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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
RAIL STRIKE IN FRANCE


All the employees In France OF the
Northern railroad struck and the tie
up. OF the system Is practically com
ple;e. Trains for Calais and Cologne
only are moving
Several acts of violence occurred be
fore daylight At St Quentin the
tracks were torn up. Two locomo-
tiyes collided at Terginer and OBJ
structed the main track.
During the forenoon all stations on
the Northern road were taken posses
sion OF by troops and police. Most OF
the men who continued working were
from the provinces and simply took
opportunity to return home on their
trains before Joining the strike
The strike developed in the night
and took the company and the public
by surprise. The demands for better
pay and conditions originated with the
under-trainmen, the baggage handlers
and ticket takers. but they were sup
ported by the complete personnel. as
every branch OF the service has some
grievance.
The strikers threaten TO draw 70
their support the employees OF the state
railroad lines. II is said the total num-
Der involved In the strike may reach
100000.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
Baseball limo Record.

Mobile ana Atlanta broke the worlds
time record for baseball game In
Atlanta recently when they played a
full nine inning game In thirty-two
minutes. Mobile winning to /.
This remarkable record was made
possible by the two teams going on
the field and coming TO bat on the
run. Invariably the first ball deliv-
cred to each batter was struck at and
usually hit without any effort TO
place" IT,
/ Thirty-fve assists In the field tells
the story. Nevertheless there were
some sensational stops and throws as
well as some clever catches by the
ioutfielders. Only one base on balls
was recorded and only one strike out.
There were four stolen bases, one sac
rihce hit and one wild pitch, three two
baggers, one three-bagger. one triple
and one double play. 1t was a snappy
game.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
a HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Machine Runs into a Pole Near
Muskegon, Mich.
Party Of Business Men Was Return
Ing from Fish Fry When
Accident Occurred.

Muskegon. Mich. Oct. 13.-Four
prominent business men were hurt.
one probably fatally. when an automo-
bile driven by Milton Riordan. mana
ger OF local department store. and
running forty miles an hour, crashed
into telegraph pole.
The injured are Milton Riordan, jaw
broken in four places and internal In
juries, may die; Henry A. Bauknecht,
nose broken. face badly gashed, and
internal injuries; Jack Wynn, kneecap
broken and eyes injured; John Adams,
collar bone broken.
The party was returning from a fish
fry at Lake Michigan park when the
accident occurred.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15

Two Hundred Thousand Motorboats.
Ii has been estimated that there are
tat least 100000 motorboats in this
country. These figures were not guess
ed at, but were reached through cen
sus made by an association Of builders
OF these craft not long ago. The asso-
citation tried 10 find out just how many
craft there were IN addition TO those
detailed In the yacht register, which
takes into account only vessels OF a
certain size The figures rather sur
lprised the manufacturers.
There is not a piece OF water navi.
gable by a small boat that has not
some motorboats on It. and, as many
OF these craft draw only few inches
OF water IL can be seen how they
have developed yachting everywhere.
When sailing craft only were at the
disposition Of the yachtsman he had to
limit his cruising to known navigable
waters, because sailing craft needs
room TO work in and cannot be sent
through shoal narrow channels. But
1.-THE motorboat can 80 wherever it can
float, and consequently 1t can be used
OH any small piece OF water.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
PLOT Is CHARGED
IN LAKE BUSINESS
Chicago Board Of Trade Men
Accuse Railroads

Charging conspiracy TO deprive
western grain shippers OF the advari-
tages OF cheap water rates. officials OF
the Chicago board of trade filed a pc
tition with the interstate commerce
commission asking an investigation.
The petition asserts that the rail
roads are trying TO drive the grain
transportation business from the lakes.
The complaint is directed against
the Pennsylvania. the Baltimore and
Ohio. the New York Central, and sew
enty-four other lines operating east OF
Chicago and other Lake Michigan and
Lake Superior points.
1t Is represented that "by reason OF
conspiracy on the part of the defend
ant carriers, substantially all means
OF all-rail through transportation from
Chicago TO New York and other At
lantic seaboard points, and also all par
allel and competing and through lines
of transportation via the great lakes
from Chicago and other lake points
to Buffalo and from Buffalo to New
York and other Atlantic seaboard
points, are owned ana controlled Dy
the defendant carriers"
Recently the freight charges on
grain received at Buffalo from the
lakes-called ex-lake-were increased
from Buffalo TO Atlantic seaboard
points.
1t is alleged in the petition that these
rates are unjust; that they are discrim-
inatory. because they are much higher
than the all-rail proportion from Buf.
falo to eastern destinations, and that
they deprive the grain shippers on
Lake Michigan and Lake Superior OF
the benefits OF cheap water transpor.
tation to eastern points.
The Chicago board OF trade charges
that serious injury is being done II
and the Chicago grain market general.
ly by the advance.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
MAKES FIvE-YEAR CONTRACT
Monroe Gets It's Water Supply at
$4,000 Annually.

Monroe, Mich, Oct. 1S-At the
common council meeting the mayor
and clerk were authorized To enter
into a contract with the Monroe Water
company to furnish the city with
water for five years at $4,000 a year
Heretofore yearly contracts have
been made at $4,000 a year A com
miitee OF nine was named TO consider
Preliminary plans for the establishment
OF a municipal hospital A communi-
cation was received from the Toledo
council stating that II would cooper
ate with Monroe in macadamizing the
highway between the two cities.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15

Blackened corpses, hundreds OF
structive forest fires the Cadadian Dor.
derland has ever experienced. Not
less than 500 are believed to be dead.
Minnesota gave its full quota OF vic
Tins, besides several towns wiped out.
Rescue parties have already taken
into Warroad, Mimi, seventy-five bod.
les found along the trails near that
village They report that they saw
scores OF other bodies, but were una,
BILE to recover them.
Forty bodies were recovered In the
vicinity of Rainy River
Governor Eberhart OF Minnesota
has arrived in the fire zone to see what
relief measures can be taken by the
state.
More than $50 dead, millions upon
millions OF dollars worth OF property
destroyed, 5000 refugees fleeing from
the flames, is an epitome OF the hap
penings OF the days hell session in
the Beltrami county forest fires.
Thirty-five typhoid fever patients
were carried on improvised filters
from Spooner just before II was wiped
of the map. Forty-five were carried
from Beaudette. and the Mecca OF all
the refugees. carried or lettering from
exhaustion. was Rainy River. across
the water from the fire ridden dis
tricts OF Minnesota.
Then the flames hit Rainy River, de-
stroyed the lumber mills and 1000
panic stricken refugees piled into
freight cars and all but mobbed the
thinking there was no danger, started
to pull them out of the town.
Later the flames subsidized, and at
night 500 refugees landed in Interna-
tional Falls, strong men shaking like
leaves in gale, women and their chill
dren, fever patients on shutters; burn
ed men and women swathed in band
ages and a whole motley crowd In
stock cars like so many cattle.
international Falls met them at the
station, opened the city hall and hotels
for them, gave them beds. such as
could be provided. There was no es-
cape 10 the west. The east was the
only chance.
Bridges and culverts had burned out,
wires were down and trains were run
at top speed All the way from Beau
dette and Rainy River west TO War
road, distance of'fifty miles, was one
solid mass OF flames.
The prompt work OF relief, engi-
neered by the Canadian Northern Of
fiials saved many lives. The railway
has been running relief train in every
direction. stopping at any point where
frantic people were to be found along
the tracks. The heroism OF these
train crews is part OF the heroism
of the season, displayed by so many
Eight hundred were taken to Inter.
national Falls, II is expected relief
will be supplied by the United States
in few hours. In the meantime the
Canadian people are feeding them
The women have found shelter with
the Canadians. but most OF them are
living In box cars. Most OF these un
fortunates have lost everything they
possess. Many OF them being almost
naked. Tents are badly needed.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
BOY ROBBER ADMITS CRIMES
Thief Who Was Shot in Attempted
Hold Up Dies OF Injuries.

Dallas, Tex, Oct. 10 - G., Nc
Laughlin. the young robter, who was
shot while attempting TO hold up Max
Hermann in his store az Houston list
Saturday night. died In a hospital
Mclaughlin confessed to robbing q
Houston restaurant, Galveston street
car conductor. and operations in Beau.
mont. He said he recently payed the
role OF a bandit in a wild west show,
quitting II to become one In reality.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
FIND 20 MORE DEAD MINERS
Rescue Party at stsrkviIle, Colo, Con.
tinues Search for Bodies.

A message from the Starkville, Colo.
mine, in which fifty men are entombed.
said that the rescue party had found
twenty.three bodies In the face OF
room 30. OF entry Z.
The party is now working I'm room
81. clearing the after damp and look
ing for bodies. Entry has rooms
numbering up to 80. II Was along this
entry that the pick men were work.
Ing when the explosion occurred.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
SIGNAL CORPS IS DIVIDED


Lansing. Mich. Oct 1s.--As a re-
suit OF action taken by the state mill
tary board the signal corps detach-
ment OF the state troops has been d.
vided into two companies stationed at
Ypsilanti and Ionia.
Company A will be the designation
OF the one AT Ypsilanu and Company
the one at Ionia. Each will be al
lowed maximum strength OF seventy
five men. There has been more or
less friction between the two detach-
ments and on the recommendation OF
Col. Cox, the board decided 10 change
the organization into two companies.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15

Can Cy Young pitch 1000 games in
his big league career? This Is the
question. since Cy has won his. Ave
hundredth game and bids fair to. con-
tinue winning as frequently as do the
majority OF good pitchers in the Amer
lean league.
In his twenty-five years Cy has pitch
Jed 500 games. or about that number.
TO pitch In 1000, to use round figures,
Cy must work in 200 more contests.
Give him an average OF fifty games a
season, which the old boy can stand
and stand well. and 1t Will take four
years to finish the mark.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
Stanley 10. Hockey Cup.

The Stanley cup for hockey compe-
tition has been placed In good condi
ton by the trustees OF the Ottawa
.iCanada) Hockey club. II has been
decided that oil clubs holding the
trophy shall supply n bond for the
return OF the cup In good condition.
The cup had become badly battered
during the ears II has been competed
for. and the world championship tro-
ply for hockey required n new base
and some extra room for shields and
IN bit OF new silver.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
STEEL STEAMERS IN CRASH
Both Are Beached In the ST. Clair
Flats to Prevent Sinking.

Detroit, Mich, Oct 13.-The steel
steamers. James III. Reed OF Duluth
and Martin Mullen OF Cleveland, were
In collision near Joe Bedore's landing
In the ST. Clair fats. Both vessels
were beached TO prevent sinking. as
their bows were badly damaged.
The crews were just changing
watch and this fact undoubtedly pre-
vented the injury of many men. as
the forecastles of both boats were
splintered. The cause OF the collision
Is not known.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
G. 7. TAKES OLD MEN BACK
Nine Conductors Who Struck Are
Given Former Positions.

Port Huron, Mich, Oct. 13.--Nine OF
the best known conductors OF the
Grand Trunk system. who have been
out since the strike, were notified TO
report for duty and resumed their po-
sltions.
The old conductors who are back I'm
service are Martin Carey. Lyman G.
Hubbard, Fred T. Topping. Joseph
Bowes, Samuel Burgess. o. n. Camp
bell Charles Grayson. Martin II.
welch and John H. Leahey. II is re-
ported that others will be taken back
within the next ten days.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
HUNDREDS ARE DEAD
FROM FOREST FIRES
Several Towns In Minnesota
Destroyed by Flames,
SUMMARY OF SITUATION

Towns and villages burned:
Beaudette, Spooner, Roosevelt,
Longworth, Swift, Pitt, zipple, So
IaI, Cedar Spur, Gravel Pit Spur,
Graceton, EngIe, cIementson.
Partly Burned-Ralny River,
WarrSad. sprsgue. international
Falls, Plnewood.
In Danger - Stratton, Fort
Francis.
Population Of the Area Burned
Over $4,000.
Estimated Dead-S0O.
Bodies Recovered-Nearly 200.
Homeless-5,ooo.
Property Loss-over 500, ooo,-
900.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15

Dryden, Mich, oc'. l3.-John Muir,
aged 20, prominent farmer living near
here, was hurled from his buggy when
his horse became frightened and ran
away, dying from his injuries. This
is the third death in the Muir family
- two months and a daughter Is i'll in
a Detroit hospital
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
Observe Columbus Day.

Christopher Columbus Day was gem
orally observed throughout tho United
states. President Taft took part in
the ceremonies at Boston. vice Presi-
dent Sherman at Chicago. and Theo-
dore Roosevelt at Peoria, I'll.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
DIES IN RESCUING A CHILD
Evart Man Crushed by Runaway Horse
Dryden Farmer Killed.

Evart. Mich. Oct. 1S.-In rescuing
a small child from a carriage, George
Stone, 80 years old, was thrown by
the horse, which he had been driving,
against a tree and so badly crushed
that he died several hours later. Stone
was hard working man and highly
respected in the community.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15

English Rugby Players Not Coming.
oxford and Cambridge Rugby foot
ball team Will not visit San Francisco
this fall, a. predicted. Tho tour VIII
be made I'm 1911. when oxford viii
send over squad.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-15
To Play Ball In Tropics.

The Minneapolis Baseball club, cham
pions OF the American association. has
arranged series of twelve games 10.
be played this fall in Cuba and the
West Indies Ten OF the Minneapolis
team and Outfelder. Lelivelt OF the
washington team OF the American
league will make the trip. The play
ers will start from Chicago on Oct. ~.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
He Obeyed Orders,

Old world domestics make the best
possible servants because they work
like machines, never forgetting an or
der and doing exactly as they are told,
without presuming to think for them
selves. But once In awhile this literal
adherence. to duty produces some awk-
ward results. An American woman
living In India, with native servants,
once told her butler to see that there
was always napkin at the bottom of
the fruit dish, cake basket, etc, when
these were brought to the table. The
napkin was thereafter always seen In
its place. But one day a tureen of
vegetable soup was served, and the
hostess began to WELD the long, old
fashioned silver ladle about in it.
Something very like a fringed rag
made its appearance in the first plate
full. The butler was summoned to re-
move the dish. at cannot be that the
mem sahib found no napkin at the
bottom" he hazarded, much distressed
because Of this unexplained disap-
prevail. 'for I myself placed there the
largest one could find"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
Queer Goldfish.

Beautiful and most interesting of all
goldfish is native Of Japan. and it is
noted for the beauty of its tail and the
abnormal length of its fins. The tail
resembles delicate VEIL and the fins
are developed to such an extent that it
is impossible for the fish to make rapid
progress in the water 1t is therefore
solely on account of its beauty that it
is priced and because in this respect it
differs widely from other varieties of
goldfish, such as the telescope fish,"
the eyes of which bulge out of the
head in most unsightly fashion; the
celestial eyed fish" which is also I'M
comely because its eyes are bullet
shaped and are ever turned skyward,
and the EGG fish, which is so called
because its body is somewhat amor
phOus, but resembles an egg more
than anything else.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
What Is Provided for.

Arrangements have already been
made for the construction of thirty
steel barges, three steel tow boats
and two fast freighters, finances for
all of which are provided for with the
capital already paid into the corpora
ton. Freight boats to be put into
commission some time during the
month of April have been chartered,
and these will be used until the new
vessels are completed and put into
commission. Mr.. Moser stated also
that in the near future, or as soon as
practicable, e. passenger service be-
tween st. Louis and Memphis, and
between Memphis and New Orleans,
would be inaugurated.
while the first two and half
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
The Perverse Comma.

That curious and now stereotyped
blunder Of punctuation which gives
us GOD rest you. merry gentlemen"
as an inferior substitute for the
quaint old greeting. God rest you
merry. gentlemen" turns up regularly
every Christmas. 1t is a pity for the
ancient formula to he thus perverted
since GOD rest you merry" or "Erst
you merry" was a recognized form of
salutation in Elizabpthan days and
may be found In the works of Shake
speare and Of many contemporary
writers. while for the modernized
form, which closures the original
sense of the phrase. there is. of course.
no authority whatever. If any one
VIII have the curiosity to look up the
old Christmas carol which begins with
the words in question he will find
them correctly punctuated. - London
World.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
THE MICROBES.
But For Them All Green Plants Would
Vanish From the Earth

Few persons ran realize M frs
what an immense number and VARIETY
or microbes there are not only AROUND
us In the air and dust and water. bu
also in us and on us and In and on
every living thing The work. hi
huge system of chemical rhAnge anC
the circulation ut the clements car
bon. oxygen. hydrogen Nitrogen and
sulphur which they carry on is in
cessant. varied aud complex. Those
five elements are the main and essen
tial constituents of all living things
! SURPRISING here were no microbes
there would he no putrefaction. no
breaking down of the dead bodies of
animals and plants which were once
alive into gas aud substances soluble
in water
They by series of steps in which
different kinds Of bacteria or microbes
are successfully concerned convert
the proteids and the fats and sugars
of dead plants and animals into less
elaborate bodies, organic acids. aro-
matte bodies and other compounds
(some highly poisonous to mani. and
at last, when what were highly CON-
pick combinations of hundreds of at.
oms In each moecule have been re-
duced by the action of irst one and
then of another kind of microbe into
comparatively simple substances of
twenty or thirty atoms to the mole
cule, the coup de grace is given by
certain special microbes. which con-
vert these later compounds into still
simpler mbinations-namely. ammo
MIA and nitrates. which are fairly sta
Bile, so that the whole elaborate chem
ical fabric Of living matter In a few
hours or days after death is broken
down until 1t reaches the stable min
eral" condition. practically carbonate
and nitrate Of Notwithstanding
salts.
III there were no microbes this would
never occur. The earth would be
numbered with the dead bodies of past
generations of animals and plants-un-
decomposed. And very soon all the
organic elements. all the carbon and
nitrogen, If not all the hydrogen and
oxygen. on the face of the earth would
be fixed In these corpses, and the
green plants would perish from the |
whole world for want Of sustenance,
for it is the green plants which feed
on and absolutely must have as their
food the carbonic acid, ammonia and
nitrates into which the microbes re-
solve all living things when dead. 1t
Is the green plants which from those
simple compounds build up again the
more complex molecules. the sugars.
fats. albumens and proteids and pro-
vide for the nourishment and increase
Of the most complex of all-the living
matter hidden in protoplasm.-Sir Ray
Lancaster in London Telegraph.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
A Man of Straw.

Many years ago in England men
could easily be found to give any evi-
dence upon oath that might be re-
quired. and some of these pers,ls
walked openly in Westminster hall
with a straw in one of their shoes to
signify they wanted employment rs
witnesses. This was the origin of he
saying, He is a man of straw" But
the custom has high antiquity. A
writer in the Quarterly Review says
that. such were common in Greece.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
Presenting Arms to a Cat.

About the middle of the last century
a very high English official died in a
fortress at place that is one of the
centers of Brahmanic orthodoxy. and
at the moment when the news of his
death reached the sepoy guard at the
main gate black cat rushed out of it.
The guard presented arms to the cat
as a salute to the flying spirit of the
powerful Englishman. and the coinci-
dence took so firm a hold of the local.
ity that up to few years ago neither
exhortation or orders could prevent a
Hindoo sentry at that gate from pre-
senting arms to any cat that passed
out at night. Bombay Times.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-02
FRENCH DETECTIVES.
They Are Trained For Their Duties In
Regular Police School.

l
In Paris aspirants for positions in
the detective force are taught in a reg
ular school, where day after day they
are put through various exercises until
shey become proficient and receive ap.
pointments or show that they have not
the detective instinct in them.
The students first are trained in the
use of their eyes and their hands. One
of the lessons consists i'll placing the
pupil in brilliantly lighted room full
Of furniture and ornaments. Then he
is taken to another room and required
to make a sketch of the room he just
has left, indicating the position of all
the objects in it. He is allowed to look
at face for minute and then re-
quired to describe the color of the hair,
the eyes, the general form, etc. He
afterward is required to pick out
photograph of the face from among
several hundred others.
In educating the hand the student is
placed in a dark room in which are
many curious and unusual objects.
These he feels over and then writes a
description of them. He must remem-
Der even the slightest details. One test
is to let him handle gems in the dark
and then tell what they are, whether
diamonds, rubies or what not This is,
Of course, an exercise for the more ad,
vanced pupils.