The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-07-09
DOMESTIC.

suspension of all the morning papers
In Chicago on the LIST.
James Lail, prosperous farmer.
and his wife, living near Jackson, No..
were murdered by John Headrick. n
10-year-old farmland who had been
discharged.
The president has signed the bank
ruptcy bill.
The treasury department announces
that the total proposals for the new
government loan OF $20o,0O0,00o aggre-
gate 100000.
The debts incurred by Joseph Letter
in his disastrous wheat speculations
in Chicago amount to over 100000
A horsethief was shot TO death by
a posse of citizens eight miles south of
Marion, III.
Business throughout the country
shows healthy condition in almost
all lines.
Henry Whitefeld. alias Perkins, and
X. b. Brooks (colored) were hanged
at Muskogee, |. r., for murder.
The internal revenue receipts dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted TO
$l70, 600, 900, n gain of So, 100000 over
the preceding year.
George Bruce Cortelyou, of New
York, has been appointed assistant
secretary of President Mckinley to
fill the additional position ~ that
grade recently created by congress.
There were 254 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the LIST, against 2S5 the week
previous and 241 i'm the corresponding
period Of 1907.
The headquarters of the National
volunteer reserves at New York were
closed, owing to a depleted treasury.
Norwich (Vt.) university has con-
ferred the degree of master Of military
science upon Rear Admiral George
Dewey, graduate of the university.
Goode Gray (colorcd) was lynched
by mob at Rizon, Ark, for numbering
Bart Frederick.
An excursion steamer capsized near
Beverly, Mass, and six or more per-
sons were drowned.
Richard Votow, while under the in
fuence of liquor. killed two men named
Atkinson and Hale and woman named
Campbell near Springfield, Ky. and
another woman was fatally wounded.
tornado struck a section of the
beach at Hampton, n. H., causing inn
mense damage to beach property and
the loss of at least IL lives.
a bridge crossing the river at Shell
by, o., fell with 1000 people and four
were killed outright and n hundred
were injured, some of them seriously.
-Four persons were drowned in the
lake at Cleveland, o., while bathing.
The plant OF the Globe Refining com
pany i'm Louisville, KY, was burned,
the loss being 100000.
james NJ. Wilcox and William +.
Mocnch were instantly killed in To-
ledo, o., by an explosion.
Dispatches from all parts OF the
country announce n general observ-
ancc OF the Fourth OF July. In many
southern cities the celebrations were
the first held since the close OF the civil
war.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs i'm the National league for the
week ended on the cd were: Cincin-
natl. Gal; Cleveland, .6l7; Boston, .613;
Baltimore, .579; Chicago, 81; Pitts
burgh, .54s; New York. .4s4; Philadel-
phia, 474; Brooklyn, .407; Washington,
1857; st. Louis, 1856; Louisville, 1913.
After a suspension OF four days be-
cause of the strike of the stereotypers
the Chicago papers were issued in re-
duced size by the aid OF nonunion
stereotypers.
During the last fiscal year the coin
age at the minis OF the United States
amounted 10 $72.609.o33.
Edward S. Dreyer, former head OF n
Chicago banking firm, was sentenced
TO the penitcntiary TO serve an indef-
mite period for the embezzlement OF
| $316,0
The town OF Dunsmuir, Cal, was al
most swept out of existence by fire.
The New York legislature will meet
In extra session on the 18th inst. TO
consider the appointment of election
| officers.
Fire destroyed six stables on the
fair grounds at ST. Louis and five val
liable horses belonging to DR.. Bernays
were crematcd.
Prof. Alyini made n balloon ascen-
sion at Ripley, o., lenped from IL with
parachute, fell in the river and was
| drowned.
A large portion of the southern sec
tion OF Bath. Me-. was destroyed by
| fire.
4 Rio Grandc train was held up Mt
Stony Creek, Col, by three men who
took $500 from the passengers.
The fifty-fourth annual commence
ment OF the University Of Michigan was
held in Ann Arbor and GA degrees were
conferred.
The aggregate number OF adhesive
stamps for which collectors have made
rcquisltion undcr the new revenue net
now In force approximate 400,O00,000.
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