The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-04-22

Br the explosion of an imperfect blast in the Monarch mine near Mad tsonville, Ky, two men, named Robert Charlton and Theodore Stone. lost their lives.
 IN a drunken fight on . shanty boat at Bellaire, O., Jim Williams, the own CT, killed his wife and Charles Horner with club and then foatcd down the river with the dead bodies. The story was told by one of the combatants who escaped. &&&
 CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls national bank at Somersworth, N. H., was brutally murdered by two desper- adoes, who robbed the bank and es- capped with nearly all the cash.
 JOHN RANDALL, tramp, was run down on the C., E. & Q. tracks at Rock Island, H., and had both legs cut of. He died from the injuries at the hos. pital.
 HARRISON DAWSON, a big colored min ister. has astonished his brethren at Mayfeld, Ky, by deserting his wife and la children. He eloped with a buxom colored sister.
 MRS. ELIZABETH R. TILroN, the wife of Henry Ward Beecher's accuser, died recently at her home in Brooklyn. Since the famous Beecher trial she had lived in strict retirement. Theodore Tilton, her husband, is in Paris, where he has lived ever since the Beecher trial.
 A FIRE at Lindsey, village eight
 miles west of Fremont, O., on the 18th destroyed the post office, drug store,
 a grocery, meat market, the new produce exchange building, town hall
 and G. A. R. hall. The villagers fought
 the Ere heroically with hand engines. THE recent report of the viceroy of
 India on the famine situation showed
 that 2,s53,O ,O00 persons were employed on the relief works, against 8, Al, S23 persons so employed month previous
 The condition of the people in the
 affected districts was pronounced to be
 from fair to good.
 THE big sawmill plant of the Cam field Lumber Co. at Garfield, Ark, was completely destroyed by fire on the 18th. Estimated loss, S50,0O0; insur- | ance, S20, ,0O0.
 WHILE tapping blast at the Repub-
 lican iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
 the other morning, the molten metal
 boiled over into a pit of water causing
 an explosion. Five men were badly
 burned, two of whom will probably die. l BECAUSE he could not write William | Mitchell was arrested in East St Louis
 and taken to the Chester, H., peniten-
 tiary. Mitchell was a paroled convict
 under the new Illinois law and prison
 CTS taking advantage of the law must report by mail once month to the
 warden. Mitchell relied upon friend
 to write to the warden, but the friend
 forgot his promise.
 THE hill immediately over the mouth
 of the Yorkville mines, near Bellaire, O., gave way the other morning and 1000 tons of dirt and rock crashed down completely closing up the en- trance and breaking the archway 100
 feet. A driver named Jeffrey was en- tombed and was not rescued until sev-
 eral hours afterward.
 | THE 2lst and decisive game of the
 Pillsbury-Showalter chess match at | New York was won by Pillsbury. The
 final score was: Pillsbury, 10; Sho. walter, 8; drawn, 8.
 | DAN A. STUART at Chicago on the
 l4th denied the story that the pictures
 of the Carson fight had proved worth- less. They were, he said, entirely sat | isfactory.
 THREE London papers-the Globe, | the St James Gazette and the Pall | Mall Gazette-ridicule the idea of the
 United States bimetallic commission
 having any practical result. WHILE a train was passing out of
 Johnsonburg, Pa, the trainmen were mortified to see man on burning pile of ties on the track. The train was stopped and the man rescued. He was badly burned and said he was bound and put on the pile by some tramps.
 AN explosion of gasoline set fire to the Bradley block at Cleveland, O., and
 the occupants were panic-stricken. Three men were badly burned. WHILE seated at the breakfast table ] at Chicago on the 14th Matthias Custer,
 22 years old, was shot and killed by his
 stepfather. John Foriniller. Formiller then blew out his own brains Family quarrels caused the tragedy. JESSE EVANS, negro, charged with accosting two little white girls, was riddled with bullets by & posse at Ed
 wards, Miss., and the body left in the
 public street, The evidence against
 the negro was conclusive. A CHICAGO dispatch stated that natu- ral gas had been struck in unlimited | croux;<tas ,.,i<h;u <ho City Iirnifa n