The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-04-09
DOMESTIC.

In a duel at Waco, Tex. w. C. Brann
editor OF the Iconoclast, and Capt. NJ.
T. Davis killed each other.
The government receipts during
March were So, 95s,750, n loss OF about
$3,000,00o as compared with March, 1907.
The expenditures aggregated s31,ss2,-
444, an increase OF nearly $4,000, 900 over
March, 1897.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$1,3s7,S65 during the month of March.
The cash balance In the treasury was
sS53,79s,4 6s. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,00s, 7l6,35i.
II Is reported that shanty boat
sunk three miles above Mount Carmel.
H.. and family consisting of five per-
sons lost their lives.
A boiler explosion near Campbles-
Vile, KY, killed four men outright and
fatally hurt another.
Gen. John M. Schofeld has taken for
NAL charge OF the national volunteer
reserve, and plans for speedily obtain
ing an available standing army Of ,o00,-
600 men were made at a meeting OF the
military committee.
There were 220 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the LIST, against PSI the week
previous and goo in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
Ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
$1,106,05s. 142, against 81 ,Os4, 800, 016 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1897
was 1913.
At a cabinet meeting IL was an
nounced that SPANS answer TO the ulti-
matum Of this government was unsats-
factory. and policy which seems GER
tainly TO involve hostilities was de-
cided upon. President Mckinley will
send n message to congress explaining
the status of affairs and asking the CO.
operation OF the legislative body in
dealing with Spain. One OF the signi6-
cant happenings OF the day was an Of
fer OF mediation by France, but IL was
automatically declined by the presi-
dent.
The opinion held in Washington by
public men and diplomatists is that the
crisis will reach its climax this week
and that the question OF war with Spain
or peace will be determined within the
next seven days. The disposition 10
hurry the president seems TO have dis
appeared in congress since members
realize that his message must be a docu-
ment that Is TO justify congress in its
action. whatever his recommendation
The state department has ordered all
consuls In Cuba to repair at once TO
Havana, there to be In readiness for In
slant departure.
Shawnectown Qll.) place OF 1 500 in.
habtants, was practically wiped out of
existence by the breaking of levee,
and IL was reported that $50 persons
were caught in the sudden flood and
drowned. Hundreds of others were
swept into the Ohio, clinging to the
roofs OF houses or floating on pieces OF
board. The flood extends four miles
inland, and people were fleeing for their
lives from all lowland hamlets.
VI. Whrendorf, his three children and
sister and brother-in-lnw, were drowned
in the river near st. Francis, Ark, by the
upsetting of boat.
John Harris and his wife and child
and twomen named Hicks were drowned
near Spottsville, Ky. by the capsizing
OF boat.
Robert Jones confessed in Chicago
that he was the murderer OF Jennie
Cramer, n young girl OF New Haven,
Conn. in 1881, for which James and
Walter Mallcy. nephew and son re-
spectively of New Haven millionaire.
were indicted, tried and acquitted.
The Piazza opera house and other
buildings were burned nj yicksburg,
Miss. the loss being si25,ooo.