The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-01-21
GENERAL NEWS.

TOM LOWE, 26 years of age, jailed at Denison, Tex, on charge of diSposing of mortgaged property, has made a confession in writing that he is the husband of 16 wives, all of whom he has married within the last eight years. M
 OWING to the pollution of Lake Mich igan, Chicago's water supply, the board of education has directed that the sup ply of drinking water in the 252 public schools of the city be shut off until further notice. The order was imme- diately put into effect.
 TIE Cuban League of the United States, New York dispatch says, has decided to send special envoy to Cuba to investigate and report upon the present status of the war.
 WILLIAM NJ. ROE was legally hanged at Napa, Cal, on the 18th for the mur- der of a woman.
 Gov. BUDD, of California, declared the 10th a legal holiday to celebrate the defeat of the Pacific railroad fund ing bill in the national house of rep resentatives.
 WHILE nine fishermen belonging to Menekaunee, Mich., were tending their nets on the ice on Green bay on the 18th, the ice parted from the shore and was carried rapidly out into Lake Michigan. It was thought the fisher- men were doomed to perish and their wives and children spent the night on the beach weeping.
 BRADsTREET's agency reports 47s busi- ness failures in the United States for the week ended the 18th against 412 for the corresponding week of last year.
 TIE immense mills of the Fox Paper Co.,, at Crescentville, O., were destroyed by fire on the night of the l4th. Loss, estimated at Sl50,0O0.
 THE New York Herald on the 14th stated that Cornelius N. Bliss, who had conditionally accepted the secretary ship of the navy under the incoming administration, had informed Maj. Me Kinley that he felt compelled to de- cline the honor on account of business and domestic reasons.
 AT the national convention of the United Mine Workers at Columbus, O., on the 14th John A. Cairns, ex-presi, dent, was expelled from the union for making an attack on President Penna, whose official acts were unanimously indorsed by the convention. A propo- sition for levying 25 cents per capita per month for defense fund was re- ferred to special committee.
 THE Tom Boy gold mine of San Mi guel county, Col, has passed into the hands of the Rothschild syndicate. It is recognized as one of the richest gold mines in the United States.
 THE president of the Trades and La- bor union at St. Louis recently estimat- ed that fully 10000 men were out of work in that city.
 IT was said to be understood that President-elect Mckinley had practi- cally decided upon James Wilson, of Iowa, for secretary of agriculture.
 IT was estimated that the famine in India will cost the Indian treasury from $2O, 900, 900 to $50, 900, ,O0O Millions will be sufferers to the end of March.
 THE dowager empress of Japan died on the 18th of lung disease, aged GA
 JOHN c. SPooNEB was unanimously nominated for United States senator by the republican joint legislative caucus at Madison, Wis, on the 18th.
 GEORGE KILE, Menomonie, Wis, bookkeepcr, killed himself by placing his head under the wheels of a locomo- tive. Domestic troubles and short. age were the causes