The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19
The News Condensed.
Impotant InteIIigenee Tom AII Pahs
DOMESTIC.


Paris, doing great damage TO property
over so others.
The Office of the Southern Express
company in Thomasville, Ga, was
robbed of $1,000.
Mrs. Laura Behrent was burned TO
death in Chicago by the explosion Of
gasoline stove and her 13-months-old
boy was fatally burned.
Heron. Taylor a. Co. wholesale
grocers in Memphis, Tenn, failed for
100000
James p. Weidman and Joe Allen quar-
relied while discussing the silver ques-
tion at 81. Augustine, Fla, and killed
each other.
The Sons of Veterans In annual scs-
sion nt Louisville. Ky, elected James
l.. Rake. OF Reading, Pa. commander In
chief, and decided TO hold the next en-
campment at indianapolis.
Charles Maidment, OF Richmond, Mo.
killed his wife aud then took his own
life. Cause of the tragedy not known.
Mrs. Henry lngham, OF Battle Creek.
Mich, who has tasted l64 days, has be.
gun TO take food again.
Samuel Allen. a lumber dealer at
Houston. Tex. failed for S5OO.0O0.
Fourteen persons were poisoned AZ
a wedding feast at Bondurant, la. and
some OF them were in serious condi-
ton.
a mercantile alliance was formed In
Chicago by 200 manufacturers and over
10000 ret.il merchants outside of Chi
cago TO be called the National Associa-
ton OF Merchants and Travellers, the
object being TO make known the adj
vantages OF trnding in Chicago and the
improvement Of methods OF merchan-
dising.
The Bank OF Commerce. n state insti-
tuition, closed its doors at New Orleans
with liabilities of over 100000.
The Franklin cotton mills at Cincin-
natl were placed i'm the hands OF re-
ceiyer. with liabilities of $4,000.
George Lynch and Reese Reese lost
their lives by the explosion Of powder
mill at Youngstown, o.
Two cigurmakers, one al Norfolk, Va,
and the other at Jacksonville, H., threw
themselves before moving trains and
were cut to pieces.
There were 315 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 334 the week
previous md 1877 In the corresponding
period OF 1895.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
$759, 029 Pa against 1927, ,134 the pre-
vious week. The decrease compare
with the corresponding week In 1895
is PAP.
Polk Wells. the notorious outlaw, died
in prison at Anamosa. Ia.
Charles Hamilton was hanged nj
Paris, Ark. for the murder OF an old
man named McAbee IN Franklin county
last winter.
Silas Huffman, an obstinate eccentric
who remained in bed for over IS years
out of spite, died at his home near Far
Hills. N. j.
At the annual meeting in Grand
Rapids, Mich, OF the National Letter
Carriers association j. N. Parsons, OF
New York. was elected president.
The percentage OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were as follows: Bal
timore, .7os; Cleveland. .622; Cincinnati,
COS; Chicago, sos; Boston. $40; Pitts
burgh, sci; New York, .402; Philadel-
phia, ass; Brooklyn. ASS; Washington,
.425; st. Louis. .203; Louisville. Pts.
Mrs. William Vyverberg and her 20
year-old daughter were drowned at
Thompson's mill near Dubuque. Ia, By
driving of an embankment into
swoolen creek.
Jose Perea shot and killed his sweet
heart, Altagracia Polaco, at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, and then killed himself.
Charles McGoyern, Charles O'Toolo
end George Stevens were found dead in
n miners cabin mile from Victor, Col
II Is thought they were poisoned.
Two cars loaded with passengers
went through a bridge 80 feet into the
water near Eurekn. Cal, and four per-
sons lost their lives and ten others were
badly injured.
Henry c. Bowers, of Cooperstown, n.
Y. and w. A. Herman. Jr., OF Utica, were
killed by lightning near the former
place.
The Imperial. the second largest hotel
Mt Old Orchard Beach, Me-, was burned.
The Kansas City lead and oil works
were burned. the loss being 100000.
The Delaware oil works nj Trimmer,
Pa, owned by Hiram Il. Lutz, OF Phila-
delphia, were burned. the loss being
100000.
Miss Clara Barton. the representa-
tive of the Red Cross society. arrived In
New York from the scene of the Ar
menian troubles.
Ship Kinsey (colored) was lynched
by mob near Lovett. Ca. for criminal
~ assaulting Mrs. Monroe johnson. a
young married white woman.
The Bennett national bank at New
Whatcomb, Wash. failed with liabill-
ties Of $4,000.