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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
WILL RE-wEIGH THE COAL
No More Short Deliveries from Railways
i'm Iowa and Observation-Disclosures
Gain Their Point.

Sioux City, Ia, June 17.-At the an
nual meeting of the Iowa and Nebras-
ka Coal Dealers association in Sioux
City President G. HI. Chisam, Of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, announced that the coal deal
ers had won a complete victory in their
campaign against the railroads for cor
rection of the short-weight evil. Last
winter this association. stirred to ac-
ton by shortages ranging as high as
25 per cent, appointed committee to
secure the passage Of a law by the
Iowa legislature to compel the roads to
weigh coal upon delivery.
The railroads then conferred with
the association, and the western roads
agreed to comply if the eastern lines
would do so. 1t was announced that at
a meeting Of twenty traffic members
the roads agreed to weigh coal upon
delivery. if requested, upon a the pay
ment Of 50 fee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Wood Pulp Paper.

Despite all mans ingenuity he has
not yet been able to use wood pulp
newspapers over again. After the
daily is read and thrown aside it is use
less for the press again. Instead, the
junkman carries it off and dispOses OF
it in various ways. Waste paper, for
instance, is steamed, washed and press
ed into sort of wood, which is used
for floors. By the addition Of a little
clay the surface can be made smooth
enough to resemble metal. Under
pressure paper is also turned into car
wheels. buckets, plates, penholders, pa
perweights and statuary. The street
fakir who wishes to sell you Venus
de Milo, which he assures you that you
can drop and it won't break any
MORE" holds in his hand the combined
product of a half dozen old newspapers.
New York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
TERRIBLE STORM CUBA
Scores Dead and Missing and Vast Destruc-
tiOn of Property.

Santiago de Cuba, June II. = The
worst storm of decade began last
! Friday and eliminated Monday night
in fourteen inches of rain which fell
in five hours, accompanied by. a hur-
ricane. The lower village OF Ell CObre
has been destroyed. Forty-fve per-
! sons are known to be dead, and scores
are missing. Bodies are floating in the
Cobre river. Twenty bodies have been
recovered by boats patrolling the bay.
! All the bridges on the Cobre railway
are out and many bridges have been
| lost on the Cuba railway.
| A train which left Havana Satur-
| day is held between WashOuts forty
miles inland. A relief train bringing
mail and passengers was wrecked at
Moron. The fireman and mail agent
were killed, and two Of the employees
were injured The passengers are safe.
| The mines at Daiquiri are crippled
and six of the employees have been
drowned The pier has been damaged.
Santiago de Cuba's property loss is
enormous. The streets and many build
ings have been badly damaged, and
there have been immense losses in the
country districts.
| Guantanamo, Cuba, June IL. - The
most severe stor mon record has swept
over Guantanamo. There were show
ers all Monday and at night a steady
downpour of rain began, lasting till
noon Tuesday. At a. m. the Guaso,
Bano and Jaibo rivers were all out OF
their banks and sweeping the country
causing loss of life and property. Ten
| bodies have been recovered thus far,
but much greater loss of life is sup
posed to have occurred in the low
districts beyond the rivers. There are
large numbers of dead cattle along the
| banks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
ILLINOIS CONVICT LABOR LAW
Fight Begun Against 1t on Behalf as Al
legged, of the Contractors of the
State Penitentiaries.

Springfield, Ill. June 17.-Just In
time to forestall the payment OF S1o,-
600 warrant, Attorney Levy Mayer, OF
Chicago, reached Springfield and Sc
cured temporary injunction from
Federal Judge Humphrey restraining
the cashing of the warrant, which is
the first drawn under the act of the
last general assembly, Familiarity
termed as the convict labor bill" The
proceeding, which questions the consti-
nationality Of the act, is brought by
Whiting G. Press, Chicago taxpayer.
The law would Dust the contractors in
the penitentiaries and the injunction is
said to be on their behalf.
The contention on which the action
is based is that the bill presented to
Governor Yates for his signature was
not the one that passed the two houses
Of the general assembly, and that aft
er once signing the bill and placing it
on file Governor Yates, contrary to law,
recalled the document, and himself or
through another, changed the docu-
ment so as to conform with the bill as
passed by the legislature, and then re-
traced his signature to the bill and re-
turned it to the office of secretary of
state. The change, according to the al
legations of the bill. was the uterine
alton of the word 'Willfully," which
had been inserted through an amend
ment, but which failed to appear in the
copy presented for the signature Of
the speaker of the house and the pres
ident of the senate and afterward sent
to Governor Yates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
COULDN'T GET ANY CASH
So the Home Bank, Goodland, Ind, Has
Closed Its Doors with Deposit Debts
of$153,OOO.

Goodland, Ind, June 1.-THE doors
of the Home bank have been closed.
f. D. Gilman, president and cashier.
is absent, and his address is unknown
Gilman left here Monday with the
avowed intention of procuring money
from one Of the Indianapolis banks,
promising to return on the following
day. He has not bene heard from.
Wilson Wickersham, teller was LETT in
possession of the bank. Wednesday
noon he reported that he had no funds
with which to meet checks. and. act
ing upon the advice Of attorneys. he
refused to receive deposits Wednes-
day afternoon, although $500 is known
to have been deposited during the
morning hours.
The schedule shows deposits in the
bank amounting to $3.50, 900. This in
cludes $4,000 of county funds and
about $1,000 township money. Farm
ers will be effected strongly, as the
bank was largely patronized by them
because it promised to pay per cent.
on. time deposits. Many of the bust
ness men, both borrowers and depos-
itors, also suffer. The exact cause of
the failure is unknown, although it is
attributed to longtime loans upon
which no cash could be realized.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Antiquity of Engraving.

Gems were engraved at very early
period of the worlds history. The very
oldest specimen of this art in existence
is believed to be square signet of vel
low jasper engraved in the year 1850
B. G. and now in the British museum.
The engraving upon it is fair picture
of the horse Of Amenophis H., and the
characters underneath have been deci-
phered as being the names and titles Of
that monarch. The earliest instance Of
an engraved precious stone is the en-
erald ring of Polycrates, TAO B. G. The
Bible tells us that the Judaean high
priests wore breastplates with the
names Of the twelve tribes engraved
upon them, but Notwithstanding this
there is no known Hebrew engraving
older than the fifth century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
LOOKED LIKE A TRAP.
Clever Oriental Stratagcm That Wa.
Complete Success.

Many a man has failed to guess an
easy riddle because the simple solutions
looked like a trap to him. Here is ar:
instance in which this trait of human
nature was cleverly played upon by q
Japanese nobleman.
The old lord had been forced to flee
with only 800 men before an enemy
with 10000 and barely had time to
reach his castle ahead of his foes
There were no re-enforcements near at
hand, and he knew that if an attempt
was made to storm his defenses he
and his men would be dead before help
could come.
The enemy's forces advanced rapid
~, and scouts rode up near the castle
to reconnoiter. To their amazement,
they found the gates. doors and win
dows open and all the appearance Of
holiday celebration. They rode hasti-
" back to inform their master that the
foe was dancing and that bands were
playing music in the castle.
The powerful enemy was too wise a
man to put his head into any such trap
as that. The defenders of the castle
must have some plan to slaughter his
forces by wholesale or they would
never invite him in that way. He
drew back safe distance and en-
camped to await developments
Soon the re-enforcements for the cas-
lie came up behind, attacked him sud-
denly and defeated him, while the gar
rison which had risked all on it's
strategem, charged him on the other
side.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
THE FIRST SKY MAP.
1t Was Very Probably the Chart
Made by Hipparchus.

III was very PROBABLY the Cnart
Made by Hipparchus.
The Chaldeans were probably the
first to cultivate astronomy, which,
with it's sister science, astrology, ap-
pears, to have been evolved independ-
emily by Egyptians, Chinese and Chal-
deans, who had all distinguished the
planets from the fixed stars and group
ed these into consultations.
Drawings of the heavens were prob
ably common to the observers of all
three nations, but owing to the whole
sale destruction of records it is impos-
sible to say whether any charts upon
plane surfaces, which alone can strict
ly be called maps, were made by them.
In more recent times the first to
project a chart of the heavens was
Hipparchus, who upon the appearance
Of a new star decided to record the
state of the sky in his time and to conn
pile a catalogue of all the stars visi-
BILE above his horizon. He enumerated
1880 stars and in order to fix accurate
~ their positions invented the plani-
sphere a projection of sphere upon
plane surface, which is for most pur-
poses more useful than globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
OLD SUITS OF ARMOR.
They Are Too Short For the Average
Eng1ishman of Today.

They Are Too Short For the Average
Englishman of Today.
A walk through the Tower Of London
will convince any person that the ar
NOR clad knights of medieval days
were puny men compared with the
athlete of today.
The experiment of getting into suits
of old armor in country houses has
often proved that the legs" are far
too short for the average man Of the
present generation.
A we'll known anthropologiSt at the
British museum says that undoubted-
" the British race is taller than it was
several hundred years ago.
IT think, however, that the medieval
man was deeper chested and broader
in the shoulders" he said. "The old
armor, if a man of good average height
could squeeze into it today, would be
found loose fitting in the shoulders
and at the chest. The tallest men in
the world come from Galloway and
Perthshire, and Yorkshire's average is
a fine one. Even that of southwest
England and south Wales - five feet
six incheS-is far higher than that Of
many Of the continental nations. The
tallest men after the men, Of Galloway,
who have an average of nearly six
feet, are the Fulahs of the French
Sudan, and the Patagonians are be-
lieyed to hold a very good average
London Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
FOOD VALUE OF MILK.
It's Nutritive Substances, All OF
Which Are DigesribIe.

In certain sicknesses says scientist,
such as typhoid, life may depend on
milk, which may not only postpone tie
final issue in certain kinds of senile de-
cay, but may contribute to the stability
Of vigor in maturity.
While the food value of milk is gen.
orally recognized, there is popular ig-
norance of the exact nature of its nu-
tritive properties. If gallon Of water
is boiled long enough it is lost in steam.
Milk similarly boiled leaves a solid res
idue weighing from twenty to twenty
three ounces. This substance chiefly
consists of sugar, fat, the fat of butter,
casein-a material with feeding prop
critics resembling those of the white of
egg, of the lean of meat and the gluten
stances which are essential in the man
ufacture of the bones and teeth. I'm
like almost all other foods, these milk
substances are all digestible, and, what
is more, they exist in almost precisely
correct proportion to each other
The once famous analyst Letheby
demonstrated that whereas 100 pounds
of quite lean beef without bone con-
tanned seventy-two pounds of water
and twenty-eight pounds, Of feeding
matter-not all of which is digestive
100 pounds of good milk contained
fourteen pounds of feeding MATERIAL
digestible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
THE INCENSE TREE.
1t Is Squatty and ThOrny, Like the
Myrrh and Acacia.

Myrrh and Acacia.
Incense is the reSinOuS gum that ex-
udes from a tree found in British So
maitland from near Berbera to Cape
Guardafui. Some incense comes from
a region adjoining Maskat, near the
Arabian coast. Inferior incense is
found in India, but the best and great
est quantity comes from British So
maitland.
The incense tree is squatty, thorny
and unsightly, like the myrrh and aca-
cia, and seldom reaches height of fif-
teen feet.
Incense is not only used in worship,
but many orientals use it to sweeten
the breath and burn it in their houses
to kill disagreeable odors. The crop va
ries from 2,24O,OOO to 100000 pounds
and is gathered in the autumn and
brought to market by the Somalis dur
ing the winter months. The price
ranges from to annas a to II cents)
per pound, according to quality.
Incense is extensively used all over
the orient, and last year 1888, IA
pounds were shipped to Bombay, which
is great distributing point, and 1,426,.
$50 pounds to Europe, the greater por.
ton going to Marseilles and Triest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Crane Slated for Cabinet.

Washington, June I.-Attorney
General Knox, Secretary CortelyOu,
former Governor Crane of Massachu-
sets and Paul Morton of Chicago
were at the White House in confer
ence with the president, the nature
of which was not disclosed. Ex-Gov-
ernor Crane, after the conference, said
he was not to be one of the vice chair
men of the Republican committee to
manage the coming campaign. The
tale of his entering the cabinet is re-
yiyed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Chicago Grain
Chicago Live StOc

Hogs-Estimated receipts for theday.
25.OQO: sales were made at $4.30@4.S5 for
pigs. $4.75@5.071a for light. $4.S0@4.90 for
rough packing. $4.75@5.15 for mixed.
and $495@5.171h for heavy packing and
Shipping. lots, with te bulk of the trad
ing at $4.9O05.1O for fair to good aver
ages.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day. 5000: quotations ranged at $1,000
675 for choice to extra steers. $480M
5.M65 for good to choice do. S435@5.00
for rair to god do. S3.50@4.35 common to
afee and
s125@4.50 cows. $2.60@4.75 heifer. s2.25@
AIS bulls and oxen. $3.50. @4.40 stays.
s3.5G@4.75 Texas steers. and s3.00@5.75
veal calves.
Sheep and Lambs-Estimated receipts
for the day. 5000: quotations ranged at
s3.0o@5.50 westerns. $27S@5.eo natives.
lambs. So 5O@6.9O native lambs and S.. 90
@7.50 spring lambs.
East Buffalo Live Stock.
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Com
mission Merchants. East Buffalo. N. Y
cars; market dull Hogs-Receipts. 20
cars: market firm: pigs S5.05@510:
Workers. medium and heavy. $525@5. go
Sheep r~6 Lambs-Receipts. 5 cars
Calves-Market firm best. s5.O06550.
st. Louis Grain.
Wheat-Lower; No. red cash eieva-
Ss2%@S5c: September 6OAc: No. 2 hard.
SS@9Oc. .Corn--Lower: No. 2 cash. 47c:
track. 4Sc: July. 47c: September. 47c.
Oats-Weak: No. 2 cash. Ale: track.
42!Ac: July. &c: September gle: No. 2
white. 441sc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Japanese Gods.

It is said that there are no fewer
than 100000 gods worshiped by
the japanese. Praying is made very
easy. In the streets are tall posts,
with prayers printed on them and with
a small wheel attached. Any one pass
ing by can give the wheel turn, and
that counts as a prayer. The people
in the second largest of the $3.50 is
lands of which the empire is composed
worship the bear and reverence the
sun, moon, fire, wind and water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
NO DEATH AMONG THE HURT
Young Woman, Who May Recover Had an
Extraordinary Experience.

Young Woman, who May Recover Had an
Extraordinary Experience.
Many persons were injured in the
panic that followed the breaking out
of flames on the Slocum, and at least
200 persons were taken to the hos
pitfalls. Not a death has occurred so
far among these and many Of them
have already been discharged. Per-
haps the most remarkable case in the
many appalling experiences of those
who were on the SlOcum was that of
Miss Clara Hartman, who was picked
up for dead, lowed behind boat for
several miles, wrapped in a tarpaulin
and tagged as dead, and then recov-
cred consciousness at the Alexander
avenue police station. 1t is now be-
lieved she will recover.
Although many Of the bodies taken
to the morgue were very badly multi
ated, and the clothing in many cases
almost entirely burned off, valuables
have been taken from them, and are
in the keeping of city officials to the
extent of 100000 or more. Several
of the men and women had the saw
ings of a lifetime on them when they
persisted. Much jewelry, it is report
ed to the police has been lost, but
AN explanation may be fact that it was
destroyed by fire, rather than stolen
by ghouls.
Mayor Mcclellan, after receiving
messages of coincidence from many
sources, visited North Brother island,
and later visited the morgue. He is
sued proclamation to the citizens of
New York and appointed a relief com
mitted of prominent men, and relief
will be sadly needed in that little East
side territory which the vast MAORI
ty of those that persisted were &C.
customed to call home.
The coroner's investigation to iS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
BODIES RECOVERED TOTAL 5se
Search Is Going on for More with
Energy Unceasing.
MANY SCORES ARE YET MISSING
Number, However, Decreasing by the
Lost Reporting Themselves
More Than 200 Corpses
Unidentified.

New York, June 17.-With unceas-
ing effort search is going on for the
bodies of those who persisted Wednes-
day on the General Slocum. What the
list Of victims will total scarce one
dare venture guess, but whatever
the number may be there is hardly a
parallel in the history of disasters
where death came to so many in so
brief a period of time. Police and
health department officials have placed
the number at figure as high as l.
coo and more, but it would seem that
the maximum fatality will not largely
exceed 700. It would seem that the
estimates were based on the number
of bodies recovered-504 at noon yes
terday-added to the number missing,
estimated at 400. But of the bodies
recovered only 116 had been identified,
and it is pretty certain that many
of the missing are among the unidenti-
fed.
Bereaved Ones Watching for the Dead.
All day long. from sunrise until
darkness shut off even the melancholy
satisfaction of watching for the dead,
anxious searchers kept up their eternal
vigilance, and at dusk there had been
recovered $50 bodies, for the great
part women and children. Mothers
who weeks ago had planned that fatal
outing for their children; little ones
who had longed for the coming of the
happy day. Up to dusk 400 bodies had
passed through the morgue, and Of
these more than 800 were identified.
The east side has its human SYM
pathies aroused to the fullest extent,
and down by the river, where the
boats unloaded their dead, thousands
gathered throughout the day. Streets
leading to the morgue were blocked.
Wreck Is Clear of Bodies.
Up the sound, where the hulk of
the General Slocum lies submerged,
showing only paddle box, scores of
small craft aided the tugs in Crap
ping for the victims. Divers went
down time and time again, and when
their work ended for the day they de-
clared there were no more bodies in
the wreck. A score of times diver
reappeared after his plunge with the
body of woman or child. Two of
them coming to the surface together
on one occasion had in their arms two
little girls - sisters - clasped in each
other embrace, and their mother, it
was thought, whose dead hand tightly
clenched the skirt of one of them.
Hope for Some of the Missing.
There is a number of places where
the living may have landed, and it is
believed that many that are now re-
ported missing are safe, and eventually
will be heard from by the officials
who have the rescue work in hand.
A surprising number of persons, in
fact, has reported to these officials
alive, thus cutting the list of missing
down considerably as well as the prob
able mortality list.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Weathervvise Birds and Fish.

The sea gull makes a splendid living
barometer. If covey of sea gulls fly
seward early in the morning, sailors
and fishermen know that the day will
be fine and the wind fair, but if the
birds keep inland, though there be no
haze hanging out toward the sea to
denote unpleasant weather, interested
folk know that the elements will be
unfavorable. OF all weatherwise fish
the dolphin is the most remarkable.
During a fierce gale or storm at sea
the mariner knows that the end of it
is near if he can see a dolphin or a
number of that fish sporting on the
high sea waves.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18

"Here is another example Of faulty
English" said the teacher Of the class
in rhetoric. I'm this essay you have
written her sight broke upon a land
scape of enhancing loveliness.' How
could any ones sight break upon a
landscape?''
"She might have dropped her eyes"
timidly ventured the young woman
who had written the essay.-Chicago
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Fears of q Serious Disaster.

New York, June II. = A dispatch
from Cape Henry, Va, says that a
quantity of burned wreckage, cabin
furniture, several cases of Oil and a
passenger check of steamship con-
pany have washed ashore between
False cape and Currituck life saving
station, causing fears that serious
wreck has occurred.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Ex-Maxor Ames Still Alive.

Minneapolis, June 17.-Ex-Mayor
A. A. Ames is weaker, and fears are
entertained that his illness may termi-
nate fatally, although no new alarm
ing symptoms have developed. The
bribery case against him has been con-
tinued over the term and will be re-
set for trial in October.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
THE WEATHER

The following is the official weather
forecast UP to o'clock tonight:
Illinois-Fair: warmer in north and
west portions: variable winds
Indiana-Fair: variable winds.
temperature: variable winds. mostly
eaSterly.
Wiscon3in-Fair: warmer: easterly
winds.
Iowa-Generally fair: warmer: south
erlv winds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-18
Croker's Niece a Baroness.

New York, June II. - Miss Daisy
Croker Warren, niece of Richard
Croker and a member of the South
erners company at the New York
theater, was married to Baron Arthur
Won Hunerbein at Stamford, Conn.
The bridegroom, although Of an old
and noble German family, does not
use his title in this country, being a
civil engineer.