The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-04-29

the accidental falling of . safe in East St. Louis, H., and Patrick Butler re- ceived fatal injuries.
 WHILE Milton Bradbury, living near Garber, Ok, was fighting Q prairie fire on his farm his Avc-year-old son was caught in it and was burned to death.
 FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam weights, fight 20 rounds before the Ma tional Athletic club at San Francisco on the 23d. The fight was for a s2, ,0OO purse, 70 per cent. to the winner, at l15 pounds. Barry had the best of it all through and after the goth round he was declared the bantam champion .of the world.
 Ar Williamson, IA miles east of Lan- sing, Mich., Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged S2 years, murdered her aged mother in-law with an ax. She severed the head from the body and then poured oil on the lifeless body and set it on fire.
 ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report there were 216 business failures throughout the United States for the week ended the 2Sd, against 240 in the corresponding week last year. Two convicts in San Quentin Gal. ] prison, w. K. Kelley and Frank Wheel ocls, foughtwith jute knives on the 2ad before the guards could interfere. Kel- ley was killed and Wheelock was re- ported dying.
 LITTLE hope is entertained by vest ern railway managers that the United States senate will pass the Foraker pooling bill. They admit the senti- ment of the people in the west is de. cidedly hostile to . legalization of railroad pools and most of the sena- tors of the western states, therefore, will refuse to vote for Foraker's bill. TIE extensive barn of w. c. Law renee, located at Lexington, Ind, was consumed by fire. Five hundred bush els of grain and many farming imple- ments were burned and II head of horses perished.
 A DESPERATE attempt by a political fanaticwas made on the 22d to assas- sinate King Humbert with a knife, but the man was seized by the guards before he had done any harm. The king was on his way to the races. EDITOR HINTON, of the Albia Qa-) De- fender. was fatally assaulted by John Jamison, a coal miner, who had taken offense at an item in Hinton's paper. NANCY MCKINLEY, mother of the president, celebrated her SSth birth day anniversary at her home at Canton. O., on the 22d. She was in excellent health, barring slight attacks of rheu- matism. A DISPATCH from Athens expressed fear that should the Greeks suffer de- feat and the Turks occupy Larissa a revolution will break out at Athens. THE Western Baseball league season of '97 opened in Indianapolis, Ind. on the 2lst with the Grand Rapids club. The score was 10 to in favor of In- dianapolis.
 OVER 1 1A00 Greeks, at . mass meeting at Chicago the other night, resolved to do all they could to aid their native country in the war with Turkey. Amid great enthusiasm, 400 of them signed the muster rolls, and promised to be ready to start for New York with in few hours. From all sources came help to pay the passage of the volun- teers.
 As the result of charges brought against ex-Grain Inspector Dwight w. Andrews at Chicago the investigat- ing committee of the legislature in- vestigated the affairs of the state grain inspectors office. It is said that there is shortage of s45, GOO in his accounts.
 A TELEGRAM from Tullahoma, Tenn, on the 22d said that fire started in the operahouse block and was spreading to the business portion through the high wind and there was no hope of stopping it. Damage had been done amounting to s3OO,oo0.
 A SPECIAL session of Sons of the Rev. olution was held at Philadelphia to consider the proposed consolidation with Sons of the American Revolution. The vote stood 16 for consolidation and IA against, Virginia refusing to vote. Thirty-one states were represented.
 ABOUT three years ago Jesse and Charles Hibden. cousins, and a cook left their homes in Paul's Valley, l. T., and went to Arkansas to buy cattle. They never returned, and Jones was arrested and convicted of the double murder and hanged year ago. To the surprise of everyone Jesse Hibden has been located in a territorial prison, where he is held for selling whisky to Indians.
 PROVISION rates from Kansas City to New York were said to be on the ragged edge on the 18th and little prov0cafion was needed to cause A