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

The American League baseban |
schedule he's at last been CT lpleted. |
The Athletics won the pannent, with |
102 victories and as defeats, finishing |
81 points ahead OF the Highlanders. |
The Detroits, who came In third, AZ |
tributed their failure TO weaa pitch |
ing. The Boston Red Sox finished q
poor fourth. The Cleveland's tried
experiments and changes all the year.
and were never seriously considered.
The Chicago White Sox got such q
poor start that in spite OF fine brace
near the end OF the campaign, they
could not overhaul the Cleyelands. The
Washingtons, at one time we'll UP In
the race, did better than usual, but
weakened in the last month. The
st. Louis Browns. composed OF inferior
material. were never In the hunt.
Popular feeling against the church
is very strong in Lisbon. The gov
eminent opposes excuses and says II
will prevent them. but Quelhaes has
been the scene OF shameful vandalism
by a mob. The accounts OF the origin
of the trouble there, cabled Saturday.
are conflicting. Bomb throwing or
Jesuits is as vehemently denied on
one side as II is asserted on the other.
Sympathizers with the Jesuits say the
mob attacked the Jesuits without the
least provocation. but they admit that
the Jesuits fired rifles in self-defense.
Five convicts escaped from Sing
Sing. The convicts, who. owing to the
crowded condition of the prison, had
been placed in the chapel dormitory.
attacked two keepers, one OF whom
was beaten into insensibility and the
other bound and gagged Then thu
convicts, having sawed the bars OF q
window on the second floor of the dor
mitory, let themselves down on ropes
made by tearing portions OF their
clothing into strips, dropped into the
Hudson river, which runs past the
prison, and swan down stream.
A disastrous fire broke out In the
elevator at Ann Arbor Mich. OF the
gas works and before II was extin-
guished $4,000 worth OF property was
destroyed Just what caused the fixe
is at present unknown, but according
to the theory OF one OF the employees
a load OF coke was dumped IN the
screen before all the fire was out OF
IT, This set fire TO the elevator which
was entirely destroyed, and which, in
falling, crushed through the roof OF
the engine room, destroying some or
the machinery.
Colonel Roosevelt finally did the
trick in st. Louis. He went up in the
air Like good many others he has
succumbed to the temptation OF flying.
Late In the afternoon at the Kin
loch aviation field. eighteen miles east
of St Louis, Mr.. Roosevelt made his
first flight with Arch Hoxsey. In a
Wright biplane he encircled the field
twice, and remained in the air min
utes and 20 seconds. When he came
down to earth the colonel exclaimed
that It was the bulliest experiment he
had eyer had.
At Columbus. Ohio, John r. Mar
ker, chief engineer of the board OF
public works, created a sensation by
filing charges of graft against former
Chief Engineer Charles Il. Perkins, for
eighteen years an official, and whom
Mr.. Marker succeeded several months
ago by appointment of Governor Har-
mon; Superintendent Charles Hatch
of Akron, and Collector Charles Wat
kins OF Waverly, nephew OF George II.
Watkins of Portsmouth president OF
the state board Of public works.
Lieut.. Gov. Horace White succeeded
Charles g. Hughes as governor OF New
York state The ceremony attending
the change OF administration was the
briefest possible II took place in the
reception room OF the executive cham
Der suite Immediately after the gov
errors luncheon at the executive man
sion in honor OF Gov. White. Gov
Hughes went TO Washington TO assume
his place on the supreme bench as an
associate justice of the United States
supreme court
John Lane, a laborer, OF Lansing,
Mich, about forty years old, and un-
married, attempted to commit suicide
at his home by placing a murzle OF a
shotgun against the base OF his skull
and then pulling the trigger with q
string. The charge tore through MIS-
neck, fracturing the skull and bury.
ing itself in the ceiling. His chances
OF recovery are very slim.
The keepers and deputy shenns
who are searching for Eve convicts
who escaped from Sing Sing prison.
including big Bill" Green, the latest
convict In the institution, are now al
most positive that the fusitives are
hiding In the dense woods on Butter
milk mountain. which IL part OF the
great estate OF John ID. Rockefeller at
Pocantico Hill.
Near Belfast, Ireland. Aviator Fer
guson was injured, perhaps fatally,
when he fell thirty feet with his mon
oplane. The accident happened while
Ferguson was making an exhibition