The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-03-12

REPORTS were that She Italians had
1000 troopers and two generals killed
in their recent defeat by the Abyssin.
ians. The rout of the italian army
was SO complete that the troops fed sc
miles before q line could be reorgan.
lied.
THE undergraduates of Princeton,
N. j., ON the 5th burned in effigy the
king of Spain in a demonstration in
which several hundred took part. The
flag of Spain was drawn through the
main street and later was torn to pieces
in the center Of the campus
THE navy department is sending out
to the navy militia commanders Of the
various states having such organize.
tions blank forms for the collection OF
information respecting the topography
and physical features of their respec-
tive localities for military use.
THE New York chamber of commerce
has sent out I'm appeal to the CONNER.
cial bodies and business men of the
United States to unite in a vigorous eff,
fort to send delegates to the political
conventions who will advocate clear
and distinct platform utterances in
favor of the maintenance of the gold
standard.
A SPANISH mob stoned the United
States consulate at Valencia on the 5th.
A FIRE in Long Island City destroyed
Young's bag mandatory and storage
warehouse. The loss will reach 5000,
OOO
In the United States court at Ell
Reno, Ok, Juan Rose and John
Thomas were each fined 1000 for 60.
ing upon the Comanche Indian reservs.
ton without leave. They came under
the intruders clause. This is the first
fine ever imposed and the prosecution
was begun at the direction of the In
dian agent.
ACCORDING to q communication re-
ceived by Surgeon-General Wyman, OF
the marine hospital service at WASH
ington, smallpox has been added to
the horrors existing in Cuba.
A DETACHMENT OF Cuban insurgents
belonging to Maceo's force captured
the fort at Santa Cruz They released
the prisoners and kept the arms and
ammunition. In the province Of Pinar
del Rio 10 villages and towns had been
burned by the insurgents up to date.
THE annual negro conference at Tus-
cogee, Ala, which opened on the 5th
was in many respects the most notab BILE
gathering of the kind ever Assem- bled in
America Representative men of the
race exchanged views as to their re-
spective industrial, educational and re-
ligious condition, and endeavored to
devise a remedy for the evils now bar
ring the progress Of the race.
Gov GREExHALGE died on the sth at
Lowell, Mass. He had been elected
governor of Massachusetts, three times
and had served in congress-
FIVE persons were run over by trains
after midnight of the LIST on the tracks
of the Pennsylvania railroad near
Pittsburgh.
FIRE was reported as having broken
out again in the Bohemian tunnel on
the Northern Pacific railway in Mon
tana. The fire started last September
and was thought to have been put out
Most Rev. PETER RICHARD KESRIcK.
the venera BILE ex.arch bishop of the d.
ocese of St. Louis, died suddenly at
the archiepiscopal residence in St.
Louis on the 4th in the ssth year Of
his age.
THE Cubans at Key West, Fla, In
cited by Americans, who were indig-
nant over the stoning OF the Ameri-
can consulate at Barcelona, made q
to retaliate in kind on the
Spanish consulate at Key West. but
the mayor massed strong police force
and spoke to the crowd of tie harm
they would do their cause. They
needed the mayors advice and paraded
the streets, cheering the action of o,n-
gresS