The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. TIE boiler in the slave mill on Will liam Morrison's farm, near FreepOrt, O., exploded, killing three persons and injuring two. The clothing of the three dead men was stripped from their bodies by the explosion and lodged in the neighboring bushes and trees. The mill was wrecked.
 A TERRIFIC tornado. accompanied by flood occurred on the 3lst in north Queensland, attended with great de- struction of life and property. Many vessels were missing as a result of the storm. The rainfall during the storm amounted to 26 inches and it was esti- mated that the damage to property would amount to s50O,00O A large number of persons were drowned. THOMAS COMBS, a fratricide and con- vict of Perry county, Ky, went home drunk and brained his wife with club. A lynching party was reported as being after the culprit
 THE clearing house returns for the week ended January 8l for the follow. ing cities were: New York, s49l, ,909, ,3l2; Chicago, s76, 752, TO; St Louis, SPA, ,856,- 7ls; Kansas City. s9,4l1, ,Oo7; St. Joseph. s1, ,4o5,5l2; Topeka, S367,la3; Wichita, S428, ,O05; Omaha, s4,3lO,539.
 THE failures for the week ended Jan uary 3l (Dun's reporD were 4o4 in the United States, against 354 last year, and 70 in Canada, against 54 last year. CHICAGO spectators have lost up- wards of s2OO, 900 on cold storage eggs as the result of war with the Ameri- can Egglayers' union.
 UPWARDS of 1,500, ,0OO acres of rich coal and timber land in Logan county, w. Va, was recently declared forfeited to the state for non-payment of taxes. ton, has received a message from John Hammond, who is in jail at Pretoria, South Africa, charged with high trea- son, in which Hammond urges this government to warn the Transvaal government of the consequences of maltreatment of Americans, and asks as last resort the invoking of aid from Great Britain.
 A HEAD end collision on the Wabash near Decatur, H., resulted in the death of Engineer Rose and Conductor Wheeler.
 A NEW YORK paper stated on the 3lst that the sleeping and dining car privileges on the Santa Fe railway had been virtually awarded to the Pullman company.
 Jog CuoYNsKr, the pugilist, was re- ported dangerously ill at his home in Chicago on the alst. .. .
 THE Osages, conceded to be the wealthiest tribe of Indians on earth per capita, passed bill through their council asking for a separation from Oklahoma and to be annexed to the Indian territory.
 EXPRESS AGENT KRoUT, who robbed the Wells-Fargo Express Co. of $50. 900 at Colorado Springs, Col, November Il, 1895. was brought to his home near Cerro Gordo, Ill.,, on the S1st and the officers secured BIO, 900 of the missing money in valise.
 NEAR Hampstead, Tex, a freight train on the Houston & Texas Central was wrecked by a COW. Five cars were demolished, James Quill was in- stnntly killed and the fireman and brakeman received injuries that may prove fatal.
 FIVE persons were killed and nearly score injured by the explosion of the large 30-inch cylinder boiler at the works of the Hollidaysburg Iron & Nail Co. at Hollidaysburg, Pa., on the onth 0f (. The boiler was blown through the roof of the works 300 feet in the air and came sailing down like spent rocket, crushing through the roof in another department of the works.
 HARVEY PAGE, wife and two young sons, aged respectively three years and three months, were burned to death in their home in Marengo township, Mich, on the 30th. Page and his fam fly occupied the top part of a log house, there was one window in the up stairs room. The house burned to the ground and the bodies, horribly charred, fell into the cellar.
 AT Newport News, Va., on the 30th the gunboat Helena was launched. She was christened by Miss Agnes Steel, daughter of the mayor of Helena, Mont, distinguished party being present. Half an hour before the Helena was launched the third largest steamer ever built in this country was christened the Grand Duchess by Miss Nellie Eldridge, of Boston. Both the launches went off successfully.