The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-07-04
NEWS SUI M MARY.
Weekly News Review Of the World

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L. II. Foster, assistant postmaster Mt
Hudson, Mich, has confessed TO appro-
priating 500 Of the governments
money.
A son of thomas Magure Of Spring
field. Ill, was killed In a wreck on the
~. Louis, Alton 4 Springfield road at
Waverly, Ill.
Gov. Hovey OF Indiana has paroled
Sylvester Bassett, subject 10 his good
behavior. lie was serving an eighteen
year term in the pe~nitentiarv for muir
dering his brother three years ago.
A three-day session of the fifteenth
annual African Methodist Episcopal
Sunday-school conference of Michigan
came 90 a close in Adrian. Reports
showed a gratifying increase in the
development Of denominational Sun
day schools.
San Francisco was shaken by n slight
earthquake shock yesterday, but nc
harm was done.
Gotlieb Muenter, living near Month
cello, ILL.,, was gored TO death by "a vic
ious bull.
During a thunderstorm at Aulne,
Kan, Miss Pinkie Cochran was killed
by lightning.
Frank Bennett. n brakeman ON the
Chicago, st. Paul e. Kansas City rail
way, was killed at Des Moines by con
tact with IN electric-light wire.
Prof. Walter Koenig, the German
music teacher who eloped from Wabash.
Ind, with one OF his pretty girl pupils,
Grace Forney, has been arrested at
Upton.
Allen w. Swan Is travelling from
New Bedford. Mass, To California on IA
bicycle. lie is due in San Francisco
Sept. rs. and one week later he Is TO
marry an hcircss.
The manufacturers Of Youngstown.
Warren, Girard. and Niles have decided
90 close their mills Tuesday IL the nine
hour clause is insisted upon 10y the
employees.
The bodies of the nineteen sailors
who were drowned in the great storm
at Samoa were buried at Mare island,
California, Saturday.
Col. III. G. Corbin has left Ilolbrook.
Arizona, for Kearns canyon, with two
troops OF the Tenth cavalry under
Mai. Mcclellan. Two more companies
will join the force at kearns. They
will arrest the ringlcaders and mcdi-
cine men of the Indians intrenchcd near
kcarns.
The Texas Suprems cour. has rem
dcrcd a decision in the famous rai lway
case from Valrudc county brought by
Acknowledgement, now Gov. IIogg.
Tl.S question was whether. under the
constitution OF 1876, the railroads were
entitled TO land grants on oun of
sidings and switches. The Supreme
court holds that such grants should not
be made. and the State will recover
1000. 600 acres 10 which patents have
been improperly issued.
The st. Lonis & San Francisco rail
ways $50, 900, 900 mortgage was filed in
the Office OF the recorder Of deeds in st.
Louis. The mortgage covers all the
property OF the company. and j Mcr-
camille Trust company OF New York is
the mortgage i'm trust for the bond
holders. The instrument covers n
period OF 100 years 60 October. 1910, the
rate OF interest specified being 4 per
cent IL is the last act Of preparation
for the issuing of the $50, O0O, 900 bonded
interest on the road.
Royal Frisbey a Sparland, Ill. was
killed by two men supposed TO be james
Carver and G.. w. Culver.
Jack Reed. one OF lowa's most motor
ious crooks, died ~ the poor house at
Eldora and was buried in the potter's
field.
Emperor Francis Joseph has sent u
message 20 Queen Victoria expressing
great satisfaction with the visit which
he recently made to the British squad
ron at Plume, and which. he said, en-
ablcd MIN to give new proof of the en-
tcnte cordiale existing between Austria
and England.
The will of the late Senator MELON
aid has bccn probated. The bulk OF
his property is left To Mrs. Mcdonald.
His watch and law library are given Co
q. 4. Mcdonald. and tie rest of his
property is disposed under the laws of
descent.
George Brown. the Chicago a. Alton
engineer. injured In the Williamsville
collision a week ago, died at blooming.
ton, III.
James A. Simmons has been sen
fenced TO six years i'm the penitentiary
for embezzlement of the funds OF the
sixth National bank OF New York.
DIR. Charles A. Briggs has published
a letter on the theological crisis of
which he was the center. lie says the
fruits of the controversy will be- u
strengthening OF the sources and foun-
dations Of Christianity and "A rejection
Of the childish conceptions OF the uni
verse as prevailing In the traditional
dogma.
stephen ~Stakenberg, a student at
Normal College, Marion, Ind, dropped
dead while playing football
;. NJ. Dean and l.. r. Grutgcr were
killed In a collision between freight
trains at jefferson. Tex.
Roweli. alias Kellogg. the confidence
man who swindlcd Jacksonville, Fla.
bankers out OF ~. 900 has been arrested
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