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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
B1LLIK's NECK IS SAVED.
Sentence Of Alleged Chicago Poisoner
COMMITTED to Life Imprisonment.

Sentence Of Alleged Chicago Poisoner
COMMITTED to Life imprisonment.
Herman Billik, sentenced to hang on
Friday, Jan. %, was rescued from the
gallOws when Governor Deneen, on rec
ommendation of the State Board Of
Pardons, committed ais sentence to i'm
prisonment for life. The convicted
slayer of Mary Vrzal, who five times
was granted an eleventh-hour reprieve,
fell on his knees at the county jail and
wept when the news from Springfield
was conveyed to him.
"Life Imprisonment means liberty"
he declared. 81 shall now have the
chance 1 have been fighting for to
prove my innocence"
Communication Of Billik's sentence is
due to the testimony and subsequent
confession of perjury of Jerry Vrzal,
who, with his sisters, Emma Neiman
and Bertha Vrzal, were the only men,
bers of the Vrzal family to escape
death by poisoning.
1--WE are of the opinion hat even
there is evidence to support the YER
dict of the jury beyond reasonable
doubt" says the pardon board. "But
in taking into consideration statements
later made by some Of the Jurors we
feel we are warranted in the conclu-
sion the death penalty would not have
been inflicted"
Billik. who is 40 years old and was
born in volfort of Bohemian parents,
was indicted more than two years ago
for having poisoned five members Of
the VrZal family. He was placed on
trial in June, 1907, before Judge Alfred
c. Barnes for the murder of Mary
Vrzal, the oldest daughter. and was
found guilty on July Is, 1907. He
denied his guilt and blamed .Irs.
Emma VrZal Niemann for his prOsecu-
ton because he had incurred her en-
nifty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
ANIMAL POPULATION Is BIG.

Nearly Two Billion Dollars Worth
of Horses Alone i'm Country.
Horses in the United States numbered
2O,64O,0OO and were valued at 1914,
O52, 900, an average of 1864 per head
on January, / last, according to a re-
port issued by the Department of Agri-
culture in Washington. The reports
showed total value of $4,525, 259,OOO, or
over per cent more than year ago, for
all farm animals ON farms and ranges in
the United States. The horses increased
1923 a head in value during the year.
The number and value of other animals
follow: Mules, 4,O53,O 900, $437, OS2, 900;
COWS, q, 729,OOO, $7O2, 945,O0O; other
cattle, 49,379,OOO, 1858, $4,000; sheep,
56,OS4 900, 1892, $4,000; swine, 54,147,-
900, $354,79O,OOO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
6HOMS
SsO COLLEGES

A training school for nurses is to be
established almost Immediately at the
University of Minnesota in connection
with the college of medicine in that insti-
tuition.
A signal honor was conferred on the
University OF Iowa when it was admitted
10 membership in the Association of
American Universities at the meeting of
the organization in Ithaca, N. Y. Only
eighteen other universities have membac-
ship.
A romance of school DAYS at the Spear
fish Is. d. normal school FIVE years ago,
had its elimination in Lead when DR..
Paul J. Malone, a former Spearfsh resi-.
dent, returned from a long residence in
Alaska, and led to the altar Miss Lena
L. Odou, one of the Deadwood high school
teachers.
AS a result of the permanent manning
of Thomas III. Harvey, high school stu
dent, whose backbone was shattered by
the use of a shotgun paddle during ini-
tiation, all of the school frats in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, must go. This is the order
of the school board. Students who fail
to comply with the order will be dis
missed. The fraternity which is response.
BILE for Harvey's injury declared that the
boards order will be defed.
The Iowa Legislature will be asked to
pass law absolutely prohibiting frater-
mites in every high school of the State
A law drafted by the educational COM
mission contains three sections which will
settle the fate of the school question fra
ternities for all time. They make it a
crime for any student to be a member
of any student secret organization, or to
solicit pupils to join. No frat member
shall be permitted to enter any high
school in the State as a scholar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
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& Ae@s 0ttb,
&N CburCbe8i

About 1900 young people, delegates
from three church societies of Cleveland,
Ohio, representing 1000 people, under
the direction of Rev. F. B. Wallace of
the East End Baptist church, pledged
themselves to live for at least two weeks
as they believed Jesus would live in their
respective positions were He on earth.
The advice given by the pastor was as
follows: "Be honest in your religion and
in your business and social relations
Jesus was manly man. When you meet
friend shake hands like a man, not
like a giraffe. Jesus allowed no shoddy
work in his carpenter shop. Allow none
in your business. Be gentlemen and la
dies. Do not be loafers. Get to work
Get to work on time. Read the Bible.
Pray. Be sunny. Bring sunshine into
the lives of others"
Rev. C. w. Heller Of the Ithaca IN.
" Unitarian church has begun series
of Sunday night free entertainments
financed by the Law and Order League in
a local theater. The object is to give
pleasure and occupation to non-church-
goers and to help the liquor men to en-
force the Sunday closing.
Owing to the difficulties into which st.
Mary's academy and the Spalding in
stitute of Nauvoo. Ill, have fallen
through the troubles of P. J. Kieran's
Fidelity Funding Company of New York,
the Mormon church may regain posses
sion of the property which was formerly
owned by the founders of the faith.
The churches in the Hawaiian islands
number 101, and the membership is 6,9OS,
but the accesSions last year were only
595-less than 9 per cent.
DR.. Carter, bishop of Pretoria, has, &C
cording to a Reuter- telegram, accepted
the archbishopric of Cape Town, rendered
vacant six months ago by the death of
DR.. West Jones.
Gypsy Smith has been conducting evan
gelistic services in st. Louis. The meet
ings have been held in the Coliseum,
which has a seating capacity OF 10000
persons, and the expenses incident to he
meeting are about $4,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
THE oLD-FAsH1oNED WINTER.
Contrasts Between Winters OF To-
day and Those of Long Ago.

Contrasts Between Winters OF To-
day and Those of Long Ago.
A good deal has recently been said
about the changing seasons, the striking
contrasts between our winters and the
old-fashioned ones, the skating delights
that are gone. the trials of old settlers,
and so on. What are the facts? Is there
any scientific evidence of change in the
character of our winters? Some time
ago the federal weather bureau publish
ed compilation of official, private and
semi-official temperature data covering the
fifty years ended with 1904. The table
disposed of the theory of old-fashioned
winters. 1t showed, for example, that at
Cincinnati the mean winter temperature
fol the years 1879-1904 was rather lower
than that of the preceding twenty-6ve-year
period At Cleveland and st. Louis the
average fer both periods was identical.
Here is the table itself:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
GLAZIER IS FOUND GUILTY.
Former Treasurer of Michigan Liable
to IA Years Imprisonment.

Frank p. Glazier of Chelsea, former
guilty in Lansing of converting State
funds to the use of the Chelsea Savings
Bank, of which he was president and
the largest stakeholder, making him
liable to fourteen years imprisonment.
When the bank failed it had on deposit
S6S5,OO Of State funds.
The jurors deliberated four hours
and twenty minutes. They reached a
verdict after taking three ballots. On
the first they stood 9 to for convic-
ton. AS soon as the verdict was an
nounced Judge West gave the defend
ants counsel until March s to file a
motion for a new trial and a bill of
exceptions, SO that the case may be
reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Glazier, until his failure in De-
cember, 1907, was regarded as man
of large wealth. He was connected with
a number of enterprises in Chelsea and
elsewhere in Washtenaw County, and
was serving his second term as State
Treasurer. Banking Commissioner Zim-
norman Immediately closed the Chelsea
Savings Bank, and it was made public
that the institution had heavily over
loaned to Mr. Glazier and to enter
prises of which he was the head. An
investigation of his action in depositng
State funds in the bank of which he
was the head and which has suspended
through excessive loans. to himself re-
suited in indictments being found
against Glazier by the grand jury in
Lansing, charging misrepresentation of
State funds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
KAISER IS FIFTY YEARS OLD.

Emperor Williams Anniversary Is
Celebrated with Pomp in Berlin.
The .fiftieth anniversary of the birth
of Emperor William was celebrated
Wednesday in an unusual manner. All
the crowned heads of the German
states, excepting the aged LuitpOld, re-
gent of Bavaria, went to Berlin to pre-
sent their congratulations. The streets
were lined by crowds and a large as
semblage cheered the Emperor when he
appeared at one of the castle windows.
The Emperor first received the con-
gratulations of the members of his fam
lily and his encourage and then those of
the visiting princes. After services in
the chapel the Emperor and the En-
press took up a position before the
throne where they received congratu-
lations of the members of the diplomat
ic corps, including DR.. Hill, the Ameri-
can ambassador; Chancellor Won Bue-
low and the other ministers. 'AmbaSsa-
dor Hill, in congratulating his Majesty,
announced that AdOlphuS Busch will in
crease his subscription for the erection
of the Germanic Museum at Harvard
University from $4,000 to 100000.
The Emperor expressed his lively inter-
est in the museum and his qualification
at Mr.. Busch's generosity. The con-
ferring of number of decorations and
elevations to the nobility have been an
nOunced,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
- un,1d Temporary hessina.

The Italian military authorities are
said 70 have decided to build tempo
rary city of wooden buildings on the plain
q mile TO the south of the earthquake
ruined city. In the Italian Parliament
the president of the Chamber reviewed
thA national calamity and Premier Glo-
I;+t; presented a law to regulate the
changed conditions in the earthquake zone
Both expressed thanks for the QUICK re-
snonsa of the entire world In senoing
helm. Giolitti declared that bcch MesSina
and Reggie would be rebuilt,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
FOUR CHILDREN ARE cREMATED

Their Parents Seriously Hurt When
Home at Dunbar, Pa, Burns.
Four children were cremated and their
parents seriously injured in a fire which
destroyed the home of A. ". Kendall.
Rryson Hill. Dunbar, Pa. The dead 1re :
Earl Kendall, IL years old; Pearl Zen
dali, z years old; Anna Kendall, years
old; baby, years old. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendall leaped out of Seeond-story will
dow.
1t is beIieved the fire started from q
small gas stove which was left burning
when the family retired. The parents
made repeated efforts to reach she room
occupied by the four children when the
fire was discovered, but were finally com
PEELED to jump to save themselves. The
damage is $4,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
SUES TO RECOVER U. S. LAND.
Government Starts More Actions
Against Railroads I'm Oregon.

Government Starts More Actions
Against Railroads I'm Oregon.
Another step in the fight or the fed
eral government to recover possession Of
the land included in the immense grant
to the Oregon and California Railroad
Company was taken the other day when
B. d. Townsend, special assistant to the
Attorney General. filed in the federal
court in Portland thirty-fve suits in
equity against the Oregon and California
Railroad, the Southern Pacific Company
and over one hundred other defendants.
These suits are supplementary to those
previously fled against the Hartman
companies. The suits involve more than
$15,OOO,OOO and also more than 353,2S8
acres of land. All of the land is located
in Oregon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10

the Interstate Commerce Commission
est stock holdings in all the leading
railroad systems of the country was
published in Wall street news clips, ap-
parently based on the figures for 1906.
One Of the striking features of the
lists is the showing that E. II. Harri-
man is far the largest individual stock
holder, with a total of $11e,0O0,0OO
shares of the common and preferred
stocks of the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific. His interests in other
roads do not stand in his own name,
and, similarly, the interests of Morgan,
the Vanderbilts and other big opera
tors are represented by dummy hold
ers Or by business partners. II. G.
Prick appears as the largest single
stakeholder in the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, with $4,32O.OOO.
-
During the last fiscal year ending
June 80 the United States forest ser
vice issued to settlers in the neighbor-
hood of national forests IN Western
States over 10000 'free use" permits
under which the settlers received free
about $4,000 cords of fire wood, posts,
poles and sawlogs, worth $169,32O. The
different States also received for school
and road purposes % per cent Of the
income from the national forests,
amounting last year to SAT- O64. The
LoAa IT, Of
taxes on the 147,OOO,O00 acres, the esti-
mated area Of unpatented land in the
national forests, amounted in the last
year to $616,384 in cash and ''free use"
timber
The attempt Of the government to
punish lynchers by invoking the rights
of colored citizens contained in the
fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton, failed when the Supreme Court
dismissed the test case against Robert
Powell, who with four other members
Of a mob that stormed a Jail at Hunts
vile, Ala, in 1904, and lynched HOr-
ace Marbles, a negro accused OF muir
dering a white man. Powell fas in.
dicted for conspiracy to deprive Mar
blies OF his right of trial by jury, but
the Judge said there was no offense
under the law, and the government APP
pealed The Supreme Court bases its
decision on that in the whitcapping
cases last year.
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The report of the commissioner gen
eral of immigration for the last fiscal
year shows a decrease of 80 per cent
in immigration, the total number of
new corners being 782,870. OF those
admitted 1928 could neither read
nor write. and the bulk of them came
from Southern and Eastern Europe.
They brought with them a total of
S17,794, 226, AN average of $23 a per-
son. On account of physical defects
2,9O6 aliens were rejected, $40 on &C
count of mental defects and 81 on &C
count Of moral defects. In the year
1882 contract laborers were rejected.
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One Of the most interesting features
of the treaty recently negotiated by
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10

secretary hOOI anu AIlDdSSduOE &DFyC@
at Washington is an agreement to reg
ulate the use of water at Niagara Falls
for industrial purposes so as not to dis
turb the scenic beauty. The basis is
that the United States shall use not
more than 10000 cubic feet Of water 3
second to develop $4,000 horse power,
and that the limit on the Canadian
side shall be $4,000 cubic feet to de-
velop 425,OO0 horse power, This must
be ratified by the Canadian Parlia-
ment.
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Secretary Root has signed arbitra-
ton treaties with Ecuador, Bolivia and
Haiti. Secretary Root hopes soon to
sign with Ambassador Bryce a treaty
for the reference to The Hague tribu-
nal of disputed questions affecting the
Newfoundland fisheries, for the settle
ment of pecuniary claims, and for the
mutual uses of the boundary water
ways.
The United States Supreme Court
decided in the case of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad against the Larabee
Flour Mills Company. that a state
court may compel a railroad to per-
form it's duty as common carrier ana
desist from determinations, thus af-
firming the decision of the Kansas SUI
preme Court.
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A remonStrance against further in
crease Of the United States navy has
been sent to Congress by the Board OF
Directors of the American Peace Soci-
ETY.. 1t was signed on behalf of the
board by Robert Treat Paine, presi-
dent, and Benjamin A. Trueblood, sec
rotary of the society.
An order issued by the Secretary or
the Interior is of considerable interest
to persons now taking up land on the
Truckee-C Carson irrigation project in
Nevada. By the new order persons may
live within fifty miles Of their land as
against the old requirement that they
live within twenty miles.
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The Geographical Survey has reports
showing that the production of coal In
1905 fell off from ID to 20 per cent
from that of the previous year. In
1907 it reached the record total Of 491,-
1863, 424 tons, of which 85,604,312 tons
were anthracite.
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The first and most picturesque OF
the official White House receptions OF
the season was that given in honor OF
the diplomatic corps. Diplomatic, OF
fetal and social Washington was pres
ent in large numbers.
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Mail carriers on rural routes are to
get a holiday on Christmas Of each
year if a resolution introduced in the
House by Representative Burnett OF
Alabama is adopted by Congress.
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Hussein KAHN Bey, the first am
bassador appointed by the Turkish gov
eminent to the United States, has ar
rived in Washington.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
Shot Dead by Wife.

During a family quarrel in Ironton.
Ohio, James Taylor was shot and instant
ly killed by his wife. 1t is said he hacked
her with a butcher knife because she re-
fused to give him the revolver with which
the shooting was done.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
: seeda Sent to Panama.

The "gold" employees in the isthmian
zone are being given some of the free seeds
distributed by the bureau of agriculture
at Washington. Tive hundred and fifty
packages of vegetable seed and 800 pack
ages of flower seeds have been sent there.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
LABORATORY TESTS ARE FATAL.
Chemist AB.orbs Mercury During

Chemist AbsOrbs Mercury During
Experiments and Dies.
Charles Goecking, 81 years old, who
died after being stricken at a station Of
the a." in New York, was the victim
Of experiments which he had performed
in the laboratory of a firm of wholesale
chemists where he was employed. He had
been engaged for several days in expert.
ments in which it was necessary for him
to handle mercury, and it is said enough
entered his system to cause death.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
Mean winter Mean winter


The records of New York City since
1872 also fail to show a loss of rigor on
the part of the winters of the present
day. In fact, the instruments formerly
used were. calculated to register lower
temperatures than those of our signal
service, which are differently placed. AS
to what happened more than fifty years
ago, cold science is i'll equipped to COM
bat warm fable and romantic imaginings.
Here the field for picturesque contrasts
Is free
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
ONE DEAD, 90 HURT IN WRECK.
Union Pacifc's Oregon Express Has
Smashup at Dana, Wyoming.

SmaBhup NJ DaN"3 "9OIHB'
One person was killed and pine were
seriously hurt in the wreck of the Ore
gon express west of Cheyenne, Wyo., &C
cording to the list given out by the I'm
ion Pacific. The injured were taken to
a Cheyenne hospital. About twenty 9TH
ers received slight injuries, but contin-
ued the journey. The accident occurred
at Dana, thirty miles from Rawlins, when
nine cars left the track, probably on ac-
count of a broken rail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
DAM BURSTS; 1eo DROWN.
Flood Disaster at Johannesburg Gold
Nine Costs Many Lives.

Nine Costs Many Lives.
Ten white men and 80 natives were
drowned in the Witwatersrand gold mine,
which became flooded by the bursting Of
Knights dam near johannesburg, Trans
vaal. Heavy rains caused the dam to give
way. The water from the dam flooded
also the lower sections of the town of Els
burg. A number of houses were swept
away and Thirteen persons were drowned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-10
Cost of Maintenance $4,000 Out
side of President RoOseVelt'S
Salary.
BILL WAS $4,000 IN 1885.
Expenses of Chief Executive, Except
Board Bill and Clothing, Borne
by the Government.
Washington correspondence

VERY four years a
suggestion" origin
a t e S somewhere
that the $4,000
per annum paid by
Uncle Sam to the
chief magistrate is
ina adequate; that
the salary should
be increased to
100000. President
Roosevelt, Ow
to retire, advocates
doubling the pres
ent stipend. Will
lam J. Bryan, who
has had three shots
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-10
CURES FOR WORK AND PLAY

The ''after cure" is not new phrase, nor does it label novel remedy It's use is more common than that of any known prescription or chemist $ formula
 It is by no means an exclusive dose for pros trated milionaires.
 In reality, it's application has long been taught by that dearest of preceptors, old Dr.. Experience, and people will persist in their need for its use
 The man whose income is restricted to the weekly pay envelope concludes that the monot- onous grind of daily work has worn upon body and mind until he needs rest Nature joins in clinaton in crying for the vacation treatment
 1t is eficacous.
 The patient goes away to seaside or noun tain, oppressed with weariness. He returns. elated with rest.
 At once he encounters hard work. The habit of rest, if temporary, is strong. But that hard work is the "after cure" for unusual play It is the only road back to the plane of norman liv- ing
 There are after cures' for ills of less cred itable cause.
 Those who dance must pay the piper
 That headache calls for the ''never again v resolution
 That is remedy of wide use, although it can not be called popular.
 But persistence in the "after curev makes for good.
 The thing is to stick to it's use
 Every sinner can repent
 But the problem for the errng is to stay re- formed.