The diamond drill., 1895-08-03
The News Condensed,
DOMESTIC.

Ky, Col George Robinson, a county
Official. was dead. and Maj. Blood
Schacklett, county commissioner,
was fatally injured.
PmLIIP NORMAN NICHOLAS was
hanged at Richmond, Va. for murder
tng William j. Will<erson and James
Mills by drowning them.
Tom JOHNSON, a negro who murdered
Mrs. fairfield and her daughter at
Meridian, Miss, and assaulted another
daughter. was burned 10 the stake by
q mob.
THE secretary of the treasury direct
I'd that the money paid into the treas
ury on account of the income tax be
refunded to the persons and corpora
tions respectively entitled thereto upon
the fling of the refunding claims.
THE national prohibition camp-meet-
Ing commenced Mt Decatur. Ill.
TUDOR Brown, Willie Cook. Sim
Echols and John Armstrong. negro
dcsperadocs who broke jail at Fernan-
diLa, Fla, were driven into the ocean
by bloodhounds and all were drowned.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
e726. .605, roo, against 81, ,030 03O, oi9 the
previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1884. was 20.2.
JosEPH NoLrE, Arthur Walter and
Miss Tillie Helm were drowned In the
Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia, by
the capsizing OF a boat.
s. LoFTfS. negro, charged with as
saulting white woman in Lexington.
Tex, was taken from the officers by a
mob and lynched.
A BILL was introduced in the Illinois
legislature fon tax of per cent upon
the gross receipts OF all games OF ball
and TO prohibit the game ON Sunday.
PRospEcTs for an enormous crop of
corn and other products throughout
the west and northwest were never
more promising.
Ir developed that the negro Bob
Haggard, who was lynched at Ford.
Ky, charged with having outraged
Miss Elkin, was innocent of the crime
THERE were zoe business failures in
the United States In the seven days
ended ON the Goth. against 256 the week
previous and 249 in the corresponding
time in 1894
THE American Mutual Home associa-
tion is the name OF an organization
formed ut Kansas City, Kan, TO en-
courage matrimony and 70 cultivate -
love of home and habits of industry
and sobriety.
ADvIcEs from the Indian trouble In
Wyoming say that every man, woman
and child In Jaclxson's Hole had been
murdered by the red men and the set
element burned. The place had about
140 Inhabitants.
EVERY day brings TO light one or
more atrocious murders committed by
III. ii. Holmes, the insurance swindler.
In all, so far ms known, circumstan-
tial evidence OF the strongest character
points to the man as the slayer OF Julia
Connor, Gertrude Connor, Amelia Ci-
grand, Benjamin Il. Pitzel and his
three children, Howard, Alice and
Nellie, Minnie and Alice Williams and
a Miss Wild. Mrs Patrick Quinlan
confessed in Chicago all she knew
about Holmes, and she and her hus-
band were arrested as accomplices.
JOSEPH A. BEAM was hanged at the
Omitted States jail at Washington for
the murder of his stcpdaughter, Mrs.
Annie Lenhy, last December.
SECRETARY MoRToN hns abolished the
seed division of the agricultural de-
partment in Washington. to take effect
ON the LIST Of October next
FIRE destroyed the county insane
asylum at Verona. Wis. and Supcrin-
tcndent Edwards was PROBABLY fatally
injured.
Mns. KATHERINE RoBERrs, who Is 100
years old, broke her arm in a fall at
Topeka. Kan.
A MONUMENT was dedicated at Spirit
Lake. Ia. TO the memory OF the pio-
neers killed In the Spirit Lake nassa
ere Of 1857 Many prominent men Of
the state were present
As A result OF fifteen-cent drop In
the price OF oil the last few days wild
eating" had been stopped and the oil
boom was considered ended
WILLIAM FREDERIcKs, who murdered
Cashier William A. HerriclS In an at
tempt to rob the San Francisco Union
savings bank IN March. 1894, was
hanged at San Quentin, Cal.
TnEpcrcentagcs Of the baseball clubs
I'm the National league for the week
ended on the 27th were: Cleveland.
COS; Pittsburgh, Goa; baltimore .5si:
Boston. .575; Cincinnati. .503; Chicago.
.s4s; Brooklyn. 800: Philadelphia. bs4:
New York. 500; Washington. .as7. ST
Louis. $40: Louisville. 2oa.