The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-04-24
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York city. were received from the president
THE house was not In session.
DOMESTIC.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
$05G,2G4, no. against S1o1G.003, 1921 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 30.
Two deputy marshals were killed in n
fight near Pawnee, 1. T., with gang Of
outlaws.
There were 207 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 232 the week
previous and 222 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Two young sons OF John Henry. living
near Greenland, Ark. committed sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
Advices from Natchez and other points
below Vicksburg indicated that the SUI
preme test in the food situation in the
south was at hand.
Mrs. WILDER Crouch, divorced wom-
an, and Miss May Daily were killed at
Sackets Harbor. N. Y, and George
Allen was fatally wounded. The hus-
band Of Mrs Crouch was in jail charged
with the crime.
Dispatches received in Chicago from
many lake ports announced the preva-
lence of furious gales accompanied by
snow and rain. and number of vessels
were driven ashore.
Cashier j. A. Stickney, of the Great
Falls national bank at Somersworth,
N. H., was murdered by robbers, who
carried off $4,000.
David Mckinney and his wife, who
have believed each other dead for 30
years, have been reunited at La Crosse,
Wis.
The Texas legislature has passed
bin taxing sleeping and dining car com
panies ten cents per mile OF travel.
Fire at the University of California
in Berkeley destroyed the building occu-
pied as the college of agriculture.
Fire destroyed the greater portion OF
the plant of the Grand Crossing Tack
company in Chicago. the loss being
$4,000.
DIR. w. Godfrey Hunter and ex-Con-
gresham John IL. Wilson were indicted
at Louisville for conspiracy 10 bride in
connection with the senatorial contest.
The body of Gen. Grant has been
removed in New York from the tenn
porary tomb which has sheltered II
for nearly IL years to the imposing
mnusoleum which Is designed TO be its
permanent resting place.
Fears Of n food at Kansas City, No..
have now been dissipated.
War news from the east was the topic
OF discussion in diplomatic and official
circles in Washington. Secretary Sher-
man said that this country would OBJ
serve strict neutrality.
The remains OF the late Andrew J.
Carney, who died In Southampton, ar
rived in New York. TWAS Garvey's tes-
timony that clinched the evidence
against Tweed, who was charged in
1872 with defrauding the city.
Deputy Clerk Wallace A. Mason, OF
the criminal court, swallowed his false
teeth and died in grentagony in New Or
leans.
The Blakeslee family, living near
Findlay, o.. were tortured by burglars
ard robbed of 81 900 In money.
The river mt Burlington, H., wns
eight miles wide and extended over the
lowlands at Gladstone. H.. ~ miles
from Burlington.
Eer birth.
At Niagara Falls an unknown young
man. apparently "a years old. jumped
from the middle OF the suspension
bridge and was drowned.
Harry Clark, son OF Rev. f. +. Clark,
of Sonth Lyon, Mich, and Miss Sarah
Fisher, of Ypsilantl, were killed by the
cars at n railway crossing In South
Lyon.
Joseph Bloodworth, Jock Gooden and
Sarah Evanson. children who were Bit
ten by mad dog in Gordon, Ca, died of |
hydrophobia.
Jesse Evans, negro charged with nc
costing two littlewhite girls. was riddled |
with bullets at Edwards. Miss, by n
mob.
Justin Smith Morrill,. the veteran
senator from Vermont, celebrated his |
eighty-seventh birthday in Washing
ton. Mr.. Morrill, completed his 30
years OF continuous service March 4
last.
A snowsllde near Kctcham, Idaho.
buried n man named White. Fred Tul-
ford and his slx-ycar-old stepson 30 feet
deep.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of the village Of Lindsey, o. ]