The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-01-23


burned and five boys persisted and q
number Of others were injured.
The business portion OF Milan. Mo-.
~ns destroyed by fire.
The semi-centennial plan OF ceieorat-
ins In 1898 the fiftieth anniversary OF
Wisconsin has been abandoned.
Dun a. Co. In their review OF trade
say that gradual and steady improve
ment has been In progress throughout
the country for two months.
Later advices say that Is children
perished In the fire that destroyed the
nuckner orphan home in Dallas. Tex.
Mrs. Frank viilier. living near Port
Leyden. N. Y, cut her child's throat
and then her own. No cause is known
for the deed. ~ ~
BENJAMIN l.. Davies, proprietor OF the
Tabbard inn at Rugby. Tenn, cut h's
wife's throat with razor and thea
shot himself to death. He was crazy
from cigarette smoking.
Johnnie Connaughton. aged 10; An
ME Rouisse, aged 10, and Gertudc
Crowley. aged o. were drowned Mt North
Leominsier. Mass. while playing on
thin ice.
In Cincinnati the Wheeling, Lake
Erie & Pittsburgh Coal company failed
for 81 .o5o 900 and the Wheeling g. Lake
/ Erie Railway company went into the
hands of receivers with liabilities of
S320. 900.
Mary and Margaret Reynolds and An
ME Conneally. all children, were SUI
fccated by gas in Boston tenement
house.
The Bank of Conway, Mo-. closed its
doors.
The annual convention of the Amerl-
can National Woman's Suffrage assoc
citation will be held In Washington Jan
rary 20 TO 30.
train on the Iron Mountain d Texas
Pacific route was thrown from the track
by wreckers at Forest. Tex, and the
engineer and express messenger were
fatally injured.
The Commercial Wheel company at
indianapolis failed for 100000.
Lew Grim shot and fatally injured
three outlaws at Flat Rock, w. Va. who
were trying TO break up dance.
The United Mine workers of America
) AT their annual meeting in Columbu
o.. elected as president NJ. ID. Batch
ford. of Ohio.
All the recent reports In regard &c
! William Waldorf Astor having become
: naturalized citizen OF Great Britain are
, said 10 be untrue.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 18th was
Wheat. 81. 459, 900 bushels; corn, 2l.522.
600 bushels; outs, l3.62l,000 bushels
? rye. 3.443, 900 bushels; barley, J.s77,OO'
!, bushels.
Mrs. Sarah Dick, the only female ma
tional bank cashier in the United States
wns for the twcnty-fourth consecutive
time chosen to that position in tn
First national bank of Huntington, Ind
The doors of the German nationa
bank at Louisville, Ky. were closes
with liabilities Of 100000.
. The First national bank of Newport
:, XIV. closed its doors with liabilities o
100000.
In the female six-day bicycle race n
n, indianapolis Title Anderson made 4
miles 10 laps in two hours, which II
r. new worlds record.
- The Minnesota savings bank at s
:. Paul suspended payment with liabil
"a ties Of $230,000.
ID I'm. Coffinberry, a banker at Garrett
Ind. charged with forgery and Ell
r. bezzlcment, fell dead from heart di
10 ease as the sheriff was about TO arre'
t. him.
Fire destroyed the business porto
Of of the village OF StaiIordville, Conn.
rs The Boston stock and grain exchang
with offices in nearly all the princip
so New England cities, has closed up bus
s. ness.
50. A heavy windstorm at Huntingto
C. Ind. blew the roof off the county !
u Urinary and damaged other buildings.
Ii is announced anthoritativ"ly III
lc- ex-Goy. Long. OF Massachusetts,, b
all been rendered and has accepted the Sc
20 retaryship of the navy in Mr.. Mehi
lcy's cabinet.
ed The Nevada legislature convened
.ut eighteenth session at Carson.
Jet Arthur Palmer. Of Mamnroneck,
Y, during a fit of insanity shot
OF mother, his sister Gertrude and
les brother Leonard, and all were in CT
ical condition.
Inc Sam Pulatka has confessed Mt
the lnnta. Ga. that he cansed the great
a hnba (AIa.) bridge disaster. which Sc
en- rs persons TO death and wounded
score more.
md A distinct earthquake shock was
OF at Red Bud, III.
led Hunters on private shooting grour
near Crown Point, Ind, were fired II
lin. by n Waterman and Theodore Pro
Dol, Frank Kosti. Alvin Boutwell, and Char
the Ptott were fatally wounded.
The third session of the Fourteen
! In parliament OF the Victorian era oper
avs in London by royal commission with
eek usual formality.
ing 8. T.. Carothers, aged ~, proprie
Of the National hotel at Mckeespo
ing Pa. was found drowned in shall
the well.