The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-09

1 THE strike at the Brown Hoisting Co.'S works at Cleveland, O., on the 2d assumed 8 serious aspect. While 260 police were guarding 800 workmen along the streets they had to use their clubs on the strikers who followed. Albert Saunders, an employe of the works, was knocked off his wheel by a brick and drew his revolver and shot striker, who died soon after. The police hurried Saunders into an off ce, but the mob wanted to lynch him and the mayor had to order soldiers to the scene before Saunders could be taken to the station.
 THE latest cholera news from Cairo, Egypt, stated that 4,4l9 cases were re. ported for June and S,59S deaths.
 JAKE WILLIAMS, a negro, 20 years oi age, was lynched in Madison county, Fla, by mob of 75 men, who took him away from an officer while on the way to jail for an attempted assault on a young white woman.
 A RECEIVER was appointed for the New York Recorder newspaper on the 2d.
 THE corner stone of the monument to be erected to the memory of Jeffer- son Davis was iaid at Richmond. Va, on the 2d with impressive ceremonies. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of Mississippi. was the orator of the occasion. It was the last day of the reunion of the United Confederate Veterans associa- ation.
 J. E. HARDY, high wire performer from Toronto, Can, made two daring trips across the gorge at Niagara Falls, N. Y.. on three.quarter inch wire rope The wire was about 16O feet :. above the water.
 DURING the month of June the United States hints coined 14O, ,as2 gold pieces, of the value of $2,47l,o17; 3,143.423 sil- yer pieces, valued at $l 1850, ,6s2; 9,496,. 21O minor pieces, valued at S202, 0l9. The coinage of standard silver dollars will soon be increased to 5000, ,O00 a month.
 AN explosion occurred in the arsenal near Fort Moselle, Germany, and 49 men were killed and 100 others badly injured.
 THE Red Star packet boat Rahma- niel,, bound from Suakim to Suez, broke her shaft, drifted upon reef and fouudered. Sixty persons were drowned, most of them Greeks.
 CREzENzo MERoLA, who murdered Emanuel Loro, was hanged for the crime at Scranton, Pa., on the 1st
 THE steamer Kawanura Maru col. lided with and sunk the Hozui Maru of Hiroshima, Japan, during storm, and IFS lives were lost.
 RUFUS BUCK, Louis and Lucky Davis, Naomi July and Sam Sampson, mem. bers of the Buck gang, were hanged at Fort Smith. Ark, on the lst.
 THE flour mill and elevator of Beck Bros, at Cecil, O., was destroyed by fire on the 30th. The night watchman was missing and was supposed to have perished in the flames.
 THE first annual convention of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance of the United States and Canada met at New York on the 29th.
 IN quarrel over the admission of colored children into the white district school ten miles east of Guthrie, Ok, J. H. Swain, negro school.teacher. was shot and killed by w. H. Arnold, a white school director. Arnold gave himself up He claimed self defense and showed several knife cuts inflicted by Swain.
 THE geological office at Washington has issued bulletin showing that the mineral products of 1895 increased in value over those of 1894 ssO, 900, 900, the total being sell, ,795, 290.
 FOUR boys were drowned and 13 per. sons were hurt by the collapse of a wharf at Boston on the 3Oth. The citizens were celebrating "Farragut day" and the wharf was overcrowded.
 ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
 THE steamer Samuel N. Hodge, of Buffalo. bound from Cleveland to Prescott with GOO tons of wire, caught fire on Lake Ontario on the 5th. The steamer St. Joseph sighted the burn- ing steamer and for over an hour kept two streams playing upon the burning craft, but to no purpose, and to avoid being burned to death those on board the Hodge jumped into the lake. All were picked up by the St. Joseph's crew.
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