The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-13

IL was TcpOTbto " uoOy 4cA
that Schlatter, the Denver healer, had
been frozen to death in the New Next
can mountains.
ME-. AND MRS. SHAUNNEssT and two
children were asphyxiated on their
farm near Carbondale, Pr, through
the gas escaping from q kitchen stove.
TIE steamer Lamington was driven
ashore near New York on the 9th and
IA men were in peril on board. The
life savers made many attempts to
reach the men with line and had
failed, the men were in the rigging and
too exhausted to catch the lines The
life savers had given up all hope Of
saving them, as the vessel was being
pounded badly by the waves and
threatened to go to pieces.
THE Pocahontas dam at Morristown,
N. j.. broke on the 9th. Twenty five
people were reported missing and may
have persisted. The break was fol-
lowed by great flood. Men, women
and children were in the windows of
houses, completely surrounded by rush
ing waters. Boats were procured and
brought many to places of safety. The
current was so swift that it was inn
possible to reach the more distant
houses until the occupants had been
swept away.
The barn and stables of Henry B.
Gather, near Vidalia, La, were struck
by lightning and &c head of horses and
mules were burned, besides much feed.
A MAN named Jerry Scott was jailed
at jackson, Mich, for beating his
eight-year-old daughter and then lay
ing her on hot stove and roasting her
from the effects of which she died
The Jail was strongly guarded for fear
of the culprit being lynched.
SIX workmen lost their lives and
nine others were barely rescued from
the icy water of the Pequeboc river,
near Bristol, Conn, on the 9th. They
were pulling an old bridge down when
it suddenly collapsed and they were
precipitated into the river and the
broken mass of timbers fell on them.
GEN WIERoKIN, the Russian chief of
police st Warsaw, Poland, was killed
by poison administered by nihilists.
iiC hao thC ICpuNutioii Va bCihH ehC
most cruel henchman of the ear.
TIE high wind which prevailed ct
New York on the 9Th did great damage
to property. A three-story brick build
ing was blown down in Brooklyn and
three workmen were killed.
MORTON FINELL was warming up
some sticks of giant powder in a stove
at quarry near Anaconda, Mont,
when there was an explosion and he
was blown into an unrecognizable
mass. Two others were dangerously
injured and the cabin was wrecked.
THE British steamer Laure stina,
which sailed from baltimore, Md, for
Ireland about two months ago, has
been officially posted at L!oyd's as
missing and all on board, 90 to 25 men,
were believed to have been drowned.
A FIRE started in lumber yard at
Boundbrook, near Plainfeld, n. j..
early on the morning of the 7th and
the place was thought to be doomed.
The inhabitants had the choice of
either burning, swimming or drown
ing, as the dam Mt the place had
broken and many houses were swept
away and the water was waist deep.
Owing to no direct communication
with the place the news was somewhat
meager.
FARMERS of II county, Ok, were re-
ported trying the experiment Of sow.
ing wheat in February.
w. w. HAYES, treasurer of Anderson
county, Tenn, has been found to be
over SIS, 900 short in his accounts
TIE steamer st. Paul, which ran
aground on the New Jersey shore sew
eral days ago, was hoated on the 4th
amid the footing of whistles and went
on her way to New York.