The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-11-20

600 bushels; barley, 4,3l2,OOO bushels.
On the Chickamauga battlefield Penn
sylvania dedicated monuments 10 her
soldiers.
John Purcell. the worlds champion
heavy weight and hammer thrower, died
al his home in Florence. Mass.
Albert Kneeland, the bigamist. who
has l2 living wives, was sentenced at 81,
Joseph. Mo, 10 three years and six
months in the penitentiary.
William Wilson, a prominent lawyer
and son of the late United States Sena-
tor Wilson, committed suicide at his
home In Snow Hill, Nd. III health was
the cause.
For the last ten months a gain OF
S70. 2O2. ZOE Is shown over the correspond
ing period Of last year in the exports Of
merchandise and gain Of SCI ,555,273 in
the imports.
The Office OF the Sentinel, the popu-
list organ OF Marshall county, was
wrecked with dynamite at Britton, 5.
D.. by unknown parties.
Mrs Henry Paysen and her four
year-old daughter were burned TO death
al Clinton, la.
The football eleven of Delaware col
lcge at Wilmington has disbanded be.
cause every player on the team is laid
up with injuries.
The knights Of Labor general as
sembly at Louisville, KY, voted 10 set
apart the last Sunday in June as Labor
Memorial day.
President Mckinley has designated
eV-Secretary John w. Foster as a spe-
cial plcuipotentiary TO treat with the
prime minister OF Canada concerning
all matters now pending between the
two governments.
W. II. Harrison, editor of the Ashland
(Miss.) Register. was stabbed 10 death
Ivy j. l.. Mcdonald.
There will be 90 election contest
cases in the house Of representatives 20
be taken up when congress meets on
December 3.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
his annual report gives mass of varied
information relating to the farming in
dustry.
The nnal act on the part Of this gov
eminent in the ratification of the treaty
adopted by the recent universal postal
congress was taken when President
Mckinley signed the article.
President Fetterlof, of Glrard col
lege, Philadelphia, issued an edict
against football.
Louis and Joseph Schrempp, two
brothers. both saloon keepers, were
stricken with paralysis in St. Louis NJ
the same moment.
l.. ID. Spickler, farmer at Cushing,
Ia, killed his wife and himself. Family
trouble was the cause.
The Territorial Press association has
adopted resolutions favoring the crea-
ton OF a state from Oklahoma terri
tory.
The Delta county bank at Delta, Col,
$4,000.
The Ohio supreme court decided that
the law requiring that in filing APP
pointive county and city Offices prefer
ence should be given to honorably dis
charged union soldiers is invalid.
Mrs. Terrill and her nephew, Ed
ward Mason, were burned TO death on
farm few miles from Peru, n. Y.
The Wyoming supreme court has de-
cided that no foreign-born citizen can
vote unless he can read English.
During the absence Of Louis Brown
and wife from their home near White
Oak Ala, the house was burned and
three children were cremated.
At the fifteenth annual congress in
Chicago Of the Baptist denomination Of
the United States close communion was
repudiated by several wcll-known lead
crs Of the church.
AZ the annual meeting in Harris
burg, Pa, of the National Grange Aaron
Jones, Of Indiana, was elected worthy
master.
The gold reserve in the national
treasury on the 10th was $l55,ssG,24s.
the highest on record.
A league OF business men has been
formed in Kansas TO try and secure
the repeal OF the prohibitory liquor
law.
George sengrnves, proprietor of
restaurant in St. Louis. reproved his
two grown sons for some trivial offense
and they fatally assaulted him.
Charles Arnold and wife and Gustave
Arnold, n grown son, were buried side
by side in the cemetery at Freeburg,
III. They all died on the same day, but
OF different malndies.
The operators OF the Cross mountain
coal mines in Tennessee will mine coal
by electricity.
Joseph A. lasigi, formerly Turkish
consul in Boston, was sent to prison
for Is years for cmbezzlement.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
DR.. Susan a. Edison, one OF the best
known physicians In the United States,
died In Washington in her seventy-fifth