The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-06-04
nOMEsTIC.


The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
st.1ss, s2s, 343. against $i,325, 6o1,s7i the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 29.4.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 2sth were: Cincinnati.
COZ; Cleveland, .7lo; Boston, .625; New
York, .567; Chicago, .54s; Baltimore,
.53s; Pittsburgh. .53l; Brooklyn, .407;
Philadelphia, 1893; Louisville, 1893; 81.
Louis, $40; Washington, .233.
All lines OF business throughout the
country are reported good, with an in
crease in exports.
Engineer Hudson and two brakemen,
Sevarson and Matthews, were killed IN
freight collision near Dayton, Tenn.
Two sons OF Abner Baughman. aged
10 and IL years, and a son OF Joseph
Dietrich, aged IS years, were drowned
at Upper Sandusky, o.
Eugene Burt was hanged at Austin,
Tex, for the murder Of his wife and
two children in July 1896.
Joseph f. thanks was hanged at San
Quentin, CAL. for the murder Of Mrs.
Harriet Stiles and her father. John Bor-
den, In San Diego county.
While miners were working in col
liery near Pittsville. Pa, large body
OF water was struck, and six men were
drowned.
Edward Hammerstrom, OF Knoxville,
H., drowned his little girl In a tub %
water and shot himself. Temporary
insanity caused the tragedy.
Fire among business houses in Dali
las, Tex, caused loss Of $4,000. and
j. WgCowan was burned 10 death.
Joe Kiser and Tom johnson, both coli
ored, charged with outraging and muir
dering Miss Emma Hartzell, young
white woman, were hanged by n mob
near Concord, n. ii.
The United States and France have
concluded the first commercial agree
ment entered into under the Dingley
tariff law.
In Il collision off Fire Island, ~ Y,
the cruiser Columbia sank British
steamer and was itself badly damaged.
No lives were lost.
BY the fall OF platform az Denver,
Col, 100 children, ranging in age from
babies to IL and IA years, were more or
less severely injured.
Robert and Archibald McMuiien,
brothers, were killed by gas in a mine
near Pittsburgh, Pa.
The car barn of the Consolidated Rail-
way company was burned in Baltimore,
| the loss being S250,000
Ii has been proved that Sampson and
McGeisy, the Indians who were burned
to death by a white mob near Newark,
!. r., last January, for the murder Of
Mrs. Laird, were not guilty OF the
crime.
Lady Anderson, one Of the three
"guideless and driverless wonders" of
the American trotting turf, died at
Greenfield, Ind.
Decoration day services were general
~ held in cities and towns throughout
| the country.
The visible supply of grain in the
| United States on the 31st ult. was:
Wheat. 23,672, 900 bushels; corn, 2O,115,-
600 bushels; oats, 9,1o7 Obushels; rye,
100000 bushels; barley 5000 bush
els.
The output OF gold in Alaska this sea
son is estimated at S20,000,000.
President Mckinley nominated Oscar
s. Straus, OF New York, TO be minister
| TO Turkey, TO succeed DR.. ANGEL, re-
signed.
A sailboat capsized near Manistique,
Mich, and four men were drowned.
William S. Greene, of Fall River,
Mass, has been elected TO congress by
the republicans In the Thirteenth dis
trict to succeed the late Congressman
Simpkins.
The steamer Florida arrived al Key
West after having delivered $40 men
$4,000 rifles, and large quantity OF
ammunition to the Cuban insurgents.
Samuel jerks and his son William
were killed while walking on the rail.
way track east of Wabash, Ind.
In fight at the camp OF the two
bandits who held up the Sante lie ex-
press near Albuquerque, n. NJ, three
officers were shot dead and the robbers
escaped
A train on the Midland Terminal rail-
road ran into n hand car near Gillette.
Col, and four men on the hand car were
! killed.
Seven men from Nashua, n. H., and
Haverhill, Mass, were drowned by the
breaking OF the ice In Frazier lake In
| Alaska.
Garfield King (colored), charged with
shooting white boy, was taken from
Jail at Salisbury. Nd, by a mob and
hanged.
The residence OF A. Richter was de.
strJyed by fire at Iron Mountain. Mich.
and two children were burned 20 q
crisp and two others were fatally
burned.
Negotiations designed 10 bring about
settlement OF all controversies be
tween the United States and Canadg
were begun Mt the state department In
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