The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-11-24


cup for January s.
DURING the week ended on the nth
40. 900 head of stock were received at
the Chicago stock yards, the heaviest
receipts on record for six days.
ITALIAN laborers on a West Virginia
railroad have received no pay for three
months, and are creating a reign of
terror.
JoHH AsHBY and John Heverin were
mortally and Police officer Stuart seri-
ously wounded in a saloon fight at
owensboro, KY
The new treaty between the United
States and Japan was concluded in all
its essential features.
BICYCLE champions of FIVE foreign
countries arrived In New York, where
they will compete with Americans.
SOUTHERN congressman question the
legality of the new bond issue and
threaten 10 make troubles for the adj
ministration.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE WEST. aged 50 years,
was burned 20 death at Peru, Ind. by
stepping on match and igniting her
clothes.
SEVEN large and valuable barns in
Springfield, Ill, were burned by in
cendiaries.
A MINE ball receivedSduring the
civil war was successfully removed
from the head of George Saekett at
Creston, la.
Two INFANT children Of Mrs. Maggie
Walker, Of ST. Joseph, Mo. were
burned 70 death while alone.
TnE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
So. 2s2, 900 bushels: corn, 2,765, 600 bush
els; oats, 9,1lO,00O bushels; rye, $4,000
bushels; barley, 3.5l50 900 bushels.
THE weather throughout the north
west was the coolest Cor the season in
eleven years. Thermometers in st.
Paul registered 10 degrees below zero.
by an accident Mt the new chamber
OF commerce building in Toledo, o.,
Fred Cronenberg, aged 80, and John
Hummell, aged A. were killed.
MARIN and Antonio Adego, brothers,
were burned 20 death in an incendlary
fire at Scranton, Pa.
The village of Midtown, Pa, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
GEORGE KLEINMAN, champion wing
shot OF America, was defeated by Dir.
Carver in l00-bird shoot at Watson's
park in Chicago
THE Elwood lind. Iron and Radiator
company failed for S2O0,0o
A COAL train on the Pennsylvania
road went through bridge near Lari-
mer Pa, and eight men were believed
TO have been buried in the wreck,
Ar Louisville John $. Johnson rode
n mile, standing start, In 1856 S-5. low
ering the worlds bicycle record full
second.
NEAR Wellsyille, Mo, Thomas Por-
terchcck killed his mother, sister and
brother, set fire TO the house and then
cut his own throat. lie was insane.
WHILE miners were removing slate
from n remote portion OF a; mine at
.llaggerty's colliery near Wellston, O.,
they found i'm an old abandoned room
the skeletons Of four men.
Two MEN and twenty-three valuable
horses were cremated in the stables OF
A. j. Flanders In Boston
THE Cook gang OF bandits was prac-
tically cornered near Muskogee, |. r.,
by band OF Cherokee police.
Ar the convention OF the Knights OF
Labor in New Orleans the miners del
egations from Indiana, Ohio and Penn
sylvania were unseated despite their
claim that they represented many
thousand knights.
INTERESTING changes are taking
place on the planet Mars, according TO
Percival Lowell, OF the Lowell obsery-
atory.
Two MEN were killed and six injured
by the explosion of the boiler in cot
ton gin at Gale, l. Il.
LACK Of public confidence forced the
Portland tOre.) savings bank TO close
its doors with liabilities Of 81. 430, 900.
NEARLY the whole OF the business
portion of Savannah, Mo, was de-
stroyed by fire.
An attempt was made near Con-
neaut, o., TO wreck the fast east-bound
mail on the Lake Shore road. track
walker discovered the obstruction be-
fore the train came along.
MARION lIEDGPErH. who robbed
Frisco train of $50. 600 In 1892. was
sentenced at jefferson City, Mo, TO
twenty-five years imprisonment
The fire losses In the United States
during the ten months ended October
81 aggregated sl09, SO6,17
WILLIAM Il. JOINS. wealthy stock
dealer at Bournville, o., was swindled
out OF $1,000 by two confidence men.
DIR. PARKHuRsr and Mayor-elect
Strong were the guests OF honor at the
126th annual banquet OF the New York
chamber OF commerce.
A CASE Of leprosy was discovered in
Grand Forks county, N. ID. The pa
tient was confined in lonely cabin.
AN annex TO Il. S. Jaffray a. Co.'S
New York dry goods store was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $500, 900.
MISS FRANCES Il. WILLARD was unan-
imously reelected president OF the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union at the twenty-hrst annual ses-
sion In Cleveland.
JAMES X. SOVEREIGN was reelected
a.