The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-04-03


A fire at Portsmouth. Va. made so
families homeless and caused 5000. 900
damage.
THE Elms." the magnificent resi-
Gence of Col. A. G. Tyler at New Lon
den. Conn. with all its elaborate fur
nishings was destroyed by fire. the loss
being over 100000.
II is stated that Judge John r. Day,
of Canton, o.. has been selected as the
special representative of President Nc
Kinley to Cuba.
The family of John Constantine. con-
sisting of himself. wife and three chill
dren. and Mrs. Stephens and daughter
and sailor were drowned by the
swapping of n boat at Pensacola, Fla.
The boiler OF n portable sawmill ex-
ploded at Augusta, Ca. instantly kill
ing Calvert Boone and j. II. Tucker and
fatally injuring three others.
Six children of John McGrath. farm
err in the northwestern part OF Nemeha
county, Kan. were drowned near their
home while attempting TO ford Pole
creek.
Charles A. Dana. president of the
United Press, made voluntary assign
ment for the latter in the New York
courts, with liabilities estimated at
100000.
II. V. Schuyler. John Henos, w. Me-
Carthy and Gus Schammel committed
suicide in Chicago because they were
out Of work.
Four tollgates In Garrard county, Ky.
were destroyed by mob of $50 masked
men.
The gunboat Helena on her trial trip
on Long Island sound developed a speed
OF IS $40 knots an hour. earning boz
nus of $4,000 for the builders.
The floods in the south and west con-
tinue and at Helena, Ark. and vicinity
the situation was worse than ever be-
fore.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
30,023, 900 bushels corn, %, 152, 900 bush
els; oats, 10, 900 bushels; rye, 3,705,-
900 bushels; barley, 3,165,000 bushels.
Gov. Adams has signed the bill abol-
ishing capital punishment in Colorado.
The property losses by the recent cy-
clone in Texas were estimated at So $780,
600 and fully 100000 of this amount
falls on the railroad systems centering
in Dallas.
Joseph j. LUZ, convicted in Balti-
more of filibustering, was sentenced in
the United States court to jail for IS
months and fined $500.
a new police census Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
gives a population of 300, 900, an increase
since 1890 OF $4,000.
The Keene (N. H.) savings bank,
which suspended some time ago, has re-
sumed business.
The vault OF the State bank at Oneida,
H., was blown open and $4,000 was Sc
cured by the robbers.
Mrs. Elizabeth French and her baby
and Miss Ellen Morrisey and Mrs.
Thomas Darlington were smothered to
death by smoke in a house in New York.
Three breaks occurred in the levee
that protects the Mississippi delta from
the waters OF the river and at Greenville,
Mayside and other Mississippi towns
hundreds of persons were homeless and
half-naked men, women and children
were grouped in squads along the levees
in the vicinity of the breaks.
Incendiaries started four fires at AL
toona, Pa. causing loss of 100000.
Dwight l.. Moody, the evangelist,
spoke to 10000 persons in the Auditor
ium in Chicago at the opening OF n
series of eight meetings.
A tornado at Chandler, OF, destroyed
three-fourths of the town of 1900 peo-
pie, and 200 persons were badly hurt
and 45 killed. Only two buildings were
left standing.
Two negroes, Margaret Jones and her
seven-year-old son, were killed by light
ming near Americus. Ga,
Heavy frosts have caused extensive
damage to fruit crops throughout Cali
fornia.
by an explosion in a tunnel in Chi
cago owen O'Malley and Peter Cal
lagher were killed and four other men
were badly injured.