The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-27

Oh tJFty-luitt years, MuJs NtHs nt'@~
nnder Mcdowell McCook retircs from
the army, the age Of "a years having
been reached.
MAX ELsrR. late city treasurer of
Fort Worth, Tex. was charged with
embexzling Sl14.754.
ZEn GALLEY, John Rather. Mary
Deanc and Martha and Alice Greene
lall colored) were lynched by a mob
near Grecnville, Ala, for the murder
OF Watts Murphy.
TIE visible supply Of grain In the
United States on the ED was; Wheat,
os. e2e, 900 bushels; corn, II. $4,000 bush
bushels; barley, Sill 900 bushels.
THE Tennessee Legislature adopted
resolution declaring in favor of the free
coinage OF silver at ratio OF 10 20 /.
THE First national bank of Wilt
mantle, Conn, closed It's doors.
THE "virginia Fat Midget" mu-
scum character. died at Peru. Ind. Her
name was Mrs. William Taylor and she
WAS feet tall and weighed over 400
pounds.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Duquesne borough, opposite Nc
Keesport, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
III was announced that strong and
vigorous fight against the free and un-
limited coinage of silver independent
OF international agreement Is 10 be
made by the administration at Wash
ington.
SAM NOLAN, a 0-year-old boy at Fort
Worth, Tex, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains with shotgun
because his mother leased him.
ELIJAH STEWART. aged 22 (colored),
shot his wife fatally at jackson, Mich,
and then fred bullet into his own
head.
FRANK Howard Pooh, serving sem
tence for forgery at Concord. Mass,
has fallen heir 10 about 5000 900
through the death OF Frank Howard, 9
Nevada mine-owner.
A NEWSPAPER train on the Pennsyl-
vania road ran from Camden TO At
lantic City, N. j., distance Of SO
rules, in As minutes.
THE American Industrial union,
new labor organization, was born in
Chicago.
THE decision of the supreme court in
the income tax ease necessitates a
change I'm the estimates of the govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
and from the best data obtainable 10
was believed that the deficit for the
year would amount TO S40,00O,000.
CITIZENS of ST. james, Mo-. presented
sixty acres of land and large build
ing to the women's relief corps of the
soldiers home.
FOREST fires were raging in the noun
tains In the southern interior of West
Virginia. fully 1000 acres of timber
land having been burned over
GEORGE II. Kicker, % years old,
editor of the Bristol Comm Herald,
committed suicide during fit of dis
pondency by cutting his throat.
THE Wisconsin supreme court says
that decision OF the law which pro-
vides that life imprisonment works abb
solute divorce without further proceed
ings is valid
WILLIAM OWEN (colorcd) was hanged
ut Warmer, Ark, for Draining his wife
with a hoe.
THE body of Edwin Forrest Is to be
removed TO q mnusoleum Mt the Edwin
Forrest Home near Philadelphia.
AT san Jose, CAL, Albert Anderson
broke into the room of Mrs. Alice T..
Blair at midnight and stabbed her TO
death and then killed himself
JAMES Il. HOLLAND, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers national bank
OF Charlotte, n. c., was discovered
short In his accounts 10 the amount of
S75. 900.
A VOLUME issued at Washington
shows that the total appropriations by
the Fifty-third congress were S4D7, COS, :
800, and that ,773 new Offices were
created.
DURING the absence OF Joe Robinson
and his wife their house az Quincy,
Flg, was burned and three children
were crcmated.
In the New York assembly the bill TO
make Lincoln's birthday, February IL.
legal holiday was passed without
dissenting vote.
TnE Dime savings bank at Will
mantle, Conn, closed its. doors with
s026, SOL on deposit and "A surplus of
about $4,000.
The national session of the com
mandery general of the Sons of Amer
leu convened Mt Shenandoah, Pa.
Mrs. WILLIAM. hartley, of Harts-
horn, o. T., took a dose OF arsenic and
forced her 7-year-old daughter to swal-
low a like quantity of the drug Both
are dead.
TUX Minnesota legislature adjourned
sine die.
THE total receipts from internal rev.
cnue for the nine months of the present
fiscal year ended March 81 were $780,
095,Ul5, the net increase being 81, $780,
1903 over the preceding nine months
The United States supreme court set
May 9 for hearing arguments on the
petition for rehearing of the income
tax question.
IN the Delaware conference of the A.
NJ. " church at PHILADELPHIA Bishop
Ruley decided that smoking is sin.