The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-16


 H. H. HOLMES, the murderer now un. der sentence of death at Philadelphia for the murder of Benjamin Peitzel, has made a confession. It covers nearly three newspaper pagea He admits to having committed % mur. ders
 Ar Pentwater. Mich, 8. B. Minshall, an attorney, shot and probably fatally wounded William B. 0. Sands, a wealthy citizen. Minshall then went home and shot his wife and three chil- 'dren and then blew his own brains out. No motive for the tragedy has developed.
 FAILURES for the week ended the 10th were, according to Dun's Review, 2O9 in the United States, against 2O7 last year, and 33 in Canada, against o7 last year.
 WA-PA-SHo, chief of the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians, was arrested at his home in the reservation and brought to Oklahama City, Ok, recently for re. fusing to allow officers to place his children in the government school. He hid the children in the bushes and stood the officers off with Winchester.
 HoNG koNG, China, has been declared an infected port and the steamship line from there to Vladivostock has suspended operations. At kobe, Japan, general quarantine station has been established and systematic efforts <o hox l> Besides the black plague. cholera and smallpox in . virulent form have made their appearance.
 Ar klang Gin two regiments of Chi nese soldiers revolted and, at a signal from their leader, seized the guns of the forts and proceeded to kill all of the officers and a new regiment of sol- diers recently arrived. In the midst of the massacre a magazine exploded and all were blown to pieces Two battalions must have been wiped out of existence, as not a soldier lived to tell whether the magazine went off by accident or designedly. Besides an immense quantity of shells, l6,OOO pounds of powder were stored in the powder room.
 A DESPATCH from San Francisco on the 9th stated that the British ship Blairmore, while riding at anchor in Mission bay was struck by sauall and capsiKed and the vessel went to the bottom in less than five minutes after. Six seamen who were in the hold were drowned. the others escaping.
 THE village of Rockford. near Grand Rapids, Mich, was almost wiped out by fire on the 'sth, two entire business blocks being destroyed. Loss. sl0O,- poo; insurance. s5O,OO0 The village had just closed a contract fora water system and in month could have sue coped with the fire. FoSDERuUs steam excavator jumped | the track on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railway bridge over the Msumee liver Denr Toledo, O., on the ssth and | carried the whole of an so. foot span of he bridge into the river with it. A nan was carried down by the exca- 'ator and drowned.
 Two of the largest moonshine dis illeries in Arkansas were recently 'aptured in Searcy county by inland evenue officers. The operators es- aped. - NEAR McLeansboro. Ill.,, Ben Boeh- ner, we'll to do farmer cut his wife's hroat and hanged his ix-year-old son o a rafter in his stable. He after yards covered the bodies with fodder 0 hide his crime. and made his escape 0 the woods. Boehmer and his wife ad been having trouble over religious ifferences, he being non- believer in atholicism, while she was firm atholic. The murderer was after 'ards captured near Carmi, ILL A ood deal of excitement existed in the eighborhsOd and lynching was freely llked of