The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-03-25
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the nth, against 1872 the week
previous and 20s in the corresponding
period OF 1898.
II is reported that Whitelaw Reid,
of New York is TO be offered the post
of minister 20 Spain.
The historic and fashionable Wind
sor hotel, Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth
street, New York. was destroyed by
fire, and 16 persons lost their lives. 43
were missing and AZ were injured.
Among those who were killed was Mrs.
Warren Leland. wife OF the proprietor
of the hotel, and her daughter, and Mrs.
James S. Kirk. wealthy Chicago
widow. Mr.. Leland has become insane
The property loss is estimated AZ ST.
100000.
Gov. Gambler, OF Georgia is very Bit
ter in his denunciation of the Palmetto
affair, in which nine negroeswere shot,
and says the perpetrators will be pun
ished.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,s45, 172 $50, against S1,91o,473,027 the
previous week The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 42.9.
The state Of Iowa is out OF debt.
The comptroller OF the treasury
holds that the men who enlisted in the
regular army or in the volunteer serv-
ice for the war with Spain are entitled
TO extra pay.
The United States steamer Path
finder had her official trial trip on Long
Island sound and exceeded her speed
requirements.
In n battle in Alaska between Ameri-
can and Canadian miners few miles
off the Dalton trail four men were
killed
In n train wreck near Volland. Kan,
William Freeman was killed and 26
other persons injured.
Adolph Meyer, agent Of the Equitable
Life Assurance company, and at one
time a wealthy merchant in Omaha,
was found dead in bed in his room in a
Chicago hotel
The navy department is taking steps
toward the formation Of mosquito
ueti LOT iHt i'HllpplHtS.
The latest estimate with reference 20
the Windsor hotel fire in New York
places the number of dead at is; in
jured, "a; missing, IS. II is suspected
that the fire was the work Of thieves.
At Bowie, Md, Mary a. Clarke, aged
&c. was beaten 10 death, and Annie
Clarke, aged 45, her sister, was fatally
injured by John Berry, n 15-year-old
negro.
Fire I'm the business section OF Ames-
bury, Mass. caused loss of $4,000
In fight between the police and Gen.
Gomez partlsans in Havana four per-
sons were killed and 90 wounded.
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador.
called at the department OF state and
served formal notice OF the signature
of the peace treaty at Madrid.
The army beef court of inquiry ar
rived in Chicago from its investigating
tour in Missouri ard Kansas.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Vim
ccnnes. Ind.
Charles l.. Backman, an engraver,
aged "a, fatally shot his wife, aged %,
in Chicago, and then killed himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The Eighth Illinois regiment (col-
ored) arrived home in Chicago from
Cuba.
English capitalists have organized n
company at independence, Kan. with
acapital OF $3.50. 100000. 20 compete with
the Standard Oil company.
Eleven persons were killed and Is
injured In cyclone near Edwardsville,
Ala. Ten OF the dead arc Lewis Coffee
and bis wife and children. The cyclone
swept the country for 10 miles and its
path was from 100 to 200 yards wide.
Rob Roy, Ark. town OF 800 inhab-
itants, Is In ruins, every building In
the place being leveled 10y n cyclone.
or the 50 bills passed by the Okla
homa legislature Gov. Barnes vetoed
G5. only "a becoming laws.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
20,0o2 900 bushels; corn, 80, 466, 900 bush
els; oats, 11,074,0oo bushels; rye, 1,5o3,-
600 bushels; barley, 2,546,O00 bushels.
The Second Illinois and the One Hun
dred and Sixty-irst Indiana regiments
have been ordered from Havana 20 be
mustered out. Including these two
regiments, IL have now been ordered
home.
IL is reported that the location OF the
keyboard by which the United States
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor February Is. 1898, had been
found In n gunroom OF the Fuerza
prison.
Mrs. Martha Place, who murdered
her young stepdaughter in Brooklyn.
was executed at Sing Sing prison. She
was the FIRST woman 20 die in the cleo
trio chair In the state OF New York.
President Mckinley and party ar
rived nt Jekyl island, near Brunswicl,
Ca. and on the pier 10 welcome them
was Speaker Reed.