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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
DEAD uN,oN,sTs.
Tennessee to Erect . Monument to Her
 Soldiers Killed In the War.

Tennessee to Erect . Monument to Her
 Soldiers Killed In the War.
 KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 19.-In the presence of 10000 old soldiers and their descendants the cornerstone of a monument to the 5000 union soldiers of Tennessee who perished in the war was laid by the Grand Army posts, Woman's Relief corps, and Sons of Vet erans. A historical paper was read by William Rule, of Knoxville, past de- partment commander, and the oration was delivered by Gen. G. P. Thurston, of Nashville, who served on Gen. Thomas staff In the his- torical paper it was shown that 20 per cent. of Tennessee's enlisted men died from wounds, disease, and in rebel prisons, a larger percentage than of any other state. Over l,200 died in prison. The monument will be erect ed in the National cemetery here. It will be constructed of Tennessee marble; will be over 30 feet high and crowned by the figure of an infantry man in bronze. It will cost completed Si5 OOO
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
ALL PLEAD GUILTY.
Participants in the "Mystic Members' Fraud Given Various Sentences.

Participants in the "Mystic Members'
 Fraud Given Various Sentences.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Oct 19.-After a trial lasting two days in the federal court, in the case of James T. Swartz, alias c. R. Bell, the noted confidence man, the defendant walked into court Saturday and withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered plea of guilty. H;s partners in the famous mystic mem bers" game, Hobson, Wells, Me. Ginnis and Robbins, also pleaded guilty. Bell, the leader of the gang, wes sentenced to two years in the penisentiary and fined Sl,OOO. McGin- his aAd Wells received the same sen. tence, while Hcbson and Robbins were fined $l,0OO and sent to jail for six months. Swartz, under the name of Bell, swindled 100 farmers and others in southwest Missouri and Kansas out of thousands of dollars by organizing a peculiar society, which he called the American Knights of Mystic Mem. bers. Swartz would deliver a lecture and pretend he was a personal representative of the treasury department, and his duty was to distribute money secretly among the people. He pretended that members of the order would receive ten times the amount of money paid for initiation. The fee to join was fixed at s25O, and members who paid in this sum would receive S2,50O His oily tongue deceived many ignorant people. and it is estimated that Bell and his confederates made s4O,OOO by the uame
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
The Singing Shad.

A reader of the Republic residing at Bentonville. Ark, writes as follows: Il read your note on vocal fishes in Notes for the Curious on September l2 and wish to say that along the coast of Florida and Georgia have often heard the musical notes of what the old fish ermen call the singing shad.' They differ from the common shade in being smaller and also in the formation of their mouths. Their singing is pleas ant at first, but soon grows monoto- nous, owing to the fact that it is con- stant repetition of the same sounds. |" St. Louis Republic.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND in few weeks will formally open at Philadelphia n museum which is designed to contain an assemblage of the natural and man. ufactured products of all the countries of the world. All parts of the United States are interested in the enterprise, to which contributions have been made in one shape or another by cities north, south, east and west. The idea is that anybody who has anything to sell shall be enabled to find out offhand just where and how it is wanted and the best way to seek the purchasers anywhere on the globe.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

FoR the first time in the history of the Universalist church the advertis- ing sign painter and the church will join hands. St. Paul's Universalist church at Chicago is going to advertise its services on the big bulletin boards of that city, just as any other enter prise might do. Watching the rise of Chicago's business houses and its sue. cessful men, Dr. Garfield came to the conclusion that the reason of their sue. cess could be found in the single word "advertising," and he argued that what was good for mercantile con. cern ought to be just as good for a church
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Fatal Malady Among Horses,

CROWN POINT, Ind, Oct. ia-Nelson Morris, of Chicago; John and Barringcr Brown, of this city, and several other large stock raisers along the Kankakee river have suffered heavy losses during the last two weeks by valuable horses dying with an unknown disease. Up to date over 100 have died, 2s of which belong to Nelson Morris. As soon as the disease attacks them their blood turns to water and they soon die.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

TIE National Retail Liquor Dealers association, at its recent session in Cleveland, O., declared that the use of spirituous liquors was necessity rath- er than luxury and denounced the illegal traffic in them and their sale in places where youth is debauched. The association also pledged its efforts to defeat bill which will be introduced in congress to add 50 per cent. to the present tax on beer, which the associ. ation designates as the national bever. age. Resolutions disappearing of high license laws were adopted because they did not give sufficient protection to dealers.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
SPREAD BY RABBITS.
Epidemic of Dlphthcria nt Webster City,
 Ia., Caused by These Animals.

Epidemic of Diphthcria nt Webster City,
 Ia., Caused by These Animals.
 WEBSTER CITY, Ia., Oct l9.-Rabbits have caused an epidemic of diphtheria in the eastern part of the county, and it has spread to Dows, Iowa Falls. Jewell Junction and Alden No less than a dozen deaths have been re- ported. For the past five years diph- theria has annually broken out in the immediate vicinity of the Tybitha Lutheran church, which is used as 8 school building. A large number of rabbits have been living under that building for long time, and the phy- sicians have reach the conclusion that the little animals have planted the germs of the disease, which spread among the children. The church will be burned.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Was If an Accident? |?

NEW YORK, Oct i9-Walter Louis Lenau, who married the widow of Col. John A. Cockerill, shot himself yes,er- day at his home at Englewood, N. J. According to Mrs. Lenau the shooting was unintentional. Mir. Lenau has made no statement regarding the affair. The surgeons in attendance held out little encouragement for his recovery. The couple were married last June, only two months after Col. Cockerills death. She is 40 and he is
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
MASONIC HOME DAMAGED.
Flames Do a1 ,OOO Injury to the Edifice Re
 gently Dedicated at Wichita.

Flames Do e1 .OOO Injury to the Edifice Re-
 gently Dedicated at Wichita.
 WICHITA, Kan, Oct i9.-Early Sum day morning fire broke out in the Kansas Masonic home, the magnificent stone building recently dedicated here, and despite the efforts of the entire fire department considerable damage was done. The handsome reception room, with its rich furnishings, which were the gift of the masonic bodies of Win field, was gutted and other rooms were badly damaged. An aged inmate was saved by & fireman, who carried him down the fire escape. The loss, over sl, 900, is fully covered by insurance.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Ether's Golden Jubilee.

BosToN. Oct. l9.-The semi-centen- nial anniversary of the first use of ether as an anGsthetic was celebrated in the Massachusetts general hospital here yesterday by noteworthy recep- tion and literary exercises. The re- ception took place in the lecture am- phitheater, which had been restored to the appearance it bore on that occasion 30 years ago.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
War Department Estimates.

WASHINGTON. Oct. l9.-Secretary La mont will to-day transmit estimates of appropriations required by the war de- partment for the next fiscal year. The aggregate is s52, ,63s. The estimate for Qualifications and sea coast defenses has been increased to Sl5,sa4, ,29s, an amount, Secretary Lamont says, which will be required to continue this work at its present rate of progress
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS.


 A rITcHEo battle occurred at Hunts vile, Tex, between six negroes over family matters and two on each side were killed
 THE tug Niagara was run down in the North river at New York on the 16th by the steamboat Magenta. The tug sank three minutes after the colli- sion. The crew jumped into the river and two were drowned.
 SCoTT BENSON, commercial agent of the Illinois Central Railroad O.. has sent in his report as to the ravages of hog cholera along the Central lines in Iowa. He reports loss of 40 per cent. of hogs from Jessup to Fort Dodge. The disease prevails at Alden, Iowa Falls, Williams, Blairsburg and other points. Farmers are alarmed and are shipping unfattened hogs to market.
 THREE firemen were killed and six badly injured at fire at the chemical warehouse of Gilmour & Co, at Mon- treal, Can. The financial loss is S1OO,. 900.
 DUS's review of trade gives the num- Der of failures for the week ended the l6th in the United States as 32s, against 263 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 46 last year.
 A THREE-YEAR-oLD child of John Morse, residing near Hopkinsville, Ky, fell into an open fireplace while left alone and was burned to death. Other children were playing near, but were too badly frightened to call help. ADJT GEN. RUGGLEs has made his annual report to the secretary of war. He stated that there were s,49s enlist ments in the army during the past year and 1895 assertions.
 THE October fruit report of the agri- ricultural department at Washington showed a heavy apple crop and an es- pecially fine quality in the northern tier of states, but prices were low. A RAILROAD train on the Saar-Eifel line, in Germany, conveying a large number of recruits, was thrown from the tracks and 30 persons killed and many more injured.
 J. D. KENNEDY, banker at Manches- ter, Ia., hanged himself. Bad invest. ments said to be the cause. Ar Kennedy's camp, on the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad, near Mena, Ark, four men were killed out right and several more injured by a premature explosion.
 A HEAD-END collision occurred on the Northeastern railroad between two fast freight trains near New Orleans and an engineer and his fire. man were instantly killed. Both en- zines were smashed and ten cars splintered and burned. The accident was caused by disobedience of orders. HENRY MILNER, a negro, was hanged by a mob in Spalding county, Ga, for an assault on a woman. A placard was attached to the dead body bear ing the words: "Thus we defend our women" CAPT. WILLIAM CLARK, of Hampden, Me-, who had just returned from a voyage, killed his wife and then com mitted suicide while in state of in. toxication.
 FRED Moss, farmer, was killed by freight train while driving across the Burlington tracks at Dudley, la. OWING to the prevalence of diphthe. ria the authorities of Tower Hill, ILL, have closed all the schools in that city. TIE Canadian government has pro- claimed the last Thursday in Novem- Der, the 26.h, as Thanksgiving day, 70 conform with the United States.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

A RAILROAD man who has been in the west says: "The Santa Fe, Pres colt X Phoenix railroad lately an- nounced that hereafter it will pay s7 per head for cattle killed by its train> and nothing for horses. To the east. erner this seems wrong as to the horses, but the fact is it is generosity on the part of the company-actual generosity. Range horses are absolute. ly worthless, and men have been out shooting their own horses to save taxes. In strict equity, the railroads should be paid, say quarter q head by the owners for freeing them of . nuisance"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
SatOlli Leaves America.

NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-After n long so- journ in this country as apostolic dele gate from the see of Rome Cardinal Satolli bade adieu to America to-day. He was passenger sailing for Genoa on the Kaiser Wilhelm H., A large party of eminent churchmen and lay. men distinguished in every walk of life and over 1000 of the leading Catho- lie citizens of New York, accompanied his eminence down the bay as far as the narrows on the steamer Valley Girl
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Masked Men Terrorize n Town.

town of Carney, l6 miles east of here, was held up at nine o'clock Saturday night by six masked and heavily.armed outlaws. The store of Trader Fouts was ransacked and $500 in money taken. Fouts and his son were taken mile from town and bound to tree. Three posses are in pursuit of the robbers, who are headed towards this city.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Riot at a Sunday Ball Game.

PORTSMOUTH, O., Oct l9 A riot was caused here yesterday afternoon by the Sunday Observance league at- tempting to break up ball game be. tween the Portsmouth and Chillicothe teams. Constables who tried to serve warrants were chased off the grounds by bowling mob of spectators, and narrowly escaped alive.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A RIOT was caused at Portsmouth, O., on the 18th by the Sunday Observance league attempting to break up ball game. Constables who tried to serve warrants were chased off the grounds by bowling mob of spectators and narrowly escaped alive. The police finally dispersed the crowd. Over l50 arrests will be made on the charge of rioting.
 DR ALFRED HoLT, of Ha ayes, Miss, shot and instantly killed Dr. P. S. Rhett, of Jonesville. La.. in the TO- tunda of hotel at Natchez, Miss, on the 18th. The killing was the result of an old rrudge.
 THE largest fire that has occurred in Los Angeles, Cal, in years started in the Fowler paper box factory, and be. fore it was subdued over SlOO, ,OOO worth of property had been consumed. Sev- eral of the firemen were painfully in- jured by falling timbers The cause of the fire was not known.
 A FIRE broke out in the large ware. house of the chemical and fertilizing works at Alexandria, Va, on the 18th. The total loss was estimated at S1O0, 900. Fifteen small buildings near the wharves were destroyed.
 NELSON MORRIS, of Chicago; John and Barringer Brown, of Crown Point, Ind, and several other large stock raisers along the Kankakee river have suffered heavy losses recently by valu. able horses dying with an unknown disease. As soon as the disease attacks them their blood turns to water and they soon die.
 THE big steamer Australasia was burned on Lake Michigan and now lies at the bottom of Whitefish bay. It was valued at $60, ,OOO and was loaded with cargo of 2,OOO tons of coal for Milwaukee. The vessel and cargo are counted a total loss. The crew were saved. .. THE town of Carney, 16 miles east of Guthrie. Ok, was held up on the night of the 17th by six masked bandits and the store of Trader Fouts was ran. sacked and $500 in money taken. Fouts and his son were taken a mile from town and bound to tree. Three posses started in pursuit of the rob. l bers.
 TIE Joint Traffic association at Chi. cago has declared a boycott against the Clover Leaf because the line cut rates and gave sleeping car and chair car privileges to holders of sec. ond class tickets.
 A NEGRO dance near Scullyville, Ark, on the i7th broke up in row. Two inegro men were killed.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

SCIENCE has turned it's cold and cal- culating eye upon the pct dog and its mistress and has issued the edict that the dog must go. The lonc-haired lap dog, we are told, has no equal as a dis seminator of germs. He collects in his hairy coat millions of bacteria and bacilli, all of which he generously passes on to the affectionate owner who takes him in her arms and buries her face in his neck.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Bandits Make a Water Haul.

ROCK STRINGS, Wyo, Oct. l9.-Three masked highwaymen held up the stage between here and Hopkins at five o'clock Saturday evening, Lut got nothing for their trouble. It was sup posed the stage carried about $50, ,OOO to pay the employees of the Sweetwater Coal Co.,, but the money had been taken down on a switch engine
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

A NEW YORK report stated that a London syndicate, with a capital of s3,- oOO, ,O0O had purchased and will operate abroad the foreign patent rights of the National Cigarette and Tobacco Co.,, and that the National company was building 50 cigarette machines to be delivered in England by January l.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

IN one consignment recently a feather dealer in London received 6, 900 birds of Paradise, SGO, 900 birds of vari. ous kinds from the East Indies and 100000 humming birds. In three months another dealer imported 356,- 39S birds from the East Indies.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

THE latest plan of Commander Booth-Tucker, the head of the Salva- tion army in America, is to get the United States government to loan the army an old warship out of commis- sion so that it could be fitted up as a floating bethel to lure sailors from the rum shops on land and spiritually re- generate them.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Went from a Feast to Her Death.

ANNIsoN, Ala, Oct. l9.-Mrs. $. B. Causey, a widow. aged 72 years. com mitted suicide by hanging herself to a tree near her home, five miles west of this city. Her last single child, a daughter, was married yesterday, and rather than put herself upon her mar. ried children for support she slipped away from the wedding feast and took her life
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Twenty Per.ons Drowned,

LISBON, Oct. l9-The Portuguese bark Venus, Capt Pinto, hailing from this port, which sailed from Cardiff on October for Lisbon. foundered in a gale on October off Skermer island. Twenty persons were drowned. The Venus was bark of 647 tons register, and was built in 1862 at Liverpool Her owners were Rodrigues & Roza.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Her FayOrite.

He-Permit me to present you with a copy of my new collection of poems. She-Oh, thank you! l like poetry so much.
 And who is your favorite poetT'
 1.-The man who wrote 'Ta-ra-ra om-de-aye.'
 Then he ran. He feared that she might want to sing to him. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
HANNA'S FLAG DAY IDEA.
October 31 Suggested for General Display
 by All Republicans.

October 31 Suggested for a General Display
 by All Republicans.
 CHICAGO, Oct l9-Chairman Hanna, of the republican national committee, suggests that on Saturday, October 3I, ''all who intend to vote on Novem Der 3 for the preservation of our national honor, for sound money and the ad- vancement of our peoples interest and general prosperity display the national colors at their homes, in order that voters whose hearts are for their country may be strengthened in their purpose and those who are undetermined may the more periodically and intelligently conclude how best to perform their duty as citizens"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

ONE good result of the English occu. patton of Egypt is the prompt stamp. ing out of cholera epidemics. This is accomplished by the use of uncontami- mated water and the isolation of the sick and the dead.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Disastrous Wreck on the Big Four.

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. l9.-Twenty-fve freight cars, with contents, were de- stroyed in a wreck on the Big Four railroad, near Wellington. O., Satur- day night. The loss will reach Sl0O, 900. The track has been completely blockaded all day, and trains are run ming around the wreck over other roalS
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Mother and Child May Die.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Oct. l9.-Elsie Cough, ten years of age, fell into a bonfire of leaves, and her clothing took fire. Her mother ran to her assistance, and, in in tryiag to smother the flames, her clothes also caught fire. Both are so badly burned that they are not ex' pected to live,
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

AMONG the business men of Tank. ton, $. D., an organized and general hard coal combine throughout the northwest by inducing as many con- sumers as possible to substitute corn for fuel instead of hard coal
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

MR. AND MRs. HENRY EsKRA, of Ma. nuet, N. Y., have lived under the same roof for 20 years without speaking to each other. The 5Oth anniversary of their marriage will occur this month, but there will be no golden wedding.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

Gov. GREvINITzKY, of the Russian seal industry, wants to get treaty with the United States to regulate the seal industry. He says the seals are constantly decreasing and cannot last long at the present rate of destruction.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Caught in the Act.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. i9.-C. H.
 Hamilton, alias Crawford, was arrest ed last night at the Lincoln hotel, Fifth street and Broadway, on suspi. cion of stealing United States letter pouch from truck at the Union de. pot. Hamilton was engaged in pilfer. ing the pouch when arrested by the
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Heavy Snow in Chicago.

CHICAGo, Oct, 19.-A heavy we; snow fell in Chicago for about two hours Saturday. This breaks all rec. ords as far as an early snowstorm is concerned, the nearest to it being the storm of October 20, Of last year.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

THE New Canadian Independence club at Montreal is making an active campaign and its membership is in creasing every day. It proposes to form clubs in every part of Canada with the object of securing the inde pc ndence of Canada by constitutional means.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Des Moines ex-omciais Short.

DIES MONIES, Ia., Oct. Is.--J. M. Zane, the expert accountant who examined the books of ex-City Auditor Waters and ex-City Clerk Cooker, reports de- ficit of S5,OOO. The city solicitor vii! be required to commence suit against them.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

REPORTS from the west of Ireland stated that the crops had been ruined by floods and rain and every thing threatened famine in the winter.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
To Be Hanged for Assault.

ARDMoRE, I. T., Oct. l9.-Unless President Cleveland interferes in his behalf, Charles Johnson, a negro con. victed of criminal assault, will pay the penalty for his crime on the gallows. This will be the first legal hanging in the Indian territory under full juris. dictiOn -.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Voters Must Pay Full Fare.

CHICAGO, Oct 19.-Any voter in the territory covered by the Western Pas senger association, between Chicago on the east and Salt Lake City on the west, will have to pay full fare if he is sojourning away from home and wishes to return to cast his ballot.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
CURRENT COMMENT.

EVERY seventh person of all the men, women and children in Great Britain is a depositor in the post office savings hank
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Dr. Fraker Goes to Colorado.

EXCELSIOR STRINGS, Mo-, Oct 1s.-- Dr. G. w. Fraker, of drowning and in- surance fame, has gone to Colorado with view, it is said, of seeking a new location. If suited he will re-. move for permanent residence in that e af
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
Paper Box Factory Turned,

Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 19-The largest fire that has occurred in this city in years started Saturday night in the Fowler paper box factory, and be- fore it was subdued over $l0O, 900 worth of property had been consumed.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
A Nine-Year-Old Talking Silver

PILOT GROVE, Mo, Oct l9.-Master Logan Lockhard. the nine-year-old "boy orator" of Sedalia, addressed a large audience here last night on the silver question.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

JOHN TURNER, the English anarchist, and Louise Michel, the French anarch. ist, have decided to lecture in the United States.