The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-08-28
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week OF 1896
was 40.2.
There were 223 business failures In
the United States In the seven days
ended on the Goth. against 230 the week
previous and ESQ in the corresponding
period OF 1896.
John f. Seiberling, a former promi-
nent manufacturer of Akron. o., failed
for S150.O0O.
The twenty-eighth annual reunion Of
the Army OF the Potomac took place in
Troy, n. Y. President Mckinley and
Secretary Alger being In attendance.
Gen. George Ruggles, u. S. A., was elect
ed president OF the society.
Wheat sold for dollar a bushel in
New York, Philadelphia. Minneapolis
and West Superior. Wis, and at % cents
In Chicago.
a wooden mill operated by Henry G.
White & Son Mt Chapachet. II. l., was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,,
600.
The private banking house OF G. A.
Rice at Eureka, Utah. closed its doors
with liabilities Of $4,000.
The Forty-third Wisconsin legislature
adjourned sine die after passing the bill
revising the statutes OF the state.
Will Lipps, James Mccullough and
ten-year~old boy were killed by the ex-@
plosion OF a shrashing engine boiler
near Hastings, Neb.
The national encampment of the
Union Veterans union at Springfield,
o.. elected as commander in chief III. L.
Street, of New York.
Improvement in business in all por-
tions OF the country was reported.
In Illinois. Indiana and Michigan
heavy frosts did some damage TO grow
ing crops.
An excursion train was wrecked near
Linn, o., and 20 persons were injured.
some seriously.
The national executive board Of the
United Mine Workers issued a call fora
conference Of organized labor in st
Louis August 30. The board rejected
the proposition OF the Pittsburgh OPP
orators for a conference 10 arbitrate
the wage dispute.
The Peoples Savings bank at Mount
Pleasant, Mich closed its doors with
liabilities of 100000.
III. o. Claughton, n well-known attor-
ney OF Washington, and Miss Villa Cue
lis, daughter of DR.. w. G. n. GUSTS,
were killed by the cars at n crossing.
The International Fire Chiefs asso-
citation in session az New Haven, Conn,
elected as cnief A. j. Kennedy, OF New
Haven.
The percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the National League for the week
ended on the 21st were: Boston, 600,
Baltimore, COZ; Cincinnati, .642; New
York, .615; Cleveland, $50; Chicago, |
.4S0; Pittsburgh, .443; Louisville, .436; |
Philadelphia, All; Washington. .40s; |
Brooklyn. .40s 81. Louis. 200.
Mrs. j. G. McCabe. Of Coloma, Mich. |
was killed instantly and Mrs. X. S. |
Bailey fatally injured in a runaway nc
cdent at Niles.
Andrew Green (colored) was lynched |
by n mob at Lovett. Ga. for killing |
George Heath, prominent white man.
j. II. Rich shot and killed his wife at |
the home OF her mother In Nashville. ,
Tenn. killed his brothcr-in-lnw and |
then shot himself. Domestic trouble |
was the cause.
Nine men were seriously injured in
riot among the strikers at the Unity |
mires near Pittsburgh. Pa.
Elcany Sullivan, convicted OF assault |
Ing Sarah Lawson and sentenced to 20 |
years in prison, was taken from Jail |
at Williamsburg, Ky, by a mob and |
hanged.
The main buildings OF the J. T..
Thomas & Sons company, fertilizer
manufacturers, near Paulsboro. n. j., |
were blrned, the loss being $25o,Ooo.
Whi.ecaps horsewhipped three Nor
mon elders at Beulah. S. C., and drove |
them out OF town.
BY the confession OF negro murderer |
u IIahnville, La, IL was ascertained |
that three Italians who were lynched |
there two years ago for the murder OF |
an old Spaniard were innocent.
While defending the funds OF the |
Farmers bank al Shepherd Mich.
Elmer l.. Strublc, It's cnshier and the
president OF the village, was shot and
Killed by robbers.
At Washington park, Chicago. Star
Pointer beat Joe Patchen three straight |
mile heats in 2:o2, 2;O4A and 2:o4.
Frank Weber, OF Buffalo, N. ", and |
Warren Bush and Charles Glasner, OF
Chicago. were carried over Niagara.
falls in a small boat and persisted.
Mrs. VIII q. Scarlet was instantly
killed and Mrs. Josephine Kebler was
fatally injured while out driving al
Indianapolis.
George Sherburne, wife and young
LII 4. 4 he
az crossing near Kinscy, Ind.
All reports from southern manufac-
turers and business men continue en-
couraging and business prospects have
not been SO favorable for years.
Dispatches from different New Eng
land manufacturing ccnters announce
that many cotton mills which have been
idle Inve resumed operations.