Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — Novel Use of Searchlight. [ARTICLE]

Novel Use of Searchlight.

The electric searchlight was used, recently to put down a riot in Lancashire, England. A manufacturer, whose men had struck, was determined to keep his mill going, and he promptly secure 1 new hands and set them to work. AI the same time he fixed a searchlight on the factory building to prevent the strikers from setting fire to she sheds erected for the n?w hands. During the continuance of the strike.this light was used nightly in con junction with the police established in the works, to scour the country and to illuniiuiirc the part where pickets were placed. It was jfound so effective thnt-a large number of temporary police were dispensed With.