The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-09-03
GENERAL NEWS.

ratify the compromise agreement fixed
up with the bosses. The majority OF
the meetings broke up in disorder. The
Manhattan Lyceum meeting was
crowded with strikers. Treasurer John
b. Lennon, OF the American Fedora
ton OF Labor. Delegate Mitchell OF
Cloakmakers local No. 3, and several
others were scheduled 20 speak. When
one OF them read the agreement and
came to the portion whore the closed
shop read do and Is waived" he
could get no further. Shouts, cat calls
and other noises assailed his ears and
the audience, en- masse, began 10 press
forward threateningly. Lennon tried
TO speak, but his voice was drowned In
the babel OF excavations and invective.
Jacob Goldberg. chairman. had no bet
ter luck.
The Kansas Republican party coun-
ell held in Topeka, Kan, was over
whelmingly insurgent and the band
wagon was run over Senator Curtis
and others who sought 10 secure an
unqualified endorsement OF President
Taft The only endorsement the presi-
dent received was an assurance that
the Kansas Republicans would com
mend only such acts as met with the
approval OF the Kansas insurgents.
William Allen White, under the d.
rectin Of Senators Bristow, Victor
Murdoch and Gov. Stubs. wrote that
part OF the platform which relates 10
national matters.
Five persons were badly injured
near Scranton. Pa, one or them fatally,
while returning from Joy ride through
Nay Aug Park. The auto containing
the party became unmanageable and
plunged down a fifty foot embankment,
had been TO Astors Road for dinner
N. d. Simpson aged 80, freight OF
fetal OF the Laurel line, the man who
gave the dinner. was caught under the
automobile and crushed He died at
the state hospital Roy A. Huntsinger,
the chauffeur, with marvellous luck. es-
capped with a few bruises The other
three were girls.
President Taft at Beverly heard from
John r. O'Rourke. president OF the
O'Rourke Engineering Construction
company OF New York the story OF
how, on next Christmas morning the
hull Of the Maine can be lifted clear
Of the waters in Havana harbor. Mr..
O'Rourke. whose company wants the
contract for raising the wreck OF the
Maine, explained to the president that
the hull can be brought up in such
perfect condition as 10 permit the
whole world 90 determine whether the
Spanish-American war was justified
The defense in the bribery trial
At Chicago OF Lee O'Neil Browne
introduced testimony to show that
Charles A. White, star witness for the
state, had threatened TO make the
Lorimer bunch come across" by de.
claring that he had been bribed 10
vote for Lorimer for senator. and thus
get money for his silence on the SUB.
ject. White at that time declared he
was looking out for Charlie.
Az Columbus, o., a mob OF fully
1000 people battled with the police
when street car tioting broke out with
fresh fury Struck down by the clubs
OF policemen, several we're seriously
injured One. a deputy sheriff. mis-.
taken for a rioter, may die. A chauf.
feur for a police automobile was
struck unconscious with a brick. Fifty
rioters are arrested and locked in the
city prison.
Hu la, utr cir lac In
Pennsylvania that one Of the indus.
tries stopped by the great Johnstown
food OF 1889 is to be resumed at once.
The intelligence came through the
placing OF contracts for the eonstruc.
ton OF the new mills on the Site OF
those destroyed by the food. and
which for years has been about the
only scar caused by the waters that
is visible.
Circulars will shortly be sent
next day or two circulars viii be sent
from the headquarters OF the United
Mine Workers TO all the local unions
throughout the country that have no
strikes on hand, levylng 81 week on
each working member 10 support the
strikes which are now In progress In
several districts.
J. G. Mars barely escaped death by
drowning IN the sea when he was
hurled in the Narrows opposite Fort
Wadsworth, while attempting a thrill.
ing flight from the sheepshead Bay
race track 10 Staten island The avi.
ator and his machine. a Curtiss bi.
plane. fell 200 feet
Il will not be candidate for pres.
ident I'm 1902" declared William Jen.
nings Bryan while on a visit to Kala.
mazoo. This Is the first time the Ne
braskan has positively stated that he
will not make an effors 10 secure the
Democratic nomination for the presi.
dency In 1912.
Preparations in London. Eng, OF
the evidence for the preliminary hear.