The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-03-25

| man AZ DycuSDurR, n.y., snOt himself
in the abdomen with small revolver
because his sweetheart refused to Kiss
him gooa night. He was reported dy-
ing and the girl was Frustrated.
The large Touring mill of Bamble 4
Nc Kinnett Mt Lafontaine, Ind, was
burned recently and carload of -four,
5000 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels ct
corn and 1000 bushels Of chop were de-
stroyed.
THROUGHOUT Arkansas, Tennessee
and Mississippi many lives were re-
ported lost on the 10th through the
floods and the railroads were heavy
sufferers. 1t was reported also that
the levee at Hill House, Miss, had
broken, flooding the farms in that To-
cality.
A MOB of $50 men, which 1t was re-
ported had been formed for the purpose
OF lynching James NJ. Gordy, who was
jailed Mt Georgetown, Del, on the
charge of numbering woman, alleged
to be his wife, did not put in an APP
pearance on the night of the 18th.
The sheriff had taken the precaution
to have the Jail strongly guarded.
A WRECK occurred at Laketon juno
ton, Ind, the fast westbound express
on the Erie railway crashing into a
Wabash locomotive and piling up the
engines and express cars in q chaotic
mass. Both engines were shattered
and part Of the express went into the
ditch. Only one man was injured.
| PATRICK PAINE, proprietor of the
Iron Mountain hotel ut Monroe, La,
on the 10th shot and fatally wounded
his wife and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill his little child and James
McCabe, u bill! collector, and was him
self shot and seriously wounded by
McCabc. Paine was jealous of his wife.
CAPT. DAY, of the United States
army, who recently returned from
Japan, reported the death of the crown
prince of Japan, who was heir appar-
emit to the throne. The death Of the
crown prince was being kept secret in
Japan.
THE Austrian government received
advices on the 18th that the Austrian
| gunboat Sebenico had sunk Greek
schooner with cargo of munitions Of
war and number OF Cretan insurgents
on board. The schooner was hailed
by the gunboat and the insurgents on
board in reply opened fire on the Sc
| benico, whereupon the latter turned
her guns on the schooner and sank her.
| TEIEoRAMs from all points In the
northwest on the 18th indicated that
all the rivers had turned to raging tor
rents. At South Dakota along the
Missouri and other rivers the settlers
were fleeing. An Omaha, Neb., dis
| patch said that the Platte river was
rushing into the Missouri. carrying
| with 1t the debris of wrecked bridges
and farm yards in its valley. From
Iowa came stories Of ice gorges on the
Des Moines river at Fort Dodge and
Madrid, flooding miles Of the bottoms
and doing great damage.
| AT his home in Boston, William T.
Adams ('oliver optic'D was lying in
critical condition on the 18th from a
complication of troubles which, COM
bined with naturally weak heart, had
brought about state from which no
hope of recovery was given by his ply.
stefan.
IGNAcIo FRANCISCO DE LA CRUZ GAR
CHA, who was said to be the Oldest man
| in the United States, died at Los An
| geles, CAL, on the 18th, aged III. He
was Mexican, but came to the United
States when he was IS years of age.
| He had documents which sustained his
claim to such an advanced age.
NEAR Marion, Ark, Eta Lix and her
| four children were trying to make
their way to Marion for shelter, and
while attempting to cross railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
| the great flood overwhelmed the party
and all persisted. The oldest child was
girl aged 10 and the youngest an in
FAINT of eight months.
A DISPATCH from Canea on the 18th
announced that the blockade Of the
island of Crete by the fleets of the pow
ers would begin on the 2lst, and that
notification to that effect had been adj
dressed to the government at Athens
and Constantinople.
WHEAT sold for 81 at st. Louis on
the 18th, the highest price paid there
during the last six years.
The fight between mysterious
Billy Smith and George Green, welter-
weights, Mt Carson, New, on the 18th
was won by the latter. Smith had the
worst of it until the 18th round, when
he gave up the fight, saying that his
arm had been broken in the fourth
round.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from Athens stated that a strict block
adc Of Crete was begun on the 18th.
Apparently there will be no blockade
of Greek ports for some time to come.