The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-01-28

leX., duu two HIGH were KllleQ anu du- other fatally injured.
 GEORGE DIXON, champion feather weight pugilist of the world, defeated Australian Billy Murphy, of Cincin- natl, in six rounds at the Broadway Athletic club at New York on the 22d. THE white intruders in the territory of the five civilized tribes must go, Sec retary Francis having officially signed an order on the 22d that all persons who are not on the citizen rolls of the five tribes will be unceremoniously busted.
 THE deaths from the bubonic plague at Bombay for the week ended the 21st numbered 40.
 A REAR-END collision occurred on the 22d between two freight trains at Benchley on the Texas Central, wreck ing ten cars, a caboose and a locomo- tive, and seriously injuring Engineer Higgins, Fireman Stuart and Brake man J. l.. Robinson.
 A FAMINE exists in Rhodesia, Africa, and the natives were reported digging up and eating cattle which had been buried six months ago because they had died from the rinderpest. As a consequence terrible mortality prevails among the natives.
 THE business failures in the United States for the week ended the 22d, ac- cording to Bradstreets report, were 429, being SS more than in the corre- spending week last year.
 THE Bradshaw block at Waxahachie, Tex, was destroyed by fire. The block and stocks were insured for S25, ,000. The loss will reach S65,0O0.
 GEN. VIVIAN recently received tel egram from Havana stating that there were 4,O0O cases of smallpox among the residents of that city.
 FIRE broke out early in the morning in the medical college, one of the buildings of the Bellevue hospital at New York. A thousand patients were asleep at the time, but the firemen con- trolled the flames without disturbing them. Many valuable records and in struments were destroyed and 13 cada- vers were cremated.
 TIE three-masted schooner Nahum Chapin went ashore near Quogue, l.. l., during a fierce gale and her crew of nine men were drowned.
 Ross SHERMAN and two companions, all three drunk, became noisy on a Chicago cable car the other night and, when requested to subside, sherman drew big knife and began slashing at the passengers indiscriminately Three women tainted and Edward Nugent, who grappled with Sherman, was bad ly cut in the hand.
 RUSSIA fears that the bubonic. plague now raging in India will reach her country and the newspapers are call ing for every precaution to be taken to prevent it. One newspaper said that the world should unite to form cor don around the devastated plague dis tricts. THE trial of Edward J. Ivory. the al- legged dynamite conspirator, came to sudden conclusion in London, the government withdrawing from the prosecution. Ivory was discharged. A MOB of 200 men broke into the jail ns Amite City, La., early on the morn- ing of the goth and took out three ne- gro murderers-John Johnson, Archie Joiner and Gus Williams. The mob took them to the woods and hanged them and riddled the bodies with bull lets. It was at first proposed to burn Johnson at the stake, but this was pre- vented by the leaders.
 FIRE ragged in an immense five-story granite block between Commercial and Mercantile streets at Boston, occupied almost entirely by wholesale grocery firms. The flames burst from three lower floors. The loss was between S1OO, 900 and Sl25,OOO.
 ENGINEER c. w. LAMB, of Keokuk. and Brakeman Frank Lafferty, of Eddyville, quarreled while their train was at Ottumwa, Ia., on the 20th, and Lafferty gave Lamb probably a fatal blow with coupling pin. Lafferty escaped. The two were members of q Rock Island passenger crew.
 RICHFIELD CENTER, little village near Toledo, O., was in the midst of genuine witchcraft scare on the goth. The community is composed principally of Germans, who were thoroughly con vinced that they were being made the victims of some witch or other agency of his satanic majesty, families be- ing afflicted wieh a peculiar malady. Physicians could not diagnose the malady, but assured the patients that it was due possibly to an unsanitary condition of the village.
 An earthquake occurred recently at Kishma, an island in the Persian gulf, attended by an enormous loss of life. The island is populated chiefly by Arabs.
 SAM PALATKA, an ill-loolsing negro,