The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-08-26
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.


III. Westenhaver at LOUISVILLE. o., last
March, convicted OF mnnslaughter. was
sentenced at Bowling Green, o., TO 20
years In the penitentiary.
The town of Red Bay, on the island
of Andres, 20 miles southwest OF Mas
sau, was swept away in the recent trop-
ical hurricane and about 800 lives lost.
An eyewitness of the storm estimated
that the loss of life on the island was
fully 600.
A special from Fargo, n. d., says:
Heavy hail in Sargent county destroyed
80 per cent. OF all sncut wheat and
much flax.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Sham
rock, challenger for the Americas cup,
reached New York, accompanied by her
tender. the steam yacht Erin.
Preparations for the observance of
the one hundredth anniversary OF
George Washingtons death are being
actively conducted by the committee OF
the grand lodge of masons for the state
of Virginia. Masonic observances will
take place i'm Alexandria and at Mount
Vernon December 10 and IL.
The amount of gold certificates issued
under the recent order OF the secretary
of the treasury in exchange for gold
coin is S1s,s36,040.
Failures for the week have been in
The United States 1850, against 154 last
year, and in Canada "a, against II last
year.
Contracts have been closed at Kansas
City, Mo-, for the sale TO a syndicate Of
eastern commission merchants OF 20 car
loads of eggs now in store at Topeka,
Abilene and Concordin, Kan. The eggs
are to be shipped by three special trains
next week. The deal is estimated 20
cover 10,0s0,0oO eggs.
United States Treasurer Roberts re-
ceiyed telegram stating that the
Brewers association OF Milwaukee,
Wis, would contribute $1,000 to the
Dewey home fund.
David Ewing, a prominent man liv-
ing near Snndusky, o., was fatally in
jured by hogs. lie was taken with n
stroke OF paralysis, and before help
could reach him the hogs had almost
devoured him.
Robert Crenshaw and Thomas Embo-
den, two young farmers near Provi-
dence, KY, shot each other fatally in
fight.
SQUAD Bolin, negro charged with
robbery and attempted murder, was
hanged by n mob at Fulton, Ky.
Four men were killed in a shooting
nirray half mile south OF Lake End,
la.
Wind and rain did great damage to
10. 1. at..s.
Eight hundred tons of supplies for
the Porto Rican sufferers were placed
on board the transport Panther at Phil
adelphia.
The Twenty-seyenth, Thirty-irst and
Thirty-fourth volunteer regiments OF
infantry have been ordered 10 proceed
10 Manila.
A combination OF all the principal
fish dealers in Florida, with the excep-
fion OF three. has been formed.
The First Nebraska volunteers. who
reached San Francisco from Manila
three weeks ago, will be taken home on
n special train at state expense.
The war department has set aside two
large tracts OF land near Honolulu as
military reservations.
The Interstate Good Roads associa-
tion has called IA series OF conventions
20 be held during September and De-
tcber i'm Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the Goth were: Brook
Ign. ego; Boston, 500; Philadelphia.
.623; Baltimore, COS; st. Louis, .534;
Cincinnati, .53i; Chicago. 52i; Pitts
burgh, SOB; New York. .a46; Louisville,
.442; Washington, 1877; Cleveland, 1865.
Two Indians and n white man were
hanged at Dawson for murder. IL was
the first legal execution In the Klon-
dixie.
Mrs. Jennie Weston drowned herself
and her four-year-old son i'm a cistern
at Pierre, $. ID. Family trouble was
the cause.
The schooner Hunter Savidge cap
sized in squall on Lake Huron off
Point Aux Barques and FIVE persons
were drowned.
Five tired homing pigeons arrived in
San Antonio, Tex. from Tehautepcc,
Mexico. making the distance of 300
miles In Sc hours.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2ist was; Wheat.
36,207,000 bushels; corn, 7,od5, 900 bush
els; cats, 100000 bushels; rye, $4,000
bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
A dispatch says that out of I 900 men
who went into the Kotzebue country in
Alaska last fall over seven per cent. have
died from scurvy or met tragic deaths.
Peter Louin Ind his l5-yenr-old son,
under arrest at Eclectic. Ala, for shoot
ing Hall Jordan, were taken from Jail
by mob OF masked men and killed.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of the city OF Victor. Col, causing loss
estimated at s2.o0o.ooo.