The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-16

from Havana, Cuba, on the 9th said that the insurgents were within sight of Havana and that hundreds of fami. lies in the suburbs and city had aban- doned their homes and were crowding the quay watching, with blanched faces, for steamers to take them from the island, the steamers which had cleared being crowded to their utmost capacity.
 TnE police at Des Moines, Ia., discov. cred on the 10th in the medical depart ment of the Drake university the two bodies of Mrs. Rachel Townsend and Alexander Bell, which had been buried in the Saylorville cemetery within ten days and taken from the graves by ghouls.
 THERE was fire in small building at Lynn, Mass, on the 10th, occupied by family named Le Moire. When the fire department arrived tho body of Mrs Le Moire was found in cham Der burned to crisp, while daugh. ter was found lying on the stairway badly burned about the body, having been overcome by the smoke and flames while attempting to escape. The father and son were found in the watercloset under the influence 0. liquor.
 CLEARING house returns for the prin' cipal cities in the United States for the week ended January 10 showed an av' craze increase as compared with the corresponding week last year of lS.6 in New York the increase was %. 9; out side New York the increase was 9s
 FREEMAN COLLINS was hanged at Tuskegee. Ala, on the 10th, for the murder of his wife last spring by cut ting her throat as she slept Jealousy was the cause of the crime.
 THE celebrated stallion, Pilot Me dium, for which its owner, Walter Clark, had refused S9O, 900, died at Bat tie Creek, Mich, suddenly on the 10th The horse was valued at SlO0,OO0 Ht was the sire of 47 trotters and five pacers, most of whom are standard performers.
 ROBERT CLAPsADDLE, farmer O. Ransomville, N. r., was fatally sho' by his worthless son-in.law, George II Smith, who was pursued by a posse o villagers cornered. and when he made resistance filled with bullets. causing his death. One of the pursuers also was shot
 THE Free Houie league convention o Okla homa met at Fl Reno on the 10th with about 100 delegates present. The action of the convention was very har monious. Formulating resolutions tt congress and department officers com prised most of the work. The meeting next year will be at Kingfisher.
 Two earthquakes occurred in the dis trict of Kahlhahl, Persia. The frs was on the night of January 2. The large village of Janabad was de stroyed, several others were partially ruined and 300 persons were killed. The second earthquake occurred tho morning of January 5. The town o Goi was destroyed and 1000 houses were demolished. In addition grea' damage was done to many villages The loss of life was very great. Ther, were 800 persons killed in Goi alone and large numbers of cattle and sheel also perished.
 AHEAvY motor car and coal car or the Akron, Bedford X Cleveland Eicc tric railway plunged through a trestlt over Tinker's creek. near Cleveland O., on the 9th and two men were in stantly killed and one seriously in jured. The cars were completely wrecked. The span of the bridge which gave way was l75 feet long.
 THE secretary of the treasury sent te congress on the 9th a letter transmit ting estimates of deficiencies in appro priations, amounting to s4, 4,343, 456, re quired to meet the urgent demands o the government for the current anc prior fiscal years