The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-05-02

n bolief c<pioucu IN taWfufii AT
Flinton. Pa. killing Matthew McGongh,
a sawyer; S. S. Gates, a helper. and j. b..
Burgoon. proprietor Of the mill.
A FIRE that started Ia dancehouse at
| Cripple Creek, COL. swept away ESQ
buildings and entniling loss Of upward
cs sl.oo0.o0o. with only $4,000 in
surance. The fire was the work OF an
incendiary.
| A shipping stable nt Galloway. o., be-
longing TO Ed. Courtwright was de-
stroyed by fire and AZ horses. some OF
them quite valuable. were burned TO
death.
Washington adyices say that the treas
ury deficit for the fiscal year ending
June 20, 1896. will be. approximately
| s25, 100000.
Walter Dygert, of Greenwood. III
arrived ut Tampa, Fla. from Cub !.
where he had just been released frori
prison.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 27th was: Wheat,
81 ,030, 900 bushels: corn, Is, 900 bush
els; oats, o,737, 200 bushels; rye. 1870
900 bushels; barley 1,220,o0o bushels.
Charles Kuhn, a real estate dealer VA
st. Louis who was missing, was said 10
be short 100000. which is due persons
with whom he had real estate dealings.
Sam Brumley, aged 10, insarely jeal-
GUS OF his step-slster, shot Ida Clark. \
friend of the girl. i6 years old, in Louis
Vile. Ky. and cut his own throat.
Karl Feigcnbanm, alias Anton Lain.
who murdered Mrs. Johanna Hoffman,
In New York September j. 1894, was ex.
ecuted by elect icity in the penitentiary
ut Sing Sing. n. Y. He was said 10
have been the London Jack the Rip
per-
Eugene Camburn, a farmer living near
Upton. Mich. WINS shot and fatally
wounded by Harry Luce. who then
shot himself dead. Luce had been
paying attentions to Gamburns daugh
ter against the fathers wishes.
The 74th anniversary of the birthday
of Gen. Grant was appropriately cele-
brated at his old home in GaIena, Ill.
and also in ssrious other cities and
towns throughput the country.
james BiyaTd and Frank Daley, two
young farmers, were drowned near
Fort Wayne, Ind, while fishing.
The fishing schooner j. w. Campbell.
Of Gloucester, Mass, went down in a
squall and nine sailors were drowned.
The I'D general assembly of Ohio adj
journed sine die.
A cyclone near Sanborn, n. d..
wrecked houses and barns and did
other damage, but no lives were lost.
The large elevators at Manley. Ply
mouth and Rock Falls, in Iowa, were
moved from their foundations by a
tornado and outbuildings were over
turned and n number Of bridges dam
aged.
Laden with arms and ammunition for
the insurgents and carrying nearly 400
men, the steamship Bermuda left jack
sonvillc, Fla. for Cuba.
Further advices say that III persons
lost their lives in the recent cyclone
In Clay county, Kan.
pemberton Bros, dealers in sheep
skins in Boston, failed for 100000.
Navigation on the ST. Lawrence river
was resumed.
Lucky Davis. Louis Davis. Rufus
Buck. Mamoi July, Sam Sampson and
Ed Willey were sentenced to be hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark. on July ] for crimes
against women committed in the In
dian territory.
The valley state bank, which failed at
Hutchinson, Kan, in February, has
rcopened under the name of the Bank
of Hutchinson.
Great damage was done to streets
and bridges In Dubuque. Ia. by rain
storm and many residences were struck
by lightning.
The large warehouse Of the Atlantic
Refining company in Pittsburgh. Pa.
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Several warehouses and hotel were
destroyed by fire at Paris, Tex. causing
loss OF S250.000 and the death of two
men.
A passenger train on the Illinois Cen
trail was ditchcd by washout half
mile east OF Raymond. Ia. and IA per-
sons were injured, some seriously.
The monthly report of the condition
of crops throughout the country was
favorable.
The 2cd annual encnmpment of the
Iowa department, q. A. r.. met In Cedar
Rapids with 10000 old soldiers la at
tendance.
William Paul was hung in the state
prison at Columbus. O.. for the muir
der OF his father-in-law, jacob Hockey,
In September, 1894.
Forest fires were doing immens, dam
age In Crawford and Clark counties In
Indiana.
The village Of Epiphany, N. d.. was
completely destroyed by cyclone. not
building being left standing. and
three persons were fatally and rs more
or less seriously injured
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In convention at Harrisburg the
Pennsylvania republicans elected dele
gates 10 the national convention who
favor Matt Quay for president. rhe
resolutions favor nrotectlon and 70