The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-11-10
STATE NEWS.
A Resume Of the Principal Items
Of News In Three Great
States.


a young girl named Flora Hannah, liy-
Ing near Nauyoo. killed herself with q rifle
AT Palestine, j. NJ. l.. Hill. an old and
prominent citizen, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
Albert NJ. Fields has been sentenced 10
fourteen years az Joliet for an assault on
Florence Fitzpatrick, near Decatur, with In
tent 10 murder.
The people OF Taylorvillc are happy over
the fact that the miners struck vein OF coal
eight feet four inches think at the depth OF
40 feet The coal is OF line quality.
Hess 4 croiiy's tile works OF Ottawa.
one OF the largest Ia LaSalle county, was set
on fire this morning by bolt OF lightning
and burned. Loss, $4,000; Insurance, ", I0).
Two freighfs on the Kansas City line OF
the Chicago 4 Alton Railroad ran together
between Dclayan and San jose, In Tazewcl
county. Fireman Charles Baum was killed
aud Engineer Toole was seriously injured.
William $. Moore and John Downey
quarreied over game OF cards at she tlcryilie.
a few miles below Elizabsthtown. Moore
pursued Downey with an AK. whreupon
powney got gun and shot Moore, killing
him.
"A desperate att smpt at suicide was made
by Dayton Trich, Chicago convict NC the
Joliet Penilentary, who threw himself from
the topmost gallery in the east cell house.
lie Is badly bruised about the head and slioul-
ders, but may possibly recover.
johanna Hortwell. OF Springfield, has
brought suit In the Superior Court az La Fay
cite, Ind, against the Louisville, New Al
bany & Chicago Railway. demanding $4,000
for the death OF her husband, who was killed
July Sth. lie was employed as engineer.
The body OF a man was found under a
straw stack near Versailles liz was rccog-
nized as being that OF William +. Barker, .
partly demented man who had been missing
from his unsnal haunts since July 18th. A
jury decided he had come 10 his death from
causes unknown.
Miss Emma r.. Eshleman, daughter OF s.
$. Eshlemsn, farmer living north OF Nor
rison committed suicide by drowning In
Rock Greek. IL Is said that she w as In love
with young man, and that her parents OPP
position 10 hun drove her 10 the act. She
was twenty-five years old.
William Dyson, well-known manufac-
turer and President OF the Rockford Wooden
Mills, and i. :. Montgomery, an insurance
agent, got into fight at Rockford over Eng
land and her affairs. This IL the first encoun-
ter OF the campaign, al on account OF the
prominence Of the p. .es created considera-
BILE excitement
DIR. William III. Eosely, the Cherokee
Oil King" was sent 10 the county almshousc
raving maniac. His insanity Il the result
last stages al consumption. The doctor Il
the hero OF the Mosely-Schoen elopemcnt,
which occasioned such sensation In shelby
VILE twelyemonth ago.
AT Thompsonyllle while a party of men
were playing cards, Warren Jordan and John
Williams began quarreling, and Jordan shot
Williams dead. Jordon ned from the room
but his victims younger brother Charles
overlook him and buried Ratchet In his
brain, causing almost instant death. VIII
hams surrendered himself 10 the sheriff.
The trial OF Edward II. Schneider, OF Al
bany. for larceny Is In progress In the Circuit
Court. Schneider IN n leweler, and accommo-
dated Kearns aud Lewis, grain buyers, by let
ting them keep their money In his safe. One
night last June the safe Was unlocked and
81, 100 In gold belonging 10 kearns and Lewis
was taken. The grand jury then indicted
Schneider.
Richard o. Warren, Discussing Clerk at
the Rock Island Arsenal, was arrested and
bound over 10 the United States Court az Chi
cage, charged with embezzlng government
funds. Only $50 difference has been discoy-
cred, but IL Is thought that larger populations
will be unearthed. Warren II an old resident
of this place, and has occupied his present
position for twenty years.
The Diamond Drill Company has aban-
doned the coal prospecting at Monticello,
after putting down two prospecting pipes.
The veins were not OF sufficient thickness TO
pay for sinking a shaft. They have discover
ed two artesian mineral wells In their boring.
which bid fair 10 be profitable, ms they are
pronounced 10 be first-class, and have all the
necessary medical qualities. The city will
utilize one OF them In its system Of water
works.