The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-09-15
The News Condensed.
important intelligence FIom All Parts.
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AT Springfield, Mass. Bliss, OF Chi
cago, rode a mile on a bicycle in 1852
8-5, making "a new record.
THIEVES took $500 and $3.50 in
bonds from State Treasurer Worth, OF
Raleigh. ~ C.
AT Des Moincs, Ia, the corner stone
of monument 10 the soldiers and
sailors OF the state was laid with irn-
posing ceremonies.
THE story sent ont from Lofty. Pa,
that the mining town ~ scotch Valley
had sunk out OF sight Is untrue.
FoUR THOUSAND descendants OF Davy
Crockett held reunion al Humboldt,
Tenn.
j. w. Brooks salOonkecper Of
Abilene, Tex, became converted and
made bonfire OF his stock and fixtures.
TIM business portion Of Conrad, an
Iowa village, was wiped ont by fire
NOEL MAIsoS was hanged AT Pitts
burgh. Pa, for the murder Of Mrs
Sophia RAGS. bernard Altenberger
suffered death at Jersey City, n. D., for
the murder Of Katie Rupp. Wesley
Warner was hanged al Mount Holly,
N. j.. for the murder OF Lizzie Peak
THE exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses ia the United States during
the week ended on the 9Th aggrc-
gated S7g4, 1852, 53s, against STA, 230, PAL
the previous week The decrease, come
pared with the corresponding week in
1928, was s.4.
DAN WIGGrNs, notorious wife
beatcr was dragged from his home at
Waldo, Fla, and probably fatally
whipped by women.
FELIX THOMPSON, George Bridges and
Jacob Muir died AT Dykesyille, La,
from eating watermelons that had
been poisoned.
THERE were 30 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the nth, against POS the week
previous and 828 in the correspond
ing time in 1898. The total failures in
August aggregated liabilities of SiO,-
1870, 4I7, OF which s8,172, $50 were on
manufacturing and S5,07s, 1873 IN trad
ing concerns.
IL quarrel near Correctiouville, Ia,
Michael SobieswsSi, IA farmer, shot
and killed q. Hin. also u farmer, and
then committed suicide.
A REWARD OF s., 600 has been offered
for the finding, deao or alive. OF Or.
w. A. Conklin, who Is missing from
Cassopolis, Mich. II is believed he
was killed 10 prevent his testifylng
against a fellow practitioner
TRADE reviews report slight i'm
provcmcnt in business throughout the
country.
DAISY MAJORS, 10 ycar-old girl who
has acted as postmistross al Wampum,
Pa..was found TO have embedded $500.
BEFORE the kaleidoscope in the Edi-
son laboratory at Orange, ". d., Cor
bett knocked out Peter Courtney i'm
six rounds. He received $1,000 for his
efforts.
EUoESE Dickson, 81. Louis lad,
swallowed green fly while laughing
aud died within forty-cight hours in
terrible agony.
Az open switch caused the wreck
ing Of the Santa Fe's California ex-
press Mt Dillon Junction, y. NJ, and
four men were fatally hurt.
Is race against time al Indianapo-
lis Directly placed the 2-yearold pac-
ing record nt 2:1o&, a cut Of a quarter
second
TnE Mutual Benefit Life Association
of America, with headquarters in New
York was declared insolvent with
policies OF $4,000, 900 outstanding
Tm oklahoma county bank AT South
Enid. O. r., closed It's doors.
DAVID ST PIERRE, Dame Veuve.
Thadec Pnrdis and Abraham La Pont
lost their lives in a fire at Kamour-
nslSa Que.
THE trades union congress in Nor
witch, Eng, resolved Go demand that
the government prevent the landing
OF destitute aliens.
AT Springfield, Mass, Titus lowered
the bicycle records for three. four and
Eve miles placing the last at 1851 a-5.
THE percentages OF the baseball
clubs in the national league for the
week ended on the sth were: Balti-
more, .67o' New York, .G52; Boston,
go; Philadelphia, $40; brooklyn.
$40; Cleveland, BIS; Pittsburgh. .4s7;
Chicago. $50, Cincinnati Az; ST.
Louis 400; Washington, .84s, Louis
vile. .2s9.
BIS WHITE, who died IN Campbell
county, was the tallcst man ever
known 70 live Ia Tennessee. He was
3 feet 9 inches high
Dunno cloudburst at Bethlehem,
Ia. the water reached second-story
Windows on four OF tho streets.
w a. BRADY, representing Corbett.
signed articles in New York for a nght
with Jackson before the Sioux city
ua.) club
ASTRONOMER Louis GArnMAN, OF Chi
cage, claims 20 have discovered vcgc-
tation on the moon with the telescope
which he recently completed.
TIM steamship 5. $ Curry arrived at
South Chicago with 5.l17 net tons OF
iron ore. the largest cargo ever carried
ON the great lakes.
The entire business portion OF Malta,
Ill, was wiped out by fire.
MUsCoDA, a town in Wisconsin which
was nearly destroyed by forest fires n
week ago, was still further devastated
by cyclone.
NV "a rgnr.enI g,11f.fnt, Ia al. H.,