The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-23

l AWO bof6, Abudm 0trCuc huu tJbm6s
 McNeal, were charged at Guthrie, Ok,
 on the 17th with holding up and rob.
 ping Allen Howard in regulation high.
 wayman style. They took from How. ard his toy bank, containing S4.2c, in
 timidating him by club and toy revolver. The crime is punishable in
 the territory by Imprisonment for life.
 Two persons were killed, two prob ably fatally injured, and two others seriously hurt by two bolts of light
 ming, which successively struck the dwelling of Andrew Olson at Wallace,
 Mich., on the 17th.
 THx notorious Timmie Jack has been convicted of murdering Jimmie Brown.
 both rich Indians, in Judge F. Mar. shairs court for the Okmulgee, l. T., district, and sentenced to be shot, | which among the Indians is the legal mode of death.
 A GIGANTIC bicycle trust Is taking shape with every probability of it's headquarters being located in Toledo, O. Three large eastern factories are behind the trust, and the new concern will be capitalized at from ss,oO0, 900 to SlO, 900, GOO. The company aims to con- trol the price of every wheel put on the American market.
 THE championship season in the Ma. tional Baseball league opened on the 10th with games at Philadelphia, Louis vile, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Baltimore. The attendance indi' cated genuine interest in the game At Louisville the attendance was 10,. 000, the largest crowd ever packed in the grounds. Fifteen thousand saw the St. Louis game ard 23,O0O that at Philadelphia.
 CHARLES VEIJH, a baker, suffocated himself with molasses at Chicago on the 16th. He was fond of the stuff, and in order to get enough he lay flat on his back on the floor, 80 that when he opened the clip on the barrel the sirup would flow into his mouth. He was literally drowned by the sirnp. He was found dead with his mouth open and the molasses pouring into it.
 BURGLARS footed the bank in Pio- neer, o. They succeeded in opening the safe without explosives and then changed the com biuation so that the cashier could not open it.
 SPONTANEOUS combustion caused a fire at Fairbury, H., which resulted in a loss of s225. .OO0.
 PETER FERTILIZER and John Leimin- ger were driving across the railroad tracks at Looneyville, N. Y., when a fast train struck their buggy. Both men and the horse were instantly killed and the buggy reduced to splin- ters.
 THE farm residence of Peter Glauber at Greensburg, Ind, caught on fire while the family were asleep and two children were fatally burned.
 A LETTER received by Rev. e. w. Smith, editor of the Pittsburgh Chris tian Advocate, from Rev. ID. S. Mon- roe, of Altoona, Pa, the secretary of the Methodist general conference, stated that the constitutional amend. ment for the admission of women as delegates to the general conference had received more than the requisite votes of the annual con- ferences.
 AN explosion occurred in the Brance- peth coal mine near Durham, Eng, the other evening and eight bodies were taken out dead and it was feared | that ten others would lose their lives. There were also 26 others entombed, but there was possibility of saving them.
 JOHN LEHMAN, of Chicago, shot and killed his three children and then sent , bullet through his own heart on the l4th. The cause of the terrible deed was despondeney caused by possible poverty. The mans family lived com fortably aud he had a bank account ofI s1, 300.