The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-05-06
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Six inches of snow fell in the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
G. A. Shinkle's bank at Ellsworth, H.,
was robbed by burglars of 81 100.
Rev. w. j. Reese had just concluded
marriage ceremony near Alton, o. T.,
when lightning struck his house and he
was killed.
The international Sunday school con-
vention at Atlanta, Ga, refused negroes
representation on committees.
There were 1874 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 2sth, against 1874 the week
previous and 2G2 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The Second Illinois regiment,
bronzed and weathcrbeaten after long
service in Cuba. arrived in Chicago.
The exchanges nj the leading clear
ing houses i'm the United States during
the week ended on the 2sth aggregated
S1,S15,6 500, against 81 975,062, ASA the
previous week The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 65.7.
A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that 1913 of our men
were killed in the Philippines from Feb
ruary TO April %, and lii wounded;
total. 1909.
The New York legislature has adj
journed sine die.
President Mckinley sent dispatch
TO Gen. Otis conveying 90 officers and
men heartfelt congratulations and graf
itude for their signal gallantry and tri-
umph.
Four families were annihilated by a
cyclone at Milan, Mo-, and great dam
age was inflicted on property.
Willie Sees, negro aged so, was taken
from the Jail at Osceola, Ark, by a mob
and hanged for barn burning
Houses were wrecked and other dam
age was done by n tornado at Avoca,
Ia, and vicinity.
Brig. Gen. George W. Davis has been
assigned TO the department of Porto
Rico, with headquarters at San Juan
lie relieves Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry,
who retires on account Of i'll health.
The report of the court OF inquiry
which investigated Gen. Miles charges
regarding army meat is now in the
hands of the president.
Three persons were killed. over
dozen severely injured and so less seri-
ously hurt in n wreck on the Rochester
a. Lake Ontario railroad near Roches-
ter, N. Y.
The international Sunday school con-
yention at Atlanta, Ga, decided 10 hold
the next meeting in Denver in 1902.
One OF the press mills OF the Dupont
smokeless powder works M Carney's
Point, n. j., blew up and killed six
men.
The II. G. Frick Coke company In
Pittsburgh, Pa, which employs $4,000
men, has advanced wages from six 20
12ls per cent
The percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the wccl.
ended on the 30th ult were. st. Louis,
SIS; Philadelphia, .7i4; Chicago, GOO
Cincinnati, .5s3; Boston, .52s; Brook
lyn, .53s; Baltimore, .53s; Louisville,
800; New York, $685. Washington, .30S;
Pittsburgh, 200; Cleveland, 1875.
\ prairie fire swept over % miles of
fine farming land i'm northern Nebraska,
destroying houses and barns and burn
ing TO death Mrs. Iolla Livingston and
her five-year-old boy.
Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, II. s.
", arrived i'm San Francisco from Ma
nilh. His home Ia in hos Angeles.
The trouble between union and nom
union miners at Wardner, Idaho, cul-
minated in the union men blowing up
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine and
mill, causing loss OF $780, 900, and one
man was killed and many others in
Jured.
Many towns in Indiana. Illinois and
Kentucky felt earthquake shocks, and
In nearly every case the vibrations were
sufficiently severe TO stop clocks, shake |
down chimneys, crack walls and dis
turb dishes and light objects.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased |
s23,oSi,70i during the month of April. |
The cash balance in the treasury WIS
$05h037,9S4. The total debt, less the |
cash balance in the treasury, amounts |
10 81. 172, 5s7 ,2G4.
Treasury receipts for April fell 49,
100000 below those for March. while |
the expenditures were se2,soo.0O0 more
than those for the month previous. !