The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-01-04

In America. failed in Lexington. KY.
for $500. 900.
Samuel Friedman. of Dayton, o..
Wholesale fruit dealer. was robbed by
highwaymen of $500.
The twin sister of the new bntfleship
Kearsargc has been named by Secre-
fary Herbert the Kentucky.
Hallway building reached In the
United States this year a lower point
than In any OF the last 20 years. the
record showing only J .7s2 miles Of track
laid.
The schooner Edna M. Champion.
which sailed from Philadelphia on oc-
tober IL for Port Tampa. Fla. with a
crew q nine men. wal given up as lost.
Bart Tormey, Andrew Lawrence and
William Girnrd were instantly killed by
an explosion OF dynamite at The Mines
Vile (Pa.) colliery.
The fourth earthquake shock since
October 81 last was felt at Charleston.
Mo-. md vicinity.
IL. b. Minis a Co, one of the oldest
book concerns in Troy, n. T., made an
assignment.
AS the result of meeting In Chicago
every window glass mandatory in
the United States will close down Jan
uary ii for four weeks.
This exchanges at the Leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 27tb nggre-
gated Sl.144,02s. e02, against $i,1s5.2 6s.-
CSC the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1894. was 800.
Efforts 10 enforce the Sunday-clos-
ing laws at Niagara Falls, n. Y. failed,
the jurics releasing all prisoners.
Twenty-four persons were smoihered
and trampled to death in n panic
caused by false alarm of fire IN the
FrontStreet theater In Baltimore. Tw,
others were fatally hurt and ten more
were seriously injured.
Judge jackson, OF the United Suites
court at Parkersburg, w. Va. held
that pension money could not be at-
tached or levied on for debt.
ThA total number of failures IN the
United States in 1895. as reported 10
Brudstreet's. is 1903, contrasted with
1921 I'm 1894. The total amount of La
bilities amounted TO $15s. S42. 445. more
than S0,000.000 in excess of the total
In 1894.
The last saloon in st. Joe. Ind. was
wrecked by unknown persons.
The Osage valley In Missouri was u
scene OF desoation from end 10 end
and thousands of people were in dis
tress. Many were homeless, without
food and but scantily clad, oil their
earthly possessions having been sweep.
away by the most disastrous flood ever
known in Central and southwest Mis-.
souri.
At meeting IN Chicago the three
great silver organizations OF the United
States--the American timetable league,
National Bimetallic union and Ma
tional Silver committee--werc CONSOLE
lated as the American Timetable union
aud Gen. A. j. Warner. of Ohio. was
elected president.
A gang of countcrfeitors was found
IN, Bond county, north Of Carlyle, Ill.
They were making good limitations of
the five dollar gold piece dated 1850.
AT Cochransville, w. Va, Frank Rog-
ers, while drunk, fatally shot Alice Nc
Clellnnd because she refused TO marry
him and then killed himself.
Charles Nnnbuskirk, aged 25, and
Maude Bond. aged l6, were instantly
killed by the ears near Benkelman,
Ncb.. while returning home in n car
riagc from party.
II WINS SAID that the United States
had demanded from the porte the gay
ment of n large indemnity for the losses
sustained by American missionaries In
Asia Minor.
The plant of the Chicago Mill a.
Lumber company at Cairo, ILL.,. was
burned. the loss being 100000.
Eight persons were injured In a rail-
road crossing wreck near Des MoineS.
In.
A mob burned Mrs. I. j. West alive
and killed w. A. Dever. her parnmour.
nt Mrs. Vests house near Lexing,on
Ky. The killing OF Mr.. West recently
10y Devcr was the cause.
DR.. w. IA. Taylor. member of the
Illinois Legislature. was shot and killed
at Weldon, H.. ny John A. Pace, Gu"
postmaster. The tragedy was the out
growth of domestic scandal. Pace
Was acquitted by corouer's jury.
The large feed stores and grain ware
houses of II. y. Eaton were burned nj
Norwich. n. r.. the loss being 100000.
A trust was formed in ST. Louis that
will unite all the zinc smelters Of the
country except four under ono man
ugement.
The Sweet Manufacturing company.
the leading steel industry In Syrnc,ifc.
n. u. went into rcccivership with IL
abilities OF 100000.
Justice Brewer, OF the supreme
court. was rendered and accepted
place ON the Venezuelan commission.
IL was said that hundreds OF cattle
and horses were drowned In the swollen
streams on the Usage reservation in
Oklahoma, entniling ruinous losses TO