The diamond drill., 1895-08-03

mons nRht In 1exaa
J. w. BLUxDox and Charles Lynch.
10 years old. and j. Guy Brown, IS
years. were struck by nm express train
near Riverdale Park, Md, and Instant
ly killed.
VIcYoR ADAMS. who shot and killed
Justice Boxer, his fathcr-in-law. at
O'Neils, CAL, was lynched by mob Of
sixty men.
HENRY BRADsnAw, wealthy farmer
near Paris, Tex. killed his wife aud
daughter and then himself. No cause
was known.
THE supreme court of Oklahoma has
again declared that probate judges
have no right To grant divorces, and
that all divorces granted by them are
null and void.
DURING storm In the vicinity Of
Three States, Mo-, George McClelland
and his wife and three children and n
man named Thomas and his wife were
killed by lightning.
THE Superior national bank Of West
Superior, Wis, suspended with liabil-
tiles OF si4l, 800.
GEORGE WOLFE rode from Chicago to
New York on bicycle in six days three
hours and fve minutes, breaking all
previous records
A HAnsroBM In North Dakota de-
stroyed $4,000 acres of wheat, causing
loss 10 farmers of $500, ,000
EDWARD KNEvEN. of Dayton, KY,
fatally shot Mary Schneer, of Alex
andria, KY. In Cincinnati. and then
shot himself. Unrequited love was
the cause.
The stores of Scharles Brothers,
dealers in toys, and Joaquin & Co.,
dealers in French millinery, were
burned Ia New York, the total loss be-
ing s2eo,ooo
FORTY prominent merchants in Ma
con, Mo-, were arrested for doing busi-
ness on Sunday.
THE Jacob Katz company, supposed
TO be one of the strongest mercantile
establishments In Milwaukee. failed
for $4,000.
ii. H. SALoMoN, one OF the pioneer
merchants of Denver, failed for $780,
600.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
80, eco, 900 bushels; corn, h,207, 900 bush
els; oats, 4.sS7, 900 bushels; rye, l54,-
600 bushels; barley, 10000 bushels.
IT was announced that silver'leaders
had agreed to call convention tomeet
in St Louis in September for the pur-
pose of forming national silver party.
Pie gold and silver debate between
MessrS Horr and Harvey came to an
end in Chicago after nine days of talk.
A TORNADO damaged nearly every
building i'm Kewanee, Ill.
A GIGANTIC conspiracy was unearthed
at Beaufort, 5. c., by which life insur-
ance companies had been defrauded of
thousands of dollars during the last
eight years.
A sArcHEL left in the New York
Central station in Buffalo was found TO
contain 2s, 600 counterfeit stamps made
by George Morrison, now in prison In
Chicago.
Mrs. OLLIE CoRBETT was granted a
divorce in New York from James J.
Corbett, the pugilist.
FoR 100 miles southeast OF Perry. o.
T., many fine fields of corn were under
water waist deep, and hundreds of
acres had been washed away.
ABOUT 10000 members of the Brother
hood of Tailors were on n strike in the
cities of New York, Broolslyn and
Newark.
THE Union national bank of Denver,
Col, closed its doors with liabilities of
$4,000
CHAuScEy, aged II years, and Henry
Brais, aged s years, sons of Joseph
Bras, were drowned at Providence. X. /.
BURGLARs robbed and probably fa-
tally wounded Abraham Lutz and his
wife near Massillon. O.
A cLoUpBURsr did great damage at
Central City, Col. and at Blackhawlx
and for an hour the streets were roar,
ing torrents.
RoBERT X. GILLESPIE, of Gallatin.
Tenn, chief of the public land division
in the general land office. died in Wash
ington of appendicitis
MRS. CHARLES CLOSE was instantly
killed and her 2-year-old child and
Lewis Close, aged ~, received fatal In
iuries at a railway crossing in-Scotts
burg. Ind.
banks and thousands Of acres In Sedg-
wick county, Kan, were under water
The damage would be heavy.
TIE Salisbury bank at Mexico. Mo-,
was closed with liabilities of sac, 900.
FoR the murder Of benjamin Gem
nette and wife last March at McGreg-
or, Mimi, Judge Holland sentenced
the Christello brothers To life impris-
onment
MAJ. II. C. LEWIS. OF Nashville, was
elected director-general OF the Tennes-
see centennial exposition, which will
be held in 1896
WALTER AUSTIN and Willie Gould
were drowned on one OF the principal
streets at Fort Scott, Kan, during
food.
OK the White river, miles from
Camp Apache, in Arizona, was found n
cave containing 400 human skeletons.
THE keystone national bank Of West