The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-07-22
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of tho Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

New Richmond tornado. He says $751;
600 more is needed.
An unknown negro was lynched near
lola. Tex, for numbering Lemuel
Sharp, a white boy.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the l4th aggregated
1898, GAG, s35, against $l,652,204,237 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week OF 1888
was coo.
There were 100 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 14th. against 1876 the week
previous and 215 in the corresponding
period OF 1898.
The Middlesex county bank at Perth
Amboy. y. j., closed its doors and the
cashier, George NJ. Valentine, was said
60 be n defaulter in the sum of $4,000
Detroit, Mich, is experimenting
with three-cent street railway fares.
Abe Brown, negro. who murdered
and outraged bohemian woman. was
shot 10 death by mob near Gilead,
Tex.
A combination Of wholesale grocers
of Illinois. Iowa and Missouri, for the
purpose of purchasing goods in large
quantities, was effected in Dcs Moines.
The Sioux Indians were said TO be
on the warpath in Wyoming and Off
cials were In pursuit of Swift Bear and
his band of warriors.
Annie and Mary Kinney, aged II and
4 % h.f,
Ella. aged -, were drowned while
bathing in the river at Lower Derby,
Conn.
At the annual session in Richmond,
Va, OF the Young Peoples Baptist
Union OF America John H. Chapman, OF
chicago. was reelected president.
Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Williams, of
Philadelphia, will undertake to ride TO
San Francisco on n tandem in 90 days
on wager of $1,000.
The village of Three Oaks, Mich, has
won the cannon which Admiral Dewey
sent from Manila for the Maine monu-
ment fund.
Ten striking miners were convicted
in the federal court in Fort Worth, Tex,
of intimidating and terrorizing inn
ported negro miners.
The city of ST. Louis has officially de-
clared war on the Chicago Drainage
canal.
The percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on The 10th were: Brooklyn,
.G54; Philadelphia. $50; Boston, .G27;
Chicago, .59T; Baltimore. $50; ST.
Louis, .570; Cincinnati. 1913; Pitts
burgh, .i73; New York, 40; Louisville,
.405; Washington, 100; Cleveland.
.l62.
The men on the street car lines in
Brooklyn, y. V, struck for higher
wages
Tin plate workers throughout the
country 10 the number OF nearly $4,000
resumed work after an idleness OF two
weeks.
ST Smith, farmer who killed viii
liam Eel, commercial traveller from
Atlanta, was shot TO death in the Jail
at Gainesville, Ca, by mob.
Twenty-sevcn business houses at
cambridge, Ca, were destroyed by
fire.
Roy sutton, 20 years OF age, shot and
killed Miss Ieona Elmere, a girl of is
years, at Mason City, ILL.,, because she
would not elope with him, and then
shot himself.
Clifford and james shannon and
Catherine Winsey were drowned in the
Ohio river In Cincinnati by the capsiz-
ing OF boat.
The conductors and motormen of the
Big Consolidated street railway sys-
tenn in Cleveland went on another
strike.
The report of railway statistics for
the year 1898 says the aggregate mile
age of railways was 1882, an increase
OF 4,0Ss miles.
During a family quarrel Mrs. George
Treider shot and killed her mother,
wounded her husband and then killed
herself near Long Grove, Ill.
The town of Wagner. /. T., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
The convention OF the Young Peoples
Baptist union closed In Richmond. Va.
Denver was selected ms the meeting
place next year.
A party Of i'll men and women going
from Atlin to Dawson, Alaska, were
drowned in Wind Arm. the dangerous
portion of Bennett lake.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
ai,552 COO bushcls; corn. 12,e34000 bush
els; oats, a,7oa,0Ce bushels; rye, 731,-
Geo bushels; barley. Gos.o0O bushels.
The Cosmopolitan club gave dinner
in Santiago in honor of the anniversary
of the surrender of Gen. Toral to Gen.
Shafter.
The total merchandise exports OF the
United States during the past fiscal
year amounted 10 81 .227, 4l3. 425, against
$1,23i As, $50 in the fiscal year 1898. The
imports amounted to s607,07T.3ss.