The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-09-30
GENERAL NEWS


said 10 be one OF the finest In the
country. One floor is given over TO-
the use OF the court and ample prov..
sion has been made for the judges
chambers and the court library
The coming session will be busy
and important one. Among the deci-
sions expected are those In the lemon
rate cases. the water carrier cases.
the Chicago stockyard cases and the
Louisville and Nashville case to set
aside an order OF the interstate COM
MERGE commission prescribing class
rates from New Orleans 10 Mobile and
cities In Alabama and Florida.
Private adyices received in Indian
apolis from Detroit state that Harry
dianapolis. and son OF the president
Of the Continental National bank, is
under arrest on charges of forgery and
passing fraudulent checks. The checks
on which he is said 10 have raised
funds bore his fathers name and were
on the Continental bank. Mr.. Quick
said his sons operations had been 20.
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attempted 10 reach him by other meth
DDS, but failed Recently check for
$50 was passed in Walkervile, Ind,
the name of George f. Quick appear
, ing on II, and the arrest followed In
Detroit -
The strike of car men on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway which
began in the shops of the companY
along the entire system Is the resul,
OF a demand for a new schedule OF
VIZ Res, according TO w. A. Durham
assistant general manager. that the
company cannot legally give them.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas
Railway company is a separate cor
pcration from the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Of Texas, and the legal de-
lHrtment of the read has. held that tho
laws OF Texas forbid the two corpora
tions from entering into an agreement
for the entire system, which Is COM
Iosed OF two corporations
Near Wilkesbarre. Pa. Monday. thI-.
teen year old Joseph Crohona Of
Edwardsville. Pa. was "lynched"
10y two boye and was not rescued un.
iii he was unconscious and almost
dead a man walking along the street
about III y m, found the boy hanging
from a h!gh fence with a rope around
his neck and his hands and feet bound
After several hours he recovered
sufficiently to declare that Andrews
Lipsky and Edward Deshburn. fifteen.
had caught him and strung him up
after declaring that he was the fel.
low they wanted They were arrested
and held for a hearing.
A semiofiicial note. just issued in
Paris. France. says: THE conversation
with NJ Cambon. the French omhas-
sador az Berlin, and Herr Won Kiderlin.
Waechter. the German foreign minis
ter. have Just had. confirms the dis.
position OF Germany 60 seek n basis
for a definite understanding with
France regarding Moroccan situation
II may now be assumed. after an
examination OF the German point or
view TO which the French government
will devote itself for the next few
days and after precision has been Civ.
en- 10 the formula before them. that
the establishment OF an agreement
will be possible"
BENJAMIN +. Hamilton. of Saco.
Maine. the first merchant in this
country 10 employ girls as saleswo-
men in a store, Is dead Mt the age OF
ninety.two years. Hamilton's store in
1855 was one OF the largest drygoods
houses in the east He caused a tre-
mendous sensation in that year by en-
ploying comely young women as clerks
and the women OF Saco showed their
disaoproval by boycotting the store.
The idea eventually took" how.
ever, and Hamilton opened similar
stores in Blddeford and Portland where
the novelty OF woman clerks made the
enterprises great successes,
Sonoma. Cal, was saved from de
struction by fire by the use OF wine
from the great tanks In the wineries
there The town is built almost en-.
tirely or wood and when the fire
started II spread with great rapidity.
The water supply was practically
exhausted when the firemen turned
With the wine. the progress OF the
flames was checked after loss OF $780,
900.
One OF the greatest warships ever
! constructed for any government In the
world, the Argentine battleship More
no was launched from the yards OF the
New York Shipbuilding compa y at
Camden. ". j The only other vessel
afoat which is her equal is her sister
ship. the Rivadavia. recently launched
by the Fore River Shipbuilding COM
pany at Quincy. Mass
The French torpedo boat destroyer
Trident struck the submarine boat
Mousqueton al Salina d'Iyeres. The
Trident had her bow crushed IN. The
Mousqueton was run aground TO save
her from sinking Within week
there have been French marine disas-
tiers on the warships Gloire. Mar