The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-12-15
DOMESTIC.


MEMBERs Of the National Editorial
association met in Chicago and de-
cided TO hold their next meeting in
Florida.
FINANCIAL embarrassment caused
Robert huston. ex.sheriif of VIII coun-
" and widely-known man, TO com
nit suicide IT the Grand Pacific hotel
in Chicngo.
BURGLARS blew open the vault Of
the First national bank at Marceline,
Mo-. and secured $4,000.
JonN HOFFMAN, 20 years old who
says he has stolen 300 horses, was arr
rested at Crown Point, Ind, while
making away with team,
Provision has been made by the
post Office department for hve-cent
postal rate on letters 20 nearly every
foreign country effective January !.
TmRrY-FIvE OF the forty-two chill
dren In the Aver home for young WON
en- and children at Lowell, Mass, have
scarlet fever.
THOMAS JAMES, OF Kentucky. be-
trayed young woman named Fultz
and killed three of her relatives who
attic mpted 20 force settlement
TUX J, w Fowler Car company OF
Elizabeth, n. j., failed for $3.50. 900.
Romans held up Texas & Pacific
train near Fort Worth, Tex. and
stole $4,000 from the express car
safes.
TnE navy department has accepted
the cruiser Minneapolis and ordered
the payment Of SIG, 600, the premium
she earned.
MISS JOSEPHINE BRAND, OF Lawrence
burg. Ind, was robbed OF $40, 500 on
the streets OF Cincinnati, O.
PAUL FmRBAcuER, German boy OF
Guthrie, o. r., has invented a railroad
tie for which he has been offered $780,
900.
Ross KENYON. his wife and their 3
year-old daughter were fatally burned
by gasoline at their home near Lowell,
Mich.
THE Exchange bank at Goodland,
Kan, closed its doors with liabilities
Of over $4,000.
FIREs In the Texas panhandle swept
northwesterly and southeasterly until
about $4,000 square miles OF land were
burned over.
SMALLPOX has appeared in the lum-
Der camps in northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, having been spread by
transient laborers
FIVE men were fatally md one scri-
ously injured at Boston, Mass, by the
explosion OF n dynamite cartridge.
THERE were Ss5 business failures I'm
the United States in the sevon days
ended on tine 7th against $50 the
week previous and 3S5 In the corre-'
spending time In 1898.
SHELBY a SoAPEK. proprictors Of the
Henderson tKy.) hominy mill, failed
for $780, 600.
Tux annual report OF the national
home for disabled soldiers states that
more veterans applied for admission
during the year than could be accom-
modated. The aggregate average num-
Der kept was 20, 1862, and the whole
number cared for during the year was
30, 5G4. The annual cost OF the main
tenance OF each man was S127.45, a
decrease from the previous year OF
S1a5O; the deaths were 1850. an in
crease OF 20.
JAMES COOLEY was sentenced Co FIVE
years imprisonment at Columbus, o.,
for practicing n pension fraud
wnrE cars broke into the house OF
Thomas Edgington az Springfield Ky,
and killed him In che presence OF his
wife and Eve children. lie was charged
with benting his wife.
Tnr exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated si,i0s, oOs,sts, against 81 500. OOO.-
sos the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1898. was SO
CHARLES n. HIowARD was hanged at
Rawlins. Wyo., for numbering Charles
Horn last New Years eve at Dixon
during n quarrel about a dissolute
woman.
CLAUS SrRKCKErs has purchased 40,-
600 acres Of sugar land and a town and
railroad In southern California