The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-26


of Chill;cothe, o.. fatally wounded her
and then shot himself.
THE First brigade 800 men strong,
was called out TO assist I'm quelling the
Brooklyn On. y. street car riots
THE body of Barrett Scott, the de-
faultipR treasurer OF Holt county,
Neb., was found in the Niobrara river,
n rope around the neck and the hands
tied.
THE Texas cotton palace at Waco
was destroyed by fire.
AFTER n married life of sixty-six
years Mrs. Elizabeth Stansbury died at
Massillon. She and her husband were
credited with being the oldest married
couple in Ohio.
The steamer State of Missouri struck
n rock in the Ohio river about 20 miles
from Louisville and sank and twenty
Ave persons were drowned.
The business portion of Warrenton,
n. c., was almost entirely destroyed by
fire.
IL expectation of trouble at Mount
Sterling KY, Gov. Brown ordered the
militia To be in readiness TO move.
WHILE playing with loaded re-
volver Harry Barnes, aged IL, shot and
killed his 7-year-old sister at Lind
say. o.
A CYCLONE struck Covington, Tenn,
and blew Off the top Of the courthouse
and demolished dozen residences and
score Of barns.
The Merchants bank az Bingham
ton, ~ V, closed its doors
Mrs. Ina CARROLL, aged 0s years,
di ID in Tishimingo county, Idaho. She
was married eight times and was the
mother Of twenty-six children.
A BILL 70 prohibit gambling of every
description In Wyoming was offered in
the Legislature and would probably
pass.
Miss MoLLIE RoGERs, aged II, of Cal
houn county, H., and Ida Trcakley,
aged 10, OF Cochran, Wis, were drowned
while attempting to cross the Missis-
sippi river near Sterling, III.
CONTRARY 10 first reports, no lives
were lost by the sinking Of the steamer
State OF Missouri in the Ohio river.
REV. JAMES l.. RoGERs, aged G7, re-
tired minister, and for years principal
OF the seminary at Springfield, o.,
dropped dead in the street.
VIOLENCE and bloodshed constituted
the record Of the eighth day Of the
electric street railway operatives
strike in Brooklyn. The militia fred
on the rioting strikers and twenty-one
persons were injured during the day.
A TERRIFIC snowstorm was raging I'm
the California mountains and in the
railroad cuts the drifts were from
20 20 80 feet deep.
A CYCLONE near Plgott, Ark, fatally
injured two persons and seriously
wounded nine others. Much property
was destroyed. At McKancs mill sew
eral dwellings were totally demolished
and eleven people wounded, two Of
them fatally.
DFBs and his associates were admit
ted to bail 10y the supreme court, pend
ing the hearing OF the petition for ha-
beas corpus.
A TORNADO swept over Chicago,
prostrating insecure walls and tearing
signs from their fastenings. Joseph
Iluntul was killed and fourteen others
were injured.
JAMES ROBINSON, of Bridgeport, n.
j., was taken with paralytic stroke
while viewing his dead sisters body
and died in short time.
A BILL 20 prohibit the teaching or
practice OF mesmerism was introduced
in the Missouri house.
TWENTY families I'm Ruslt, Wis, were
said TO be in starving condition.
The Missouri house bill 20 make train
robbery punishable 10y death was IA
vorably reported.
A BILL was introduced in the Con-
necticut Legislature To prevent the en-
ployment in shops Of married women
whose husbands are able 20 support
them.
The supreme court OF Iowa decided
that divorce proceedings could not be
begun 10y an insane person through his
guardian.
Ir was said that 100000 negroes
would bc removed from the states OF
Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana 10
northern Mexico within the next six
months.
a COMMITTEE representing 100 desti-
tute families In Yuma county, Col, sent
out an appeal for clothing, provisions,
coal, seed and grain.
EDWARD RIVERS, living near Browns
Vile, Ky, killed his two children, n
boy Of and girl Of years, and fired
a bullet into his own brain. Rivers
was addicted 10 the use Of morphine.
A BILL forbiddinR display Of foreign
flag on public buildings passed the
| New York assembly
Is an encounter between troops and
strikers In Brooklyn, y. Y, Henry
Ahues n spectator, was shot. Linemen
had been ordered 90 strike.
Tm school board Of 81. Joe, Mo-, de-
cidcd that no pupils using cigarettes
would De allowed 20 attend the public
schools.
TIN attempt TO impcach Judge Au-
/ gustus j. Kicks. OF Cleveland, failed In
the house Judiciary committee by an
adverse vote OF o 20 z.
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