The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-07-27
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taken from the train at Scranton,
Miss, and lynched by mob.
HENRY Brown (colored) was hanged
ns Live Oak, Fla. He killed Ed Ry-
berg (white) on March ~. Brown
confessed that he had murdered seven
men. all for money.
CHARLES GORE. for years treasurer of
the New York Herald, disappeared
with $4,000 belonging to the company.
Two AES were killed, two fatally in
iured and three seriously injured by
the caying In OF sewer trench in Har-
rison, N. j.
RoRERr J. paced n mile at Saginaw,
Mich, In 2:O3.
GRAND MASTER SOVEREIGN issued a
manifesto TO the Knights of Labor re-
citing the wrongs of the masses and
calling for general boycott on no
tional bank notes In all dealings be.
tween individuals, the boycott TO go
into effect September /.
THE fifth annual session of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union con-
vened at Baltimore with 10000 persons
sn attendance.
CAPT. RALPH HACKETT, David Canary
and John Cattanock were swept from
the tug Torrent by tow line ut De-
troit and drowned.
THE total production of pig iron in
the United States in the first half of
1896 was 4,Os7, 55s gross tons. against
2.7l7.oss tons in the first half Of 1894.
ALoNzo MEYERS, 81 years old, killed
his l6-year-old wife and fatally wound
ed Herbert Lindson, friend, at Long
Beach, Cal, and then shot himself ia
tally.
The Delaware peach crop is esti-
mated at l,500,O0 baskets, worth $780,
O00-greater than il has been in ten
years
The bimetallists of Georgia, who ia
vor the free coinage OF silver. met at
Griffin and adopted resolutions calling
for the immediate and independent
free coinage of silver and gold.
THE exchanges Mt the leading clear
ing houses In the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$1,000, 030,049, against 81. l46. 243, COG the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 900.
THE president issued an order plac-
ing employees OF all pension agencies
under civil service rules.
THE national silver committee in
session in Chicago adopted resolutions
urging the organization of bimetallic
leagues throughout the entire coun-
try.
CHICAGO is to be the headquarters of
the American Spirits Manufacturing
company which will succeed the
whisky trust.
THREE negroes were killed outright
by lightning during a thunderstorm
that passed over the town of Varnville,
&. c.
C. Il. Cole. an aged resident of
Aurora, Ill, died while on his knees at
prayer Mt his bedside.
THERE were ESQ business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against ESQ the week
previous and 236 In the corresponding
time in 1894
Ar the meeting In Baltimore OF the
Baptist Young Peoples unica John
IL. Chapman, of Chicago, was reelected
president, and Milwaukee was chosen
ms the place of meeting next year and
Brooklyn In 1907.
A TORNADO swept over Findlay, o.,
and vicinity. unroofing buildings and
doing great damage.
TIE sloop Restless was reported lost
of Santa Cruz island, CAL, with six
teen young persons on board.
A TORNADO at st. Clair, Mich,
wrecked a dozen buildings, unroofed
ms many more, and killed the infant
daughter OF Edgar Black.
JAMES l.. TRAvERs, a negro, was
hanged at Washington, ID. c., for the
murder Of Lena Gross November 10
last.
INTENSE excitement prevailed around
Helm, Cleburne county, Ala, over rich
finds OF gold
THE three children of Fred Whitney,
of Bankers, Mich, were fata lily pois
oned by eating apples that were
sprinlsled with paris green.
THE triple funeral OF DIR. John T.
Hogan. his wife and little son, who
were drowned at Lake Geneva two
weeks ago. was held at Elgin, H.
AT the ninth annual convention In
Denver. Col. OF the American agricul-
tural college and experimental sta
tions $. w. johnson, of Connecticut,
was elected president.
Mrs. GRAHAM, OF Buffalo, fell ITO
feet into the rocks below Niagara falls
but broke no bones.
A TORNADO wrecked camp meeting
tent near Roseville, o., killing Mrs.
Clement Wilson and Patrick Deselm
and injuring several others
FRED and Frank Sunbeim and Mrs.
Fred Snnbeim and two other persons
were drowned by the capsizing OF
sail boat at Brooklyn, N. Y.
CASHIER JoHN l.. WALDEN, OF the
Dime savings bank at Willimantic,
Conn, was said to have disappeared
with $4,000 OF the bank funds
ONE Of the mills OF the National Lin
seed OIL company In Chicago was
burned. the loss being S750,000
JAMES LOWER and his son John II