The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-01
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dor, and Mr.. Brun. the Danish minis
ter, have left Bar Harbor. Me-, for
washington.
Professor George Frederick Wright,
the noted geologist of Oberlin college,
was married at Indianapolis to Mrs.
Flora Bedford.
President Zelaya has appointed DR..
Jose Dolores Gamez to be arbitrator
for Nicaragua in the settlement of
the Honduras boundary question.
Capt William Swift, who was TO
have commanded the battleship Maine,
has been retained in Washington as a
member OF the general board.
John X. Wise has been appointed
assistant superintendent of Carlisle In
dian school. succeeding f. A. Allen,
who is appointed special agent for In
dian work.
Frank Adams OF Evanston, Ind,
while riding a bicycle at Bonneville
collided with an express wagon and
was killed instantly.
A monument marking the birthplace
OF James Knox Polk, eleventh presi-
unveiled near Pineville. N. c.
Walter Porter. Jr, the 16-months-
old child of Walter Porter OF Hoop
pole. H., fell from his mothers arms
into huge water tank and was
drowned.
Frank Austin, considered the
wealthiest resident OF Medina, N. Y,
was murdered by robbers while act
Ing as Waterman at his storage plant
to allow the regular Waterman to see
a play.
The soldiers bounty bill, providing
for the payment of $125 TO every civil
war veteran, passed by the last Mass
achusetts legislature over the COVER
nors veto, was declared unconstitu.
tional by the state Supreme Court.
A strike OF the allied mechanical
trades employed on the Canadian Pa
cific Railway for an increase in wages
was called Saturday, 700 men at Win
nipeg, Man, and the employees at
Fort William and other points walk
ing out. II is reported the company
will fight the strike.
Judge Alexander +. Daily, from
whose court room the negroes Reed
and Cato were taken by mob and
burned on the outskirts OF States
boro, Ca, was in consultation with
Governor Terrell in Atlanta. He will
urge the grand jury to indict the
members of the mob.
More than 5000 farmers, represent
ing sixteen counties in the dark to-
bacco growing counties OF Tennessee
and Kentucky, met in Guthrie, KY,
and adopted resolutions asking the
federal grand juries throughout the
two states to investigate The alleged
ruinous competition of the tobacco
trust.
John Jennes, a travelling salesman
for a Boston firm, starved himself to
death in a hotel in Galesburg, Ill. He
died after having refused food for a
week. He had been Ill all summer.
Fire in the plant Of the ]. A. Fay
a Egan company, manufacturers of
woodworking machinery at Cincinnati,
caused loss of 100000, fully covered
b INSURANCE. The Christian Pepper
tobacco plant in st. Louis was dam
aged to the extent of 100000. Five
hundred employees escaped with diff
Guilty.
A Baltimore & Ohio fast freight
train struck a wagon loaded with $50
pounds OF dynamite at North Branch,
w. Va, and was wrecked. Brakeman
c. Walter Whitehair and Engineer
Nelson Pike were killed and nine 9th
ers injured. Several residences were
destroyed, and every house in town
was damagd.
Two men we're killed by an engine
IN the freight yards at st. George.
s. I.
The warerooms Of the Abbott Down
i~g Carriage company, Boston, Mass,
were burned. Loss, $4,000.
Moses ID. Lewis, a negro. was
hanged at New Orleans for assaulting
Elizabeth Kientz, n 13-year-old child.
The main building OF the Tifin, o..
brewery, owned by Phillip Grummel,
was Quilted by fire. Loss, about $780,
900.
Word has been received at the navy
department that the cruiser Mayfiower
has sailed from Genoa for Gibraltar on
her way home.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 8, east
bound. was wrecked at Nepesta, Col, n
station east of Pueblo. Several per
sons were slightly injured.
The schooner Elvira French foun-
dered off the Jersey coast. and Capt
Daniel G.. Conner and six members OF
the crew were drowned.
Frank Wheeler. aged years. was
kidnapped at Springfield, H.. by two
men, who are believed by his mother
20 have been acting for her husband,
from whom she is separated.
Newton Jones and John Taylor we're
arrested In Newport, KY. charged
with counterfeiting. Their entire out
at was captured.
William Seibart, a brakeman, was
thrown from the top OF a rapidly NOV
Ing freight train near Denrock. H..
and instantly killed.
Mr.. Lee. the British merchant OF
a.