The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-12-06
GENERAL NEWS.


SHELBTVILlE, lND.-Walter Fl
King, sixty years old, a wealthy re
tired farmer and money lender, wac
resided two miles east OF Pleasant
View, Shelby county was shot and In.
stantly killed in his home by his
nephew, Harry Carver, thirty-three
years old. Carver escaped. Mrs. Han.
nah Carver, mother OF the slayer and
sister OF the dead man, was in a room
adjacent TO the one In which the
shooting occurred. Mrs. Carver as.
serts that she heard her son and her
brother quarreling loudly just prior
TO the moment that the shot was fired
COLUMBUS, IND. - An intima
ton that damage suits, demanding a
total OF $4,000. will be fled against
the City OF Columbus and the police
who arrested eight magazine solicit
ors here about week ago, has come
from John Rynerson, an attorney
The seven men and one woman have
been held. pending trial, in spite OF
the fact that the magazines and the
circulation company they represent
have sent kilograms and letters, de.
claring their offers were bona fide.
WASHINGTON-The sum OF 1900
which was awarded to Arthur Beau
champ of Chicago. fifteen years old,
from the Sturges a. Burn Manufacture
Ing company. because his hand was
lacerated In a press In the plant OF
that concern, must be paid, as re
suit OF supreme court action. Con
stitutionality OF the Illinois child
labor law was upheld by the supreme
court OF the United States in a deci
sion handed down by Justice Hughes
In the case OF the Chicago youth
CINCINNATI, OHIO - A jury In
Judge Cushing's court here found
Robert Huber, a ieweler OF Chicago
not guilty of having murdered John
Kunzelman. his brother-in-law, at
Mount Healthy, o.. last June. II was
held that he was insane at the time.
In a statement TO the police Huber
stated that confession by his wife
as TO Kunzelman's treatment OF her,
while she was a guest at his home,
had completely upset him.
CHICAGO - Fairfax Harrison OF
Chicago. president OF the Chicago,
Indianapolis and Louisville Railway
company. the Monon, was elected
president OF the Southern Railway
company. to succeed the late w. w.
Finley, at a meeting OF the directors
in New York. Mr.. Harrison was also
elected president OF the Alabama
Great Southern, the Mobile and Ohio
and the Virginia and Southern. OF
which Mr. Finley was president.
WASHINGTON - Josephus Dan.
iels. the secretary OF the navy. has
made public his first annual report,
one OF the chief features OF which IL
the announcement OF his building
program" for the navy and his recon.
mendation OF the authorization by the
present congress OF the construction
OF two dreadnaughts. eight destroyers
and three submarines.
CINCINNATI, OHIO - Mrs. Carlot
Ia Thompson Brown. who was con.
yicted OF having embezzled s2l 900
from a customer while In the broker.
age business with her husband, was
sentenced by Judge Wade Cushing OF
the common plea court 20 an indeter.
inmate term IN the state penitentiary
EASTcHURcH, ENG. Captain
Gilbert V. Wildman-Lushington, com
mander of the British naval nyine
corps. was killed at the naval flying
grounds here. The captain made a
long flight on Saturday with Winston
Spencer Churchill. first lord Of tbs
admiralty.
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