The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-12-05
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


been - murders in Mingo county, W..
Va.
In football games in various places
on Thanksgiving day one person was
killed and "a others were injured. some
seriously.
Inman, Poulson a. Co.'S sawmill at
Portland, Ore. was burned. the loss be-
ing 100000.
Contracts for over 50, oOo.Ooo worth OF
new vessels for the lakes have been
closed i'm Chicago since the election,
giving employment to $500 men.
The Naval Veterans association un-
yelled its monument to the United States
navy at Loudon Park cemetery In Bal
timore. Md.
q. w. Nelson, leading tenor in The
choir at Thanksgiving services AT the
First Baptist church in Chattanooga.
Tenn. dropped dead in the choir.
EInpey a Woodard's gram elevator
at Pennington. Mimi, WAS burned with
10000 bushels Of grain.
Thanksgiving day was universally
observed throughout the country
The exchanges at the leading clear
the week ended on the 21th aggregated
S035,Y53.ll3, against Si,2J5,7s2,lil the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
Is 60.
There were 300 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the eth. against 344 the week
previous and 279 In the corresponding
period of 1895.
X. q. Dun e. Co. in their weekly re-
view OF trade say that reports from all
parts of the country show clearly the
enlargement OF trade. not at all points
i'm the same branches, but everybody
helped by more confident feeling.
Shoniuger. Levy q Co. wholesale lace
dealers in Chicago, failed for 100000.
A cyclone near Waco, Tex. devastated
n strip one mile wide and eight miles In
length. number OF farmhouses were
demolished and one person was killed
and several others injured.
j. {. Watts, cashier of the State bank
OF Nicola. la. is said to be defaulter in
the sum of $4,000. lie is supposed To be
somewhere in Colorado.
Domestic trouble in the home Of Hen
nv l.. Rowers at DE Kalb. H., eliminated
In the murder of the wife and the sui
eide OF the husband.
In various places in Decatur county,
lLd.. ON Thanksgiving day two people
were killed. two fatally injured ami
several others seriously hurt in acct
dents.
Will, ,a,n,,,ra ril,, inoona 4, arr,,,, Xy;I
bur, 81 years OF nge. shot and killed his
nephew, "A boy OF IL, and then com
mitted suicide at his home near Angus
Ia, In.
Two hundred thousand head Of cattle
are perishing from cold and hunger on
the ranges west of the Missouri river in
South Dakota.
MIR. and Mrs. Hiram Reynolds. an old
couple living at Fredonia, n. T., were
suffocated 10y coal gas.
A severe blizzard prevailed through
out the northwest the thermometer in
portions of Montana, Wyoming and the
Dakotas ranging from 20 TO 80 degrees
below zero.
Three men were fatally shot and sew
cral others more or less seriously
wounded in drunken riot at Duryea,
Pa.
a cyclone passed through the north
west corner of Tunca. Miss, wreck ing
church and several houses and killing
Sarah Clay and injuring several other
persons.
President Cleveland has purchased
the old Slidell property in Princeton.
n. j., with view to making II his per-
manent home.
The elevator Of the ST. Paul Ware
house & Elevator company in ST. Paul
was burned, the loss being si0O.0O0.
l.. Il. Irwin. chief of the kansas City
(Mo.) police department. died of blood
poisoning. aged SO years.
Meyer Bros, cloak manufacturers in
New York. failed for 100000.
The total collections OF internal rev
cnue for the month OF October were SI3,-
.s5.2O5. decrease rs compared with DC
tober. 1895. OF $575,OOs.
Acyclone struck the town OF Ralston,
o. T.. and nearly wiped out the 200
houses In the place. Several persons
were injured.
The entire plant OF the East Clayton
w brlckniaking company was de
stroyed by hre. the loss being 100000.
Jackson Young (colored) was hanged
at Scale, Ala. for numbering his sister
three months ago. lie died protesting
his innocence.
Horace l.. Steurs, ex-mayor OF Per
ryssille. o.. and very highly respected.
was murdered by Elias keyster because
OF trouble over note.
The great storm which swept over
Minnesota and the Dakotas resulted i'm
the loss Of life to four persons and great
less to live stock.
Francis Murphy celebrated In Pitts
lburhg, Pa the twentieth anniversary
of his temperance work. which he be-
gan in that city.