The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-05-09
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

vicinity. Much snow fell and the
temperature was seven degrees be-
low the freezing point.
President Baer,. of the Philadel-
phia & Reading railway, told the in
terstate commerce commission that
he controlled tire coal market and
could increase or lower prices as he
saw fit.
Three persons Were killed, two ia
tally and dozsn seriously Injured
in railway wreck at Terre Haute,
Ind.
c. ]. McReynelds, of Nashville,
Tenn, has been appointed assistant
United States attorney general to
succeed James M. Beck.
Cattle men are reported 10 have
subscribed for $25,0Oo,0o0 stock in a
cooperative company to fight the
beef trust. So
Snowstorms and excessive.cold in the
northwest will cause heavy loss in
fruit and early vegetables.
Colored preachers, headed by Rev. r.
c. Ransom, have commenced crusade
against the policy shops in Chicago.
rock slide on Turtle mountain in
Alberta, British Columbia, killed 1i2
persons and wrecker the Town OF
Frank. =
Mayor Rose, Of Milwaukee, was
stricken with heart failure and came
near dying before a physiciah arrived
and relieved him. <
John ID. Rockefeller has sent n check
for $4,000 to the officers of Che Saliva
ton army In Cleveland to aid in the
erection OF new SOC, 900 citaSel
The Indianapolis Journal (repub-
ican) has been sold to former, Con-
grcssman Charles L. Henry, Of Ander-
son, Ind,
The Illinois legislature has passed a
bin raising the limit of death damages
from $1,000 to $4,000.
Rev. John G.. Murray, of Baltimore,
Nd, has been elected Episcopal bishop
OF Mississippi
President Roosevelt, former Presi-
dent Cleveland, Cardinal Gibbons and
other noted men assisted in the for
NAL dedication OF the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition at 81. Louis, the ex-
ing military parade.
T.. II. Thomas, president OF the Le-
high Valley railroad, declared before
the interstate commerce commission
that unrestricted competition is dan
gerous.
Eighty-three blueiackets on the
United States receiving ship Wabash
were placed in irons at Boston for mu-
tiny.
Direct cable communication between
the United States and thePhilippines
will be opened on July 4.
At Frankfort. Ky, James Howard
was found guilty OF the murder Of
Gov. William Goebel and sentenced TO
life imprisonment.
Three thousand employees in 80 Of
Chicago's largest laundries went on n
strike for increased wages.
Gov. Chamberlain, OF Oregon, has
presented n sword from the people
OF the state TO Admiral C. Il. Clark,
who commanded the battleship Ore
gon during the Spanish war.
Snow TO the depth OF three inches
fell throughout central Wisconsin.
Four county treasurer's employees
are deadEnd 30 i'll as n result Of tax
payers scramble in Chicago to avoid
delinquent penalty.
One million dollars damage has
been caused by Pennsylvania forest
fires near Bradford The town of
jacksonville was destroyed and sew
eral lives lost.
The reports OF railroads for March.
including 81. Paul, Union Pacific and
Reading, show large gains In earn
Ings.
At Springfield, H.. the report Of the
house investigating committee finds
that no real attempt was made TO
bride Speaker Miller.
The plant of the Crescent Powder
company at Ganistock, Pa, was
wrecked by an explosion and nine
men were killed and 81 others badly
injured.
The semiannual assemblage OF the
bishops OF the Methodist Episcopal
church OF the world is I'm session at
Meadville, Pa.
There were eos business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the LIST, against fSG the
same week In 1902. .n
President Roosevelt whs given an
enthusiastic greeting at Kansas City.
Mo, and at Kansas City, Lawrence.
Topeka and other Kansas cities.
Weekly trade reviews say there "a.
much activity in manufacturing, with
the exception OF some textile mills.
Sales are reported good and collections
nrompt.
Killing frosts were reported from
gly every state In the middle west
Fuits and vegetables apparently
Nd.
lawrence river canals are
NiRafion.