The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
GrRrnupE PALMER died at Mamaro-

GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro- neck, N. Y., on the 29th, making the third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy, he having previously killed his mother and brother. The sheriff left for St. Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been arrested.
 A DISPATCH to the New York Sun on the 29th stated that the Cuban insur- gents were fighting near Havana, an engagement having taken place few days ago at Managua i> which they de- feated the Spanish troops and captured great quantity of guns and ammuni- ton.
 THE Patton seminary, boarding school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 2Sth. About 40 girls were in the build ing and they lost all their effects and had to be taken in closed carriages to Dallas.
 THE failures in the United States for reporO were S26, being decrease of 102 from the previous week and of 67 from the corresponding week of last year.
 HENRY HEITFELp, populist, was on the 2sth elected United States senator at Boise, Ida, to succeed Senator Du- bois. The vote stood: Heitfeld, 36; Dubois, 30; T. F. Nelson, 1. Heitfeld was born in St. Louis and lived in Sem eca, Kan, from 1870 to 1882.
 JOSEPH SMITH, head of the Latter Day Saints church, arrived in Atch- ison, Kan, on the 2sth to unite all Lat ter Day Saints factions in the city with the reorganized church. Smith is working to unite all factions of Lat ter Day Saints in the United States. including the followers of Brigham Young.
 AT the Georgia mine, near Fleming ton, w. Va, by an accident on coal incline railway, 30 men were thrown from a car, and one was killed, two others were fatally and eight seriously injured.
 AS the result of a misplaced switch, an engine drawing train of empty cars collided with loaded passenger train on the Brooklyn elevated rail road on the night of the 2Sth. One per son was killed and five were injured, one perhaps fatally. The engine and the forward car of the loaded train top pied over into the street 20 feet below. LYMAN J. GAGE, of Chicago, visited Maj. Mckinley at Canton, O., on the 2sth. Mir. Gage was rendered the port cs!folio of the treasury department at Washington and acceptedit it.
 A CONCURRENT resolution was adopted by both branches of the South Carolina legis,::..;are calling o:... the United States senate to promptly rati- fly the treaty of arbitration with Great Britain.
 ELEVEN men were injured, one, Louis Fogler, probably fatally, by an explo- sion in a coal mine at Foster, Ia. SAM BOYKIN, a carpenter, was over- come by smoke and burned to death in a fire at his boarding house at Yoakum, Tex.
 ARNOLD TREUTHART, a farmer, was found frozen to death near his home at Nauvoo, Ill.
 THE Kansas City Live Stock exchange adopted resolution on the 26th strongly urging Secretary Coburn, of ! the Kansas state board of agriculture, for secretary of agriculture in Presi- dent McKinley's cabinet. THE Star furnace at Jackson, O., burned on the 26th and two workmen lost their lives.
 A SHEDDING party of about 20 persons from Tyrone, Pa., was precipitated over a stone wall about six miles from that place. The party was mostly made up of young people. A special train con- veyed to the scene of the catastrophe all the doctors in Tyrone. Several persons were found to be seriously in- jured, having their arms and legs broken and bleeding from wounds.
 JOHN BoHANNoN and C. Robinson were waylaid by George and Burgess Lee, brothers, and murdered in Haber- sham county, Pa.
 THE first steps have been taken at Omaha, Neb., for the consolidation of all the German turner's between the Mississippi river and the Rocky moun- tains into one big association for hold ing a grand tournament at Omaha while the exposition is being held. EIGHT business houses were destroyed by fire at Tom Bean Tex, recently. "A SECTION hand on the Mobile & Ohio railroad at Beech Ridge, H., was found frozen to death the other morning. THE Colonial express on the Consoli- dated road struck and killed five men at East Norwalk, Conn.,, on the 27th. The men had been working on the track and stepped out of the way of