The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1889-01-05
WEST AND SOUTH.


out Saturday night by fire.
The town OF Hcrmansvillc, Mich, Is re-
ported TO have been destroyed by fire Satur-
day.
Mrs. John Stone committed suicide near
Albion, Ia, Saturday, because her husband
had beaten her.
AT Louisville, KY, Harry swart has been
sentenced To hang Feb. for the murder OF
Mcisner Green and Belle Ward.
The annual meeting OF the Western Com
mercial Travellers association was held satur-
day Mt 81. Louis.
John Ingland, of Ness City, Kas., married
Miss Hauke nc Murdoch. ILL.,, Dec. 10, and
deserted her week later.
The elegant passenger steamer Kate
Adams, running as scmi-wcekiy packet be-
tween Memphis and Arkansas City, was
burned near Commerce, Miss. She had on
about. two hundred or more people, includ-
ing twenty-five cabin and sixty deck passen-
gers, twenty-five colorcd cabin passengers,
and cabin crew OF eighty. IL Is impossible
10 learn how many lives were lost, but a con-
sentative estimate places the number not less
than thirty-iiye and IL may reach hfty. Fiji
teen deck passengers, four OF whom were
white, are among the lost. Tn the number Of
the unknown lost were three colorcd women
and two children. They were coming 10
Memphis 10 spend the holidays. The whites
had been working on the leyecs and their
names and destinations were unknown.
Reports from indianapolis state that no
one gives the slightest credence 20 the sensa-
tional story telegraphed from there 90 the
| New York Herald Of nh alleged discovery Of
| plot 10 assassinatc General Harrison; and
| II is alleged that his friends are highly In
dignant about the report. General Harrison
l. not in the least disturbed, and Will not
dignity the publication by denial. The
man who sent the dispatch is considered by
newspaper men TO be untrustworthy.
The National Council OF Administration OF
the Grand Army met In Milwaukee Friday
| 10 set the date Of the National Encampment
next year. Besides locating IL officially In
Milwaukee,, after comforting with the local
committees. II was decided to hold the next
cncampment during the last week in August,
the opening day being Aug. -.
Charles r.. Darion, young kankakec, H.,
merch ant, who paid his bills TO Chicago dry
goods wholesalers with notes forged on bis
father, j. Darlon, and his father-ln-law, ELI
| Hawkins, was Friday sentenced 20 five years
In the penitentlary.
| All switchmen nc the Union Pacific yards
In Denver. Col, about seventy in number,
went on strike Friday. additional pay OF .
cents an hour being one OF the demands A
conference was In progress at last reports.
AT Denver, Coll, Friday the Interstate
Land Company petitioncd I'm the United
States Court that the title OF land now en-
braccd In the Maxwell grant, decided 90 the
Maxwell Company by Guadalupe Miranda
and Charles Beubrcn, be declared void, the
transaction set aside, and all claimants under
that title be forever enjoined.
senator Hearst, OF California. denies that
no purchased the English rnclng stallion
ormonde, recently reported sold for fi5, 900
At Decatur, ILL.,, Friday, j. w. Eppler was
arrested for passing counterfeit siIyerdoliars
and he said that gang was at work manu-
featuring them on farm near Laplace.
Earnest Kurtz and son aged i5 while chop.
| ping down a tree In the woods near Jackson.
port, Wis, Thursday were killed by fall
Ing limb.
The body of s. j. Hughes, OF the United
States Coast Survey.who fell overheard from
a steamer in Puget sound two weeks ago
was recovered Friday, thirty miles distant
an immense dcvIl-flsh fastened 10 one leg.
George Ross, drayman at FOR; Washing
ton, w. T., was baptiscd In the Methodist
Church aud fell dead in the pew from
the bursting Of q blood vessel.
Farmer Mcl,an, an evictcd Dcs Moline,
River land settler. brought suit against Mr.
Smell 70 recover the value OF improvements
and the jury Thursday awarded him s10e
less S2S9 Tor rental. Other similar suits ar,
likely 70 follow.