The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-11-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

AT Plymouth, Pa, fire destroyed
brealter and list outhouses with all
machinery, the loss being 100000.
SHEFFIELD. AN Iowa town of 1000 i'm
habitants. was almost entirely wiped
out by fire.
GOVERNMENT officials unearthed gi-
gantic frauds perpetrated at the open
Ing of the Cherokee strip 10 settle
ment.
FoR the ten months ended with Oc-
tober the exports OF merchandise from
the United States were $500. 1916, 64s
against 5000, 9s7, 354 for the correspond
ing period OF 1898. The imports were
e50s, 271, Oi6, against s677 .06O, 694 in 1898.
JAY Hicks, who murdered Ranch
man Meyers in South Dakota and near
,y killed the sheriff was hanged NJ
6turgis.
The annual report OF r. A. Maxwell.
fourth assistant postmaster general.
shows that the total number OF post
offices in operation in the United
States on june 80 last was 90, sos OF
these 66,377 were fourth-class Offices
and 3,42s presidential. During the
year 3, 1886 post offices were established
and 1,784 discontinued. The total mum
Der OF appointments during the year
was 90 1865.
EDITH ELDER killed Frank Quinn,
well-lnown young man at Stockton,
Cal, because he refused TO marry her
OPERATORS drilled imam oil well near
glastonbury O., which yielded 1900
barrels OF oil daily.
In his address before the Knights OF
labor at New Orleans General Master
workman Sovereign urged the abo-
1ition OF state militia and decrease
of the army.
Iron NATION. the head chief OF the
Lower Brule Sioux, die in the rcser-
walton In South Dakota OF pneumonia.
aged 90 years.
BY the cracking OF mud drum at
muck bar mill in Muncie, Ind, FIVE
men were dangerously scalded. Three
may die.
FIVE HUNDRED inmates OF the In
diana home for feeble minded children
were exposed 10 scarlet fever and ten
cases had developed.
PAYMAsTER SMITH in his report TO
the secretary of war opposes withhold
ing part OF the wages Of soldiers.
AT the annual meeting in Washing
ton OF the Association OF American
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations II. Il. Alyord, of Oklahoma,
was elected president
DETECTIVES at West Superior, Wis,
captured man and woman engaged
I'm counterfeiting, together with thejr
outfit.
REV. RICHARD CARROLL. aged 50. n
taf a..
1--WE years, committed suicide by hang
ing at Maynardsville, Tenn
STORMS extinguished the forest fires
in Colorado mining districts. The
damage TO property was estimated at
$1,000, 900, and several hundred people
were made homeless
THERE were 270 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against POI the week
previous and 232 in the correspond
ing time ia 1898
THE firm Of i. II. Douglass & Sons,
oonfectioners at New Haven, Conn,
failed for 100000.
MARTIN " STRAIT, flour and feed
dealer at Elmira, n. Y, shot his wife
and her sister, Mrs. William Whitford,
and himself Domestic trouble was the
cause.
DUNs weekly review Of trade says
gradual improvement is noticeable In
nearly all branches OF business.
DURING boxing match at Syracuse,
N. ~, Bob Fitzsimmons struck his
mate, Con Riordan, chance blow
which caused his death.
As THE result OF feud Mayor Har.
man and Henry Lawrence, of Lula.
Miss, were shot and killed by j. w.
Boyd
DENVER newspaper says big syn.
dictate is scheming To obtain control
of the entire American output OF sill
yer.
FIVE fires in one day Mt Winnipeg.
Man, started by incendiaries, caused
q total loss OF S2l0, 900
Four human skeletons, believed 10
be those OF Mrs. William Bishop and
daughter and two strangers with
whom they eloped last spring, were
found near Francisco. Ala.
TIKI exchanges Mt the lending clear
ing houses In the United States during
the week ended ON the 10th nggre-
gated 81, 0lo, 202. 1928, against Sg4s, 954, 400
INC previous Wtths ne increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week In
1923. was LIZ
The twenty-hrst annual convention
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance union met in Cleveland
with representative women present
from every state and territory and
from Canada.
The International Christian Alliance
convention met in ST Louis with deli
egates present from Canada as well IA
from different parts of the United
States
The southern phosphate works at
Macon, Ga. were destroyed by fire,
abe loss being $4,000.
Ina mine at Blackhawl, Col, four
workmen were suffocated by smoke.
EtoHr men lost their lives by the
napsizing OF q barge at Charlotte, Fla.
Cor w a II nprrufNpfpar will 90