The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-12-28
GENERAL NEWS.


ers OF Illinois are preparing 20 attac
proposed general advance in the
shipping rates for Illinois grain by the
railroads operating in the state u
the proposed advances are made the
grain dealers win carry the matter to
the interstate commerce commission
and demand a suspension OF the rates
Officers OF the illinois Grain Deal.
ers' association and the Farmers
Grain Dealers association have per
fected their plans for appealing to tho :
commission. The proposed change
they say. will affect not only the shin
ments within the state but all shin
ments OF Illinois grain to points our
side the state. The ST. Louis, Mem
phis. and other markets. they assert
are opposed TO the change.
WASHINGTON - The year just
drawing to close has heen remark
able in the number OF notable erg
neering projects instituted or now
well on their way to completion
Among these are. the irrigation
projects OF the United States govern
ment. the Panama canal, the immense
new fresh water reservoir OF New
York city. the enlargement OF thej
Erie canal. the erection OF the Grand
Central station and the building OF
the Woolworth building in New York.
TO say nothing of the new subways
which are TO be built in that city.
The total expense that will have been
incurred when these great projects
have been pushed to completion will
run close to billion dollars.
WASHINGTON The representa-
tives OF half hundred railroads have
come TO Washington to protest
against the announcement OF the
postofiice department that packages
weighing as much as eleven pounds
may be shipped by the parcels post.
They declare that the railroads are
now losing millions of dollars hauling
the United States mails and that the
maximum weight of parcels post pack.
ages should not exceed four pounds
Postal officials declare that II pack.
ages weighing more than four pounds
should be barred from the parcels
post the usefulness of the new sys.
tenn would be destroyed.
NEW YORk-Mrs. Payne Whitney.
who lis a daughter OF the late John
Hay and wife OF the second son OF the
late William G. Whitney. is critically
III at her Fifth avenue home. Mrs
Whitney's condition was reported dan
gerous, following the birth on Sunday
OF a child. which lived only a short
time. Mrs. Whitney obtained much
prominence as a poet under her
maiden name OF Helen Hay. Her mar
rage 10 Payne Whitney was one of/
the social events OF the Washington
season in 1902. when her father was
secretary Of state in the Roosevelt
cabinet
ATHENS, GREEcE-Vice Admiral
Hall Pasha, formerly a minister OF
marine in the Turkish cabinet, was
killed I'm the naval engagement be
tween the Greeks and Turks or the
Dardanelles Dee. 16. This Is tho re-
port received from a Greek captain
Vice Admiral lIalil Pasha was on
board the faeship Khevrer Din-Bar-
barossa, which. according to the same
authority, was very seriously dam
aged. Four other officers aboard the
flagship were killed and number or
sailors were Killed or wounded
PARIS - All Paris was deep
" interested in the trial and acquittal
OF Nine. Gastone Bloch, the authoress,
who. on July 81 last, shot and killed
Mrs James r. Bridgeman, formerly Of
Milwaukee. and wife OF Scotchman
engaged in business In Paris, who had
stolen the affections of her husband.
The jury took mt twenty minutes TO
decide that Nine Bloch was justified
In what she had done.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. excitement
was caused here by the blowing up OF
l ~ hiObh III AtilNiNi AVENUE nfol Nh'
railroad station. fifteen minutes after
President Taft had passed the spot
on his way TO the Christmas bali n
the National theater. Nobody wah
killed and, although the street was
lined with people, only one person
was injured Several arrests were
made.
HAVRE Former President CT
priano Castro of Venezuela Is a pas.
senger on the French liner La Tour
aine enroute to New York. The for
mer dictator OF Venezuela. who got
into serious trouble with the United
States by defying that country in the
matter OF settling financial obliga-
tions. has been staying at Passy with