The diamond drill., 1894-07-07

of the worlds champion long-distance
walker, walked from New Orleans 10
st. Louis. 72s miles, In seventeen days
and five hours.
FRANK PoNoNcY, aged years, and
Rosa Frana, 10 years. were drowned In
Cedar lake at Cedar Rapids, la.
THE town of Mogollon, Col, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
The coinage of the United States
mint In Philadelphia for the fiscal year
ended June 80 shows total OF s1s,-
b54. 234.O6
MICHAEL and James SteiEe (brothers)
and Martin Terian were drowned
while bathing In Lake Calumet at Chi
cago.
PRoF MOORE, OF Chicago says the
month OF June was 100 degrees hotter
than its normal temperature for twenty
years.
ACCOUNTS with worlds fair conces-
sionaires have been finally adjusted.
The receipts from all sources show a
grand total OF SO, $50, ,6O2.1l.
WHILE insane as the result OF a
quarrel with her husband Mrs. Merrill
Baker, OF Montgomery, Vt, hanged
her four children 10 bedposts.
THE exports OF manufactures from
the United States during May reached
s1b. l99, 4O2.
EASTERN Arkansas and western Ten
nessee were swept by windstorm OF
unusual severity.
THE railroad strike was causing
scarcity OF food at many points. Cleve-
land was threatened with n fresh meat
famine because Of the stoppage Of sup
plies from Chicago,
AUGUST 10 has been designated as
Battle Flag day by Gov. Jackson, OF
Iowa, who recommends its observance
as public holiday.
GEN CHARLES EzErA, the fugitive
ex- x-president of the republic of Saliva
dor, arrived in New York.
The secretary OF the navy issued an
order disseminating all work at the
New York, Norfolk and Mare Island
navy yards. throwing $500 men out Of
employment.
The public debt statement issued on
the 2d showed that the debt increased
S25l 1856 during the month Of June.
The cash balance in the treasury was
sl75, ,5s4, 436 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
TO $685., ,3l8.3 against ss3s, ,069,470 on
July 1, 1898
TwENTY-FoUR of Hogan's common
wealers had an involuntary bath in the
Missouri az Omaha, a boat capsizing.
The tenth annual convention OF the
National editorial association opened
at Asbury Park, n. j.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 2d was: Wheat,
"a, ,657 900 bushels; corn, 6,44l 900 bush
els; oats, 2,577, 600 bushels; rye, 257,-
600 bushels; barley, 5000 bushels.
JAMES JOHNSON (colored), charged
with committing criminal assault
upon Mrs William King near Guthrie,
Mo, was captured at Killers Creek,
Mo, by mob and hanged.
FRUIT growers at Anna, Ill, unable
TO make shipments on account of the
railroad strike, appealed TO the gov,
ernor for relief. alleging a loss Of $780,
600 daily by reason OF the strike.
A CANADIAN PACIFIC bridge went
down near Greenville, Me-, killing five
persons and injuring eight
The use of postal notes by the gov
ernment has ceased and new forms o'
money orders were put on sale at the
/ various post Offices in the country.
FoUR churches at Greenville, Miss,
: were blown down by tornado and
| several persons were killed.
, ALL the window glass houses, flint
glass houses, sheet mills and most o.
, the iron mills shut down at Pittsburgh
| Pa, and as result nearly 80, 600 work
4 men were idle.
DURING eleven months of the fiscaI
Z year ended May 81 the total number o
: immigrants arriving in the UniteC
States was 2ss, ,02O, against 43O,2l0 foi
Y the corresponding period OF last year
(. THE Vermont marble mills at Proc
! tor. vt, were partially burned, tn
loss being over 100000.
= The government receipts for tn
i fiscal year ended June 80 were S2o6r
I 900, 1885, expenditures. S366,b93, S5e
against receipts of s3s5, sl9,62s aud eN
n penditurcs of 1888, Az, ,954 in the cor
o responding time in the preceding fisca
/. year.
J. HENRY VoLGER. Syracuse On. Y.
r night watchman. in a fit of jealous
II shot and killed William Strutz, car
penter, and then put bullet into hi
a own head.
G DURING the ten months ended Apr
80, 1898. the whole number of imm
l. grants barred rom entering the Unite
e states was 2 l02. of which l,426 wer
contract laborers and 052 paupers.
v TnE total national bank circulatio
y in the country on the ist was s207, 300
is 8Oi, showing an increase Of Si0s, o.
during June.
< IL. w. BLANCHARD. who disappeare
T. from Mentone, Ind. eight years age
n returned. W. j. Studon. charged wit
his murder, had previously committe
's suicide in Jail.
I. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
a. Iowa prohibitionists in conventio
A. at Dcs Moines nominated Rev. Benne'
o; Mitchell for governor. G. II. Gordon Z,
4 Mn,,Itnv, fnt fraauUra