The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-09-03
DOMESTIC.


the country is 20.4 per cent. larger
than last year and eos per cent.
larger than in 1892, heretofore thu
year OF the largest business and
highest prosperity ever known.
At the session In indianapolis OF the
cupreme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
Thomas G. Sample, OF Allegheny, Pa,
was elected supreme chancellor.
John Carrigan, about GO years OF age,
was brutally murdered by his son
Frank. aged 80 years, at Buffalo, y. Y,
while he slept.
Mrs. Rev. George Jefferes and child,
of Philadelphia, died in Shippensburg.
Pa. from the effects of eating toad
stools.
The National Association of Naval
Veterans of the United States of Amer
lea will hold their thirteenth reunion
in Cincinnati on September 6.
Harry S. Stevens, a well-known
broker in Cleveland, o., committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Business
troubles were the cause.
In a cyclone at Justin. Tex. the
plantation of Parker Terrill was de-
vastated, dwellings demolished, barns
RACED and stock sheds wrecked, and
child was killed.
President Mckinley and his wife ar.
rived at Somerset, Pa, on a visit 10 his
brother. He will be absent from Wash
ington one week.
In a railway wreck near Birming-
ham, Ala. two soldiers of the Sixty
ninth New York volunteers were
killed, another was fatally injured and
four were slightly hurt.
The report of Chief Will<ie, OF the
secret service, shows that in the past
fiscal year 705 arrests were made and
the value OF counterfeit notes recoy-
cred was Sl17,243.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 2Sth were: Cincin-
natl, .G37 Boston, .G33; Baltimore,
.G32; Cleveland, .501; Chicago, 1868;
New York. $50; Pittsburgh, .406; Phila-
delphia, .472; Louisville, $50; Brook
lyn, 1857; Washington, 800; st. Louis,
ESD
George Whiting, his wife and two
daughters, and the crossing boy were
killed instantly at Whiting Crossing
Mass. on the Massachusetts, Central
railroad.
John Gibson, cashier at the pool
room privilege at the Rigby race track
near Portland, Me-. was reported as
missing with $4,000.
Eighteen or 20 persons were injured
In n collision between n work trair
and a passenger train near Alva, O. L
The seasons gold output in the Yu
bon district OF Alaska is estimated a
$11 900 600.
Judge Valiant, OF the st. Louis cir
cult court. rendered a decision de
claring boycotts legal.
The steamer Roanoke arrived il
Seattle, Wash. from st. Michaels
Alaska, with $50 passengers and 81.
100000 in gold dust.
Albert Dukat, a Bohemian reclus
more than 100 years old, ended his If
in Chicago by hanging himself.
At the annual reunion in Milwaukee
OF the famous Iron brigade Gen. f.
Bragg was reelected president.
Miss Fanny Beck and Charlotte Her
rex. editor-ln-cDlef OF the Law Iool
erative Publishing company Of Roches
! ter, n. V, were drowned in Lake Or
tario while bathing.
Fire at Nashville, Tenn, destroye
the hardware establishment OF III
. Phillips uthoff Co, and other PROF
J erty. the loss being 100000.
Charles Scott, president of the d.
funct bank OF Rosedale, Miss, and
, +. Wright, editor Of the Vicksburg Dis
! patch. fought.a duel, the latter bein
slightly wounded.
= Walter Burrows, prosperous farm
4 er, Killed his wife and then himself Q
Powell's Valley, Tenn.
). Halvor Floren, aged %, and Ann
= Dillnar, aged 10, were drowned Will
9 boating ON Diamond lake at GroN
City, MINI.