The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-10-08


with destruction.
Snow and rain have checked the prog
ress OF the forest fires in Colorado.
The public debt statement issued on
the ist shows that the debt increased
s54, COS, 4ss during the month Of Septem-
Der. The cash balance in the treas
ury was S04o. 105,524. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 81. 067. 470, POS.
Robert Lesh shot and killed his wife
at indianapolis, Ind, and then killed
himself. Domestic troubles were the
cause.
Despondent over the death Of her
father, Bertha Beilstein killed her
mother in Pittsburgh. Pa, and then
took her own life.
The statement of the government re-
ceipts and expenditures for September
shows the receipts TO have been $780,
IT'S. 070 and the expenditures s54,223,921.
A fire In the Midvale mine at Wilkes
barre, Pa. caused the death of five
men.
Mrs. S. L. Williams, insane over reli-
gion. poisoned her two children and
cut her own throat AT Detroit, Mich.
Eight blocks Of the best portion OF
Colorado Springs. COL, were de-
stroyed by fire, including the Antlers
hotel. The loss Is 100000.
Lawrence Greenwood, president of
the Gainesville (Pa.) National bank,
was robbed of $4,000 worth of bonds
in Philadelphia.
A n ~
turers in Manchester, N. H., assigned
with liabilities of s1,000,o0o.
John Hollingsworth, a murderer,
and some of his friends, killed five men
near Murfreesboro, Tenn.
More than 100 persons are missing
in the burned-over sections in the
northern part of Wisconsin and many
bodies of others have been found. but
all so badly burned that Identification
is In most cases impossible.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat,
IL 100000 bushels; corn, 21,406,O00
bushels; oats, $4,000 bushels; rye,
I'll 900 bushels; barley, 1920, 900 bush
els.
During a storm at Brunswick, Ga,
nearly every business house was in
undated to a depth of five feet, the
damage amounting TO 100000.
The president has appointed DR.. Da-
vid j. Hill. OF Rochester, n. Y, first
assistant secretary of state, TO suc-
coed John Bassett Moore. resigned.
In Sacramento. CAL, Thomas Har-
rison shot and killed his wife and then
cut his own throat. Jealousy was the
cause.
Joseph Stoertzbach, 73 years old,
was robbed OF $4,000 in Stevens Point,
| Wis. which he had buried in tin box
in his woodshed.
A tornado at Fernandina, Fla, de-
stroyed property valued at 100000 and
killed three persons.
Yellow fever is practically epidemic
over the entire state of Mississippi.
United States Senator Quay and his
son gave bail in Philadelphia on a
charge OF conspiracy to rob the state.
Over 1000 persons, mostly farmers,
have lost all their possessions in the
forest fires in northern Wisconsin.
Lloyd and Joseph Henderson and
Frank Dorst were buried in sand
bank at Rockport, Mo-, and were dead
when taken out.
Later reports say that at least 100
lives were lost by the storm which
devastated parts OF the Georgia and
Florida coasts and $i,O00,o00 in fnan-
cial loss was entailed.
Rains have quenched the forest fires
around Cumberland, Wis.
The schooner Sarah Il. Palmer was
lost off Stone inlet, near Charleston,
S. c.. and nsr crew OF eight was
| drowned.
The battleship Illinois was launched
at Newport News, Va, in the presence
of 10000 people, and was christened
by Miss Nancy Letter, Of Chicago.
William Ballard, Burt Puvis and
John Gatlin were suffocated by gas in
a well at Somerset, Kan.
With $2,0O0,00o due to depositors the
| Trndesmen's national bank closed its
doors in New York city.
j. B. Connor, OF Evansville, Ind, shot
and killed his wife and her paramount,
Charles Williams.
| II Is announced that Hawaii will be-
come territory OF the United States
and will be allowed one representative
In congress.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed in Min
nesota and North Dakota.
The unusual warm weather and
abundant rains have started a second
growth OF almost everything in the
berry line in southwestern Michigan.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
larger portion OF the business district
of Lowell. Ind.
Samuel III. Dickerson shot and killed
Mrs. Blanche Winship and killed him
self in Cleveland. o. Jealousy was the
| cause.
The battleship Wisconsin Is TO be
launched from the Union iron works in
San Francisco on November &c.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
At meeting of the Chicago plat
form democrats In New York Henry