The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.


French Broad river more than ten feet
above the normal The water sub
merged the plant OF the Asheyills
Electric company and street cars and
electric lights are out Of commission.
Three OF the i've lines of the South
ern railway out OF Asheyille were not
operated on account OF washouts One
freight train on the Murphy division.
ran onto an undermined track and
turned completely over lin the stream.
The fireman. pinned under the en-
CINE. with his head about six inches
above the water, was almost dead be-
fore extricated. Three hours later
trestles over creeks and one bridge
across the French Broad river were
washed away A $4,000 county bridge
was swept away IN the stream.
a big sensation was sprung in
the trial at Chicago OF Frank. b Har-
riman. Charles l.. Ewing and John NJ.
Taylor former Illinois Central OF.
ficials. before Judge Bruggemeyer.
when Attorney Fisher asked c. III.
Petty. who was testifylng. TO identify
letter written 10 him by Henry o.
Ostermann. May %. 1910. in which Os.
termann told Petty TO keep quiet I'm
case should be questioned by Illi-
nois Central officials as 10 graft in the
car repair bills presented TO the iii.
nois Central. Witness Petty at once
identified the signature as that OF
Henry O. Ostermann. following which
the letter was introduced as evidence.
The Pacific Coast express that left
ST. Louis III the night for st. Joseph
/ and the west, was boarded az the
Union station by a lone robber Ho
+ killed and threw overheard j NJ Wine
or st. Louis, nagman. held up tho
porter who came back 10 let the flag
man n. ordered him 10 turn out the
lights IN his car which he then enter
I ed and robber four passengers The
desperate got of the train al the Carr
street station on the levee and made
/ good his escape The entire time con.
sumed in the murder, robbery and es.
cape did not exceed ten minutes
The civil service commission al
Columbus. O., has handed down lis
decision in the cases OF the thirty.
\ three city patrolmen who were dis
missed by the director or public safety.
approving the action OF the director
| and refusing 20 grant 10 the police
mutineers the privilege OF reinstate-
ment in the department OF police.
/ The patrolmen were dismissed from
the force for refusing 10 obey orders
when directed by Mayor Marshall 10
| ride on cars 20 prevent lawlessness
during the strike riots
But for the fac, that a lack OF QUO
rum was declared II is evident that
the Ballinger-Pinchot congressional in
yestigation committee. which met in
Minneapolis. would have adopted
resolution asking the removal OF the
secretary from Office IN direct and
forcible manner Ballinger was saved
by Chairman Nelson. who DELAYED ac-
| ton and telegraphed for reinforce
ments in the persons OF Senator Root
and Representatives DENLY and Ohm
stead
At a meeting OF the American Bar
association held In Chattanooga,
Tenn. George w Chamlee, counsel
for James x Watts ~ New York,
brought charges against Joseph II.
! Choate. former ambassador 10 Eng
| land. and asked for his expulsion from
| the American Bar association. The
charges were referred 10 the grew
ance committee Choate is accused
OF neelecting the interests Of his cli-
Vnt. Watts. in "A lawsuit
II has developed In steel circles In
Pennsylvania that one OF The indus
tries stopped by the great lohnstown
| flood OF 1889 is TO be resumed at once.
The intelligence came through the
| placing OF contracts for the construc-
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
At Montreal, Can foremost figures
I'm the Roman Catholic hierarchy ad.
dressed Montreal congregations az tho
twenty.frst Eucharistic congress when
Cardinal Vannutelli the pspal legate
90 the congress. presided az mass at
the cathedral. Cardinal Logue al Notre
Dame and Father Vaughan, the most
militant and mos; picturesque speaker
Of The faith. az St Patrck's.
At Bilbao, Spain. violent attacks by
strikers on workers led 20 frequent
clashes with the troops The worst
riotlng was IN the Gale Rivera and
the neighborinR streets Gen. Do
Bourbon, personally heading the sol
dlery. occupied the bridges and
stopped IN traffic between The upper
and lower towns This confined the
rioters 60 The lower town
Tho retaining wall Of the speed
way Ia New York city along the Har-
lem river gave way In two different
places and slid into the water Tho
drst cavein occurred above High
nridre az One Hundred and Seventy