The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-06-24
GENERAL NEWS,

oats for some time was even more
apparent in the eventful daily session
OF the ST. Louis grain market. Dam.
age OF more or less importance 10 the
latter crop In some of the more prolific
regions has been conceded, as also has
big shortage in the 1911 hay and pota.
10 output, while the new corn crop
seems TO be threatened. In the opin.
ion OF several observers, with a repeti-
ton OF the drouthy conditions that
have prevailed in previous ten year
cycles. wiater wheat. the bulk OF
which has oome-to maturity, seems to
lie falling far short OF earlier promise
and the spring sown variety is an un.
known quantity The wheat Dit was
in a state OF feverish excitement all
through tho day and prices assembled
tq.a decidedly higher range than for
merly noted.
News was received In Douglas, Ariz..
by Judge ID. A. Richardson from one
of the leading business men of Can.
anea TO the effect that a wholesale
butchery was perpetrated by the fed
eral troops at that place. When the
revolution first started sixty rebel sym
pathizers were thrown into prison at
Cananea. When Colonel Juan Cabral
and his rebels entered the city and
took possession, his first act was TO
proceed TO the jail with view TO lib.
Grating the political prisoners He
found that they were not there. Al
japanese grave digger said he had
been ordered by the federals TO dig
some extra deep graves The insur.
recto forces exhumed the bodies and
found from three TO fifteen in each
grave.
The postofiice department in Wash.
ington estimates that by june
80 there Will be on deposit In the nine
ty-three postal savings banks, the first
forty-eight OF which were started on
Jan /, and the remaining forty.five onl
May l. the sum OF $1,000, 900
On July many additional deposit
:aries will be placed in commission. In
July II VIII be possible for depositors
70 convert their savings into United
States bonds bearing 2h per cent In
terest. With few exceptions the west
ern repositories have larger deposits
than those in the east. The postal
hank at Leadville, Colo, tops the list
with 5l3 depositors and deposits aggre
eating s61,s97
Despite the fact that the New York
entomoloHist has announced that
the farmers and fruit growers had lit
tie TO fear from the visit OF the seven
teen-year locusts. fruit growers in the
fruit belt along the Hudson claim that
their young trees are being seriously
damaged II not killed by the locusts
They show marks as II they might
have been inflicted by finely pointed
cog wheel with pressure applied IN.
each OF the cuts are three or -four
eggs This condition is said 10 be
general among young trees Millions
OF locusts infest every part Of Orange
county and there IS continuous roar
through these districts
Al Topeka. Kan. Friday thc Kansas
supreme court handed down decision
iu the states nit against three sui
sidiary companies off thc Standard oi
company OF Now Jersey prohihitinf
them from combining to stine competi
ton. The defendants are the Stand I
ard OIL company of Indiana the stand
ard oil company OF Kansas, and the
Prairie oil and Gas company. Each
Is chartered In Kansas 10 produce, pur
chase, and otherwise procure crude oil !
TO refine IL, and to market IT,
At Los Angeles, Cal. a bonn
made of gaspipe, one and one-quartei
inches in diameter, and eighteen inch
es long, said by detectives in the dis
trict attorneys Office TO be filled with
guncotton, was found in the Hall OF
Records II was here that two sticks
OF dynamite attached TO a clockwork
firing device were found last Septem
Der. Three men--Conners, Maple and
Bender-were recently indicted by the
grand jury for the alleged attempt to
dynamite the structure.
Standing at an altar OF quartz and
granite carved and fashioned by the
hands OF the bride on a narrow ledge
100 feet above the ground, and reached
by a trail hewn out OF the solid rock
by the bridegroom, Miss Beatrice
Farnham, the Boston artist and sculp
tress, and John Otto. eccentric hermit
and prospector, were married In the
Monument National park, OF which
Otto has recently been appointed su
perintendent
The coronation procession OF sui
fragists which traversed the streets
OF London before the meeting AZ AL
bert hall wGs probably justly described
by Mrs. Maldwin Drummond. formerly
Mrs Marshall Field Jr. of Chicago, as
the greatest procession OF women In
support Of the suffrage movement the
world has ever seen" Mrs Drum
mond was general" OF the parade
In Havana harbor. Cuba. the first
human parts TO he recovered from the
wreck OF the American battleshif
Maine were discovered when workmer
removing mud and debris from the