The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20

certain rules to- govern examinations of pension applicants by these boards.
 TERRIBLE floods were reported in India by the overtlowing of the river Kistna. The damage to property was immense and many thousands of per- sons were rendered homeless by their houses being swept away. Two hun dred persons were drowned at one place by the sinking of boat and on one railroad a breach was made seven miles long by the water.
 Two more national championships the quarter and third of q mile-danrle at the belt of Tom Cooper. These make three successive championship victories for the Detroit lad at Louisville, Ky. Arthur Gardiner rode a magnificent race in the one mile open, beating Sanger out by half Il wheel length in POI 4-5, the worlds record time, single paced.
 Ar the races at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the lith Robert J. was sent to the track to beat the record of 2:03M made by himself and the great pacer did the mile in 2:03 flat.
 GEORGE RUSSELL, aged 5s years, quarreled with his wife on the 14th at Owosso, Mich, over the disposition of some property to their children. As result, both will die of their injuries. Neither will talk, but it was evident that the couple had desperate battle with knives. When discovered Mrs, Russell had large knife imbeddcd in her check to depth of five inches. Russell's throat was cut, but he was still able to speak.
 THE failures for the week ended the l4th (Dun's revicw) were 29S in the United States, against l06 last year, and 3G in Canada, against 3S last year.
 AN Eastern Minnesota freight train ran into Great Northern engine at Ground House, Minn., demolishing both engines and killing NJ. Moore, Great Northern fireman.
 Ar meeting between the executive committee of the Knights of Labor and committee representing the glass workers, at Washington, form al separation took place between the Knights of Labor and the Window Glass Workers association of the United States. The action was mostly due to politics.
 Miss CELIA RosE, aged "A years, was jailed at Mansfield O., on the charge of killing her father, her mother and her brother with poison. All three died recently within q few days of one another and it was evident that they had been poisoned. A young woman gained the confidence of the daughter and it was claimed Celia made con- fession to her.
 THE dead from heat at New York on the 18th numbered GA and prostrations l23. There were 374 death certificates issued by the health board for the 24 hours ended at noon. or these, l5S were for people who died from the ef- fleets of the heat. The horses killed by heat numbered more than on any former day of the hot spell.
 FRANK POWERS and his wife went to work in their field in Fender county, N. C., and left their two infant chill dren in the care of a neighbor named Mills, who afterwards left his ten-year- old son to look after the two children. The Powers heard cries from Mills house and hastened there and found one of their children dead and the other dying. Young Mills had stabbed both with table knife to make them stop crying, he said.
 THE richest gold placer mines of Alaska have been found to be in Cana dian territory, and now miners are paying tax to the British authorities.
 ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
 FIRE rutted the Woodruff block at Rockford H., on the 10th causing a loss of over Sl00,00O. T. T. Goldman, who conducted department store, was the principal loser. Half dozen other smaller firms were also losers, and many poor families living in the second story of the block lost everything they barely escaping with their lives in their night clothes.
 Two men were shot and killed and another mortally wounded at the an- nual convention of the national party in the Cherokee nation, ten miles north Of Tahlcquah, on the 18th. The killed were Eli Wotford, chief of police of Tah- lequah, and Charley Proctor, deputy sheriff. Leonard Williams, sheriff, was wounded fatally.
 AN immense meteor was reported to have fallen near the Ripsey mines, about 60 miles north of Tucson, Ariz. A herder, his wife and three children, together with about 1, 200 sheep, went down under the mighty mass. The meteor covered about two acres of ground and formed great mound in the desert
 MAJ. MCKINLEY and Chairman Han- na met at Cleveland, O., on the 16th and talked over the campaign. Mir. Hanna afterwards stated that Mai would not take the stump in the campaign.
 A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that the Spanish government was preparing a big bill of damages against the United States on account of the num- erous expeditions alleged to have gone from our shores to the relief of the Cuban insurgents.
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