The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-07-30
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business transacted was a readjust-
ment OF the insurance rates.
Following the reduction OF 121k per
cent in wages, eighty-one cotton mills
In Fall River, Mass, stopped opera
tions Tuesday when their employees
walked out. The strikers are receiy-
ing assistance and the prospects for a
settlemen are not good
BY orders of the navy department
tho cruiser Chicago has been ordered
into commission In the Boston navy
yard Aug. Is, 70 prepare for a cruise
in the Pacific, where she is TO relieve
the cruiser New York as the flag ship
OF Rear Admiral Goodrich.
Mrs. j. M. Prltchard is dead and
four other women are dying in Pome-
roy, Ohio. as the result OF eating ice
cream at lodge supper in Gallipolis.
Investigation has discovered traces OF
ptomaine poison In the freezer In
which the cream was made.
William p. Hurd. private in the
Eighth regiment, now In camp In
Springfield. Ill, was transferred from
police headquarters, where he has
been held on the charge OF attacking
an officer OF the regiment with a
knife. TO Camp Lincoln. II is believed
the case will be dropped unless the
civil authorities decide TO act.
The 4-yearold daughter OF J. Fries
of Lone Rock. Wis. fell into burn
ing brush heap and was burned TO
death.
Judge Wright IN the supreme court
postponed until Aug. the hearing In
the controversy over the location OF
the postoffice between Las Vegas and
East Las Vegas, N. NJ
Officers Hart and Scanlon, charged
with aiding County Clerk Lucas Butts
in kidnapping Delegate Pinkerton at
the recent congressional convention in
Peoria, pleaded guilty TO assault and
battery and were fined $25.
Col. Edgar u. Steever, Fourth cav
airy, commanding the post OF Fort
Riley, Kan, will have charge OF the
national individual rifle match and the
national pistol match at Fort Riley.
commencing Aug. %.
The ST. Clair Tunnel Company will
abolish steam power and adopt cleo
tricity for moving trains through the
Grand Trunk tunnel under the st.
Clair river. A three-rail system will
be put in at an expense of 100000.
Francisco Mallen, Mexican consul at
El Paso. Tex, received a telegram
confirming the report that two Ameri-
cans were killed at Aguas Calientes
by a man named Torres and adding
that "rigid investigation has been or
dered"
The United States cruiser Tacoma.
which is searching for the missing
American merchant vessel Conemaugh
several months overdue at New York.
has arrived at Callao, Peru, and will
proceed on her way around Cape
Horn.
Fire In a resort at Nashwauk, on
the Minnesota iron range, burned
three persons TO death. The fire is
supposed to have been started by in
cendiaries.
At a meotng of the stockholders OF
the Eastern Trust Company the propo-
sition for the company to go into vol
untary liquidation was unanimously
ratified.
John Spain, a farmer, residing near
Welton, Ia, was thrown from a wagon
while driving along the highway and
was found dead several hours later.
Henry Woolstein, aged &C, fell from
scafolding at the Pabst brewery in
Peoria, killing him instantly. He was
ono of the first contractors in central
Illinois
DIR. l.. A. Johnston, pastor OF the
Swedish Lutheran church in st. Paul.
has accepted call to the pastorate
oil the Swedish Lutheran church at
Moline, Ill, succeeding Rev. G. A.
Hemborg, who resigned to go TO
Stromsburg. Neb
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany will soon have a direct line from
Kansas City and ST. Louis through
Joplin to Texas. The line is now be-
ing surveyed from Joplin to Muskogee,
!. T.
The strike OF the walters at the
worlds fair, inaugurated July 4, has
been declared of.
Mrs. Stanford has purchased for the
Leland Stanford University from the
Japanese government Japan's best art
collection for 100000. The money
goes 20 the war fund.
Fire destroyed the Edison theater
at Port Huron. Mich. The Bennett
Humpty Dumpty company lost $4,000
in scenery and properties.
The Andrews-New York Central syn.
dictate, which recently purchased the
Utica and Mohawk Valley and the Sy-
racuse Rapid Transit trolley lines, re-
organized the latter company with
Horace K. Andrews as president
Differences between the employers
and the marble-workers' unions In
New York over demand OF the latter
for the employment OF union foremon
threaten a general lockout.
Henry G. Frlck of Pittsburg has
sailed on the White Star liner Cedric
for Liverpool.
Referee Palmer has named ID. u.