The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-05-06

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minhting the war with Spain occurred
when Secretary Hay paid TO the French
ambassador. Nj. Cambon, the $40. 000, 900
provided by the treaty of peace for the
cession OF the Philippines.
Fire in Sebastopol, Cal, destroyed
Chinatown, consuming about so
houses.
The monthly statement of the comp
trollcr of the currency shows the total
national bank note circulation on April
90, 1899, to have been $2l2, 1888, an
increase for the year of si5,101,4ss.
Samuel Powell, umpire in a game of
ball at Lowndesboro, Ala, was instant
ly killed by Frank Mccoy, one of the
players, because of decision.
Nearly one-third of Brule county, in
South Dakota, has been burned over
by prairie fires, many buildings lost and
much stock burned.
A cyclone cut path a quarter of
mile wide in Cassopolis, Mich, wreck
ing many buildings, and in the vicinity
barns were destroyed and stock killed.
Addison Johnson, of Port Chester, n.
", is the new warden of Sing Sing
prison.
A consolidation of many of the great
steel trusts into one company, with
capitalization of 81 100000 900, is under
way.
President Mckinley has returned 10
Washington from his trip TO Philadel-
phia and New York.
Dewey day" was celebrated through
out the country by exercises commemo-
rating the victory at Manila and by the
flying OF flags on all school buildings.
a consolidation of the peanut trade
of the country under the control Of a
single company with a capital OF So ,000,-
COO is about 10 be effected.
Gov. Stephens, of Missouri, has signed
the bill prohibiting the employment of
nonresidents Us deputy sherifIs, deputy
constables or as police officers.
The government receipts for the ten
months OF the present fiscal year were
Si2i,056,Ol4, against $340, o26, $50 for The
same period in the last fiscal year. The
expenditures were 1898, 45l, 400, which
include the payment of $20,000,0o0 70
Spain.
. Albert j. Hopkins, of Aurora, repre-
senting the Eighth district OF Illinois,
was named by caucus of republican
congressman in Chicago as the Illinois
candidate for the speal<ership.
Troops occupy Wardncr, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account OF riots
caused by striking miners.
Admiral SIMPSONS North Atlantic
squadron returned 10 New York from
its cruise in the West Indies.
The Alabama legislature met in spe-
cial session in Montgomery 10 settle the
question Of constitutional convention.
The circuit court of appeals in St.
Louis says that trusts operating as cor
porations in Missouri cannot collect ac-
counts from their debtors.
The National American Woman's
Suffrage association in session in Grand
Rapids, Mich, reelected Susan B. An
thony president.
President Mckinley has approved a
parcels post convention between this
government and Venezuela, To take ef-
feet July next
immigration into the port of New
York has been unusually great this
spring, averaging over 1000 persons a
day.
Col. Frederick Funston, of the 1wen-
tieth Kansas volunteers, has been made
a brigadicr general.
The third annual convention of the
Good Citizenship League of the United
States began in Cincinnati.
A 4. r..
living near Dernadotte, H., shot his di-
vorced wife and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Rear Admiral 4. Stewart, paymaster
general OF the navy, has retired and Nay
Inspector III. G.. Colby succeeds him.
Pamphlets issued by Edward Akin
son, of Boston, have been barred from
the mails going TO the Philippines as
reasonable.
Mrs. III. A. Hassall killed Mrs. William
Hickman in Stockton, Cal, and then
killed herself The former was in
fatuated with the latter and fear of
separation caused the deed.
The bodies OF 252 of the soldier dead
brought from the battlefelds of Cuba
and Porto Rico were inferred at Airing
ton cemetery, near Washington, with
military honors.
Keol<uk, chief of the Sac and Fox In
dians, died in Guthrie, o. T., of small
pox.
At the banquet in Detroit OF the Sons
OF the Revolution Secretary OF War
Alger, Gen. Joe Wheeler, Gen. Merritt
and Senator Chauncey Depew were the
guests of honor.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Sam +. Jack. a well-known theatrical
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