The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-16
The News Condensed.
DOMESTIC.

business manager of the Washington
Evening Star.
THE supreme court at Washington
took up the income tax cases. Appel
lants will attempt 20 prove the new
law unconstitutional.
INa speech at Canton, o., Senator
PETER predicted that the populists
would be absorbed by a new anti
monopoly party.
THE Missouri legislature passed bill
prohibiting pool selling and boolsmalS-
ing except upon race-courses during the
racing season.
Mrs MICAH DYER, Jr.. society lead
er In Boston and member Of twenty
women's clubs. flied voluntary petit
ton In insolvency. Her liabilities were
$4,000
JoHN L. CLARK. OF Muskegon. Mich,
wanted at sacramento, Cal. for big
amy, was found 10 have at least four
wives
JOEL MALLORY, so years Of age, his
son-in-law, John Williamson, and Reu-
ben Mcbride, were killed by the cars
ut crossing near st. Joseph, Mo.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses IN the United States during
the week ended on the sth aggregated
81 ,O02, $50, 773, against s770, iOO,6s3 the
previous week The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894 was 6s
EDIroR CHARLES A. DANA, Of the New
York Sun, indicted for criminal libel,
surrendered 10 the authorities and was
released on his own recognizance.
THERE were 234 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended ON the sth, against 250 the
week previous and PAS in the corre-
spending time in 1894.
THE Illinois legislature adopted a
resolution providing for hosting the
national flag over the state house every
day of the year.
HARRY HAYWARD was found guilty
OF the murder of Catherine Glng at
Minneapolis
VESSELS arriving at San Francisco
reported having encountered n terrific
earthquake at sea the morning OF
March IL.
TnE cordage works OF William Wall
a. Sons in Williamsburg, N. Y. were
permanently closed, throwing 1000
men out of work.
ACCORDING TO the March report OF
the secretary of state the Michigan
wheat crop for 1894 Is already ex-
hausted.
THOMAS WATKINS was hanged at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, for the murder of n
man named o'Bannon. Watkins de-
clared his innocence TO the last.
The steamboat Longfellow ran into
a railroad bridge at Cincinnati and
sank and five of those on board were
drowned.
STATE AUDITOR DUNN discovered that
200, 600, 600 feet OF Minnesota pine had
been sold without warrant for mere
~ nominal price.
The Central Loan & Trust company
OF Russell, Kan, failed for s95o,O0O.
An express train ran into an open
switch at Scotland, Ga, woman and
her child being killed and five persons
injured, including Roland Reed, the
actor.
A CYCLONE passed over the northern
part OF Georgia, doing great damage In
the vicinity of Cedartown.
In was said that France, Russia,
Japan and Hawaii would join with the
United States in laying Pacific cable.
The Kansas Legislature adjourned
sine die.
&. A. BUDD & Co., hide dealers, of
Cleveland. failed for 100000, with AS
sets at half that amount.
DR. FREDEmcK Cook, with n small
band OF scientists, will sail from New
York next fall 20 explore the antartic
regions.
Fifty tramps captured a freight
train near Baltimore and rode 20 viii
mington, where eleven were arrested
after fight.
T'RAMPs took possession of mill
at Boone, la, and in resisting eject
ment by officers one was killed and
another fatally wounded.
SAILORS at Nahant, Mass, killed n
right whale, 70 feet In length, which
bore n harpoon dated 1858.
The Missouri house passed bills pro-
hibiting alien ownership OF lands and
20 close barber shops ON Sunday.
RICHARD JoHS, who killed his wife
and child at ST. Louis, was sentenced
Co ninety-nine years in the peniten-
tiary.
ALnERT T.. KEITH, lettcr-cnrrier at
Ann Arbor, Mich, who had been dis
cardcd by his sweetheart, killed him
self
1ScEsmARIEs were again at work
near Anderson, Ind, and bloodhounds
had been employed by the farmers 90
run them down.
UNKNOWN miscreants attempted 20
wreck fast express train ON the Nickel
Plate road near Valparaiso. Ind.
MRs. MARY CARuTnERs, living near
Paris, Tex, poisoned her two children
that she might elope with hired man.
THE Keller Jewelry Manufacturing
company and the Western Sleeve But
ton company, Of Chicago, have been
placed ON the fraud list by the post
Office authorities.
MANY Of the coal operators in the
Pittsburgh district conceded the adj
vance In the wage scale asked by the
striking miners.