The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-05-14

hosiery In Missouri, was burned AT Elk
celsior Springs, the loss being 100000.
The United States supreme court says
that the Iowa liquor law is invalid.
Admiral Sampson has not yet found
the Spanish flying squadron, and there
is some doubt whether IL is IN the West
Indies.
Far-western states were ordered to
mobilize troops az San Francisco for
transportation to the Philippines.
President Mckinley has appointed
Charles II. Allen, OF Massachusetts,. TO
be assistant secretary OF the navy, sue
ceeding Theodore Roosevelt.
The president has determined TO push
the campaign at all points. especially
as TO the invasion OF Cuba.
party OF 20 Klondikers broke
through the ice on a stream near Crater
lake and nearly all were drowned.
The firm OF Jameson, Cadzow &
Creig, which conducted big depart
ment store in Milwaukee, failed for
5000. 900.
Fire destroyed the business portions
OF Colchester, Conn.
Bob Fitzsimmons has accepted the
challenge OF Kid Mccoy TO fight for the
middleweight pionship and that
OF James j. Corbett to fight for the
heavy weight championship.
Mrs. Fred label and two children
were sufroca;ed by fire that destroyed
their home in Seneca, n. Y.
The visible supply OF grain in the
OF 40 d
o., SOS. 900 bushels; corn, 24,ol3,0 900 bush
els; oats. 9,534,00o bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley. 100000 bushels.
The fire loss OF the United States and
Canada for the month of April shows a
total Of Ss,211,00o against loss Of $780,
$4,000 in April, 1897
IL IS announced that Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee will lead the first division OF volun-
teers 10 Cuba.
Wheat sold at s1.75 per bushel in the
Chicago market.
Nearly the entire business portion OF
Pine City, Mimi, was wiped out by fire.
Over 100 cottages at Sacandaga Park,
n. Y, were destroyed by an ineendiary
fire.
Ernest Freeman shot his wife at their
home near Ligonier, Ind, and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
The May returns TO the statistician
OF the department Of agriculture show
the acreage in winter wheat TO be 81
per cent. greater than the acreage last
year.
Al South Bend, Ind. Frank Harring-
ton fatally shot Mrs. Vahlert, widow
with whom he boarded, because she re-
fused TO marry him, and then blew out
his own brains.
Leander Small. Joseph Morris and
William Hardy were killed by cable
breaking and the car dasbing down an
incline in a mine at Thacker, w. Va.
II Is said that Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
win be the first military governor Of
Cuba.
Mrs. Eliza Hulen, aged 100 years, was
burned to death at her home in Ed
wardsport, Ind. Her clothes caught
fire while lighting her pipe.
The transport Gussie sailed from
Tampa for Cuba bearing the first reg
ular troops Of the United States to Gu
/ ban soil.
Orders were issued from the war de-
partment TO move every portion Of the
regular aud volunteer armies selected
for the invasion Of Cuba directly to the
gulf coast. Twenty-Five transports
have been chartered TO rush 10000
troops to Cuba for the reduction Of Ha-
vana.
Walter Wellman embarked from New
York on his search Tor the north pole
and Andree.
The archbishops Of the Catholic
church in the United States have agreed
upon a letter, addressed to the clergy
and laity Of the country, requesting
them TO pray for the success Of Amer
lea i'm It's war with Spain