The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-02-16

Jones ana MS puulhhneht HAcu ht
thirteen years imprisonment
Two coLoRED women, Sarah Jackson
and Bette Fishback were convicted OF
vagrancy at Georgetown. KY. and sold
into slavery for the period OF six
months.
LIPE savers succeeded I'm rescuing
two Of the crew OF the schooner Louis
v. Place, ashore at Point OF Woods, n.
Y. The other seven were drowned or
frozen 10 death.
THE Crescent tobacco warehouse and
n woodenware factory were burned AT
Louisville, KY, the loss being Sl75. 900.
w. ]. EDWARDS rode mile on BIZ
cycle at Livermore, Cal, In l:34N, n
new worlds record.
Ex-PoLIcE OFFICERS MORAN AND
HEALY were convicted In Chicago of
the murder OF Swan Nelson and their
punishment fixed at fourteen years
imprisonment.
THE schooner Clara +. Friend, OF
Gloucester, Mass, was wrecked near
Liverpool, n. s., and her crew of fif-
teen men were drowned.
FIFTEEN firms were burned out by
fire in Ottawa, Kan, the losses aggre-
eating 100000.
TWELVE oyster sloops were wrecked
and from twenty To thirty lives lost In
the Chesapeake during blizzard.
AT Dinsmore. Fla, John Thomas
(colored) with his wife and two chill
dren, were instantly killed by the fall
ing OF a log shack In which they were
sleeping.
JosEPH COULTER fatally shot his wife
while she lay asleep in bed at Newark,
n. j., and then committed suicide.
Jealousy caused the act.
TnE doors of the Bank OF Superior
Neb.. were closed by the state bank
examiner.
CYRUS BUssEY, ex-assistant secretary
Of the interior, was run over by a
sleigh In Washington and badly hurt
THE report Of the bureau Of statistics
on the foreign trade of the United
States for the calendar year 1894 shows
that during that year our commerce
with foreign countries fell below the
low-water mark.
Mrs. WILLIAM SrEFERT, while tenn
porarily insane, drowned her two chill
dren and herself In the Ohio river ut
Coraopolis, Pa.
FoUR MILLION acres OF Sioux Indian
reservation land in South Dakota were
thrown open for settlement by pur-
chase at fifty cents an acre.
GEORGE w. SroUT's wholesale grocery
establishment AZ indianapolis was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
AK unsuccessful attempt was made
10 hold up Gulf, Colorado q Santa Fe
passenger train near Overlook, I. +.
BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell
Paint company, the Creamery Supply
company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas
City, were burned, causing loss Of
$3.50, 600
The Bank Of Leesburg, Fla, assigned
for the benefit OF creditors.
THE French liuc steamer la Cas-
cogne, from Havrc, nine days overdue,
arrived in New York. Accidents to the
machinery caused the delay
A PETITION containing 10000
names, and which had taken twelve
years 60 complete, in opposition to the
liquor and opium habit. left Chicago
for Washington in care OF Mrs. Carsc,
OF the Womans Christian Temperance
union. IL is the largest petition in
history and will be presented 10 the
court OF every ruler In the world.
Thirty inches of snow fell at Rife,
Col.
j. l.. DICKSON. bank cashier Mt
Fayetteville, Ark, discovered 10 be
So 900 short. committed suicide by
taking strychnine.
A SECRET society, whose object Is the
mating and marrying Of young people,
has been formed at Lexington. Ky
SINCE the Fifty-third congress was
elected there has been total OF TWEEN
ty-ninc changes in the membership OF
the house, eleven Of them caused by
death, three by removal as the result
Of election contests and sixteen by
designations.
TIE visible supply OF grain In the
United States ON the 18th was: Wheat,
81, 32s 900 bushels; corn, IL, $50. 900 bush
els; oats, 7,l63.0O0 bushels; rye. 364, 900
bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels
IN an address at the Auditorium in
Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated
his belief that Lincoln was inspired by
God.
LINcoLN's birthday was generally
celebrated throughout the country.
A LARGE section OF the business por-
tion Of McComb, o., was swept away
by fire.
The supreme court at jefferson City,
Mo. sentenced five murderers 10 bo
hanged March 81.
FRANK STORY and wife were fatally
injured by the collision Of an electric
car with their wagon at Louisville, KY.
THE summer hotel at Browns Mills,
n. j., was totally destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000 The building
was vacant
a FREE silver resolution presented in
the Michigan senate was laid on the
table by vote Of IL TO 10.
A FEw hours before her death from
consumption Jennie Brown. Of Van
dolfn III WINS upttaI Ia ,porrfu,r. -,