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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
UNDER FIRE FIVE HOURS
ROCKEFELLER CRoss-ExAMINED
Nothing Sensational Developed Eek
cept the Enormous Earning
Power of the Trust.

New York, Nov 21.-For over five
hours John d. Rockefeller, witness for
the defense in the government suit to
dissolve the Standard Oil company.
faced an unceasisg fire of questions
from the federal counsel, Frank B.
Kellogg, and when adjournment was
taken until Monday the head of the oil
combine was still being cross examin-
ed on the charge that the company in
its early days accepted rebates to the
disadvantage Of its rivals. The enor-
nous earning power of the oil combi-
nation was sharply brought out when
Rockefeller, after stating that the
Standard had paid dividends amount
ing to $4O,OOOOOO in 1907, said it had
earned as much more, and that this
was added to the company's surplus,
which was stated by the governments
counsel TO be $300,0O0,000. 1t was fur
Their stated by kellogg that the COM
pany within the last eight years had
earned nearly half a billion dollars.
The rapid-fire interrogations of the
prosecutor were always met by Rookie
Teller with mistaken imperturbability
and readiness to answer, except when,
as he explained: 1T is quite impOs-
sible for me to remember after thirty
five years. l do not recall" Rookie
Teller was questioned closely regarding
rebates which the Standard was charg-
ed with receiving. but with the eXcep-
ton of the agreement with the Penn
sylvania railroad. which Rockefeller
explained gave the Standard rebate
because it effected an equalization of
oil shipments. he could not recall any
other rebates. Further than the fact
of the great earning power of the
Standard nothing Of exceptional inter
est was developed by the cross-eXamin-
alton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Talk of Former Triumphs.
TACTICS OF THE ANTAGONISTS
Badgers TO Rely on Open Play; Chi
cagO TO Hit the Line"

Badgers TO Rely on Open Play; Chi
cagO TO Hit the Line"
The Badgers are expected to play
their characteristic fast, open style of
game, relying for their gains on long
kicks and fast work down the field
rather than on line plunges. 1t would
be foolish, say the Wisconsin rooters,
for the comparatively light Wisconsin
team to try to beat Chicago at her own
heavy, plunging style of play. Chi
cagO'S superiority in the line is admit
ted by most Wisconsin men, but they
declare with quiet confidence that
when it comes to running with the
ball. booting it down the field and
cardinal will be right there
1t is Stages intention to test to the
utmost the ability of the Wisconsin
line to withstand hard, constant at
tacks. and he believes that his boys
will be able TO tear it open when gains
are needed. He has given it as his
opinion, however, that the game will
be close. One touchdown or at the ut
most two more than their opponents
is the highest hope for his men.
Were out for the championship,
and l believe Wei land it." said Cap
tain Rogers. of Wisconsin. Chicago
has a strong team. but | believe we
will be able to put the Indian tag on
it. Chicago will meet her Waterloo on
Randall field today"
The probable lineup of the elevens
will be as follows:
Chicago-Right end, Page; right tao
kle, Falk; right guard, Kelley; center,
Badenoch; left guard, Elliott or Ehr-
horn; left tackle, Hoffman; left end
SchOmmer; quarterback, Captain Stef-
fen; right halfback, Crowley; left half
back, Iddings; fullback, Worthwine or
SchOtt.
Wisconsin-Right end, Dean; right
tacgle, Osthoff; right guard, Dreutzer;
center, Stiehm; left guard Messmer;
left tackle, Boyle; left end, Captain
Rogers; quarterback, Mol; right half
back, Mucklestone; left halfback, Cul-
yer; fullback, Wilce.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
LODGE GETS A FAMOUS BIBLE
Book Upon Which George Washing
ton Was Obligated When He
Was Made a Mason.

Montreal, Nov. 21.-A copy OF the
famous "Breeches Bible" published in
London in 1899. and said to be the
identical book on which George Wash
ington was obligated as a Master
Mason, has been restored to Lodge of
Antiquity No. /, Q. r., A. f. and A.
NJ, the oldest Masonic lodge in Cana
da, to which it originally belonged.
Antiquity lodge received it's charter
from Ireland, and was instituted by
officers of the Forty-siXth British regi-
ment, of which Washington was also a
member. The initiation took place in
New York on visit of the Forty-siXth
regiment. The book has since been
kept in vault under thenam of vari-
Gus Masonic bodies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
President Foregoes His Horse
back Ride TO Discuss His
Coming Hunting Trip.
SEES A MAN WHO'S BEEN THERE
Got t1e Idea of Going from Carl
E. Akeley, of Chicago.
Expects TO Greatly Enrich the Nation.
al Museum at Washington with
Specimens Found in the
Dark Continent.

Washington, Nov. 21.-Instead of
taking ride the president INDUCED in
a long talk with friends about his AfYi
can trip and civil service reform. The
presence of Carl E. Akeley, an African
scientific explorer of the Field Muse
um of Natural History, of Chicago
at the White House directed the presi-
dents attention for an hour to his pro
posed African expedition, and William
Dudley Foulke. ex-United States civil
service commissioner, brought UP the
old subject of civil service. FOulke
is anxious to have the census employees
put under civil service rules. While
Akeley will not accompany the presi.
Gent on his trip to Africa, two of the
men who were with him will be mem
bers of the presidents party. They
are Edmund Heller, a noted mamma
logist, who has spent years in Central
America and Africa studying the sDe-
c1es whose habitat the Roosevelt
party will visit; and E. J. Cunning
ham. The latter had charge of Axe
ley's "safari," or caravan, and VIII
serve in a like capacity for the presi-
dent
Got the Idea from AkeIey.
The Akeley expedition extended
from October, 1905, to December. 1906.
and was undertaken in the bchelf O..
science, as will be the Roosevelt expp-
dition. Although the presidents expe-
dition will cover more territory than
did Akeley, owing to the more extern
Sive arrangements and facilities at the
presidents disposal, tie trip will be
made in a somewhat shorter period, it
is said. 1t has been reported that the
president was moved to take the Afri-
can trip partly by the scientific expe-
dition of Akeley. This was basel
largely upon the fact that the president
and Mrs. Roosevelt enter tanned Mr..
and Mrs. Akeley, both of whom were
in Africa, at the White House imme-
diately after their return from that
continent.
Decided Upon Two Years Ago.
Akeley said of tie president that at
that time-nearly two years ago-the
president had made up his mind to
take long trip to Africa at the close
of his administration. AkeIey is con
fident that the president will be able
to secure many fine specimens with
which to enrich the National Museum
at the capital Of his country. In por-
tons of the country through which the
Roosevelt ''safari' will pass at least
fifty specimens of antelope abound
Akeley says, and as only one species
is to be found in the United States
Akeley believes the president will Sc
cure an excellent collection of these
animals. He is equally confident that
the president will find lions, tigers, e-e-
plants and other big game N sufficient
numbers to give him an adventure and
a novel experience every day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Aged sweetbearts Married.

Greenfield, Ind, Nov. 21.-The mar
riage in this city of John H. Scott. of
Carthage, and Mrs. Emma Munden,
of this city, is connected with ro-
nance. The bridegroom is seventy
nine years old and the bride is seven
ty-two. Over a half century ago they
We're sweethealts. The civil war came
on and Scott enlisted. Circumstances
kept the young people apart, and the
young woman became the wife Of
Isaiah Munden. After Munden's death
the old love affair was revived and the
wedding was the result.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
For Eastern Football Title.

New Haven, Nov. 21.-Yale and
Harvard meet here today for the foot
ball championship of the east. The
being confident Of victory. 1t is the
first time in several years that the re
suit of the Yale-Harvard game will de-
eide the championship, and interest in
the game is very keen. New Haven is
filed with the usual crowd, and seats
for the game are commanding a prem
ium. Both Captain Burch, of Yale,
and Burr, Of Harvard, will be in the
game. Neither side has been defeated
this year. Harvard has played to
tie with Annapolis, and Yale has
been tied by Brown by the score of
10 to 10.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
MODEL LICENSE LEAGUE
Will Meet at Louisville Jan. 21 &
23 to Discuss the Liquor
Question.

Louisville, Nov 21-The National
Model License League is sending to
men throughout thecountry invitations
to attend convention in this city
Jan. 81 to % for the discussion of the
liquor problem. The officers of the
league say that radical Improvement
in methods of dispensing alcoholic
beverages must be made if the bust
ness is to remain a legaIized institu-
ton in a number of states, and they
express a desire to hear the opinions
of those who have plans to bring about
the desired improvement.
The league is a national organiza-
ton composed of about 800 distillers,
brewers, winemakers, wholesalers, re-
tailers and collateral tradesmen, and
is conducting a national campaign for
a model license law framed with the
avowed object of elevating the trade
by taking the liquor question out of
politics and eliminatingthel awless eIe-
ment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25

Butte, Mont, Nov. 2f.-Fire in the
Northwestern Improvement company's
mine ut Red Lodge caused the death
Of six miners and the probable death of
many more. About twenty miners are
entombed, with but faint chance for
their escape. Seven men were taken
from the workings in half dead con-
dition, and are now in the hospital.
Members Of the fire department and
fifty volunteers then started the work
of rescue, and within half an hour tho
skips were running and a hundred men
were loaded on the cars and brought to
the surface, many of them completely
exhausted and limp.
Little Hope for Those EntOmbed.
Those rescued declared there is little
hope for the greater number Of those
entombed, but this belief is not shared
by the mine owners. Pit Boss Will
liam Haggerty, when carried up in one
of the Skips, was almost overcome,
but was restored by the attending ply
sicians. He remained bravely at his
post until the very last in an endeavor
to save his men, and after recuperating
made frantic efforts to go back into
the mine.
Mine Full OF Smoke and Gas.
TIE fire is terrific, judging from the
volume of smoke and fire emitted from
the second entry. Coal cars and lum-
Der are ablaze and the damage to prop
erty will be heavy. An iron pipe line
has been laid into the mine, and a
flow of water is playing on the flames.
The fire itself is said to be confined to
a small area, but the gas and smoke
have spread to the various workings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
AWFUL BLAST AT BROOKLYN
Gas ExpIodes III a Deep HOIe-Twcn-
ty-Five Believed Dead.


New York. Nov. 21.-Twenty- five
persons are believed to have lost their
lives in an explosion of gas which tore
up a great section of Gold street,
Brooklyn. 1t is definitely known that
fifteen persons were buried under the
hundreds of tons of earth and timber
explosion, and ten more persons are
reported missing. To recover the en-
tombed bodies the rescuers must dig
through fifty feet of dirt, rock and a
tangle of pipes and timbers. The ex-
plOsion occurred in an excavation fifty
feet deep that had been made in Gold
street between York and Front streets,
where a water main was being laid.
The gas main had recently sprung a
leak, and in a manner unknown, a
spark came in contact with the escap-
ing gas Immediately there was ter
rife explosion. that lifted the surface
of the street for half block in each
direction and hurled dirt, paving
stones and debris into the air. The
street was torn up from doorstep to
doorstep for nearly a block. and the
loOsened earth fell into the excavation.
buTying those caught there. Tongues
of flame and geysers Of water shot out
of the debris, out Of which two bodies
were sticking.
The street was crowded with school
children when the explosion occurred,
and that scores of them were not kill
ed is miraculous. AS It is a woman
and FIVE children are known to have
lost their lives. Samuel Trout, fore
man of the labOrers, was killed and his
was the first body recovered. Four
wOrkmen were blown into a fOur-foot
sewer followed by a flood OF water.
Their only safety was i'm beating the
water to the mouth Of the sewer three
blocks away, which they did, the water
being UP TO their chins when they
reached safety. The explosion shook
houses for blocks around.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Will Go to Battle Creek.

Philadelphia, Nov. 21.-Charles NJ.
Roe, for the last two years business
manager of the American Baptist
Publication society, has resigned to ac-
cept an offer by DR.. j. H. kellogg,
proprietor of the sanatorium and other
enterprises at Battle Greek, Mich.
The resignation will take effect Jan. 1.
Roe's relations with the society have
extended over twenty-five years at
Chicago and Philadelphia.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Plant To Be Rebuilt.

Traverse City, Mich. Nov 21.-The
plant of the J. E. Greilick Co., which
burned Tuesday, will be rebuilt in the
spring, the rev structure to be of ce-
ment The fire caused a loss Of $40,-
600, fully covered by insurance. The
chair factory was saved and will con-
tinue to operate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
CARNEGIE AND THE TARIFF
Reason to Think the Steel King Fa
vOrs the Removal of the Tar
if on Steel

New York, Nov. 21.-Asked concern.
ing an article by him on the tariff,
which is soon to appear in a New York
magazine, Andrew Carnegie declined
to deny that he advocated the removal
Of the tariff on steel, Carnegie's atti-
tude was sought in view of a report
that he had decided that the duty could
be cut off without Gripping the steel
industry in the United States, an that
he intended to describe this in detail
in the forthcoming article, Carnegie
said:
'The article has been announced in
the usual fashion, and it will speak for
itself in a few days. 1t is a companion
article to the one on rates and re-
bates which wrote for the same
magazine"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
TRADE CONTINUES TO GAIN
improvement Almost Universal, Each
Week Showing Better Than
the One Preceding.

New York, Nov. Pr. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review CT Trade says to-
day: Gains are now almost universal,
each week surprising its predecessor
in volume of trade. While manufactur-
ing plants increase active capacity, and
confidence is finding expression in ex-
tensive plans for the future. At many
points SeasOnable weather has stimu-
lated demand for winter goods, and
there is a gratifying change for the
better in regard to the promptness Of
collections. Some section are back
ward, however, either because the
temperature continues too high or on
account of the failure to market crops
promptly.
Moderate advances in prices of pig
iron and coke indicate the trend of
conditions in the steel industry. Besse-
mer pig has risen to SIC at Valley Fur
mace, which is still 81 below tie posi-
ton at this time last year One of the
best features is the disposition TO con-
tract for requirements up to July /,
1909, although somewhat better terms
are asked on these forward deliveries
than for spot or early shipment Thus
far there is little inquiry for standard
steel rails, although the mills expect
to close the year with some good
orders on hand. Further improvement
is recorded in the primary market for
textiles. sales increasing and prices
hardening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Plan TO Aid the Unemploved.

Washington. Nov. 81. - Secretary
Straus, of the department of commerce
and labor, has evolved a cOmprehen-
sive plan for aiding the unemployed Of
the country. This plan he will explain
in his annual report, to be made public
in few days. 1t partakes Of the prin-
ciples underlying the organization Of
the bureau Of information in the immi-
grafton service.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Rroodinp Ends in Suicide.

Galesburg, H., Nov. Brooding
over the absence of two Of her children
and not desiring to live unless she
could be with them, Mrs. Anton Soho
enberger, aged seventy, of Yates City.
placed her head on the railroad track
and was run over. The headless body
was found later.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Wright Would Sell to Russia.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 21.-An effort
is being made here to sell the Russian
rights in the Wright aerOplane to the
Russian government for military pur
poses. The negotiations to this end are
being conducted by NJ. Vincent. repre-
sentative of Hart o. Berg, the Euro
pean business manager of the Wright
brothers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Increase of Express Rates.

San Francisco. Nov. 21.-NOtice Of
an increase of 90 per. cent in express
rates on merchandise between eastern
points and Pacific coast terminals to
take effect Dec. 10, has been posted in
the offices of Wells, Fargo & Co. The
advance applies only to shipments ex-
ceeding 800 pounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Idle for Want of Water.

Mahanoy City, Pa, Nov. 21.-Scarc-
ity of water for the boilers has caus-
ed a suspension of three washeries and
four collieries of the Lehigh Valley
Coal company in the Shenandoah dis
trict, throwing over 1000 men and
boys out of employment. This Is the
result Of the drought.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
ExneIIed for Kissing a Nurse.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Nov. 21.-Clar-
ence A. Penman, senior medic at Mich
igan university, has been expelled for
kissing a nurse employed at the uni
versity hospital. The nurse was de-
prived of her cap as mark of dis
grace and later was discharged from
the institution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather
forecast up to s O'Clock tonight:
IllinOis-Fair; warmer in west and
central portions.
Indiana-Fair and warmer.
Wisconsin and Iowa = Fair and
warmer.
Lower Mich gan-Fair: warmer in
north and west portions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
VIII Fight a Decrease of Duty,

Denver, Nov. 21.-On the ground
that further reduction of the price of
lead would force many mines in Col
orado to close, the American Smelling
and Refining company will join the
commercial organizations of Denver in
fighting any effort on the part of the
next congress to reduce the import
duty on that metal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Pope Has a Bad Cold.

Rome, Nov. 21.-Daily audience
with the pope has been suspended tenn
porarily owing to the fact that the holy
father is suffering from cold and
hoarseness. Otherwise. however, he is
perfectly well, and the physicians de-
clare that there is nothing alarming In
his condition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
FIRE WAKES THE DAMP FIEND
Scores Taken Out Unconscious,
but All Likely to Live
Six Known Dead.
TERRIBLE BLAST AT BROOKLYN
Fifteen Known To Be Dead and the
List May Be Twenty FiVe-Ex-
Explosion in a Deep
Excavation.

Butte, Mont, Nov 21.-Twenty
more men have been rescued from the
Northwest mine in a critical condition.
All will recover. 1t is stated by the
rescued miners that at least sixty
four men are still in the depths, and
in the most dangerous part of the
mine, and it is impossible for the res
cuers to get near them
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Tbugs Get AWAY with Sc. 600.

Attica. O.. Nov. 21-Robbers held
off several citizens with pistols while
they blew open and robbed the safe of
Renninger & Silcox Of $4,000 in cash.
Part of the safe was blown through a
wall of the store and into the Myers
hotel. the fragments landing in a room
where a guest was asleep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Nothing Else Talked About at
Madison, Wis, but the
Great Game" Today.
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO MEET
Struggle Is the Most Important One
West This Year.
Both Teams Have Clean Recordr. and
the Game Expected To Be
ClOse-HOw They Will
Line Up.

Madison, Wis, Nov. 21.-The quiet
streets of sedate Madison have lost
their academic calm today. They are
filled with a riot of yelling students of
the male persuasion, laughing co-eds,
husky football players and specialized
professors, all talking of nothing but
today's gridiron struggle between the
University of Wisconsin and her old
time rival, the University of Chicago.
The town is mass of color, the car
dinal of Wisconsin vying with the
maroon of Chicago for supremacy.
Alumni Are Present in Force.
From an early hour today the streets
and roads leading to Camp Randall
have been thrOnged with pedestrians
and vehicles bound for the field where
the greatest western football game Of
the year is to be decided. From all
over the western country the alumni
of the two institutions have come to
lend to their respective teams the en-
cOuragement Of their presence, their
cheers and songs. 1t looks as though
all of Stages former Chicago football
stars have come to see their successors
battle with Bary's men for the SUI
premacy.
Talk of Former Triumphs.
There is much talk Of the former
triumphs of the two universities, but it
seems to be generally agreed that the
outcome of tOday's contest is involved
just now in great uncertainty. Both
teams have clean records behind them
for the present season. Neither team
has been defeated, the closest shave
of Chicago being last Saturdays tie
game, 6 to 6, with Cornell. The fol-
lowers of each team are expressing
loud voiced confidence in their repre-
Sentatives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
End of a Islander Case.

Duquoin, ILL.,, Nov. PA jury in
the Perry county circuit court which
heard the case Of Rev. ]. L. Payne,
pastor of the First Baptist church, Of
Pinckneyville, against Albert Gruver,
a farmer, for $1,000 ON a charge Of
Islander, rendered a verdict in favor Of
the plaintiff, but allowing him no dam
ages.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
National Forest in Peril. :

Little Rock, Ark. Nov. 21.-Dis-
patches received here indicate no
abatement of the forest fires which
have been burning in this state for
some days. Already a great amount Of
property has been destroyed. A Mena,
Ark, dispatch says that fifteen miles
Of solid fire is sweeping through the
Kiamash mountains Ia eastern Oklaho-
ma and threaten to destroy the Arkan-
sas national forest reserves.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25
Spark from a Pine Is Deadly.

Evansville. ID, Nov. 21.-Nrs. Fan
ME Smith, wife of a Posey county
farmer, was burned to death when a
spark from her husbands pipe fell into
the bottom of a wagon in which they
were riding and which was filed with
straw.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-25

White Plains, n. Y. Nov. 21.-TOday
marks the two hundred and twenty
fifth birthday of this historic village,
and the occasion is being celebrated