The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-04-15

tnc UIn. Inc lOSS dpprONlIndtcu SlVU,- 900; insurance, 800, 900. THE mayor of Fargo, N. D., on the 9th telegraphed to Secretary of War Alger that the water there was subsiding fast and that the people were in no need of assistance.
 THE Nebraska legislature adjourned on the 9th after session extending 15 days beyond its allotted time. The last bill passed was the initiative and referendum.
 A TEcUMsEH Air line train struck
 wagon load of people near Tecumseh,
 Ok, demolishing the wagon, killing the
 horses, fatally injuring William Mitch
 ell and breaking the shoulder of H. A. Hiatt. Mrs. Thomas Brewer fell in the
 middle of the track and the engine
 passed partly over her, but she was not
 hurt.
 ED NEwCoMB, q desperate outlaw,
 was shot and mortally wounded by
 Deputy Marshal Bud Ledbether the
 other evening few miles west of
 Caney, Kan.
 HON. w. J. BRYAN was injured at St.
 Augustine, Fla, on the Sth by the cav ing in of the piazza from which he was speaking. Nearly 400 men and women
 were precipitated 20 feet to the ground and many of them were injured, but
 none fatally. Mir. Bryan was picked up unconscious and removed to phy- sician's office, where an examination
 revealed that he had received no in- juries of serious character. ~f
 men the other day gathered in front of
 the Parliament building at Toronto
 and asked the Ontario government to provide work for them so that they could keep their wives and children from starving.
 RECENT dispatches from Pretoria and Delagoa bay said that the whole of
 Gazaland, in Africa, was in open re- volt. Twenty-Five thousand natives
 had rebelled against the Portuguese government and the situation was re-
 garded as most serious. WALTER c. SANGER has mailed chal-
 lenge from Milwaukee to E. c. Bald, of
 Buffalo, for bicycle match of three
 races, one mile each, the winner of two
 out of three to win the money. It Is to
 be for sl ,OOO side and the largest purse | offered.
 A VETERAN named DiclSerson, living
 near South Haven, Mich, shot and
 killed his wife and then shot himself, infiicting a fatal wound. He had
 driven his first wife from home and
 married the woman he killed only
 three months ago.
 THE battleship Iowa earned on the
 7th for her builders, William Cramp t Son, of Philadelphia, S20O. 900 by mak- ing r knots an hour over the regular government course off the Massachu- | setts coast in the four hours speed trial | required under the contract. The Iowa proved herself to be the most formid-
 able battleship afioat.
 A MAN and his wife named Gage
 were found dead in bed at Chicago on
 the 7th. Gage was a mechanic. An
 empty bottle labeled laudanum was found on the floor near the bed. Gage
 had previously announced his and his
 wife's intention of committing suicide.
 TIE situation at Fargo, N. D., was
 said to be appalling on the eth, ths
 Big Call river taking a big spurt and
 flooding the west side of the city ana
 driving hundreds of people from their
 homes. Sidewalks were floating about and many people used them as rafts to
 move to dry land. All bridges have
 been condemned as dangerous. A CONFERENCE of leaders of the Cleve-
 land wing of the democratic party has been set for April 23 in New York, the avowed purpose of which is ito save the party from its present free silver and populistic tendencies Messrs.
 Cleveland, Carlisle, William L. Wilson and other well-known democrats will be present
 TIE other night a 2K-year-old boy named Russell was playing in room at Chicago where an infant was when
 he made the poker red hot and when the mother went into the room she
 found the boy laughing and the infant with both it's eyes burned out. THE treaty with Great Britain, pro- viding for an arbitration tribunal for
 the settlement of the disputed Guiana boundary, has been unanimously rati- fled by both houses of the Venezuelan congress.
 A TELEGRAM received at Vancouver. B. C., on the 9th said that a snowslide had occurred at the Corinth mine in
 the Slocan which killed three men and carried away part of the aerial tram way recently erected there. POSTMASTER CARRIcK and his daugh- ter at Rockaway, O., were bound and gagged the other night and the post off}ca rohbed Carrick was brutAlly