The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-11-19

Thieves entered the Office OF County
Treasurer Culbertson at Charlton, Ia.
and robbed the vault OF GOO.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses In the United States during
the week ended on the nth aggre-
gated 81, 254, 55s. ISL. against 81 ,462, 743,-
6s3 the previous week. The decrease
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was 90.
X. X. Tolbert, whose father and
brother were shot in the race war at
Phoenix. S. C., was in Washington to
secure an investigation of the riot by
the federal authorities.
The entire business section OF Coving-
ton, La. was swept away by fire.
Robert Brown shot and killed his
father-in-law. Louis Mcclellan. his
mother-in-law and his wife Bertha and
dangerously wounded his brother-in-
law in Glasgow Ky.
Prairie fires In the Chickasaw nation
in Oklahoma have devastated scores Of
farms and ranches OF crops and build
ings.
Gen. ID. w. Flagler, chief OF the bu-
ieau OF ordnance, in his annual report
says that there were expended during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, ST.
3is,705.
The president has appointed Richard
Guenther, OF Wisconsin, 10 be consul
general of the United States at Frank
fort, Germany, and Frank III. Mason.
cf Ohio. to be consul-general at Berlin,
Germany.
The Turney & Jones Coal company Of
Columbus. o. and the Pennsylvania G.
Ohio Fuel company of St Paul. Mimi.
went into a receivers hands with liza
bilities Of Si.20O.o0O.
Lieut. Herman G.. Dresel, u. s. NJ,
committed suicide in hotel in Balti-
more. His home was in Columbus. O.
In convention In ST. Paul the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union de-
cided to abandon the temple building
in Chicago.
Window glass factories that have
been idle in Pittsburgh. Pa. many
months have resumed work. giving en-
ployment TO 10000 persons.
Fire destroyed large section of Daw-
son. Alaska. causing a loss OF about
100000 and leaving hundreds Of peo-
pie homeless and destitute.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
1o,194,000 bushels; corn, %, 500, 900 bush
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 1917
coo bushels; barley, 3.341 900 bushels.
The twentieth annual convention Of
the Knights of Labor began in Chicago
The annual report OF Charles l..
Eagan, commissary of subsistence OF
the army, shows an expenditure Of &c.
o0s,7l5, with balance Of 500, 222,6s9 to
the credit Of the bureau
Telephone communication has been
established between Austin, Tex, and
Bar Harbor, Me-, distance OF 1900
miles.
The 2,600 employees in The seven shoe
factories in Marlboro, Mass struck for
higher wages.
More rioting took place near Green
wood. n. C., between whites and blacks
and three Of the latter were killed.
Fire Mt Canonsburg, Pa, wiped out
fully n third of the business portion,
two of the principal hotels and many
dwellings.
Mrs. John II. Cuneo fatally shot her
husband and Mrs. Fannie Howell at
Argenta, Ark. Jealousy was the cause.
A Washington dispatch says that dur
ing the past ten months the excess OF
exports over imports aggregated $780,
zoo, 500, an increase OF S240, 05s ,65S com
pared with the same period last year.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change sold for $2s.0o0 the highest
price in IS years.
ANN Swanson eloped from her home
near Webster City, Ia. with f. L. Fred
erickson. and the father Of the girl pun
sued the clippers and killed Frederick
son.
At the annual meeting in ST. Paul Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union Mrs. l.. NJ. y. Stevens, of Maine.
was elected president.
The Michigan supreme court says
boycotts are illegal when other than
peaceable methods are employed.
The strike OF coal miners in the Vir-
den Qn.) district, which has been the
cause of rioting and bloodshed. has
been brought TO an end.
Chase. sherwood d. Co.. the oldest
tobacco firm in Ohio. has gone out OF
business
The Tioga national bank at Owego.
n. ". which suspended recently has
resumed business.
Three Indian outlaws were killed in
fight with officers al Chelsea, l. L.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
The fusonists have conceded the re-
rAuhlicn 1, cnntrnl ~ liz, Nl.Lrn In lnaris.