The diamond drill., 1895-08-24

| tave Kaiser.
| THE sloop Jumbo, stone laden. was
sunk at Newburyport, Mass. Capt
Stephen Orr and Seaman George Welch
were asleep on her and were drowned.
The mammoth Patent steel Whip
conpany's works in Springfield. o..
were destroyed by fire, entailing loss
| Of $1,000
NEAR Marion. H.. Fred Hisholn shot
and instantly killed William Make
and William Read in quarrel over a
game Of cards
A PLEASURE boat capsized at Ocean
City. Md, and William Storr and his
wife and two children and Myrtle
Stevens and Lima and Lulu Hall were
drowned.
JonN WALSH walked from San Fran
cisco TO Boston in ninety-three days,
winning wager OF $500.
The Gumry hotel at Denver, Col.
crowded with guests, was demolished
by a terrific explosion and it was
thought that forty or more persons
lost their lives.
THE Ocean Bay View house at Ham
NELL station, Rockaway Beach, was
completely destroyed by fire. All the
guests were saved.
A PARTY OF lumber dealers who ar
rived at Tacoma, Wash, reported an
nnbrolSen chain Of forest fires from the
Rocky mountains TO the Pacific ocean.
FIgE destroyed block of buildings
at Algonquin, Ill, and +. ID. Kozar and
his daughter perished in the flames
WEST OF Orlando, O. T., Eli Bourse
and his bride of two months were both
instantly killed by stroke OF light
ming which wrecked their house.
G. III. MITCHELL and w. Il. Taylor,
bicyclists, arrived In Philadelphia from
Denver, Col, having covered the en-
tire distance on their wheels.
THE wife and little son OF Arthur
Francis, OF Englewood, ILL.,, were
drowned in Spring lake at Grand
Haven, Mich.
TnE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
80, 800, 900 bushels; corn, 4,293,00o bush
els; oats, 3,634.000 bushels; rye, 304.-
600 bushels; barley. 2ls,00O bushels.
THE Bank of Tacoma at Tacoma,
Wash, closed It's doors with liabilities
of s379, 600.
FIRES during the week ended on the
18th caused total loss of 81, 670, 600
throughout the country, as compared
with SO, l02, 900 for the previous week.
FURTHER advices place the number
of dead and missing by the fire in the
Gumry hotel at Denver at twenty-five.
ARTHUR BUTLER and his brother
Walter and Florence Willard and
Thomas Walsh were drowned In the
lake in Chicago while bathing.
EXPERTS reported tina. the accounts
of ex-county Treasurer NJ. w. Stewart
of Wyandotte county, Kan, were
short S33.Ss5.
HEAVY marsh fires were reported in
Palmyra, Hebron and Cold Spring
townships, Mich. Fires were running
under the sod, destroying thousands of
acres Of meadows.
THE main part of bingham. u. T.,
was burned. the loss being estimated
at seoo,00O Thousands of people were
homeless.
IHE business district OF Camden,
Mich, was almost wholly destroyed by
fire.
WILLIAM BLANCHARD. prominent
farmer OF Prairie City, H., having sep
arated from his wife, went TO where
she was living and shot her dead and
then killed himself.
Mrs. J Lose, living near Mndison,
Mo-, hanged her 4-year-old child and
herself Separation from her husband
was the cause,
AN explosion at furnace II OF the
Carnegie Steel company at Braddoclx.
Pa, killed six men, fatally injured five
more, seriously burned fifteen others
and destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
TnE Pullman company has discon-
tinued the sale OF wines and liquors in
its cars In Wyoming rather than take
out state license.
The twenty-eighth annual Peace
union opened at Mystic. Conn. and
would continue four days.
FIELD aud forest fires were doing
great damage in many parts of south
eastern Michigan. and farmers were
engaged night and day in efforts 10
save their buildings from destruction.
A STEAM yacht foundercd In Lake
Erie at Buffalo and seven men were
drowned.
A RATE war prevailed among retail
druggists Of Kansas City which was
demoralizing the trade.
JonN WEsrER HARDIN, the terror OF
the Mexican border. was shot and
killed in saloon at El Paso, Tex, by
Constable Sellmnn.
A. J. LusK. who while cas- hier Of tho
First national bank OF Wichita. Kan,
two years ago was accused OF stealing
$50, 900, was captured near Portland.
Ore.
Four men held up Chicago & West
Michigan express passenger train near
Fennville, Mich, but got only seven
dollars and two silver watches.
THE Buffalo On. Y.) driving park, the
mother track Of the grand circuit,
which recently closed It's thirtleth an
nual meeting, Is TO be closed up and