The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-25

l Hr LTldA ol nlOuLO Nls UdltukS jointly indicted with Scott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan, Janu. ary 3l, ended on the 18th at Newport, Ky, with conviction and the death penalty. The testimony, his own in' cluded, showed that he was Jackson's partner
 l VALENTINE AYERS shot Jesse Pickett near Mount Vernon, H., for insulting his wife. Both were farmers.
 THREE boys recently ran away from their homes at Louisville, Ky, and were found drowned in the dam near that city. It was supposed that they were wading and stepped over ledge of rock.
 AN unknown man was recently killed by a Chicago & Alton train near Bloomington, III.
 OFFICERS with bloodhounds were try. ing to strike the trail near MeXia, Tex, of negro who had assaulted negro woman and who had declared his in. tention of assaulting every woman he met, when they ran across Gaines Ross, negro and supposed friend of the man wanted. Ross was ordered to give up his pistol by Deputy Sheriff Newman, but showed fight and was immediately shot through the heart
 MosEs HIoNITg, well to do farmer of Leslie county. Ky, was shot and killed from ambush while at work in is field with his son. The as. sassins fired many shots at the boy, | h,,f I d Nt hit h;r John and Bija Hignite, sons of the man killed, engaged in hand-to.hand fight, in which John was killed. Last fall Bija Hignite and Representative w. P. Bently had duel with pistols, in which both men were killed.
 THE latest reports from Yokohama as to the loss of fife by the recent earthquakes and tidal wave in the northern province of Japan show that 10. 900 persons were drowned by the tidal wave which accompanied the shocks
 CHARLES L. GLOW, a white laborer ! employed on new sewer in Green lawn cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind, was struck on the head by a flying maui, which slipped from the handle in the hands of a fellow-la borer, and instantly killed.
 THE seventh annual convention of the Medal of Honor legion took place at Boston recently. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was elected president and Gen. Theodore s. Peck senior vice president
 DAM at the head of Goodrich creek, near Baker, Ore., burst recently and Clark French, his wife and five chill dren were drowned Some of the bodies were found several miles from the scene of the fatality and out of the course of the stream.
 THE boiler in the steam yacht, Titus Sheared, exploded at Taylors cycle path, near Little Falls, N. Y., on the Erie canal, on the 18th. Twelve per sons were killed.
 MILTON B. WELLS called upon Miss Jennie Walters at Elkhart, Ind. re- gently, and soon after he had entered the house he shot at her twice, the last ball lodging in the base of her brain. He then threw kerosene oil on her and ignited it The girl managed to get to an adjoining house and the flames were put out. but not before her lower limbs had been terribly burned. She died soon afterwards in great agony. Wells was arrested.
 THE sudden appearance of a bicy- clist around turn in a road at Shelby. vile, Ind, scared the horse driven by Mrs. Levi Mcknight The vehicle was upset, and she was dragged quarter of a mile. Her head was crushed to pulp, and she was dead when found.
 J. II. WATSON, road master on the Texas Midland railroad was accidental ly killed by falling off flat car at Terrell, Tex. Two cars and pair of trucks passed over him.