Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-03

During the same peflOu cyclone after cyclone is reported from the middle states, the record for We'd nssday. May P, being most sppall- ius. At St. Louis 1000 persons are reported killed and wounded the destruction Co property being en0T- nous. Several steambOats were wrecked on the Mississippi river and all on board drowned. At Drake a small hamlet near Roodhouse on the Alton road, just above St. Louis, a s,hool house was blown down and eighty children killed. A limited train on the Alton road Is reported to have been blown of the bridge near the same place and 200 pAssen- gers drowned. The small town of Renick. ten miles from Moberly. Missouri. was swept from the face of the earth. The total list of killed and wounded reported for the day ioots up at least l.5OO persons.
 Talk about the Mckinley straddle, what do you call the resolution pass ed by the democratic convention on MondSyi After endorsing Cleveland, by voting down, by an overwhelming vote, a resolution eensuTing bis financial policy, the convention re- solved, That we are in favor of the free and unlimited coinage Of both gold and silver into coins of full debt paying power" There is scarcely a single gold bug in the east who does not profess to believe in just that thing. The question comes in regard to the full debt paying power" of the silver dollar. Opponents of silver coinage at the ratio of Is to 1 want the ratio fixed by international agreement, or by re-adjustment of the ratio between the two metals, and then they say there can be DO objection to silver as money. By eliminating that DOT ton of Mir. Andrews resolution criticising and censuring Grover Cleveland, and by very adroitly wording their platform so as to avoid all mention of the ratio in which they believe the two metals should be coined, our democratic brethren succeeded in evolving a platform on which Mir. Cleveland or NIT. Carlisle, or any other man in sympathy with Mir. Clsveland's financial policy, can stand. We will probably not hear any more of Me Kinley strAddles, or of any other straddle now, since the Yavapai democracy has straddled the silver question so as to embrace Cieve- lands policy.
 The Russian Czar was crowned yesterday, May 26, with great pOmp. The ceremony is thus described: Beneath two scarlet canopies, sur rounded by double headed black eagles and black. white and yellow plumes, the thrones had been erected. Decorating the altSrs were statues, shrines and ornaments, studded with precious stones that had beeu gathered together from all parts Of the empire. A single nm age of the Virgin was studded with diamonds representing an expendi- ture exceeding half a million dol lars, the central emerald alone be ing valued al SJ0.OOO. The Car Kolokoy. or great bell of the Krem- iin. pesled forth as the imperial pair ascended their respective thrones, aud the robes and regalis were brought forth and laid upon q dias before the altar. The ceremt nv which followed occupied nearly seven hours. It included the sPrink- ling ot the Czar and Czarina with holy water, the kissing of the cruel 6I, the repeating after the Metro politAn the profession of faith, the clothing of the Car with the im- perial mantle of gold and ermine, and finally the placing by the Czu of the crown upon his own head. Then followed the crowning of the Czarina by her husband, and who also invested her with the purple mantle of the Order of St. Andrew. The Czarina's crown was of ivory sat with diamonds. Her coronation gown was of white satin trimmed with pearls and diamonds. with an eTmine lined mantle of buTnished silver brOcade. lts cost wss two hundred thousand dollars. while the necklet and other jswelry worn, represented an estimated eXpendi- ture of a round million
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