The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-05-26
WEST AND SOUTH

OF the railway mail service. vice i. T. Nash,
resigned. Mr.. Bancroft has accepted tine
appointment and will enter upon the duties
OF his Office June 1.
The House Monday, on motion OF Mr..
Hatch MOI suspended the rules and passed
the department OF agriculture bill by vote
OF yeas, 233; nays, Ii. Following IN the ne
gatiye vote: Blount, Breckenridge (Ark.b
Breckenridge (Ky.L Buckalew, Cum
mngs, Dargan, Hall, Herbert Morse,
Oates, Rogers, Tillman, Turner (Ga. )
The bill creates an executive department
10 be known M the department OF agri-
culture, under the supervision and control
OF secretary OF agriculture. and provides
for the appointment Of first assistant
secretary OF agriculture. IL also transfers
the weather service Of the United States
signal-ofiice bureau from the war depart
ment 10 the department Of agriculture.
Judgments amounting TO $4,000 were
rendered against the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company at Bloomington, Ill. Monday,
in the Cobb Christy 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
OF tie road. Appeals will be taken.
The National Prohibition camp-meeting
will be held at Decatur July 1921. inclu-
eral Lew Wallace; Mrs. Helen Cougar,
National Chairman Dickle. and w. 4. Mills
will he among the speakers.
The license committed OF the city council
OF Joliet, H., has recommended that the IL
cense for the coming year he $4,000
hard fight over the proposition VIII follow.
The ghost Of the Rev. George McDufiie,
the colorcd preacher lynched at Woodyille,
Ca, is said to appear In the church, Sunday,
clothed IN white robe and q halo, and TO
p each with great oarIes,ness and fervor.
The colored congregation is In fcvcrof ex-
citement.
Spencer County, Indiana, has been terror
lied the past week bv a band of "White
Caps," who on one night gave Smith Hagan,
an old soldier, sixty lashes. and ordered him
10 leave town within twcnty-four hours, the
reason given being that Hagan was addicted
10 beating his wife; and ordered several
negro women 10 leave their settlement near
Rockford.
The local option law OF Michigan was
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premc Court of the State on the ground that
il violated the article providing that no law
shall embrace more than one object which
shall be embodied In its title, the court hold
ing that the act provides for the regulation
Of the sale OF liquor. while its text makes
provisions for regulating both It's manufac-
turc and sale.
Gottlieb Holwert, a prisoner NJ Joliet,
penitenitary, becoming insane, was taken
Thursday TO the insane hospital at Jackson
Vile, under charge OF Prison Chaplain Wal
ters, but, when the latter's back was turned,
escaped from the car and could not be found.
Friday news OF his capture nj Colfax, thirty
miles distant from the point he left the train,
was received.
In the Palmer mine, near Negaunee. Mich,
Friday. Charles s. sundbcrg and Fred Ham
burg, while drilling "missed" hole, one
in which a charge Of powder had not ex-
poded, imited the powder by the friction
OF the drill and were instantly killed by the
explosion that followed.
The fifteenth quadrennial conference Of
the Methodist Protestant Church of the
United States opened nj Adrian, Mich. FRI
day, the Rev. David Jones. of Pittsburg,
IL u.s
w. s. Fleming, of Paramount w. V. secre-
tary.
Notices have been posted in all division
nd-houses of the Chicago, burlington and
Quincy Railroad that after May 20, oil en-
| gineers not able 10 run their engines without
the aid Of pilots will be dismissed. an order
which, Il IL said. will take OF about % per
cent of the engineers.
A hailstorm passed over Pratt Kan,
Thursday night, destroying fruit and killing
i cattle over an area OF miles In extent In that
county, injunng people caught out, break.
| ing all windows with south or west expos
ures, and IN some eases breaking roofs OF
houses with the weight OF the stones.
Three relief expeditions, organized by the
| Quincy Wig, Friday visited the flooded
families Of the sny and Indian Grave Leves
and report great deal Of discomfort and
suffering on the part OF the refugees, who
arc encampcd on the high lands In tents OF
| wagons, with scanty clothing and food. o.
tte 100 families rendered homeless In Oh,
Indian Grave district many are partially
sheltered In barns aud sheds on farms not In
undated, and the attention OF more fortu
nate neighbors has 30 far prevented actua
want. The misery and want Of the homeless
families In the sny district Is reported still
more absolute. At least 600 men, womer
and children who have saved nothing bu
perhaps few chickens and escaped In cloth
Ing insufficient 20 protest them from Tie
weather, are I'm great need Of assistance. The
investigators found that the railroad prop
erty In the submerged districts had suffered
great loss. A thousand yards Of both the Chi
cage, Burlington A. Quincy and the Wabasl
tracks, sxern fottnd IN La xvnhhad AWAY