The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-06-17


including many policemen, were injured
ended day Of rioting In Cleveland. o.,
and the street railway strike was as
suIning more serious aspect with
every hour.
The gross receipts of the so largest
post Offices In the United States in May
were So, .343, an increase of $685., $50
over the receipts for May, 1898.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 18th was; Wheat,
27,G01, 900 bushels; corn, 1926, 900 bush
els; oats. s.s0s.000 bushels; rye, s92,-
600 bushels; barley, l,26i,00o bushels.
James Lowe shot his wife fatally at
Neillsville. Wis.,, and then shot himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
Tor the L months OF the present fis-
cal year the exports Of domestic prod
ucts amounted TO SGG7. sos, PSI, against
Ss87. 5d5,s0z for the corresponding PEE
riod last year.
The receipts OF the Fitzsimmons-Jef-
fries fight al New York were $4,000, of
which Fitzsimmons gets $4,000, the
club $4,000 and Jeffries $4,000.
Three boys, aged IL, ~ and IA, con-
fessed TO robbing the post Office at
Peru, IN.
Scores of persons were klled-the
number may reach into the hundreds
and hundreds of thousands OF dollars
worth of property destroyed by cy-
clone that swept across the Mississippi
valley, practically annihilating the viii
lage of New Richmond, Wis, and caus-
ing great property loss also at Hudson,
Wis, and at Hastings, Mimi, and in the
section OF country lying between.
+. o. Kragness, of San Francisco, has
broken the American 200-mile bicycle
road record by making n double century
around San Francisco bay in II hours
and 81 minutes.
A passenger train on the Rock Island
road jumped the track near Geneseo,
H., and one woman was killed and 10
other persons were injured. two fatally.
Clyde Porter and Calvin $. Hart were
blown 10 atoms in an explosion in tor
pedo factory in Marietta, o.
A dispatch received at Washington
announces the safe arrival OF the cruiser
Newark NJ IIocanee island. Chill.
c. 4. Larson and his eight-ycar-old
son were drowned while attempting to
cross the river Mt La Crosse, Wis.
-Four small children named Christen-
sen were drowned in the Platte river
while attempting 60 rescue one OF their
number.
The supreme lodge, Ancient Order Of
United Workmen, is in session at In
dianapolis.
Over 200 steamntters IN Cleveland. o..
are on a strike for higher wages and
for uniform scale for Cleveland work
men.
Holman Sheffield, hermit aged 60,
living near Toledo. o., was found dead.
Robbery was evidently the motive of
his murderers.
Two negroes were lynched at Dun
melon, Fla, by mob OF their own color
for shooting n colored man.
The town OF Herman, Neb.. was en-
tircly destroyed by tornado. The
town had 500 people and 300 houses.
Not house was left standing. and IL is
estimated that 90 arc killed and 40 or
80 badly hurt.
IL Is now estimated that the loss OF
life in the storm at New Richmond,
Wis. is about 100, while nearly 200
buildings were destroyed and a loss
entailed of over 100000. The entire
business portion OF the city is devas-
tatcd. Reports from other points in the
stricken district tell of serious dam
are and many deaths
Mrs. Maggie Neal, OF Des Moines, Ia,
and farmer named Nossler are dead
and four others are very seriously i'll
from drinking wood alcohol at picnic
near Mingo, Ia.
George $. Burroughs has given in his
resignation as president of Wabash
Cnd) college, to take effect on Octo-
Der /.
\ plan has been arranged whereby
tho American fighting force in the Phil
ippines will be increased 10 $4,000 men.
all regulars, by the beginning of the
dry season.
Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, an artist
of some distinction. is dead at New
York city agcd 40 ycnrs