The Coconino Weekly Sun, 1891-12-10

ers, lie was in hago's olllco at tlie time of the explosion. His skull was fractured and 'lfv will probably die. Charles W. Osborn, Sage's cashier, had his skull fractured, and will probably die; Samuel J. Calhoun, Who was iu tho building at tho time, received a fraeturo of the leg; Col. J. J. Slocum, a brother-in-law of SagC, and his chief clerk, was badly cut about the head and face, and when hi.s wounds wero dressed returned to tho scene, declar declaring - ing declaring that ho bad left thediornf the safe open iu)d was fearful Iho securities in it had been blown out and lost. Quickly gathering together what he found ho placed them in a small safe amlhild it removed to the office of tho Manhattan Kaihva) Company in tho same build building. - ing. building. In the afternoon tho firemen found among tho debris a leg, thought to bo that of a woman. Whether it is or not has not been discovered. Ititssell Sago never employed a woman type typewriter, - writer, typewriter, and as this fact is well estab lished the supposition is that if tho leg is that of a woman it is all that's left of one of his "put and call" customers who wasiu the office at tho time. Ititssell Sago saw the head of D. 11. Wilson, tho man who threw the bomb and identified , it as belonging to tho man who had come to his office aud demanded money. Inspector B)rnes took the ghastly gory head in a basket to Mr. Sage's house, and carried it to Mr. Sage's bedroom. The instant tho magnate, x ho was lying in bed, saw the head he said: "That's the held of the man." Aliiany (Nr. Y.,) December 1. The dynamite crank is thought to have been Hiram 1). Wilson, aged 15, an escaped lunatic" aud a native of Glens Falls, Warren county. Wilson escap escaped - ed escaped previously from Middletown and other asylums. The first signs of in insanity - sanity insanity were developed fourteen ) ears ago, when ho kept tho Bolton House on Lake George, lie has of late years talked of making horses go faster than any have eier gone, and of patent rights. WiKon after short tcims in insane asylums, was discharged as cured, or escaped. Ho generally cele celebrated - brated celebrated his freedom by attempting to kill some one who refused to moot his demands for money. Several years ago he attempted to kill a man w bom he had asked for money to set him up in business. On another occasion, when W. J. Arkell was in Albany, Wilson made a demand on him, threatened to kill him and oven attempted to assault him in his office. He had also threatened the life of Goodwin Brown, one of tho State Lunacy Commissioners. Wilson was arrested hero about a ) ear ago for threatening to kill some on-. A ICunsns City Theory. Kansas Cm Dec. 5. By the Asso Associated - ciated Associated Press. There is reason to be believe - lieve believe that Hugh Wilson,' late member of tho real estate firm of Brewster & Wilson in this city, was tho man who threw tho bomb at millionaire Sage yesterdav. Men who knew Wilson say that the published description of the would-be assassin is his. Wilson made considerable money in business here, but ids friends say that with the col collapse - lapse collapse of tho boom he lost almost ovcry ovcry-thidg. - thidg. ovcry-thidg. About a year ago ho moved to New York. Persons here aver that they have lately heard that he has for the past few months been in straight straightened - ened straightened circumstances and in need of sup support - port support for his family. Tlie "l'uvorlto Viislilon .lout'inils." These handsome Fashion Magazines continue to improve each month in appearance and usefulness. Tho ob object - ject object of tho publishers bcems to bo to glvo tho American ladies real, neat, plain French styles, just as are shown in the corresponding original French Editions. Tlio pages of these journals tiro not filled up with any kind of Cuts or Fashion Plntes, used sololy lieeauso they are cheap. Ladies purchasing tho ''Favorite Fashion Journals" can rest assured they will find nothing in them except the genuine French styles. On going abroad tliey" would also al always - ways always find themselves "in tho fashion" if they fallowed, ho stylys as ghen by these journals, ('La Modo do Paris" iind "Album ties Modes" tiro each 35 ets. per copy , or $;5.50 a year, "La Mode," tho Family Fashion Journal, is 15 cents per copy, or $1.50 a year. If your News Ageii ikjog not keep these new Fashion Journals, do not let him persuade you to continue taking any others, but got direct from A. Mc McDowell - Dowell McDowell & Co., 1 West Mtli Street, New New-York, - York, New-York, Jly best pvpr mililUhed, ,. - . , There mo now 104 convicts iu the Ten Itorial nvl&ou. Tlio largest num number - ber number over confined in this penitentiary was 170.

the well-known Broker. Tho ltuthtliiK wrecked, Two Persons lllown into Fleets und Six Injured Wnll Street Alarmed. New Youk, December 1.Ku&ull Sage, tho millionaiiu broker eeaped death by a miracle, to-day, his ollieo ami the entire Empire building, in which it was, being shaken tit tho very foundation )y the explosion of it dyna dynamite - mite dynamite bomb hurled by a crank lho mado It demand upon Sago for the immediate payment of $1,250,000, the ultimatum being in ease of refusal, tho deatli of the millionaire, the cr.Uik himself and those employed in the otliee. Never in the history of the metropolis is it probable that aij event has occurred that for the time caused more excite ment in Wall stieet and lower liroad liroad-w - w liroad-w ay. Fully 50,000 people were drawn to tho Acene of tho e.ploion, and for ad hour tho kj1Ico were powerless to bring order out of chaos. It was just twenty minutes past 2 when the explo explosion - sion explosion came with a force that was abso absolutely - lutely absolutely startling, completely wrecking tho second floor of the building, throw throwing - ing throwing pedestrians in the street to the ground and alarming people for blocks around. Those close at haml saw a man blown through one of the window of Sage's olllco into Hector street. A few minutes later Sage himself, with blood utreamilig down his face and hand, was helped out into the street and taken to O'C'onnelPs drug store, just below Wall street, on llroadwa) . There, also, was carried the man blown from the window. Within tun minutes after the explosion Dr. Munn, the physician of .hi) Gould, was at the side of Sage and personally attended to his injuries, which piwed to be not of a serious nature. The hair and eye eyebrows - brows eyebrows of the millionaire were burned and his face and bauds were hint by small particles of glass and plaster, the result of the explosion. Sage, though suffering from" the shock, made tho following .statement while his wound was being dressed: "A man who gave tho name nf II. D. Wilson came to my office just now. I had never seen him before. He had a carpet bag in his hand and said: "If you will not give mo $1,250,000 I will blow you to pieces." I know nothing further, except hearing a great explo explosion, - sion, explosion, falling on tho floor and regaining consciousness here. The man h ing on the lloor of tho drug store is, I believe, the same one who asked me for the money." When Sage's wounds wet u dressed he was taken in a cab to his home. Outside of the door everything was confusion. Men lost their heads and rumors of tho wildest kind lilled tho air, Twenty men were said to have been killed and injured, and from the building the fireman led or cairied tho dead and injured. Ambulances were summoned from three hospitals, and soon tho streets were solidly filled with a struggling mass of persons all eager to get to the sceno of tho disaster. When tho police tu lived in force tho building was quickly cleared of all per persons - sons persons and a search was made in tfio wrecked offices, ust iusidn of tho door of thu general office was found tho trunk of a man in a state that ren rendered - dered rendered recognition near!) impossible, the head bavin"; been served from tho body. A pointed redlb bfatd gave tlio appearand! of an educated man, which was enhanced by brown curls of hair and a heavy mustache that adorn adorned - ed adorned the upper jip. When the body was taken up it was found to have been torn Into shreds by tho explosion. Tho interior of tho offices plainly showed jhijl (he forcf of ho explosion was something toiTllic, All tlio partition walls were blown tjown and the sashes and v indow frames were forced out outward. - ward. outward. Tlio colling had been blown down null tho ffooj" forced downward, rendering H tns;ifft to walk upon, Thu desks and ehaiis wero overturned and hurled Into (in mtoH'ilhnhlo mass, and every piece of glass in tlio big air-shaft that ran to tho roof was shivered. A search isioky showed that tho body of tho man with tho pointed beard was tlio only qiip ijiiinny tlio d.(di. In the mean time tho crowds in tho street grolV larger, tjip tiluvated trains from up tiwn bulging thousands to the scene, all impelled byeutiosity. For an hour ciifisioit resigned. Then tho IWlilT ('I!!:)'? tlp'ty e;uls and something like a correct (1st of tho killed and In Injured - jured Injured was had. But one man had been killed ouright, tho man with the point pointed - ed pointed beard. He is supposed to bo II. D. Wilson,- ljo jjijjn who nuplti tlie uVj Itiand for tio money front S.tge nntl throw tho bomb. Benjamin V. Mor Morton, - ton, Morton, who was thrown through a win window, - dow, window, ivas n clerk in tho office. Ho

Crisp of Georgia Etilectod Speaker of tho House. Thirty ISullotu ltcqulrcd In the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic Caucus to Select a Can Candidate. - didate. Candidate. WASHING! o.V, Dee. 7. Crisp of Geor Georgia - gia Georgia was elected Speaker of the House on tho thirtieth ballot: G'riip recoil recoiling - ing recoiling 123 votes and Mills 101. Springer cast tho deciding otes. it is tho longest light over known for tho Speak- erslii)tlnnd,iJwa3SUveh'4ftvmtf.lieirin . !. ,ii aiii' hi. Mill II IlllJK io luoyuimsij.; Washington; Kcc.' 7-rTliif Flftye? ond Congress camo into fotiunl exist existence - ence existence at noon to-day. It bids fair to bo ono of tho most remarkable bodies of legislators that has ever assembled iu this country. Of 332 members there are only 133 why wero members of tho last congress. There arc 19 t members who were elected last fall Of this number l'J have seen previous sen ice in congress. There are, thotefoiv, 153 men iu this congress who have been members before and 175 wIm have never yet been iu the house of repre sentatives. The Fifty-fiit Congress contained 170 republicans and 155 democrats. Of these 170, tight were seated on contests, and to make room for them eight democrats were unseat unseated. - ed. unseated. At tho beginning of the session figures stood, republicans 108, demo democrats - crats democrats 1C3. Tho Fifty-second congress begins today with 87 republicans and 215 democrats, or Farmer's Alliance representatives, but there is a differ difference - ence difference of opinion as to how many of these 215 really represent the agricul agricultural - tural agricultural movement. Only eiht were elected as distinctively Farmers' Alli Alliance - ance Alliance men. These are Simpson, Baker, Davis, Otis and Clover, of Kansas; Ken of Nebraska; Everett, of Georgia and Halvorsen, of Minnesota; but besides thee the Alliance profes-w to .count on the votes of Hall, of Minnesota; Winn, Livingston and Moses of Geor Georgia; - gia; Georgia; Crawford, Alexander, Williams, Grady and Branch, of North Carolina; Picler, of South Dakota; Tillman, Schell, Johnston and Stackliouse, of South Carolina; and Washington, of Tennessee. They may get the support of one or two others but it is icrtain at least that there will be 25) straight democrats. I)om l'cdroJIctul. Pams, December 4. Dom Pedro, late Emperor of Brazil, died at the Hotel Bedford five minutes after mid midnight. - night. midnight. His fever had been incroasing since 7 o'clock in the evenLig, when Dr. Charcot was summoned hastily and remained until the end. The Princess Isabello and her husband, the Count d'Eu, were also present. The disease with which the ex-Emperor suffered was diabetes. It is said that the last conscious words of Dom Pedro were an expression of his deep affec affection - tion affection for Brazil and regretu that he could not go back there to die. Pedro II, Dom Pedro do Alcantara, ox-Emperor of Brazil was born at Rio Janeiro, on December 2, 1825. He was thson of Emperor Pedro I And of tho Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria. Ho was less than 5 years old when disputes between Pedro I and the Chamber of deputies mado him Empe Emperor - ror Emperor by tho abdication of his father In his favor. During his mitority tho country was governed by a regency. Tho Chamber of Deputies declared him to have attained his majoiity iu his fourteenth year, aud two years later, on July IS, 1811, ho was crowned Emperor of Brazil. KNOCKING AT Till: DOUU. Xcx Mexico mid Arizona xo bo Ad Admitted - mitted Admitted iih States. Washington, Dee. 5. New Mexico and Arizona will probably enter tho union of states before tho end of tho present Congress. Utah will also bo an applicant for adiuKsion, but tho lingering traces of Mormonism will probably keep her out. Enabling acts for New Mexico and Arizona are likely to pass next spring or summer, but the States will not come into i ho Union early enough to vote for President neM y car. Bills for the. admission oi all three Territories will bo offered at the first opportunity by their delegates iu Con Congress. - gress. Congress. It is quite probable i hat there will bo no opposition iu either house to the admission of New nicxicn and Arizona if they are Hot to, oto for President next fall. sJcventy-thrce Men l'crlsli. Pahis, Dec. G Tho repot)) of Ij ter rible mining disaster- oomes ' f rom St. ticiuni in tho department of t.lie Loire. Au explosion of lire-damp occurred at noon today in ono of tho itinicrous ji coal pits in that region, and many workers were unable to escape from tho mine. According to advices so far

which prevent access to the imprisoned mejiTh'ruftm7D"er3itdkcntteIg;htlinj Secretary Proctor has severed his connection with the War Department. At Mount Vernon, Mo., Friday, Charles M. Seaton was hanged for tho murder of Lewis Channel at Jopliu, Mo., July 5, 1889. The United States ship Jamestown went hard aground near Fortress Monroe Friday. Her officers hoped to float her at high tide. At ' Winnipeg, Manitoba, all out outgoing - going outgoing trains are cancelled and the in coming trains many hours behind time, because of tho snow storm. Mrs. Charles P. Jackson of Wyan Wyandotte, - dotte, Wyandotte, Ka.S., has organized a band of Adventists Mho have fixed on Christ Christmas - mas Christmas day as the end of the world. Near Hornersville, Mo., Friday, by a boiler explosion at Pope & Pulley's mill, three men were instantly killed and the building demolished. A Grand Forks, N. D., dispatch says tho storm is raging; the mercury is about zero. Tho railroad men report the first snow blockade in two years. The worst storm iu y ears swept over tho Cumberland valley in Pennsyl Pennsylvania - vania Pennsylvania Saturday, wrecking nuildings, uprooting trees and destroying crops. At Hoss-Moync, a village eight miles north of Cincinnati on the Cin Cincinnati - cinnati Cincinnati aud Lebanon railroad, the Odd Fellows of Ohio have just completed a home for Iho aged and infirm of the order. ' - - - A company has been formed in Ohio to pipe Lake Erie, water through to Cincinnati, over two hundred miles, taking iu the most important cities aud towns alons; the route. The findingof Mrs. Agnes Lawrence's dead body near New Boston, Pa., and the mystery surrounding her death arc causing much. excitement. ihc woman was outraged and killed. Mrs. Jefferson Davis has sued the Belford Publisliidg Company to recover royalties on the sale of her book, Jefferson Davis, ex-President of tho Confederate States. A Memoir by His Wife." She also seeks to recover possession of the publication. She alleges that the firm violated its con tract. An extraordinary accident occurred at East Thompson, Conn., on the New York and New England Railroad's main line early Friday morning. Four trains, two freights and two passen passengers, - gers, passengers, were piled up in indescribable confusion within less than five minutes and three lives, were lost. Several persons were seriously injured, and one of them may die. Unlxci-slty of Arizona. There is no institution within the borders of tho territory of greater im importance - portance importance or of more value to Arizona than tho Territorial University located at Tucson. This institution forms the nucleus of what will soon be the great seat of learning for the young men and women of Arizona, and is entitled to ;ill of the encouragement and assist assistance - ance assistance that tho people can give it. The main building is a handsome ;iud substantial one, erected at a cost of $40,000, and two cottages arc now in course of erection that will cost about 9.000. Tho university is also well supplied with tho necessary ap paratus for tho scientific courses, and thoro Is no reason why any person ' should leave Arizona for the purpose of acquiring an education. iho faculty is composed of persons with a long experience in the work, and taken altogether tho University of Arizona is a credit to tho territory, and the funds expended for its erec tion and maintenance is money wisely spent. Chancellor Freeman is giving a great deal of his Uino to tho university and is denoted to the work and the inter ests of tho institution. He is especially qualified to fill tho position, and under' his management the affairs of tho uni versity will soon be in ;i most satisfac tory condition. The feeling that tho university--, is a local affair is entirely wi-f)ugiLue- son has no more to do witli,it'tiiniu aiip other part of the territory, aud allft tho people should assist in building up-. as chool of which they may justly feci proud. Phcnix Renublic.iiuN .' -

received eighty men perished iu tho pit. At midnight it has been ascertained that sevqnty-lhrco minor perished. Wives, children and relatives of tho entombed miners surrounded the mouth of tho pit, and most heartrending' scenes ar- witnessed as the bodies of the victims are brought to the surface. If the accident had happened on an ordinary working day instead of on a fete day the loss of life would have been much greater. The rescuers are greatly harassed in their work by the collapsed galleries,