The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-08-20
poyyI,sTIC.


Leonard Roby, son OF Judge Roby, of
Auburn, Ind, and Miss Lena Rempis
were drowned in Crooked lake, near
Angola.
A cloudburst flooded Clarksburg, w.
Va. and caused immense. damage.
The United States steamship Phila-
delphia arrived In Honolulu with Adj
miral Miller and staff on board, and
the admiral will raise the American
flag over the Hawaiian islands.
Mrs. j. Polk Deane and her sister,
Mrs j. +. Cunning, died in Dover, Del,
from eating poisoned candy
Fire at Fresno, Cal, destroyed prop
erty valued at S500,0 and caused the
death of four persons.
The monthly statement OF the inn
ports and exports of the United States
shows that during the month OF July
the imports OF merchandise amounted
10 s50.647,3 800 and the exports amount
ed to ST., 1912.
James Davis and Albert Robinson
were drowned in lake near Paducah
Ky. by the overturning Of their boat
while fishing.
The percentages OF the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were Cincin-
natl, $50; Boston, .643; Cleveland, COS;
Baltimore, SOL; New York, $50; Chi
cago, .545; Pittsburgh, SCI; Philadel-
phia. .479; Brooklyn, $3.50; Louisville,
.374; Washington, .354; ST. Louis, .2s3.
Sheriff Fisher and posse Of 10 men
made a raid on "A crowd of negro gam
blers az Bayboro. Ca. billing five OF
them and MORALLY wounding three 9th
crs
A hailstorm, destroying 10000 acres
OF grain, swept over the western part
of Foster and Eddy counties, n. ID.
Charles II. Meyer, German consul in
Philadelphia, died Of apoplexy. aged 70
years.
1t was said at Washington that Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee would enter the SEN
atorial race in Virginia.
II was said that 80 lives were lost in
the recent cloudburst in Hawkins
county, Tenn, instead Of 20, as pre-
viously reported.
Terrible wind and transforms were
damage TO property and crops.
A cyclone near Gary, S. d.. destroyed
much valuable property besides killing
II number of people.
Mai. L. w. Read, of Savannah, Ga,
was found dead in his room at New
York hotel. His wife died about the
same time nj her homein Savannah.
John Searles. wealthy farmer, muir
dered his young wife and then killed
himself at their home west Of Peru,
H.
II. w. Colson. a broker on the St.
Louis merchants exchange, was found
dead lying across the graves Of four OF
his children at Bellefontaine cemetery.
He had committed suicide.
Ambassador Hay has accepted the
office OF secretary OF state, which was
formally rendered to him by the pres
| ident.
Mrs. Womert, wife of Emanuel
| Womert, who was murdered IN bed n
few days ago at Lancaster, Pa, by sup
posed burglars while his wife was
asleep by his side. committed suicide.
At San Francisco +. j. Corbett. IA
Their OF James j. Corbett, the heavy
weight pugiist, shot and killed his wife
and then turned the weapon uron him
self with fatal effect.
Al Rockford, H.. George Emmett,
while in a temporary iii of insanity,
shot and instantly killed his sister
Anna. aged 80, and then shot himself,
| blowing his own head Oft.
Two young women who are as yet
unknown committed suicide by jump
ing from n ferry'boat into the Delaware
river at Philadelphia.
The fourteenth annual meeting OF
the Society Of American Florists
opened In Omaha, Neb., with an at
tendance Ct over 300 Delegates.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association convened in an
nual session In Detroit, Mich, with del
egates in attendance from every state
In the union.
The New York board OF aldermen
adopted resolution requesting the
government TO lay out national Gem
etcry TO which the bodies OF the SOL
diers who have fallen in the Spanish
war shall be transferred for burial.
State Senator w. III. Wall WIS shot
and instantly killed at Staunton, ILL.,,
by Otto Matthias, who escaped after the
murder.
The New York board OF aldermen
killed an ordinance introduced provid.
ing punishment for swearing in public
places by laying IL on the table by an
| almost unanimous vofe
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Rear Admiral Kirkland, command
ant OF the Mare Island navy yard and