The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-02-05


Corinth, N. T.. combination of all the
big paper manufacturing firms in the
country, filed articles of Incorporation
with capital of S45.000.o00.
The agricultural department crop re-
port estimates the total wheat acreage
at 80. ,066, that OF corn at s0,095, 101.
and of oats, 25,730.375.
Heavy snowstorms with high winds
prevailed in Illinois. Iowa. Indiana, Wis
consin and Michigan.
The Hartsville tInd.) college. an In
stitutlon connected with the United
Brethren (RadicaD church. was burned
by an incendiary.
James j. Corbett announced at Pc
oria. ILL.,. that he had renowned pugii-
ism forever because of failure TO ar
range another fight with Fitzsimmons.
Near Greenville. o., fast train
caught c. +. Young. wife aud four-year-
old girl In top buggy. killing father
and child and fatally injuring the
mother.
Mrs. Reuben c. Bartlett stood in
tub half filed with kerosene a: Eau
Claire, Wis, set fire TO it and was
burned to death. She was insane.
John w. Griggs resigned as governor
OF New Jersey TO take his seat as at
torney-general in President Mckin-
ley's cabinet. President Voorhees,, of
the senate, succeeds Griggs as gov
ernor.
The 5000 operatives at the Atlantic
ard Pacific cotton mills in Lawrence,
Mass, decided TO accept the ten per
cent reduction in wages.
A new cable has been opened which
gives the United States competitive
route for cablegrams to the West
Indies.
A counterfeit two-dollar silver GER
tificate was discovered in Kansas City,
Mo. IL bears the picture OF the late
Secretary Of the Treasury Window, Sc
ries Of 1891, check letter G, plate 10; j.
Fount Tillman, register. and ID. N. Nor
gan, treasurer
The trial has begun of Sheriff Martin
and his 80 deputies, charged with shoot
ing and killing % striking miners and
wounding so more at Lattimer, Pa,
September 10, 1897.
An unknown negro killed Waterman
Henry Draper, who refused TO allow
him 20 walk through railway tunnel
at Bramwell, w. Va, and was in turn
lynched by mob.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased
s12.5S0,771 during the month CT Jnnu-
airy. The cash balance in the treasury
was Ss53.l0s,00s. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1.011 ,701.33s.
The residence OF c. f. Travelly al
Newton, Mass, with its art treasures,
all valued at 100000 was destroyed by
fire.
Fire in the reclaiming plant of the
United States Rubber company at Naug-
ntuck, Conn, caused loss of $500, 000
The Alvord house In Gloversville, n.
y, was burned, and T.. c. Kimball, of In.
dianapolis, and his wife and daughter;
Benjamin +. Strickland, Henry c. Day
and Charles Rupert. of Gloversville,
persisted in the flames.
On the Union Pacific road n special
mail train made the run from Cheyenne
10 Omaha, SIT miles. in $50 minutes,
breaking all long-distance railway rec
ords.
The total circulation of national bank
notes on January 81 last was $226, 444,
oo6, decrease for the year Of s., 563, 17o.
Judge, Leslie's Weekly and Demo
rests Family Magazine have been con-
soliduted and will hereafter be pub
lished in New York by the Arkell Pub
fishing company.
The total bank clearings at ~ cities
Of the United States in January aggre-
gated ,o65,Oo0o0o, a gain Of 80 per
cent. over January, 1897.
Prof. +. 1Iaron, one of the incorpora-
tors OF the city OF Leayenworth, Kan,
was found dead in bedin that city, aged
90 years.
The New England states have been
devastated by terrific storm, the list
OF fatalities reaching 25 and the prop
erty loss over 81 100000 The loss Of life
was confined mainly to the Massa-
chusetts coast, where many ships were
wrecked, and the members of the crews
were drowned.
The government receipts for January
aggregated $37. 1882 and the eXpendi-
lures $36.696.7li, leaving surplus for
the month OF S636,017.
Capt Ray, sent 10y the government to
Alaska, reports that relief is needed
and urges a check TO immigration for
the present
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Harris NJ. Plaisted, veteran general
Of the civil war and ex governor OF
Maine, died in Bangor. aged 10 years.
President Mckinley was So years old