The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-11-10


steal OF 81 200. 600 OF the city's funds
THE Neal, Goff & Inglis building in
Hartford, Conn, was destroyed by
FIRE. the loss being sl50,O0O.
WHES the proposed plans for en-
larging Hoffman island have been COM
pieted New York will have the finest
quarantine station in the world.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the
freight sheds OF the West India & Pa
cifc Steamship company in New Or
leans, the loss being $4,000.
A MONUMENT 10 Gen. Grant will be
erected in Golden Gate park in San
Francisco
SHIPMENTS Of ore from the Lake SUI
perior iron ranges during the year viii
aggregate 7.15O.0 600 tons.
THE Masonic building, the Indiana
medical college and the block oecu-
pied by the Natural Gas company at
indianapolis were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of 100000.
IKE power house OF the willamette
(Ore.) Steam Mills and laundering
company were burned, the loss reach
ing Si50,O0O.
NiSETY-THREE colored converts forty
men and hfty-three women, were bap-
tized I'm the waters OF the Ohio river at
Greensboro. Ky.
THIRrY-FoUR families. comprising
1913 persons, left Pullman, ILL.,, for Hia-
watha, Kan. where they will engage
in cooperative ear building.
DAMAGE of $3.50, 900 was caused by a
blaze In the establishment OF Gold
berg, Bowen & Liebenbaum at San
Francisco.
DURING a circus parade at Terrell,
Tex, an awning collapsed and four
persons were fatally and 100 seriously
injured.
TuE post Office department issued
orders declaring the Artisans Savings
and Loan association OF Pittsburgh,
Pa. the Omaha (Neb.) Cooperative
Supply company, and the American
Saving and Loan association of Chi
cago 10 be fraudulent concerns and
not entitled TO use OF the mails.
TnE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 9Th was: Wheat,
50, O27 900 bushels; corn, 2.65s, 900 bush
els; oats. G,373, 900 bushels; rye, 444, 600
bushels: barley, 3,sl0.O0O bushels
A sNowsroRM, accompanied by high
wind, visited Hartford, Conn, pros
trating telegraph and telephone wires.
THE production of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania for the year 1898 was
a., l79, 563 tons, an increase OF 1,444. ls9
tons over that OF 1892 The bitumin-
GUS coal produced was As, 42l. sos tons.
against az. SIS, 576 tons in 1892.
SILoN LEWIS, the condemned Choc-
taw murderer, was shot at Wilburton,
/. T. lie had to be strangled TO end
his sufferings.
A DECISION which practically abol-
ishes habeas corpus proceedings in de-
barred immigrant cases was rendered
by Judge Lacombe, OF New York.
The anti-toxin remedy for diphtheria
was being tested in four cases in the
municipal hospital. Philadelphia.
SUCCESSFUL exhibitions OF the value
OF hypnotic influences in performing
surgical operations were given In Chi
cago and Minneapolis
DURING livery stable fire in Pitts
burgh twelve workmen were injured,
one probably fatally.
o., is dead, and her three sisters and
father, Joseph Doolittle, were not ex-
pected 10 live from the effects of drink
ing poisoned rain water.
AcTUATED by jealousy, Humphrey
johnson, OF Collinwood, o., shot his
wife through the head and then killed
himself.
TRAMPs murdered boy and n girl,
children OF Samuel Good near Paul
ding, O., and threw the bodies into "a
brush heap, which was then set on fire.
Lynching was threatened
CLAUDE NJ. JOHNSON, chief OF the bu-
reau Of engraving and printing, in his
annual report states that during the
year the aggregate number of sheeta
delivered of United States notes,
treasury notes, gold and silver cerrifl-
Gates, internal revenue and customs
stamps, etc. was 55, $40, 9dl, the cost of
which was Sl.sl7, 3s9, the cost per 900
sheets being s29.
+. II. MATTHEWS. n Boston wool
dealer, failed for $500, 900.
SEVEN British steamers were set on
fro at Savannah, Ca. and partially
burned
IN fight at Mexican dance near
Alpine, Tex Jules Estrada, violiniSt,
was killed and two cowboys mortally
wounded.
Tux tug Crusader was burned at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, and Ecnry
Billings and Charles Whiffen, fremeni
were burned To death.
SECRETARY lIERBERT issued an order
retiring Admiral Gherardi, the senior
admiral Of the navy. and commandant
OF the New York navy yard.
MHs w X VANDERBILT Of New
York, consented TO the securing OF a
divorce by her husband and will re-
ceive $1,000 900 in lieu OF dover.
AT CnmLIcornE. o.. Cyclist Johnson
rode third OF mile with standing
start in O.30. and half in 0:b5 l-5, new
records
The Rex -four mills at Kansas City,
Ma, were totally destroyed by Gre, the