The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-05-30

near Boston with an unknown schooner
and sank her and nine men and one
woman were drowned.
Theodore CIiniet. John Goldman and
John Fox were drowned in the Della
ware river by the cnpsizing Of a boat.
All were residents OF Philadelphia.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the gath were as follows:
Cleveland. .GG7; Cincinnati, Gas; Bos'
ton. .62i: Pittsburg. .50S, Baltimore.
.552; Chicago. .54s; Philadelphia. SIT:
Washington, .4s3: brooklyn. .4l4i New
York. .379; ST. Louis, 1867; Louisville.
c33.
At Chico. Cal. Richard Little, aged
SO, shot and killed his wife, aged 10.
and then killed himself. The murderer
was insane.
Hugh Conroy aud Steve Jansen and
his wife were drowned in the lake near
oak Harbor, o., by the upsetting of a
boat.
The Town of SAILOR. S. d.. was nearly
demolished by cloudburst.
The whole Sawyer family, consisting
of father, mother and grown-up son,
were murdered in their home near Ava.
Mo-, by Edward Perry. Robbery was
the motive.
la Fontaine. Kan, village OF 200
souls. was almost destroyed by a
cyclone, and n score of farmhonses
north, east and west were destroyed.
Aaron Edwards, a farmer, was killed
and many others were severely hurt.
A fue in the boiler of the steamer
Rhcda Stewart exploded of Presque
Isle, Mich, and Henry Kesten, second
engineer. Robert McNorton, fireman
a6d Court Schrader, a deckhand. were
fatally injured.
by the explosion OF gasoline stove
in the house of Otto Malm in Chicago he
aud three Of his children were burned TO
death. another child was fatally burned
and Mrs. Malm was badly injured.
A cyclone struck Polaris, la. 10 miles
north Of ,Des Moines, killing nine people
and injuring n number.
in n railway collision near Ely, Mimi,
Engineer George Weaver and Fireman
Wallace Moulton were killed.
A cyclone swept across Polk county
and into the eastern edge of Jasper
county, Ia, leaving death and destruc-
ton i'm its trail. There were 20 per-
sons known to be dead. at least as many
others seriously injured, and the towns
Of Vnleria, Bondurant and Santiago
were i'm ruins.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 25th was Wheat,
o4,244, 900 bushels; corn. s,O7S, 900 bush
els: oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 1877
600 bushels; barley. $4,000 bushels.
August Guenther, As years old, shot
his wife in Cleveland, o., during quar-
rel and then killed himself.
The Autman a. Taylor warehouse in
Mansfield. o., was struck by lightning
and burned. the loss being 100000.
The United States supreme court sus-
tanned the validity Of the appropriations
TO carry out the sugar bounty act, re-
versing the action of Comptroller of the
Treasury Bowler, who refused to permit
the payments Of the bounties.
Fire at Fort Worth, Tex. destroyed
Ginnochio's hotel, the union depot and
the freight rooms Of the Pacific, Ameri-
can and United States Express COM
At KunlIle, o.. Lewis Wertz shot and
killed George Wheeler, the alleged par
amour of Mrs. Wertz, and then fatally
shot his wife.
Misses Georgia Riclett and Birdie
Cassaday, well-known young society
women of la Cygne, Kan, while boat
riding in the flooded streets OF that
place were drowned by the overturning
OF their boat
A cyclone by which probably over 100
lives were lost and fully 100 persons
injured more or less seriously swept
over Oakland, Lapeer and Macomb
counties, Mich. The towns struck
were ortonvillc. Thomas, Metamora,
Mount Clemens. lakewood and st. Clair
The Cotton States exposition which
was to have been held In Chicago this
fall has been officially declared Off.
Fifteen persons were drowned by a
flood in the Bloody Run river at Du-
buque, In.
Seven killed and many injured,
some of them fatally, was the result Of
n cyclone which swept through the 1lli-
nois towns of Monroe, Leaf River, For
reston, Elgin, Rockford, Davis Junction,
Egan City, Mount Morris and Roclston.
Edison Park, Norwood Park. Irving
Park and Ravenswood, suburban Chi
cago towns, were badly damaged by
high winds and several persons were in
jured,
The National bank of Jefferson, Tex,
closed it's doors.
Mrs. Charles Comstock, of Fishers
Corners, o., gave birth 10 seven chill
dren--four girls and three boys.
Careful search through the 20 miles
of territory In Michigan devastated by
the tornado which swept over Oakland,
Macomh and Lapeer counties shows that
fully GO lives were lost and nearly rs
people injured. OF whom many will die.
Fifty square miles of the choicest farm
ing land, including the prosperous
towns OF North Oxford. Ortonville,
Thomas and lakewood. were reduced 10