The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-09-22

civil engineer. killed Mrs Mabel Cal
vim and committed suicide. Jealousy
was the cause.
THE Mutual Benefit Life Association
Of America closed its doors under or
ders of the insurance department OF
New York state.
J. l.. GOODMAN and Il. Y. Armstrong.
Gatesville (Tex.) editors. shot each
other 10 death in a street duel
THIRTEEN men were indicted by the
grand jury for completely in the recent
lynching Of six negroes near Milling
ton. Tenn.
The new Planters house in ST. Louis
was thrown open 70 the public. The
hotel cost over 81 900. 600
ELIAS A. WATSON, "A colored postal
clerk, was arrested in Chicago for
riding letters. Six years ago he found
10000 in n hotel bathroom and re-
turned Il 20 It's owner.
THE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the nth was: Wheat,
69,2l4,OO0 bushels; corn, 4, 10000 bush
els; oats, s,22i, 900 bushels; rye, 8l2, 900
bushels; barley, i,G2s, 600 bushels.
FIRE destroyed the mattress factory
OF stump & Co. In Washington aud
live employees persisted in the flames.
PoIIcE JUSTICE CooSEY, OF Dubuque,
Ia, was attacked and terribly beaten
by prisoner on whom he had just
passed sentence.
THE worlds bicycle record, 1899, in
a 5-mile competition road race was
broken in Chicago 10y Tracy Holmes,
who ran over the course in 1880.
oNE man was killed and three fatal
ly injured by the premature explosion
OF blast at a colliery at Hazleton, Pa
AT Pittsburgh Harry C. Tyler, Of
Springfield. Mass, lowered the mile
bicycle record FOR a quarter-mile track
70 2:03.
AN order for the transfer OF more
than half the regiments OF the army
TO new posts was issued by Gen. Scho-
field.
UNKNOWN persons entered the cir
cult courtroom at Owensboro, Ky. and
every indictment found at the recent
term OF court was stolen and torn TO
fragments.
SINCE the inauguration Of the pres
ent administration at Washington
! .597, 28S silver dollars have been coined.
HURRICANE swept through the
towns Of Mining and jennings, in
Oklahoma, md nearly every house in
both towns was laid low and young
woman and two children were killed
aud others wounded.
AT North Enid, o. r., the Arlington
hotel and eight Of the most substau-
tial business buildings were destroyed
by an ineendiary fire.
THE SEVENTEEN annual session OF the
sovereign grand lodge OF the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows con-
vened AT Chattanooga. Tenn.
DURING a fit OF insanity Mrs. Absa-
lom Wiser, Of Marshall. Ill. threw
hot water on her husband, causing his
death.
THE sixty fourth annual assembly of
the grand council Royal and Select
Masons opened in Columbus. o.
JAMES w. PURpUM. who captured the
conspirator who had been detailed 20
kill Vice President Johnson in 1868.
died at his home near Jamestown, Nd.
The Logansport (Ind) presbytory
resolved 20 establish at Cedar Lake
resort similar 10 the Chautauquan as
sembly ia New York.
BANDITS made an unsuccessful at
tempt TO wreck the Chicago express OF
the Big Four az Hazelridge, Ind.
MARSHALL COREY, n prominent farm
er, and his wife and ls-year-old daugh-
ter were killed by lightning at Owings-
Vile. Ky.
ELLIOTT defeated Carver by one bird
In the concluding shoot OF the series at
Kansas City, thus regaining his title of
champion.
JonS W. STERBINs, OF Maryland, was
elected grand sire Of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge OF odd Fellows at their
meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn.
ARMED guards frustrated an at
tempt TO hold up Santa Fe express
train near CORN, Mo. Engineer Pres
colt was wounded and one OF the rob
bers fatally shot
Mrs. HELEN L. GRrER, charged with
poisoning her sixth husband. was
found guilty az spokane, Wash. OF
murder In the second degree.
THE National Association OF Letter
Carriers Of the United States met in
fifth annual convention at Cleveland.
THE German coke workers OF Penn
sylvania have resolved TO remove 10
Douglas county, Wis, and take up
farms
ABA JOKES, young society woman
Of Seymour, Ind, after n short inter
view with her lover. IN which their
marriage was declared off. shot her
self dead
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CANDIDATES Tor congress were Sc
lectcd rs follows: Wisconsin, Fifth
district. Henry Blank (dem) Ala
bama, Ninth district. 4. II, Aldrich