The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-11-02

loss being 100000.
The Massillon (O.) miners voted to
declare their strike OF.
IL was reported that Swedes would
establish large colony in West Florida.
Al Uniontown. Ala. Frank Metzgcr
committed suicide because he was not
allowed TO take the place OF { brother in
Jail accused OF murder.
President Lane, OF the Southern Cot
ton Growers association, says the cot
ton crop viii be 6 900 bales.
The University Of Virginia at Char
lottesviIIe suffered loss of 100000
from fire.
Kasper a. Barnes. Chicago jewelers..
failed for 100000.
Fire In the oil regions south of Toledo.
o.. caused a loss of over $l50.000.
Francis A. Coffin. found guilty OF aid
ing In the wrecking of the indianapolis
national bank, was sentenced TO eight
years in the penitentiary.
Prairie fires were doing immense
damage In Porter and Jasper counties
in Indiana.
Patrick Callahan jumped from the
Poughkecpsie bridge into the Hudson
river, distance OF 2i2 feet, and died
soon afterwards from injuries received.
George A. Howard, auditor of the post
Office department, in his annual report
shows that the postal deficiency over
The revenue and congressional appro-
priation for the last fiscal year is ST.
s07.044.
Adisastrous fire was raging on Welch
mountain. In the vicinity of Scrufftown
and Blue BAH, Pa, and thousands Of
acres of timber land and many houses
had been burned.
A. ID. Mcdonald, OF Rochester. lowered
the 1O0-mile American bicycle record at
Buffalo. n. ", to $4,000.
c. Il. Mangum wanted S3l7,000.000
from the United States treasury at
Washington, ID. c., and got In jail.
The registration in Cincinnati this
fall is the largest ever known in that
city. IL is 60,215, gain of 6,644 over
last year.
Conyicts I'm camp on the Fort Worth
(Tex) road made break for liberty.
The guards killed one and wounded
two. Several escaped.
Insane with jealousy, William j. Bell,
printer, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife in Chicago and then
killed himself.
Two children of John Conley, aged
five and eight years. were snothered by
smoke and died at Manistee, Mich.
They had gotten some matches and set
the bedding on fire.
The Wichita (Kan.) university, or
ganized eight years ago by the Re-
formed church as a western institution
of learning. has been abandoned
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2sth was: Wheat.
80, $4,000 bushels; corn, a,s05 900 bush
els; oats, 4.45S.000 bushels; rye, l,o00,-
600 bushels; barley. 100000 bushels.
Sylvia McCabe, the ls-year-old daugh-
ter of Obcd McCabe, OF Miamisburg.
o.. shot and instantly killed herself
after fatally shooting her lover, WIN
Schaafer. She left note saying they
were tired of life.
The little village of Osgood, o.. was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
III. ii. Holmes, or Herman w. Mud
gett, was put ON trial in Philadelphia
for the murder of Benjamin Il. Pitzel
in that city on September 2, 1894.
Al 0wensboro, KY, John Snyder (col-
ored) suddenly became crazed with
jealousy and cut his wife's throat. He
wac then shot by VIII Hall, his brother
in-law.
John Crawford. farmer. who lived
frozen TO death.
Gen. John S. Mosby, the distinguished
ex.confederate cavalry commander.
was seriously III at Marshall. Va.
Henry billiard. a negro who assaulted
and then murdered Mrs, Caroline Bell
near Tyler. Tex,,was captured by mob,
taken TO Tyler and burned to death i'm
the public square.
The First national bank of Ia Grange.
Tex. closed its doors with liabilities OF
see. 1855.
The Lagonda hotel and several bust
ness buildings were burned at Spring
field, o.. the total loss being 100000.
Ex-City Treasurer Boggs, OF Tn
coma. Wash. who held Office from 1890
10 1894, was said TO be an cmbezzlcr 10
the extent OF 100000 and was arrested
at Jacksonville, Ore.
Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler
decided that congrcssmen-elect nre not
entitled to government stationery until
they have taken the oath Of Office.
George II. Smith, who murdered Philip
Eichmeyer at Albany, and Charles X.
Davis,who outraged and killed six-yenr-
old Maggie shannon at Cohoes. were
killed In the electric chair at Clinton
prison in Dnnncmora. n. y.
1sador II. SuItzbach. an extensive
dealer in clothing In Philadelphia.
failed for 100000.
Thousands Of acres OF valuable rim
Der land In Livingston. Genesee. Wayne
and Seneca counties. n. ". were ruined
by forest fires.
Col. George w. Cole, aged IS. president
OF the Bnnkers' and Mcrchnnts' Protect