The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-03

knocked out Joe McAuliffe, the "Mis- sion Giant" in the fourth round. The affair was to have been an eight-round go, but McAulitfe was completely out matched by Choynski.
 THERE was trouble between the squawmen and full-bloo Is of the Sem- mole nation in the Indian territory, and troops from the First cavalry at Fort Cary reached the scene on the 2Sth barely in time to avert Q general fight. The full.bloods and squawmen had q desperate battle recently in which three full-bloods were killed and sev- eral squawmen seriously injured. The trouble was caused by the full-bloods having passed law expelling all whites from the nation.
 TIE acting comptroller of the cur rency nt Washington recently caused the arrest of the president and vice president of the American national bank, of New Orleans, which failed re- gently, on the charge of having viola ted the banking laws. It is alleged that they made false reports of the banks condition and also made large loans in their own interest
 A CLoUDBURsT occurred in the min ing camp of Mezquital del Gro, Mex. {. and nearly every house in the place was washed away. Five persons met death by drowning
 THE failures for the week ended the 2sth (Dun's Review) were 2ss in the | United States, against 1S6 last year, and B in Canada, against 42 last year. TIE Rathbone Sisters at Cleveland, O.. on the 2sth, elected the following officers: Supreme chief, Mrs. Ida M. Weaver, of Idaho; supreme senior. Mrs. J. B. S. Neubert, of Kansas; supreme junior Mrs. Nellie Scattergood, of Michigan; supreme manager. Mrs. Flora Weatherbee, of Minnesota; su- preme mistress of records. Mrs. w. b. Wood, of Missouri; supreme mistress of finance, Mrs Emma M. Bell, of Ohio.
 THE business portion of Sau.te Ste. Marie, Mich., was recently nearly burned out, entailing loss of S300, 900, half covered by insurance.
 AT a joint debate at Englantine, Ark, between Congressman Dinsmore. of the Fifth Arkansas district, and Jerry Scanlan. local populist candi- date, the latter called the former q liar during a heated discussion. when Dinsmore struck Scanlan and immedi- ately Scanlan's friends attacked Dins- more, with the result that the congress- man will be confined to his room for several weeks.
 THREE men lost their lives in fire in John Dundins saloon at Minneapo- lis, Minn. They were sleeping on the third floor and were suffocated in bed. UNITED STATES MINISTER TERRELL, at Constantinople, cabled the state de- partment on the 27th that great blood. shed and rioting had occurred there. Several hundred Armenians were killed and all the houses in the city were closed. Dynamite bombs were ex- ploded in the streets by Armenians and about 90 Turkish soldiers killed. The revolutionists were placed on board q steamer and conveyed to a foreign port
 A BICYCLE relay express was started at noon on the 25th from San Francisco to New York, Clothilde Devane, aged seven, and her brother, aged five, be- ing the first riders. They received a pouch from Col. Shafter containing a graven gold plate addressed to the commanding general of the east and . letter from the postmaster of San Francisco to the postmaster of New York and a parchment for the sigma lures of the governors through whose states the couriers will pass. The un. der,aking is under the patronage of the United States authorities.