the fastest. Here is the schedule:
Leave Hot Springs. ...8:45 p. m. today
Arrive st Joe.. 49,. $50 p. m. tomorrow
Arrive Kansas City. 500 pm. tomorrow
Arrive st. Louis. /. .7:19 q. m. next day
Close connections in Kansas City
and st. Louis with all east and south
bound trains. For full information
call on HI. CuRTIss, Agent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
For RENT-The James w. Martin
residence, in Mammoth Spring addition.
For particulars apply at this Office

Spring Chicken
After a delightful ride to Cascade is
what you will obtain by taking dinner
at the Grand View hotel, together with
all delicacies fresh from the garden.
FRED NORRENBERG, PROF.,
Cascade Springs, s. d.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-02-26
Wouldn't Wear 1t IL He Had.

Here is story about that eccen-
trio character, the late Lord Ayles.
bury. 1t has the merit of being true.
Lord Aylesbury was standing bare
headed in we'll known hatter's
shop in Picoadilly while his hat was
being ironed. A bishop-who, being
still alive, has not yet reached his
turn for posthumous anecdotes and
must consequently be nameless-
entered the shop in full attire. and
seeing Lord Aylesbury bareheaded
mistook him for "a shopman. Taking
off his own head covering, the bishop
said, "I want to know if you have a
hat like this2" Lord Aylesbury sur
veyed the hat and its owner and
turned on his heel with the curt re-
mark, mo, haven't, and if had
I'm id if I'd wear t."-London
Realm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-02-26
Rata.

Sailors have an idea that rats will
forsake q doomed vessel, and sever
al curious instances, tolerably we'll
authenticated, have boon reported
of the rats leaving a vessel which
afterward came to disaster 1t is a
we'll known fact that rats frequent
ly desert house about to fall and
mines which are on tho point of cav
ing in. Miners have often boon
warned of coming disaster by the
flight of tho rats and have loft the
mil . in time to escape the impend-
ing accident. In both these cases it
is probable that the rats were fright.
ened by tho settling of the beams of
the house or of the pillars and earth
in the mines. 1t is probable that
their senses are much moro acute
than those of mon, and the noise
made by the settling OF tho earth
and rooks in a mine would be OBJ
served by them long before it
would be peroeptible to the miners.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-02-26
rAn ElAo 81 MICKEY FRga.

He loved tho flag. did Mickey Free,
with love that we'll might shame
Each dull unpatriotic heart,
And cover Il with blame.
Old ireland was his native home,
Yet, strange ag II may be,
Ho always called the stars and atrtpeo
1.-THE dag OF Mickey Free"
ao was no coward: cool and brave.
Ha met the tolls of life,
And honestly he labored for
His children and his wife.
Four years, throughout the war, he fought
80 that the states might be,
Aud lived to SEQ IL wave in peace,
Tho dag of Mickey Free.
he often said: ''God bless tho AaRi
II floats above q land
Whore everything the heart can wish
Mans labor can command.
O'er Christian, jew and inhdel
It waves impartially;
And saints and sinners well may bless
The nag of Mickey Free"
Poor Mickoyl When tho time drew nigh
That he must pass from earth,
Ho lay Within his cabin wallis
Speechless as at his birth.
Uneasy moved his eyes about,
Something he fain would soei
He looked In sadness, failed to dnd
The nag OF Mickey Free.
HIS wife. remembering tho Gag,
Brought it before his eyes;
And, as In 10Y, q hundred smiles
Seemed DER his face to rise.
HIS manly hearb was satthhed;
Dying, content was he,
His fading vision resting on
Tho flag of Mickey Free.
Edward q. Dreamer In New York Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-02-26
Down Grado ON . Runaway Oar.


about 12 years ago had an ex-
perienoe will never forget, said
Sidney Benda of Syracuse, a travel
ing man, to "a reporter. 1T fairly
made my blood run cold at the time.
I was riding on the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern railroad in Michigan
on my way from Lansing to Grand
Rapids. We had been out from
Lansing about an hour when we be-
gan to go down a steep grade. The
present patent couplings were not
in use on that road then, and there
was always danger that the oars
would become separated, was sit
ting in the rear end of the train and
was the only passenger in the car.
Suddenly began to realize that we
were going at q great ratio of speed.
/ looked out the window and snw
that we were shooting down the
grade as the train had never gone
before. / ran to the door at the
front of the car. There saw that
tho engine and two cars had broken
loose from us and were shooting on
ahead. We were gaining on them
rapidly. Tho engine was slowing
up. saw that we would crash into
them in two or three moments.
took hold of tho brake, and tugged
away at it with all my strength.
The sweat came out on my forehead
when saw how fast We were gain
ing on the cars ahead. Then we be-
gan to slow down. Tho engine and
cars were not 90 yards ahead of us
when we came to stop. If hadn't
reached the brake as soon as did.
wouldn't be alive to tell you about
it today. Buffalo Express.