The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07

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the 1st and four boarders were in a
comatose condition when rescued, hav-
ing been asphyxiated by gas from q
stove.
A CORNING mill belonging to the
Miami Powder Co., near Xenia, O., ex-
ploded on the 1st, killing Joseph
Kreitzer and fatally injuring Joseph
Happing.
WHILE number Of boys were shoot.
ing out the old year near Cimarron,
Ok, a heavily loaded shotgun exploded
and Henry Albert was fatally injured
and George Wilson had part OF his
hand torn off.
A PASSENGER train on the Keokuk &
Western railroad was wrecked near
Norwalk, Ia., and several passengers
were injured, one probably fatally. 1t
was train loaded with teachers going
home from the state association and
the accident was due to spreading rails
caused by heavy rains
THE Collinsville Qll.) zinc works were
partially destroyed by fire on the ist
Loss, 100000.
Mrs. HELEN NJ. COUGAR handed in
her resignation, at the request Of the
committee at Chicago, Of which she
was a member. and stepped down and
out of the nationalist party. She had
been criticised for speaking for the
cause of bimetallism in the late cam
paign.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred in the
Santa Gertrusi mine at Pachuca, one
OF the most famous silver mines in
Mexico. Fire broke out in one OF the
levels of the old southern workings,
shutting off the exit of g miners.
The bodies have not yet been recov-
cred.
SANKEY CUNNIx CHAM was hanged in
the jailyard at Albany, Ga. on the 1st
for an assault upon Miss Kate Camp.
Cunningham confessed his guilt in
gallows speech. The hanging was wit
messed by an enormous crowd.
HENRY WRIGHT was hanged at Will
mington, DEL, on the 1st for murder.
w. c. PERRY, the United States dis.
trict attorney, has commenced suit in
the federal court of the Topeka, Kan,
district to dissolve the Kansas City
Live Stock exchange for alleged viola.
tions of the antitrust law. Similar
action will also be commenced in Mis-
souri,, SO as TO reach the members in
both states.
BRADsTREEr's agency gives the total
number of failures in the United
States for the calendar year 1856 as 15,-
ll2. which is the largest number ever
reported, except in the panic year of
1893, and l6 per cent. over the failures
of 1895.
A DISPATCH from Havana on the 3lst
stated that Gen. Ruis Rivera, who sue
cceded Antonio Maaeo at the head OF
the insurgent forces In Piuar de- Rio
was wounded and had subsequently,
died Of his wounds.
J. A. Il. ELLIOTT, Of Kansas City.
won the 100 live bird match from Z. D.
Fulton, OF Utica, at New York, Uy
score Of 94 to 90. The winner gets the
Star cup, emblematic of the American
championship.
AN explosion of dynamite took place
on board the British ship Delta in the
harbor at Plymouth. Mass, on the
3Oth. The vessel sank and two men on
board of her were said to have per.
ished.
MATTHIAS SETTLER, of Decatur. Ind.
died on the S0th. Not particle OF
food had entered his stomach for eight
months.
JOSEPH SPANnEIMER was held up in
the elevator of big Office building in
Chicago and forced to give up valise
containing S512 which he had to pay
laundry employees. Hundreds of men
were In the building, but no one knew
OF the robbery until the thieves had
escaped.
THE officials of the Louisville g.
Nashville railroad and the Southern
Railway Co. have offered reward Of
$40, 900 for the arrest and conviction of
the persons implicated in the recent
Cahaba river bridge disaster near
Brockton, Ala.
DURING the recent Sac and Fox pay.
ment the reservation was flooded with
gam blers and whisky peddlers, who
robbed the Indians. Two Indians have
died and.a number were suffering from
the vile compound sold TO them for
whisky.
WILLIAM WHALEY and wife were
shot to death in Sewer county. Tenn,
on the Goth by masked men. Whaley
was "A professional prosecuting wit
ness"
JOHN LYNcHTENBERa, a cabinet
maker, his wife Lizzie and their two
young children were asphyxiated at
New York on the 3Oth.
The Commercial national bank of
Roanoke, Va, has suspended.