The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-02-25

Mrs. Charles Fahrenkamp, aged 81,
her two children and an unknown
I'M were asphyxiated by gas in a
Philadelphia boarding house.
The postal receipts for January last
at so of the largest post Offices were
s3,G44,5 2s, against s3,441,3o0 for Janu-
airy, 1898.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
s0,6ls. 900 bushels; corn. 81 $4,000 bush
els; oats, s,676,o00 bushels; rye, 1884,
900 bushels; barley, 2,772, 900 bushels.
George Il. NJ. Harvey has bought The
North American Review, published in
New York, from Lloyd s.. Bryce and
David a. Monroe. for SEES 600.
Prof. George II. Stephens, convicted
In Easton, Pa, of setting fire to Pardee
hall, Ia Fayette college, was sentenced
{ nine years in the p~enitentiary.
The war department issued orders
for the muster out of all the volunteer
regiments.
Mack Oldham (colored) shot and
killed Ida Fields, q mulatto, at Inde-
pendence. Mo-. then committed suicide.
Jealousy was the cause.
Navigation has been resumed on the
whole length of the Ohio river.
Four children OF James Carson, of
Mix Run, Pa, were burned TO death.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of Missouri,
recently United States ambassador TO
Russia, entered upon his duties as secre-
tary OF the interior.
Gen. Miles was a witness before the
court of inquiry in Washington con
corning the beef furnished the army
and denied some of the newspaper in
terviews charged 10 him.
Philip d. Armour has added $780, 900
TO the wealth of the Armour institute
In Chicago, making a total of $4,000, 900
he has given the institution.
The floating grain elevator Columbia,
valued at 100000, was burned at Ho-
boken. n. j.
Marie Anderson, aged II, confessed
at Des Moines, Ia, that she tried 10 kill
her foster parents February Z by put
ting rat poison in the coffee.
A new disease IS affecting the cattle
in Iowa. 1T is known as anthrax, and
there is no cure for il.
The Baptist ministers home at Fen
ton, Mich, was destroyed by fire and
Rev. Mr.. Snyder was fatally burned.
The New York legislature passed a
bill making ii a misdemeanor to use the
national flag for advertising purposes.
In a mine at Blocton, Ala, five miners
were killed by n dynamite explosion.
George i. Baer, president of the Read
ing (Pa.) Iron company, ordered a vol
untary advance in wages Of its 1000 en-
ployes.
Unknown men secured 81 1000 OF Wells
Fargo Express company money from
an express car in Cherry Vale, Kan,
while the messenger vas at dinner.
Samuel II. Ashbridgc (rep.) was elect
cd mayor Of Philadelphia by a plurality
Of 100000.
Frieberg, Klein & Co.. whisky deal,
ers in Galveston, Tex, filed n petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of $780,
600; assets, $i,i00.
Gov. Bushnell issued a proclamation
calling attention TO the Ohio centennial
to be held at Toledo in 1902.
Before the Investigating committee
in Washington army officers con
demned canned beef, but said that re-
%frigerated beef was generally good.
Three miners were killed at Hooper
Col, by drinking wood alcohol.
John Rathgeber, n prominent farm
er near Carrollton, H., shot and kille6
his wife and hen killed himself. Do.
nestle trouble was the cause.
Prairie fires caused a great loss to
farmers in the vicinity Of North Loup
Neb.
DIR. Carroll, the commissioners named
by President Mckinley TO report on the
situation in Porto Rico. has completed
O our Of the island and says that under
the administration Of Gen. Henry the
conditions are daily improving.