The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-06-02

robbery.
AT BarnesyIIie. O., late Thursday night
mob Of men broke into tho Jail and took
from II colored man named Robert Gibson,
charged with an assault upon n 5-year-0ld
girl. Lynching was intended. but vote
saved his neck. and he was stripped and se-
verify whipped instead. and returned TO jail.
AT the aging Of tie cornerstone OF rebel
monument at Jackson. Miss. Friday, silver
crown or diadem was presented 10 the
daughter OF Jeiieron Davis. 10 be given 10
her father upon her return home. Tho
crown, it Is said, Is the gift ~ three Missis-
sippians
Many OF the winnebago Indians around
Black River Falls, Wis. are reported to
have come through the winter In desti-
tute condition, having been obliged TO sell
their ponies or let them starye TO death. and
in consequence will not be able 10 cultivate
their lands this year.
Two highway robbers confined I'm jail at
Monticello Thursday evening attacked
Sheriff Henderson with an lion bar when he
came 20 lock them In their cells, broke his
skull and one arm, perhaps fatally injuring
him, and with Edward Chamberlain, the
murderer OF Ida Wittenberg. escaped. A
posse IN IN pursuit.
Hugh j. Campbelps call for general
convention of Dakota Diyisionists will be
issued In a few DAYS and will be for 700 del
egates 10 meet at Huron July 10 to l2. Other
conventions OF special interest will closely
follow, to take measures looking 10 the same
end.
In Pickens county, Chickasaw Nation, Tn
dian Territory, non-residents are opposing
the collection OF the tax OH stock, and have
organized aud armed themselves with VIM
chesters. The militia y unable 10 cope with
them, and the aid OF the United States Will
be invoked by the tribal authorities. Gen.
eral warfare Il feared.
Mormons have been having five days
jubilee nj Manti, san Pete County, Utah,
dedicatlng their third temple In the Terri
tory, and claim that great signs and wonders
attended the ceremonies, angel voices sing
ing around the heads OF the speakers, and
the appearance OF the spirits OF Presidents
Brigham Young, John Taylor, and J. NJ.
Grant.
AT 3 o'clock wednesday morning freight
train on the Rock Island railIoad went
through bridge near Randolph, No., crasls-
ing into a revine twenty-five feet deep. A
obcit tii' aiteA ~ VII lit "a
81. Joseph went through bridge which al
J. oined the Rock Island, and which had been
weakened by the first wreck. A brakeman,
an engineer. and two tramps were killed. a
fireman fatally injured and two other train
men badly hurt.
Farmer Greenwood, living near Curtis,
Neb. Wednesday shot and killed his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Annie Bryant, few minutes after
she had given birth 10 a child, and tried to
kill the child, but his wife saved IT, Green
woods daughter was only IL years old, and
had been married but three months. Her
husband had been forced to marry her 10
escape criminal proceedings. and soon after
deserted her. Greenwood was moody. and
IL Is supposed made pal TALLY insane by his
daughters shame.
The several policy shops at Evansville.
Ind, nre crying fraud because players nj
each resort Wednesday night played the
same combination and IL won all around TO
the extent OF $4,000.
Fuller reports OF the cyclone which swept
over Rrownton, Texas, Tuesday, state that
the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian
churches were demolished, and eight houses
were destroyed, one Of them being carried
some distance, and its occupant, Amanda
Willis (colorcd). instantly Killed. The path
Of the storm was 800 Sect wide. and crops,
buildings, trees, fences, and everything In
the danger belt were swept away.
At the sixiy-seventh session OF the Grand
Lodge Free and Accepted Masons OF Indi-
ana, ut indianapolis Tuesday, Isaac =. Ley
den, OF New Albany, was elected Grand
Master
Governor Martin, OF Kansas, Tuesday par
doned Charles b. Rotrock. urder life SEN
tence for killing his wife while under the
influence Of liquor, attaching 10 the pardon
a condition ,nheard OF before I'm this State,
that lotrock forever abstain from the use OF
intoxicating liquors. II Rotrock should vio-
late the condition he could be reimI risoned
OH an order from the Governor.
The thirtioth annual meeting Of the iii.
nois State Sunday School Convention was
opened at Rockford Wednesday afternoon.
The Wisconsin Unitarian Conference
opened its semi-annual session ut James lille
Tuesday.
w. l.. Bancroft, OF Port Huron. Mich..
has been appointed general superintendent
of the railway mail service. vice 4. T.. Nash,
resigned. Mr.. Bancroft has accepted the
appointment and Will enter upon the duties
OF his Office June 1.
Judgments amounting to $4,000 were
rendered against the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company ut Bloomington. ILL.,. Monday,
In the Cobb Chri-ty cases. which have been
ON trial for twenty-five years, growing out
OF losses on grain shipped South during the
war on that road by delay In transportation,
the company claiming that the delay was
caused by the government holding control
OF the road. Appeals will be taken
Lth CONGRESS-