The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-10-19

account Of Central Pacific bonds
| WILLIAM r. DoSSELfy left Paw
| tuclxct. X. r., to walk and trundle a
wheelbarrow to sacramento. Cal. a
distance OF 5000 miles. ia eighty-two
days on a wager of 81. 900.
! In the national conference at SYRIA
cuse, n. ", OF Congregationalists the
| doctrine OF the church on temperance
was declared 20 be total abstinence.
FRANKLIN l.. PoPE. aged 65 years. one
| OF the most noted electricians Ia the
country. was killed by shock In the
cellar of his home at Great Barring
| ton. Mass.
LEBBINs Il. KfSo. OF Loclxport. N. ",
| aged 80, committed suicide by jumping
over the American falls at Niagara
Falls.
TIE treasury department discovered
counterfeit $40 silver certificate of
the series OF 1891. check letter ID, bear
ing the portrait Of Thomas A. Hem
bricks.
The Farmers National congress ia
session az Atlanta, Ga, refused by a
vote OF e5i to i04 TO adopt a resolution
favoring the free coinage Of silver at a
ratio of 10 TO 1.
JoHS l.. THOMAS, assistant attorney
general for the post Office department,
in his annual report to the postmaster
genera says the mails are virtually
closed TO all lottery concerns.
THREE bridge carpenters were
knocked from tho top OF high trestle
by a falling timber near Butte. Mont,
and killed.
THE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the I4th was:
Wheat. 4.ls0.o0o bushels; corn. 1870
900 bushels; oats, 4,029, 0o0 bushels; rye.
7do, 600 bushels; barley, 3,0s7,ooo bush
els.
N. b. FAIcoNER, leading dry goods
merchant at Omaha, Neb., failed for
$4,000.
THE two pacing mares, Miss Rita and
Josie b., went mile double in 2;ieX
at Lexington, Ky, making u new
worlds record.
The schooner Nellie Duff sank off
Lorain. O., and Capt. Peterson and two
sailors were drowned.
REPoRrs TO the agricultural depart
ment In Washington show decline In
the condition of all the principal crops
except oats, rye and barley.
JACK CRkws was hanged ut Denton
Tex. for the murder of the Merrill
family in 1903 lie killed father,
mother and children. The hanging
was public, the crowd being estimated
Mt 10000.
THE United States supreme court
opened its fall term in Washington.
THE advisory board Of the American
Protective association met at ST. Louis
20 perfect national organization.
THE national purity congress. com
prising representatives OF all churches
and other religious bodies and philan-
thropic associations ia sympathy with
the objects OF the congress. met in Ball
tinore.
FLORENTINA SuARTo. n Mexican, was
Iynched at colusa, Tex. for the muir
der Of ii. IT, Saul, stocxrnan.
The State bank at Fort Scott, Kan,
closed It's doors because Of the defalca-
ton Of the cashier, j. K. Coleman.
A PASSENGER train ON the Norfolk g.
Western road was wrecked by broken
frog between Bluetield and Kenova,
w Va, and seventy-six persons were
injured.
NEWS was received at Fort Smith.
Ark, OF the assassination of Cade Mil
Ter and mis- wife in bed at their home
on the oklahoma border.
Mrs. JOSEPH LANaDoS the wife OF
farmer living near Delta, O.. gave
birth 10 five children, all of them males.
TmE total Immigration In September
was 50, 500; for September. 1894, 24,00i;
for nine months. 1895, s4D, 332; for cor
responding period Of 1894 I0i, ass.
FoRr WAYNE, Ind, Is 100 years old.
aud four days celebration was
opened with the booming of cannon.
TnE little village OF Lorraine Ill,
was almost wiped out by fire.
A PREHISTORIC cemetery, covering
many acres and containing thousands
OF graves. was discovered on upper
Stone Lick creek near Milford. o.
The president and his family re-
turned To- Washington.
FoR the FIRST nine months OF 1895
the excess OF gold exports was Si4.-
$50, 3i5; Tor the corresponding period
last year. S73. si5. 1863.
JEFF ELLIS, negro charged with
criminal assault on a white girl. was
lynched ON the spot where he COM
mitted the crime, near Braden. Tenn.
The mob, before hanging him. cut OF
his fingers. toes and nose.
MIbiIoNs OF bushels OF fruit were
going 10 waste along the Ohio river
because OF the close OF navigation.
PRAEnlE fires were consuming large
quantities Of hay and grain in North
Dakota.
The total exports for September
were sos, 5l3, 443. against SIS. 7ps. G75 for
last year; for the first niue months of
1895 S5s7, $50, $40, against s576, 6is. e7s FOR
The corresponding period last year.
rHE tenth national encampment Of
the Union Veteran Legion Of the
United states opened In buffalo. n. Y.
JAMS SiIEAKLEy, governor OF
Alaska. In his annual report to tho