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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06
A Bold Road Agent.

The express-car on the wcst-bound train
OF the Georgia Pacific railroad was robbed
near lndlanola. Miss, and the robbers were
captured next afternoon and placed IN Jail.
just rs the train entered what is known
ns the Bogus Chitto swamp a large. heavy
set man with red bandana handkerchief
over bis face rs a mask effected an entrance
into the mal-car aud covered the mail agent
with big revolver. The robber told the
clerk he must prccede him into the
exprcss.ca~. Once In the cNprcSs-car
the robbcr compelled the messenger
10 deliver his money packages.
lie then backed out OF the ear aud
Jumped off, The robbers haul was light,
only one package containing about 1850 be-
ing secured. The agents have rs good de-
scription OF the robber as was possible.
Next afternoon man answering the descrip-
ton OF The robher got OF the train ut a small
station west ~ West Point, Miss. Arriving
az West Point the conductor Informed Agent
Evans of the rohhery and pointed out the
man who answered the description. The
fellow ut once took 10 his heels and endeuv-
orcd TO get away. several persons started
out 20 capture him and were successful in
catching him near tho city limits. The fell
low bad been Joined by pal aud both were
arrested and taken 10 Jail.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06
KIIIed mi. wIfe with n Hammer.

George Weston, an cxpressman, quarrcled
with his wife at Atkinson, kas over the
laiter's alleged unfaithfulncss. Weston
used a hammer for weapon and his wife
used u Ratchet with which they raincd
blows upon each Others head and shout
dcrs, the combat continuing for some time
Finally blow from the husbands weapon
produced wound which rendered Airs.
Weston insensible and from the effects OF
which she afterwards died. Weston WAS
badly injured, his face aud head being COW
cred with gashes. lie was arrested.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06

Passengers ON mixed train on the Cotton
BELT road were robbed between Big Sandy
aud Winona, Tex. by n lone hlghwayman.
lie uncoupled the passenger coach from the
train and before the trainmen made the dis
covcry crobber bad ordered the passengers
TO hold up their hands while he pointed
big six-shooior at each an he demanded his
money. j. G. Gerhart, scwing-machlne
man. was shot through the breast bv the
robber and probably Will die. In the scunle
with Gerhart the robber fred five shots. lie
then turned and ran away.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06

Thomas Mann. police officer. avd Martin
Kane, hack driver, became involved Ia
quarrel, In Louisville, Ky, about the pend.
ing mayoralty election. Kane assaulted the
policeman, took the lattcr's club from him
and used IL on the officer. Mann followed
Kane into n saloon. where he had fed, and
shot him, inflicting fatal wound. Manu-
then surrendered TO officer Birch Run. ON
their way to the stalIon-housc Run dropped
dead on the street. and Mann proceeded 10
police headquarters and gave himself up.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06

A freight.train on the Spokane branch Of
the Union Pacific was wrecked near Hay
stack, ore. The train was going down the
steep grade and got beyond control After
running Mt n fearful rate of speed for some
distance the engine and number OF cars
left the track. The engineer and fireman
and ono brakeman were instantly killed. J.
T.. Lecher was the name Of the brakeman
killed, but the names OF engineer and ire
man could not be learned. j. 4. Cameron.
brakeman, was fatally injured.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06

A most sensational suicide occurred in
saloon ON Washington avenue south. Min.
nenpolis William J. Bell commercial
traveller for Chicago and Toledo tobacco
house, entered. walked up to tile bar, and
asked for and received glass OF whisky.
lie took the glass Of liquor in hts hands and
taking seat ut table drank the beverage.
The proprietor and bystanders did not no
ticc anything special about the man until a
moment later they heard him grind the
glass between his teeth. The witnesses OF
this terrible performance were quite para
lyzed over tho spectacle, aud
for moment did not attempt
TO interfere with Bells foolish act
They were more Mortified Sill when they
saw that the man was swallowing the pieces
When the performance was finally stopped
the greater portion OF the glass Ind been
dcyourcd. A few minutes later the patrol
wagon was on the scene aud the man quick
ly removed TO the city hospital. lie SUI
fercd terribly en- route and died from in
ternal hemorrhages before he could be put
To bed. The cause for the terrible deed was
the discovery that his wife had begun lead
ing a life OF sin, having been arrested IN
house OF bad reputc. Bell was about 80
years old and we'll connected In Chicago
and Toledo.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-06
JeaIou.y aud Murder.

A dance at Van Vert, o., was brought TO
a sudden termination at o'clock IA the
morning by shooting ARRAY which re-
suited IN the killing OF Hamilton Pruitt
an innocent bystander, and the serious
woundng OF Oliver Ramsey, who Il the VIC
tim OF William Stewart jealous husband.
Some weeks ago Stewards wife left him aud
has since been residing with relatives.
He has long suspected an intimacy between
Ramsey aud his wife and since their sep
aration has repeatedly threatened yengc.
ance against him. Stewart purchased re-
yolyer and put In the entire evening getting
drunk. Just rs the dance was about 10
close he staggered up To the door and saw
Ramsey aud lruitt In conversation. With
out word Of warning he fired ut Ramsey
but his aim was untrue aud prultt received
the charge intended for Ramsey. IL entered
the left breast penetrating the heart. He
sank to the floor and was dead IN five min
utcs. Ramsey received the second and third
shots. stewart was oyerpowered. disarmed
aud taken 10 jail. Ramsey is IN a critical
condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-17
FROM WASHINGTON.

IHE Navy Department on the 10th
ordered two war vessels to proceed TO
Central America to protect American
interests and subjects in the event of
Va between Salvador and Guatemala.
TIE President on the afternoon of the
10th approved the act for the admission
of Wyoming as State of the Union.
Is the United States there were 1877
business failures during the seven DAYS
ended on the 18th. against rs the
previous seven days The total number
of failures in the United States from
January 1 to date is 5, ZOE, against 8, 255
in like portion of 1883.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th ult. aggre-
gated si.U9s. SOS. 693. against Hiss, 7I7,-
0s5 the previous week. AS compared
with the corresponding week of 1889 the
decrease amounted to ~.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Osaka, Japan, fifty-nine people
were drowned recently during the
launching of a new sailing vessel
By a cyclone in Arabia on the 9th
over 200 persons were killed, and inn
mense damage was done TO houses and
plantations.
The German explorer. DR. Peters,
reached the coast from the interior Of
Africa on the 9th. He was we'll.
OK the 9th the Argentine Republic
issued 500, 600, 900 in paper money to
ease the financial strain.
DISPATCHES of the 10th say that fire
at Kirin, Japan, destroyed one-fifth OF
the city and caused loss of 50. 600, 600.
Ten lives were lost.
The cable connecting Bermuda with
Canada was completed on the 10th.
A NUMBER OF Armenian peasants at
Alakiles who failed to pay their taxes
were burned alive recently by Turkish
Zaptiehs.
ADvIcEs of the 10th stated that Fort
de France, a town of Is, 600 inhabitants
on the west coast of Martinique, French
West Indies. had been almost totally
destroyed by fire and that many lives
were lost.
AT MADAM, Russia, flames on the 18th
destroyed $50 houses, and 800 dwellings
at Wassilkervo. At each place seven
persons lost their lives.
THE cholera epidemic in Spain was
steadily decreasing on the 18th.
On the 18th Theodore Tilton was made
master of an English lodge of Masons-
the first time an American has been
thus honored.
IN Constantinople fire on the 18th
destroyed over 1000 houses and shops.
The marriage of Henry NJ. Stanley to
Miss Dorothy Tenant took place in
Westminster Abbey in London on the
18th.
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HE EAST.


Mrs. ELIZABETH WHITE died on the
9th at Newburyport, Mass. aged 101
years and : months.
A FIRE destroyed the little town of
Roseville, Pa. on the 9th.
NINE men were drowned during
terrific storm on the 9th at Balls Bluff,
Ny
THE death OF General Clinton b.
Fisk occurred at his residence in New
York at 1880 a. m. on the 9th in the
62d year of his age. lie was for years
identified with the Prohibition party
and was its nominee for President in
1855.
Ar Mount Washington. " J.. the
mercury marked - degrees above zero
on the 9th. and ice formed in all ex-
posed places.
HENRY POWERS was nominated for
Congress on the 9th by the Republicans
OF the First Vermont district
AT railway crossing near Owego, y.
Y, a carriage was struck by train on
the 10th. and Mrs. Cleveland. widow of
ex-Sheriff Cleveland, of Tioga County,
Mrs. James Shay and Mrs. Avery Whit
marsh were killed.
EDWIN Holt, living near West Mil
ton, \. H., became suddenly insane on
the 18th and killed his father and fatal
IL in ured his mother.
On the nth the centennial anniver-
sary Of MethOdism in Boston was cele-
hrated.
Mrs THOMAS BEAHAN and Mrs. Hen
nv Van Duser. who were injured in the
recent accident near Owego. y. Y,
where three ladies were killed, died on
the nth.
The Connecticut Prohibitionists will
meet in State convention August Is at
Hartford
Mas. JAMES WILLIAMS, living near
Fair Haven. Vt. while insane on the
18th, murdered her two children-a girl
Of L and boy of 6-set fire to the
house and cut her own throat Her hus-
band was killed in his slate quarry two
weeks ago.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the Players League for the week
ended on the 18th were: Boston, .6I2;
Chicago $40: Brooklyn. so; New York.
.53c; Philadelphia, .507; Pittsburgh,
1872: Cleveland, .435; Buffalo. .2sS. The
clubs in the National League stood:
BrOoklyn. ca; Cincinnati. .627; Phila-
delphia, .623; Boston, .594; Chicago,
53S. New York. .420; Cleveland, .297;
Pittsburgh. go.
II. T. ATCHINsoN's undergrad and
the wallpaper factory of Carey Bros. at
Philadelphia were burned on the 18th.
Total loss, sou, 600.
THE death Of Major-General John c.
Fremont. the Pathfinder occurred in
New York at 3:3O p m. on the 18th,
from peritonitis. aged a wears. He had
been i'll less than week. General
Fremont was the first Republican can
didate for the Presidency. being nomi-
mated in Philadelphia June Il, 1856. but
was defeated at the polls by James
buchanan. The General leaves wife,
two sons an9' one daughter.
On the 18th BENJAMIN p. Shillaber.
better known as Mrs. Darlington. cele-
brated his 10Th birthday at Newton,
Mass
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THE ST. PAUL TORNADO.

ST. PAUL, July 13.-About p. m. to-
day, a tornado, which formed about
eight miles to the north of st. Paul and
passed in southeasterly direction for
a distance of four or five miles, de-
stroyed the Schurmier and Good cot
about five miles from the city, killing
Mrs. Schurmier, wife of j. Schurmier, of
Rosabel street, their son Charles Schur-
meier: George J. Miller, teller of the
First National bank of st, Paul; Rev.
Mr.. Phaefle of Brennan, Tex, who was
a guest of the Schurmeiers las were Mr..
Miller and his wife, and their servant
Peter, whose surname cannot be
learned.
The storm was some time in forming,
but on account of the hills, covered
with trees; lying in the direction from
which it came, it was either not noticed
if seen was not thought to be dangerous
by some of them, so that no Effort was
made in the Schumacher house to seek
safety in the cellar. In the Good cot
tage there were sixteen persons at the
time the storm struck. OF these Mr..
and Mrs. Emanuel Good, DIR. and Mrs.
Eachus, Miss Gussie King, George Nc
Pherson, Mrs. Hastings and daughter
and Miss Emily --, all of St. Paul,
went to TO cellar and all escaped serious
injury. The most of them were bruised
more or less, Mrs. Hastings and her
daughter being the worst injured. Be
sides these were Misses Minnie and
Carrie Miss, Mr.. Bernard and Simon
Good and wife and two children, all in
the Good cottage, who did not escape
to the cellar. These almost miracu-
lousy escaped alive, but some of them
were wounded, as described elsewhere.
Following are the killed and injured:
Mrs j. III. Schumacher, st. Paul, body
not recovered; Charley Schumacher, her
son. body not recovered; Rev. Phaefle,
Brennan, Tex, body not recovered;
George j. Miller, st. Paul, body found
on lake shore; Peter -, servant of
Sohurmeiers. body found on lake shore.
Injured: J. III. SchurmeieT, st. Paul,
two ribs broken and scalp wounds;
Charley Good, st. Paul, serious scalp
wounds; Mrs. Phaefe, Brennan, Tex,
shoulder broken; Joseph Bernard, St.
Paul, internal injuries and broken hand;
Mr.. Center, st. Paul, scalp wounds and
abrasions; Miss Minnie Weiss. st. Paul,
scalp wounds and head bruised; Miss
Carrie Weiss, St. Paul, head and shout
der badly bruised; Mrs. George Miller,
st. Paul, bruised about the head and
back; Clark Howson, st. Paul, bruised
hip; Roy Good, St. Paul, three scalp
wounds and injured in spine; Martin
MacNamara, st. Paul, spinal injuries;
at st Soseph's hospital.
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NOT OUT, BUT UP.
a Sound Principle Which Many Might
Adopt to Advantage.

A Sound Principle Which Many Might
Adopt to Advantage.
An able and successful man said the
other day that one of the rules he had
laid down for himself was never &c
move out until he could move up. This
is sound principle, which might be
adopted to advantage by great many
restless men and women who are dis
contented in the places in which they
find themselves and are eagerly looking
about for other and better opportuni-
ties. This discomfort is often well
founded, and is the expression of an i'm.
pulse which is thoroughly sound and
healthy; but it is generally a great
mistake to give up what one already
possesses until one is sure of getting
something better. The young man who
feels that he has not scope enough and
is not well enough paid, as a rule would
better stay where be is until he can
step out and step up at the same time.
In most cases the best way to Secure
advancement is to expand ones self be-
yond the capacity of the place one
holds There are, it is true, a good
many positions so definitely limited in
their possibilities that no amount OF
ability can make them any larger; they
are parts of system, and their scope is
adjusted according to a general plan.
Even in these cases the man who shows
greater energy and capacity than can
be used to profit in the place that he
fills. generally gets larger place with
out seeking it. Fidelity and capacity
are not often hidden under a bushel
they are generally noised abroad. and
sooner or later the fact that capable
man is to be had reaches the ears of
those who are looking for capable men
On the other hand, the great majority
of places held by young men and women
are capable of almost indefinite expan.
sion if the expansive power be in the
occupant 1t is great deal more profit.
able to put ones strength into growing
up to a better place than into the effort
to find one by leaving the opportunity
in hand and searching at random. Stay
where you are, and put your whole
strength into the work at hand, and you
will be putting yourself in the very best
possible position for securing the more
responsible position and the better peY
for which you seek. Christian Union.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
HETYElRsT CONGRESS.

WEDNESDAY, July 9.-In the Senate
the sundry civil appropriation bill
1881. PAL, $50 was reported and the silver
bill was further discussed. The pre-
siding officer Senator Ingallsl an
nOuneed his signature 10 the bill for
the admission of Wyoming as State.
In the House a resolution was adopted
calling for information on the negotia-
tions between Great Britain and the
United States on the Behring sea ques-
tion. A favorable report was made en-
the bill appropriating $50, 600 for pub
lie building at Wausau. Wis.
THURSDAY. July i0.-The conference
report on the silver bill was adopted
in the Senate by vote of 80 to 20.
In the House the journal was approved,
after long discussion, by vote of 1908
10 81. The conference reports on the
diplomatic and consular and the agri-
cultural appropriations bills were
adopted and the land grant forfeiture
bill was further considered. : concur
rent resolution was introduced proyid-
ing that the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House be author
lied 70 close the present session of the
Fifty-frst Congress BY adjourning their
respective houses the 3Ist day of July,
1899, at p. N.
FRIDAY. July IA resolution was
introduced il the Senate calling for
an international conference to estab-
lish a uniform standard between gold
and silver. The bill to establish a
United States land court vas discussed.
In the House the conference report on
the silver bill was presen I'd. and ia
vorable report was made on a bill to re-
vive the ranlof Northumberland of
the army.
SATURDAY. July 12.-In the Senate
the shipping bills were passed and
the tariff bill was taken up and made
the unfinished business" In the
House the compromise silver bill was
passed BY a vote Of l22 to 90 4 petition
of the National Division of the Sons of
Temperance adopted at its forty-sixth
annual session in favor of the Original
package" bill was presented
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-17
SCIENTIFIC SPECIALS.

OZONE is now produced by new cleo
trical process, the details of which are
not given. 1t is stated that it is ex-
tracted from the atmosphere instead of
direct from oxygen, as formerly. The
hygienic and commercial value of the
new invention, should it prove success
full, can not easily be estimated.
THE heart contracts with power
enough to send a column of blood ~ to
0 feet high. At every beat of a heart of
average size and strength, the force OK
erted is equal to moving over so pounds;
or to lifting a pound weight upward
distance of 80 to ~ feet say feet; or
to carrying pounds foot upward.
ACCORDING to naturalists, a scorpion
will produce 65 young. a common fly
will lay IA eggs, leech $50, a spider
40, a frog 1,1O0. A female moth will
produce. l, 100 eggs and tortoise 1000; a
gall insect has laid so, 900 eggs, a shrimp
5000. One naturalist found over 12.00
eggs in a lobster, another $1,000.
Leuwenh@ck computes 100000 as the
crabs share.
MEDICAL. crank, DIR. Weissmann, OF
Germany, believes that the artificial
modification of animals can be trans
United to a new generation. As an ex-
pertinent In proof of his belief, he has
cut off the tails of about 900 white mice.
and he expects that the next genera
ton viii be either a race of stub-tailed
mice, or mice entirely without caudal
ornamenration.
SOME interesting experiments upon
the nature and origin of the light emit
ted by the FREELY have been lately made
by Prof. S. p. Langley. From the spec
troscope he finds the heat given out is
scarcely appreciable. That the light is
chemical product would seem to be es-
tablished by the fact that it decreases
by products which check combustion
(e. g. nitrogenl. and increases by prod
ucts which aid combustion toxygenl,
and that the product of the process is /
apparently carbon dioxide.
Ii a recent English review in an arti-
Gle on 'Darwinism, the author SAYS that
the fundamental objection to the theory
is that it rests upon en- assumed fact
for which there is no authority. 1.-Two
white spots on adistant hill appear both
alike; to US, a. our distance, they are
white spots only. while, in fact. one is
block of stone and the other sheep,
and there is no single point of resem-
blance except their color. Exactly so
the supposed simplicity OF a living germ
is not fact of nature, but only the ex-
preston Of our own blindness"
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Ten thousand dollars is now the high
est recorded price for violin. The
Alard Stradivarius has passed from
France 70 Englanl for that sum to 60
into the collecsio Jf ScoUchman. II
is dated 1915 IL is described in the
catalogue OF the South Kensington ex-
hibitioa in 1872 as the only me in a
condition of perfect preservation. II
was bought in 1860 by an Italian anna
teur. Count Cozi di Saiabue, after whose
death it was purchased in 1924 by IA
nous colleetor. Luigi Tarisio. Tarisio
hid it away. refusing to let any one sec
il. till his death in 1854. A year latei
1t was purchased by Vuillaume. Us
condition of preservation led to the be
lief that 10 had scarcely been played up
on during the whole $50 years Of its ex
.stenca Vuillaume left 1t on his dealt
10 his soa-in-law. Alark. who has rs
seiA tt-Leadon Telegraph
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WEST AND souTH.

IN quarrel on the 9th in Chicago
W. J. Rittamel fatally shot his wife and
was in turn fatally shot by his son.
ARKANSAS Republicans met in State
convention at Little Rock on the 9th
and formally Endorsed the Union Labor
ticket. headed by Rev. \. b. Fizer for
Governor.
FIGHT with knives occurred at
Johnson City. Tex. on the 9th between
District Attorney W. W. Morton and
ex-SheriH RugEles. and both men were
fatally wounded.
THE family OF Mr.. Watson. consist
ing Of his wife. baby Is months old
and boy : years. were burned to death
on the 9th in their home at Harmony.
Ky. by an incendiary fire.
II q collision on the Louisville &
Nashville road on the 9th near Birming-
ham. Ala, five men were killed and six
Others were fatally injured.
ALL the tobacco warehouses in Gin
cinnati and Louisville were on the 9th
purchased BY an Eastern syndicate for
81. 100. 600.
On the 9th John Stansberry was
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, for killing
his wife last August.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations we're on
the 9th as follows: Iowa. Second dis
tricL Bruce Il. Seaman tRep.l; Third
D. Il. Henderson Rep. renominated.
Illinois. Eighth district. Lewis Stewart
(Dem.l.
THE Louisiana Senate on the 9th
adopted report of the Judiciary COM
mittee which declared that the Cover
nor's veto Of the lottery bill was with
out right or authority and returned it to
the House OF Representatives.
FLAMES destroyed one of Brooks,
Waterfield & Cos tobacco warehouses
at Cincinnati on the 10th, causing a
loss OF SIS5. 900.
AT CaIloa, No. every business house
except one was destroyed by fire on the
10th.
The Independents Of South Dakota
in State convention at Huron on the