The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-12-09
Brief Items HOt
Off the Wires
Fourteen Inch Gun Bursts.

SANDY Hook, N. j.. Dec. "a new
fourteen inch gun burst today while
pelhg Tested on the proving grounds.
IL Is considered rema rkable no one
was hurt.
Lumber Sehoonsrs Arrive.
Chieago, Dec. g.-The lumber
sehooners Butcher Boy. Cora A. and
Tyler, two weeks overdue, arrived
here today, They we're covered with
ice. but were in good condition. The
captains stated they put into upper
lake ports 10 escape Thursdays gale.
Champions British Naval Program.
London. Dec, Sin The Commons
To-Day. First Lord of the Admiralty
Churchill. referring TO the three bat
uesnips 10 cost thirty five millions.
given by Canada 10 the British empire
said Aid given by Canada should
be IN addition To the existing British
program, thus sweeping away the pos
sibility Of Great Britain curtailing its
own naval program
Commerce Commission Uphsid.
Washington. Dec. 9.-The Jurisdic-
ton Of the interstate commerce com
mission over the union stock yards In
was upheld by the supreme
court today, which sustained the com.
missions right TO bring suit To have
the company's contract to pay $780, 900
10 Pfaelzer a. Sons. packers, for erect
ing a plant adjacent to It's track, an
nnlled as amounting 10 "A rebate
Mauretania Safe.
London. Dec. 9.--No confirmation of
the published rumors Of an accident TO
the Mauretania could be obtained here
OF az Queenstown. on the contrary
The vessel was reported by wireless
go miles west Of Browhead at 1870
last night ana no mention was made
In the dispatch OF an accident of any
kind
Queenstown, Dee. g--A wireless
from the Mauretania az noon. $50
miles west of here, said "Alrs Well"
earthquake Shocks Recorded.
Washington. Dec 9--Earthquake
shocks which lasted 23 minutes, ap-
parently 500 miles frcm Washlngto
was recorded by the seismograph at
Georgetown university between 3:t4
ana 4;O7 this morning II Is thought
of Alaskan volcanoes may
have broken out again. The seismo-
rgaph at ST Ignatius college at Cleve-
land, Ohio. also recorded several
shocks early this morning II Is es-
timated they were 500 to 2,O00 miles
away. probably on the Pacific coast in
southern California or Mexico.
Bicycle Records Broken.
New York. Dec. 9-Aii records had
been broken at o'clock this morning
at the end OF the eighth hour of the
twentieth annual six-day bicycle race
at Madison Square Garden. In that
time fifteen teams which started at
midnight, We're tied at ls9 miles and
3 laps This was three miles and eight
laps better than the record. AT 9 80
this morning. Berthet of the Franco
Italian team skidded ana upset AT
tinued the race apparently uniniured
and without losing his position.
investigates Strike Assaults.
indianapolis, ind, Dec. Assaults
committed during the iron workers
strike were investigated by the gov
ernment in the cross examination Of
Patrick Farrell Of New York, defend
ant in the dynamite" trial today. Out
Of $40, 900 contributed by the lnterna
tionai union to sustain the strike in
New York. Farrell admitted he fur
nished bonds for and paid the fine Of
union men Sixty assaults In 1906. in
which ammonia revolycrs We're used
as weapons. and in which one man
was thrown into the river and a po-
lceman who attempted Ia quell the
riot Killed. were charged by the gov
as being part of the reign
Of terror" which preceded the general
use of dynamite. The strike never
has been called of.