The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-12-04

Of his wife. began In Chicago.
The Ashland (Ky.) improvement COM
pany failed for $4,000.
a stock barn belonging 10 Charles
King al Clarksyille, Ia, was burned
with So head Of choice steers.
The steamer Nahant was burned TO
the waters edge AZ Escannba. Mich.
and two OF the crew persisted.
The corner stone OF the new $1,000
600 Congregational house in Boston.
was laid.
Mrs. Theresa Cnrdoza. who weighed
COO pounds, died in San Francisco.
The River Falls (Wis.) state normal
school was burned, the loss being $780,
600.
Asphyxintion caused the death Of II.
}. Courtney, Arthur Dunn and John
Dalton in the Grand Trunk railway tun-
mel al Port Huron, Mich.
The Chinese Equal Rights league Of
Chicago will petition congress 10 give
Chinese citizens OF the country the righr
Of naturalization and citizenship
Baron Won llolleben, the recently-ap-
pointed German ambassador. presented
his credentials to President Mckinley
The Union Pacific fast mail completed
the longest record breaking run ever
made-5io miles in 500 minutes. The
Jun was from Cheyenne TO Omaha.
The National Civil Service Reform
league will hold its annual meeting at
Cincinnati December Is and II.
The new agricultural building at
Tuskegee, Ala. for colored students
was opened.
4 monthly steamship service has
been established between New York
and India.
The militia Of Kentucky is under
marching orders ready 30 protect the
toll gates. Gov. Bradley being deter
mined to stop their destruction.
At Lincoln, Neb., Eugene Moore, ex-
auditor Of state, was sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary for the EN-
bezzlement of $4,000.
The Mississippi river is frozen over
at Dubuque, la, and navigation has
closed
Seven men were dead at Moplcsville,
Ala, and II more were not expected TO
live from the result Of drinking a mix
ture Of wood alcohol and cheap whisky.
Martin Thorn was convicted i'm New
York OF murder in the first degree in
killing William Guldensuppe, his pre-
decessor in the affections of Mrs. Au-
gusta Mack, at Woodside, l.. l.. on June
%.
William Ellis. prominent farmer
near Evergreen. Ala, took Cook King
(colored) and tied him to n tree and
shot him TO death, Intimacy with FL
lis daughter is the alleged cause
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom, Of ILL
nois, has declined the position OF chair
man Of the interstate commerce com
mission.
George Douglass, who accidentally
killed Albert Grayer at Snowden. Pa.
in attempting to murder another. was
hanged in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ia an accident on the Atlantic q Dan
Vile railroad at Gill's station. Va. En-
gineer James Luter and Fireman Frank
II. Smith lost their lives.
At Olneyyille, r.. L., $4,000 mill opcr-
atives have received an advance Of 20
per cent. in wages.
a dime-in-the-slot machine for reg
isiercd letters is being tested in the New
York post office.
Frank A. Keith and Maggie Godfrey
committed suicide together by iuhaIing
gas in a room in Lowell, Mass. They
were pennileks.
Secretary Gage estimates the treas
ury deficit for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898 az $40 100000
Gambling paraphernalia valued at
$4,000 was burned at Leadville, Col, by
order Of the court.
w. J. Burian fired revolver at his
wife in Detroit but succeeded only in
slightly wounding her, and then shot
himself dead. Jealousy was the cause.