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

took J. J. Brooks, who has a wife and family in anotker place, out of house in Stapleton, Pa., where he was living with another mans wife, and cowhided him till he begged for mercy and then marched him out of town.
 ONE man was killed and two injured, one fatally, by tail-end collision be- tween two sections of a southbound freight train at Sinking creek water tank in Kentucky. The second section crashed into the first section while it was taking water at the tank.
 CARTIER & HAvERHILL's heavy dry goods warehouses at Montreal, Can, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 900; insurance, $200,000.
 J. l.. MCCLEARY met death in a horri- ble manner at Corning, O., recently. He was engaged in shooting we'll and several quarts of nitroglycerin which were in a wagon exploded and tore his body into shreds. The wagon was wrecked and the horses killed. A sud- den jar caused the explosion. JIM HALL and Steve O'Donnell have been matched to box 20 rounds before the Greater New York Athletic club, February 1.
 THE boys wing of Buckner's orphans home, near Dallas, Tex, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th and five boys perished in the flames, three of them being the matron's sons.
 FIRE at Marbert, Pa., has destroyed the famous old stone barn opposite the Gen. Wayne hotel, which has been a landmark for more than century. Gen. Washington's troops were quar- tered there once during the revolution. FIVE persons were seriously injured and about 80 others were more or less cut and bruised on the 11th by a street car in Pittsburgh, Pa., running away down a steep grade and dashing into a telegraph pole.
 THE New York Press claimed to have received news through private chan nels that Gen. Gomez had stormed and captured the important city of Santa Clara on January 9, and was moving on Havana with 1S,OOO men. CAsPAR W. WHITNEY, of New York city, filed suit at Perry, Ok, asking that his wife's divorce decree, which was granted in the territory year ago, be set aside on the grounds that she was not bona fide resident of the territory. Mrs. Anna c. Whitney, one of New York's foremost society women, after three months stay, filed suit alleging 90 days bona fde residence, and next day after the decree was granted she left the territory and went back to New York city. Since that time she has welded another.
 INTERNAL revenue officers captured a complete underground distilling plant on the 14th at Jewish settlement in Cumberland county, N. J. Two moon- sinners were arrested and the whisky confiscated.
 WILLIAM FERGUSON and James Me- Kenna were found dead in a room of a New York hotel on the 14th, having been asphyxiated by Illuminating gas. A TRAIN was wrecked near. Sciota, H., through a broken rail. It left the track and plunged down an embank- ment. The engineer was probably fa- tally hurt. Several other persons were dlSo luolc UT ICSS liC "lcSh then took fire, but was soon extin- guished.
 A CHICAGO dispatch of the 18th stated that express and railroad managers had sent letters to train guards in- structing them to shoot and kill in every case where robbery was the in. tent of any one interfering with the running of train and reward of $500 was held out for every robber shot but not killed and S1,000 for every robber killed.
 FIVE children were drowned in St Louis on the 18th through skating on unsafe ice.
 JAMES r. GIBBS. of the Norwall (O.) Reflector, is being boomed for public printer under Mckinley.
 THE excitement attendant upon the rich gold discoveries made in the Rag. ged Top district, near Lead, S. D., con- tinued unabated on the 1lth. A pocket of ore was uncovered at depth of l6O feet in the Daisy shaft, which assayed over S24, 1000 to the ton. Three rival towns had sprung up in the region of the discoveries and their growth bordered on the marvellous. People were rushing to them in droves.
 CHIEF SIawARr. of the police pepart- ment of Omaha, Neb., has instructed his secretary to open a set of books for the purpose of promoting the matri- monial craft, and in future all requests for matrimonial correspondents ad- dressed to the department will be prOp- erly tabulated, filed and exhibited to those who are looking for something of the kind. Everything is to be con- ducted in strict confidence.
 THREE masked robbers went to the