The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-10-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Jane hndpp, Johh 4htH uIihhu unu Miss
Carrie Mcfarland were burned 10 death
sn the hotel.
George II. Anderson attempted TO
make parachute drop from balloon
mt Paola, Kan, but the parachute did
not open and he fell 5000 feet and was
killed.
AZ the annual meeting in Milwaukee
81 the National Prison congress Roeliff
Brinkerhoff. OF Mansfield, o.. was elect
ed president.
BY collision OF two freights at Phil
son, Pa, on the Baltimore g. Ohio. six
men were killed outright and as many
more badly injured.
While drunk Nathan i. Spellman IA
tally wounded Anna Kicker, aged II
years, near Holgate, o., and then killed
himself.
The public debt statement shows n
net increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury. during September OF
81 ,SOC. O34. Total cash In the treasury,
$50. G42. 773.
Thomas NewlSirk and Henry Ash
craft fought duel over girl near Mid
dlesboro, Ky, and both men were killed.
The National Association of Live
Stock Exhibitors in session at Spring
field, H., elected IL. n. Gentry, OF Sc
dnlia, Mo-. president.
a cloudburst washed away part OF the
village OF Benson, a. r., and Willam
Seek. barber, his wife and two chit
dren. and Oscar Ashburn, a cattlerlan,
were drowned.
The match sculling race ut Worcester.
Mass, between Whitehead and Ten
Eyck for the amateur championship of
the United States was won by Ten Eyck
by one and half lengths.
The receipts and expenditures of the
government fo- the month of September
shows the total receipts 10 have been
24,5s4,244 and the expenditures $780,
t70,5S5, leaving n deficit for the month
of s1.0o5,2sl. The deficit for the three
months Of the present fiscal year is $685.
94,120, against deficit OF 50, SS4, COS for
the corresponding months last year.
AT the opening in Burlington OF the
semi-centennial celebration % Iowa's
statehood the reviewing stand col
lapsed and IL persons were injured,
among them being Gov. Drake and Vice
President Stevenson.
Fire in the Paschen block in Milwau-
kee caused a loss of 100000.
The monthly statement OF the comp
troller of the currency shows the
amount of national bank notes In cir
culation September 30 was S233, 552. 900,
an increase for the month OF $4,025, ISL.
and for the ~ months OF $50. 7s0, 1913.
Mrs. Mary Funk was killed and her
daughter, Mrs. o. Metz, and an adopted
child four years of age were fatally in
jured by aiunaway team near Atlantic.
Ia,
Lesser Brothers, wholesale dealers in
clothing in New York, failed for $780,
0C0.
The recent storm did great damage at
the national cemeteries in the vicinity
of Washington. hundreds OF trees being
uprooted and some graves destroyed.
William A. Little, OF Georgia. assist
ant attorney general for the interior de-
partment, has sent his resignation to
President Cleveland.
The silk factory owned by Alfred
Streuli at Sterling, Mass. was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
The monthly statement OF the director
of the mint shows the total coinage at
the United States minis during the
month Of September. 1896. TO have been
$5,015,313.5O, divided as follows: Gold.
$751; ,022.50; silver, S2,754,l65; minor
coins, S2O,226.
Further advices say that In the recent
hurricane in Florida ca persons were
killed and G2 injured. Hundreds of per-
sons are homeless and must suffer from
hunger unless relief is quickly fur
pishr1.
Over 1000 men and women employed
H. the manufacture of clothing ia Bos-
ton went on a strike in an cndeavor 10
better their condition.
The First national bank at Joseph,
Ore, was robbed OF So 900 by three men,
one of whom was shot dead. another
badly wounded aud the third escaped
with the money.
The total number of business failures
throughout the United States from Jan
nary l 10 September 30, 1890, Is IL ESQ.
the largest aggregate reported for ike
period since records OF this character
have been compiled.
The boiler Of the Mills sawmill Nc No
vcsta, Mich, exploded, killing Nelson
Mills and Jerry Lewis and fatally in
juring Ezra Scribner and Ezra Dael.
Clinton II. Coulter rode mile I'M
paced at Denver, Col, In 1859 is, beat
ing the worlds bicycle record of 300 rs
held by Sager.
The exchanges nt the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the I'd aggregated
SS04.27l,419. against $SO7. .204 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
As ala.
The Minnesota Methodist conference
voted against the admission os women
60 the general assembly.
Since the opening of navigation up TO
the present time 4,20s boats have cleared
from Buffalo on the Erie canal. This
a. almost double the clearance OF last
year.
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