The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-07-01
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.

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Acting Secretary of War MeilSlejohn
announces that the receipts from all
sources at Philippine ports for the
month of April were S533.276.
The great street railway strike in
Cleveland, O., is ended.
The four daughters Of Mrs. 4. j.
Lloyd and Miss Childers were drowned
while bathing near Lampasas, Tex.
The exchanges az the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2ad aggregated
Sl,61s,215,955, against $1,6o6, 555,473 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 40.2.
Cain Stephens, one OF the murderers
OF Marshal Osborne at Chancey, Ca,
last January. was executed at East
man. Ga.
Mrs. Potts, the wife OF Levi Potts,
a day laborer at Mechanicsburg, o.,
gave birth TO four children, three boys
and girl. All OF them died.
There were IT'S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d against 1876 the week
previous and 2s5 in the corresponding
period OF 1898.
In session in Cincinnati the Music
Teachers National association elected
as president A. j. Gautvoort, OF Cincin-
natl, and selected Des Moines, Ia, as
the place of meeting in 1900.
A passenger train on the Muscatine
division of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
a. Northern road was wrecked by a
broken rail near Muscatine, Ia, and
three persons were seriously injured.
William 0. Prutt fatally shot Jessie
Porter, a chambermaid employed at the
Palmer house in Chicago, and then
killed himself. Jealousy was the cause.
o. H. Hills, clerk of the United
States circuit court at Omaha, Ncb.,
died in bath tub OF heart disease.
William Brown. aged l6 years, fatally
shot NJ. Cunopop and II. Horivitz, pawn
brokers In Marion, Ind. They were
abusing the boy because he refused TO
buy pistol.
The percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 25th were: Brooklyn,
-763; Boston, col; Philadelphia, CPS;
Chicago, .593; ST. Louis, .56T; Baltimore,
.561; Cincinnati, .49l; New York, .475
Pittsburgh, .436; Louisville, $3.50; Wash
ington, 300; Cleveland, 1852.
Acyclone nearly wiped out the village
OF BARLEY. Neb.
The New York Central Railway com
pany has acquired by lease the Boston
4 Albany line.
Henry and William Mann, aged re-
Epectivcly II and 10 years, and Charles
Baker, aged "a, were killed by the cars
near Elizabeth City, ". c.
AZ the first annual reunion i'm Las
Vegas, N. NJ, Of the Society of Rough
Riders, Theodore Roosevelt. governor Of
New York, was presented with a gold
medal by the people of the territory.
The Michigan legislature has adj
journed sine die.
BY the capsizing Of boat in the Vel
lowstone river az Greycliff, Mont. Reno
sherman, Centrnlia. ILL.,; J. W. Dcker-
son, Centralia. H., and w. S. Thompson,
Kansas City. Mo-, were drowned.
Willis l.. Moore, chief OF the United
States weather service, had a narrow
escape from drowning at Cape May. n.
j., while bathing.
The transport Sheridan smiled from
San Francisco for Manila with f.O42
armed men and "a officers.
Fire In Laurel. Del. destroyed 7s
buildings, including two hotels. bank,
the post Office. nearly all the business
houses and the homes Of the most
wealthy residents Of the place.
The Southern Pacific Railway com
pany has issued an order that after July
no more liquor is 10 be sold at any rail-
road hotel over their entire system.
The citizens Of San Juan. the capital
OF Porto Rico, propose Ia celebrate the
Fourth Of July In good American style.
~ the sinking Of the steamer Apal-
nche in the Chipola river near Wewa-
hitchka. Fla, Mrs. S. T.. Clark. Of Chi
cago; Mrs. Mcknight and her daughter.
Of Jackson, Tenn, and deck hand
were drowned.
The posse Of officers which has been
following the trail of the Union Pacific
train robbers for three weeks has given
up the chase and returned TO Casper,
Nyo.