The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-06-17
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


A fine monument TO the memory of
Frederick Douglass was dedicated in
Rochester. Y. y.
Miles OF railroad tracks and thou
sands of dollars worth OF property were
destroyed by a food near Wichita. Kan,
and two deaths were reported.
United States Consul j. G. McCook al
Dawsoa City reports TO the secretary
OF state that the gold output in Alaska
this year will probably be $40,000,000.
James j. Jeffries, of California,
whipped Robert Fitzsimmons in the
eleventh round in a prize fight in New
York for the worlds championship.
President Mckinley has named the
commissioners who are to determine
the most feasible and practical route
for canal across the Isthmus Of Pana-
ma. Admiral Walker being AT the head.
1t ia announced that Gen. Miles has
asked the president 20 be sent to the
Philippines. No decision has been
reached in the matter. Gen. Miles does
not expect to supersede Gen. Otis.
Antonio Garcia, bandit chief, was
taken from the gendarmerie at Hol-
gum, Cuba, by indignant citizens and
hanged.
Thirty-six buildings, comprising al
most the entire plant Of the Nordlinger-
Charlton Fireworks company at Gran
iteville, n. V, were blown up.
The exchanges al the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
$l,s16, roc, 1926, against $l,377, ,os3 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 500.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 145 the week
previous and 203 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
boarding mistress, Mrs. Mary Smoslli,
mt Leechburg, Pa, because she de-
manded money for his board, and then
killed himself.
Peter Miller shot his wife In Warsaw,
Ind, and then cut his own throat.
Jealousy was the cause.
Tom Baker, leader of his faction In
the Baker-lIoward feud, which has cost
six lives and thousands OF dollars, was
shot dead ut Manchester, Ky, by an Of
ficer.
The percentages OF the baseball clubs
i'm the National league for the the week
ended on the nth were: Brooklyn,
.7G6; Boston, $50; Chicago, 1888; Bal
timore, .57s; Philadelphia. SIS: 81,
Louis, .574; Cincinnati, 500; New York,
.d57; Pittsburgh, .422; Washington,
.302; Louisville, .2O2; Cleveland, .lSG.
Gen. Leonard Wood. military govern
or of Santiago province. has been grant
cd leave OF absence in order that he
may bring his family back TO the Unit
ed States.
Simon Brooks (colored) was lynched
by mob of negroes near Sardis, Miss.
for the murder of negro woman
named Armistcad.
John T.. Mount. n well-to-do farmer
near Scottsburg. Ind. fatally shot his
wife while insane and then killed him
self.
The Dane County state bank at
IIoughton, Wis, closed its doors with
liabilities Of $i73,ooO and assets of
$223,000.
John Moore, "a member of the Saliva
ton Army at Fort Smith. Ark, killed
his wife in q fit of jealousy and then
killed himself.
A tornado did great damage to prop
crty near Salix, Ia, and killed John
Malloy and his wife and "a SON and badly
injured five other children.
S. Clark fatally shot his wife aud 10
year-old daughter near belmont, 5. D.,
and then disappeared.
The wages Of $4,000 men employed in
the iron and steel manufacturing indus
tries throughout the country have been
advanced 20 per cent.
At Canon City, Col. Samuel Roberts
shot and killed his wife and her mother,
Mrs. George Lewis. and then blew out
his own brains. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
The IA street railway lines in Clcve-
land, o., operated by the Big CONSOLE
dated company, were tied up by strike
Of the employees for an increase in
wages.
George and Ida Truitt, stepchildren Of
John $. Rogers and aged respectively
rs and 20 years, were killed by light
ming at Frankfort, Del.