The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-09-20

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| cisco.
A great well Of natural gas has been struck
on farm live miles southeast of Ottumwa,
/ Iowa.
A seventeen freshet exists In he Hudson
River aud grave fears are expressed for the
safety of the State dam, SIX miles north of
| Albany at head OF navigation. This far this
month the rainfall has been Ia inches.
The average monthly rainfall is Ii inches.
An attempt was made at Marshalltown,
Iowa. TO assassinate Detective }. G. Burkes.
who figured 80 prominently In the notori-
GUS Rainsbarger and Henry Johns murder
eases IN Hardin County, Iowa.
Robert Ray Hamilton. whose trouble with
his wife aud the laster's sentence 10 the pen-
itentiary on the charge OF attempting 10 Kill
! him were the talk OF the country year or
more ago, met an accidental death three
weeks ago. by drowning Ia Snake River,
| Idaho.
BY strict party vote the L. 5. senate
passed the tariff bill yeas, 40. nays, %.
| Mrs. Maybrck, who is prisoner for life
| for the poisoning OF her husband, has just
finished her year OF solitary confinement.
with which her punishment was ordered TO
begin, ia AN English prison.
In Valencia, Spain. twenty-four new cases
OF cholera aud seven deaths from the dis
ease were reported on one day.
Al a meeting OF the Board OF Poor Law
Guardians In Limerick, ireland, report was
received saying that the potato crop was to-
ally destroyed.
A firc started In Butterfeld's mill, Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, on the Canadian side OF
the 500, and for time the whole town was
threatened, but by hard work and assistance
from this side the lire was extinguished, be-
ing confined 10 tie mill and burberry ards.
Loss, $4,000.
The dead body OF "A female infant was
found under wash bowl In the ladies'
toilet room in the Union depot, Chicago.
The child had no clothing OH IL and no trace
or a mother could he found. The body was
taken TO a morgue and an inquest Will be
held.
Charles Orig, colorcd, killed his wife
Annie, IN Cincinnati, by cutting her throat
with pocket knife. lie gave himself up
and told the police that he tried 10 lind her
on the previous night 10 Kill her. but he
could not. She came home the next morn
ing and lac at once carried out his purpose.
The daily London edition OF the Herald
suspended. The reason given by the pub
Usher is "the difficulty OF overcoming the
mechanical annoyances that make daily
paper OF the proper sort an mpossibility In
London"
A German tourist and two guides were
blown over precipcc on the Matterhorn,
switzerland.
An explosion occurred in coal-pit at
Loederburg. Prussia. Twenty persons are
entombcd IN the mine.
John Wahlfort, John Haas, and Michael
Pastello were killed by the explosion OF si,.
kegs OF giant powder at Shohola Glen, Pa.
Wahlfort's body was horribly manglcd.
Tie report OF the explosion was heard for
miles around and In neighboring villages
windows were shattered and broken by the
conclusion.
The south Wilkesbarrc shaft OF the
Lchigh aud Wilkesbarre Coal company,
Pa, was the scene OF u violent explosion Of
gas. A gang OF men were in the mine clear
ing mp the wreck OF the fire OF last March
Il searching for the bodies OF eight men
who were killed ut that time. George Ford
was killed. Isaac Jones was badly injured.
Henry steinicker and John Marols, vt st.
Louis, became involved in quarrel, re-
sorted 10 blows, aud steinicker struck
Marols on the head with an iron bar, frac-
turing hls skull. Marols He'd soon after
L
dered man had been married but few days.
benjamin Martin. the notorious house
breaker and burner, under sentence OF fif-
teen years imprisonment again escaped
! Jail at Dresden, Tenn. Martin made a key
aud unlocked his cell. lie went through
ilue, escaping from the attic through the
same hole In the wall made two years ago.
Miss Anna Adams, aged IS, and Charles
IL ss.l =
I phyxiated by gas from gas stove at the
residence OF &. &. Bird, at Mansfield, o. Mrs.
! Bird returned from visit at noon aud
found them lying on bed with their clothes
I on, a. II they bad lain down for short rest.
! john Ccrncy, OF Plymouth, Iowa. aged
/ fifty years, shot himself through, the heart.
/ A construction train was wrecked near
! Arems, Idaho. The engine left the track and
\ ran some distance on the ties, finally upset
/ ling into the ditch. Tie fireman and one
laborer were killed. A number OF laborers
were seriously hurt, several OF whom, II Is
I thought. will die. The engineer and brake
man We're badly injured.
Dr. William h. Bishop, OF Champaign, Ill,
i fell from "Big Four tram at Larue, o..
I and was killed.
out Of eighteen poaching scalcrs who
/ lost their schooner IN the fog the Steamer
Il karluk landed SIX Ut san Francisco. The
other men are supposed to have persisted.
A recent statement 10y Fred Dupree. the
the squaw man OF south Dakota, who II re-
ported 10 be worth 100000. that he would
give some young businessman $1,000 to
take In marriage bis half-bood daughter.
has brought flood OF letters from those who
desire the dusky maiden aud the money.
John Thornton, II years old OF 81 Joseph,