The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-07-04
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important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


manufactures at Cuyahoga Falls. o.,
failed for $375.0O0.
JamesJ. Corbett and Thomas Sharkey
have agreed to meet in a finish fight for
$4,000 side within six months.
A windstorm at Atlantic, Ia, blew
down the amphithcater and floral hall
on the Cass county fair grounds and did
great damage to crops in the vicinity.
During a cloudburst near Marietta,
O., houses were swept away, stock of all
kinds drowned. and crops were ruined
on the Little Muskingum for 20 miles,
causing loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Mrs. Bierner, wife of farmer near
San Antonio, Tex. drowned herself
and her three children, aged two, four
and six years. No cause for the act
was known.
Six thousand Sioux, the remnant of
the most powerful fighters of the Amer
lean Indians, celebrated at the scene Of
the massacre the great event in their
war history--the Goth anniversary of
the destruction OF Clusters command
on the Little Big Horn. June rs. 1876.
At Creston, Ia, fences chimneys,
dead walls and outbuildings all over the
city were leveled to the ground by a
tornado.
The general crop outlook throughout
the west and northwest was said TO be
never better or more promising than at
the present time.
During the first six months OF this
year 7SS miles of new railroad have been
built in 20 states and territories on So
lines, an increase of about 20 per cent.
over the first six months of 1898.
John Phillips and Jacob Wierule,
miners at Belt, Mont, were killed and
their bodies blown TO atoms by pre-
mature explosion.
The following executions took place:
At Canyon City, Col, Thomas Colt, FL
bert Noble and Dominica Romero, who
killed Policeman John Solomon in Trim
idad; at Washington, Irving l.. Ford
(colored), for killing Elsie Kroglo; at
Marshfeld, Ore, Carl Albrecht, for the
murder of his wife; at Ell<ton, Md,
James ii. Truss, for killing Thomas
Camp; at Mariana, Ark, Arthur Taylor
(colored), for the murder of his wife.
fylyania four-mile straightaway boat
race on the Hudson at PoughlSeepsie,
N. ", was won by Cornell's eight In the
record breaking time of 10 minutes %
seconds. Harvard second. Pennsylvania
third and Columbia fourth.
II was said that the Michigan peach
crop would be the largest on record.
In the circuit court at Champaign.
ILL.,, Judge Wright decided that the state
law requiring the national flag to be dis
played over every schoolhouse in the
state during school hours was unconsti-
tutional and void.
Charley and Richard Golden, sons Of
Harry Golden. well-to-do farmer liv-
ing near Kingston. Ky, killed each
other in quarrel.
Mrs. Irene Williamson Leonard, con-
victed of the murder of her husband,
was sentenced at Wichita, Kan, 10 30
years in the penitcntiary.
In cloudburst near Edwardsvillc,
H.. two young ladies, Mary and Rose
Hurrimnn. of Marine. while driving
along country road were drowned in
their buggy.
of Carson q Weidler In North Portland.
Ore. the loss being $4,000
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
$500, $50, s32. against Si,03s. $40. sos the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 40.
s. II. Dawson, who shot and killed
Walter Scott, his son-in-lnw OF one hour,
last December. was sentenced In Des
Molnes. Ia, to ten years In the peni-
Tertiary.
There were cit business failures In
the United States In the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 276 the week
previous and 25G in the corresponding
period OF 1895.
Fire at Point Pleasant, w. Va, de-
stroycd Hoof's opera house and several
stores, shops and dwellings, causing n
loss of 100000.
The secretary of the interior issued
his requisition for si3.325.000 TO be
used in the quarterly payment of PEN
sions.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 2sth were as follows:
Baltimore, Gas; Cleveland. .047; Gin
cinnati. .633; Boston, oil; Washing
ton. 800; Chicago, .525; Philadelphia,
300; Pittsburgh, 500; Brooklyn. 800;
New York. AIS; 81. Louis, .e63; Louis
vile. .207.
The Brnddock (Pa) wire works were
closed down by the wire nail trust and
1000 men were thrown out Of work.
IL was discovered that Stephen Leg
EN-. who had served half of ten-year
sentence for a murder committed In
jefferson county. Pa, In 1890. was an
innocent man.