The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-07-20

killed three persons
Tux large passenger steamer Cibeln
of the Niagara Navigation company
was burned at Lcadstone, n. ~, tho
loss being $3.50. 900.
| Mis- JoHS COOPER, aged 80. OF Trav-
erse City. Mich. was found dead in her
rocking chair with child In her arms,
which was asleep.
| In a wreck on the Texas Pacific road
near Handley. Tex, Engineer AL
Horner and Fireman John Devine were
| killed.
MANY buildings were demolished by
tornado at Wood Haven, l.. L., and
one woman was killed aud number
of men. women and children were In
jured more or less seriously.
ISAAC HUFFMAN and Marshall Gar
ner, two young farmers in Shelby
county, KY, killed themselves with
knives in fight.
The forest fires In northern Michi-
gan were dying out. The loss to prop
erty thus far was over $500. 900.
The visible supply Of grain In the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
Al, 25e, 900 bushels; corn, 6,ss2, 900 bush
els; oats, 5,63s.oOo bushels; rye. 1872
600 bushels; barley. Isl, 900 bushels.
IRA JOHNSON lcolored) was lynched
at Greenville. s. c., for killing young
white man named Longford in a quar-
rel at Piedmont.
THE most successful convention In
the history Of the Christian Endeavor
society and the largest religious gath
ering In the worlds history was
brought to n fitting close in Boston
with three great meetings and two
big overfows. and fully 10000 voices
were raised in singing America" and
other patriotic songs.
The waters of the Rio Grande swept
out of their banks and flooded the
lower part of FL Paso, Tex, destroying
many houses.
THE Missouri democrats will hold a
silver convention at Pertle Springs on
August 9.
Ar GAINESVILLE, w. Va, Mamie Floyd,
aged 8, and her mother were burned TO
death. The little girl caught fire from
n stove and her mother was burned
trying TO save her life.
Ex-SrArE SENATOR T.. X. CAssATT. the
fenced TO nine years in the Anamosa
penitentiary.
The forest fires which ragged in Mich
igan for a week were the most de-
structive In the last decade. Whole
counties were swept clean.
BOB HUGGARD. a mulatto accused OF
assault, was taken from the Jail at
Winchester, KY, by a mob of 200 men
and lynched.
THE Hitchcock Manufacturing com
pany. manufacturers Of wagons and |
sleighs at Cortland, n. ", failed for |
800, 900.
Miss CARRIE MooRE. aged 10, the !
only child of w. Il. Moore, mayor Of |
Atwood, ILL.,. took her own life with a
pistol. A love affair was the cause.
HUNDREDS OF acres of growing to- |
bacco in Connecticut were ruined by
hailstorm.
TwENY-EIoHr freight cars were
thrown down an embankment at |
Carey, o., and an oil tank exploded |
and the cars were burned
THE president issued proclamation
stating that as Spain had extended to
American citizens the privilege of |
copyright, as contemplated by our
copyright act, Spanish citizens are
granted the privilege of American copy
right.
ANNIE WILLIAMS, aged 10 years, step
daughter of James 5. and Martha Will
liams, residing Mt Langdon Station,
Ind, killed both her parents with rat
poison.
NEARLY 5000 men employed at the
mines in Negaunee, Mich, went out on
4 strike, their demand for an advance
In pay having been refused.
ORDERS were issued by the post Office
abolishing the post office
IT Pisgah, Morgan county, Ill.
DURING the fiscal year 1895 the num-
Der of immigrants who arrived in this
was 276, 1876, against oil,
during the previous year.
ROSWELL q. Horn, of New York. and
William Hope Harvey, of Chicago. be-
CANAAN cight-day contest in Chicago
over the. currency question, the former
speaking for gold and the latter for
silver.
NEBRASKA silver democrats will hold
! state convention in Omaha on An
gust 22.
Ar meeting in Louisville the lead
ng distillers of Kentucky decided to
make no whisky In the state during
she season beginning July 1, 1895, and
ending July 1. 1896.
A SLEEPING car conductor and porter
we're arrested Mt Detroit for smuggling
cinnamon in berths from Canada.
TnE floods along the Rio Grande put
I2 square miles of East El Paso, Tex,
lnder water and all traffic was
blocked.
Ar meeting in Chicago of the SUI
oreme executive board of the Amcri-
IAN Protective association resolution
vas unanimously adopted against the
irving OF lectures by ex-priests and ex-
nuns under the auspices OF the organi-
sation, and declaring that the order is
not making war on the Roman Cath
bic religion. but on its political fea-