The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-02-15
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~ Ia grippe and lack OF food Is thinning the
ranks Of the flower OF the Sioux Nation.
sunday at Cameron. Mo-. susie Thompson
shot and killed her girl friend, Allie Ellis,
while showing her how 10 scare burglars
with a revolver. It Is feared that Miss
Thompson viii become insane.
A lodge OF the Sisterhood OF the knights
OF PythIas was instituted Mt Decatur, Ill.
The Hon. j. ii. Croker. Mayor OF Maroa,
Ill. and late supreme Secretary Of the SUI
prcme Lodge OF Royal Tcmplars, was strick-
EN- with paralysis for the third time.
Thomas Hathaway. spiritualist who lost
his reason over the invention OF match
safe, died in the insane asylum near Deem
tur, ILL.,, aged G3.
deal was made at Mason City, Iowa,
Monday by which the recently abandoned
railway between that city and Lyle II
again TO be placed In running order. having
been leased by the Chicago, ~. Paul and
Kansas City.
Mrs. Burritt, Of Racine. Wis, on Monday
entered on the fourteenth day OF her fast for
the cure OF chronic ease OF dyspepsia.
The municipal election in salt Lake City
resulted IN the defeat OF the Mormons, caus-
ing the widest demonstrations OF Joy on the
part OF the gentle" population. The
saints threaten 10 appeal 10 the Supreme
Court OF the United States.
Fire caused loss OF about SC. 200 10 the
wooden mill at the penltcntiary at Column
bus Ohio.
Henry Gitehctt wealthy and well-known
citizen. hanged himself at Niles, Mich.
II il reported that the trial OF DIR. w. r.
s. Murdy, at Centeryille, Iowa, for muir
der, one OF the States witnesses was arrest
ed for perjury, and that other arrests are
pending.
Half n block OF business buildings were
consumed by fire nc Morris. MINI. The loss
IL about s25,0O0. fully covered by insurance.
Mrs Annie G.. Brown, aged %. the wife OF
amusician ct Buffalo, n. u, has been missing
since January 3Oth. Her husband reports
that she greatly feared certain man, whose
name he VIII not diyulgc, and the police are
trying clear up the mystery.
Al the Methodist ministers meeting at
Cincinnati, Ohio, a committee was appointed
20 draft an expression OF feeling against the
outrage committed upon the Rev. William
Joiner who had gone to Greensboro. n. c.,
10 preach TO the colored people.
IL is reported from Allendalc, Barnwcll
County, :. c. that negress who had not
denounced the recent wholesale lynchings.
WA, dccoycd TO her door at night by negro
women dressed In male attire who beat her
almost 20 death aud killed her infant. Fiji
teen OF the women are said to have been mr.
rested.
A shortage OF $4,000 has been discovered
In the accounts OF Ellis Bard, cashier OF the
Lincoln National bank at Lincoln, Pa. The
A. H.
bondsmen are considered solvent.
The schedules OF the insolyent firm OF
Robert X. Davies n CO., OF New York,
show Liabilities OF SIa5, 49, with actual as
sets OF S902, sDs. incumbercd with secured
claims amounting 10 Sji,0SS.
The Rev. Hugh Francis Griffin, one OF the
oldest and best known Catholic priests In
Mary land died Saturday at 81. Charles Col
lcgc OF influenza. lie was nearly 10 years
old.
AT Machiasport, Me-, tho sardine factory
wharf. coal sheds and 5000 feet OF lumber
owned by G. sullivan, were burned.
A ruthless robbcr, while going through a
house near Plattsburg, n. Y, knocked Rom
som FLOYD inscnslble and killed his wife.
President Fitzgerald, OF the Irish Nation
al League, has issued an appeal asking for
more funds. in which he charges the critics
OF the O'Reilly audit as British hireings.
Crowds are pouring into Chamberlain, $.
d., making ready for the rush into the sioux
reservation.
Sister Rose, who is 10 be the lepcrs' minis
tering angel at Molokai, IN in receipt daily
OF presents from all over the country.
The auction sale OF the Barlow library I'm
New York City came 10 q close Saturday
showing upward OF $4,000 us receipts.
General sherman was seventy years old
Saturday. and he received numerous tosti-
monial, OF esteem from all over the land.
u. a. Walton. the Dallas, Texas, money
clerk who abscondcd a week ago with SIR
oOO, has been lost track OF In his trip East.
John Brown, upward OF eighty aud one
Of the most notorious 81 countcrfeiters, j.
dying IN his cell In the ohio penitcntiary.
Two men were killed, two fatally injured
and anunber OF others wounded by an ex-
plosIon at the 81. Paul gas works.
President Fitzgerald. OF the Irish Nation.
nj League, has issued an address. dated al
Omaha, In which he urges members 10 aid
their kindred against landlordism IN Ire.
land.
Electric wires strung through tubes oi
paper, II IA said, are made imperyious tc
fire and water. Tests are Icing made al
New York city and are exciting widespread
interest.
T.. l.. Tener. colored doctor at Quincy
ILL.,, administered drug 10 negro woman
Of Macomb. who claimed 10 have been VOC
doocd, from the effects OF which she died II
great agony.
The contract for the foundation OF th'