The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-11-05

giving day.
In q trial trip at San Francisco the
torpedo boat Farragut attained
speed of better than 30 knots an hour.
The annual report of Second As
sistant postmaster-Generai William ).
S. Shallenberger shows the number OF
mail routes at the close ofNthe year
was q, 7D5, total mileage, 4s0,46l. and
says $50 900 will be required for ex-
penses next year.
John Kennedy, aged u.s. shot and NOR
tally wounded his sweetheart. May
Peck In Knoxville. Tenn. and then
killed himself. Jealousy WINS the cause.
Edward l:stabrook and {. Roy Rob
crtson, prominent young men OF Al
bion (Mich) college. were drowned
while duck hunting,
a party OF boys playing Halloween
pranks in Toledo. o., frightened Mrs.
William Saguer SO badly that she died
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Norfolk. Va.
The output of ore In the Cripple Creek
(Col.) district in October Is valued at
SASS. 1870. the highest for any month in
the history of the camp.
The annual report of the general SUI
perintendent of the railway mail serv-
ice estimates that $S.02S.iiS will be re-
nuired for salaries OF clerks for the year
ending June 80. 1900. and $i.204.50O for
railway post Office cars.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 3ist ult. was:
Wheat. 15.47G. 900 bushels; corn. 24.57f.-
600 bushels; oats. 6.373, 900 bushels; rye.
i.i2s.OoO bushels; barley, 3,267 900 bush
els.
j. X. Mertz, one of the best-known
Grand Army of the Republic men in the
west. dropped dead in IA hotel in Mime
apolis.
The gates Of the Trans Mississippi
exposition at Omaha closed for gord
after successful season. something
over 100000 remaining TO be divided
among the stockholders.
boiler exploded in n steel plant at
Dellairc. o.. fatally injuring six men.
Lambert Wilt. who fed from Bohemia
with $4,000 OF the funds OF the bank
for which he had been chief comp
troller. was captured in a st. Louis
hotel
H j. II. Phillips, treasurer OF the Chi
cago, Rock Island a. Pacific railroad,
died suddenly at his home in Chicago,
aged CT years. He had been connected
with the road for 30 years.
John II. Mason g. Sons. cotton goods
manufacturers in Providence, H. T..
failed for $4,000.
During the past season II vessels of
the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet
were lost, So men drowned. % women
made widows and So children left ia
therless; property loss, $4,000.
At special election in Texas the
constitutional amendment TO pension
ex-confederate soldiers in the state
was defeated.
Near Hamilton, Ala, Daniel Holli-
day and John Mcleod. prominent
planters and brothers-in-law, quar-
relied. and Holiday shot Mcleod dead
and then killed himself.
Adam Hammer became insane in
Beaver Dam. Wis, and securing gun
wounded nine men and was himself
shot to prevent his doing further in
jury.
James Hathaway and Alonzo Ar
bury. is-year-old boys who attempted
to hold UP and rob a train near st.
Joseph, Mo-, were sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
The public debt statement issued on
the ist shows that the debt increased
$43. 4s7,7l7 during the month OF 0cto-
Der. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $933.240.397. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts 10 1.1l0.966. 922.
81. Louis has decided to have a words
fair in ic.;.
Seven OF a party of California gold
seekers in Alaska persisted In quick
sand.
Navigation on the upper Yukon river
between Dawson and the lakes has
closed for the season.
The total coinage at the United
States minis during October was IS,
600.S4f. as follows: Gold. $5.iS0,000;
silver. s3,354.l0i; minor coins, $6G.650
During the four months Of the pres.
ent fiscal year the government receipts
exceeded those for the corresponding
period in 1897 by over s6o.000,000.
| Cincinnati Is TO be the northern
terminus Of n new fast system OF pas
sengcr transportation between the
north and Cuba.
Personal AND POLITICAL.