Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-18
GENERAL NEWS.


Turkey will send another note to
Greece informing that country that its
explanation of the Cretan trouble is
not satisfactory.
Justice Mills decided that Harry K.
Thaw is still insane and that public
safety would be endangered by re-
leasing him. Thaw will appeal.
A lone bandit entered the Farmers
& Merchants bank at Franklin, ILL.,,
held up the cashier and his brother
and fed with $4,000.
For the second time in his career
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States has been recalled
from the country. Re will be sue
ceeded by Chang Yin Tang.
Former Senator Wilson of Washing
ton and John Farson, banker of Chi
cago, replied to attacks on Secretary
Ballinger of the interior department
before the National Irrigation con-
gress at Spokane.
When the company refused to lend
aid in removing the goods, the sheriff
of Allegheny county declined to ev1ct
the families of any more of the strik-
ers from houses of the Pressed Steel
Car Company at McKees Rocks, Pa.
In a battle between striking en-
ployes of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way at Fort William, Ont, "a men
were wounded, three perhaps fatally
and martial law was declared.
The investigation of the death OF
Lieut.. James Sutton came to a close
at Annapolis, Md, and the board OF
inquiry sent it's verdict to Washing
ton, where it will be made public by
the secretary of the navy.
The cost of the extra session of
congress which revised the tariff was
$500, 900, according to a report issued
in Washington.
Prof. William Bernhardt of Wash
ington was killed. by a train at
Burlington, VT, where he was spend
ing his vacation He was deaf and
did not hear the engines warning
whistle.
Jack Binns, whose &c. @. d." saved
the lives of $50 passengers on the
steamer Republic last winter, says he
doesn't care whether he is hero or
not. but resents criticism by General
Manager r. P. Schwerin of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company on the
efficiency of the wireless telegraph.
Montagu Holbein, in his seventh eff
fort failed to swim across the Eng
lish channel, distance of FL miles.
With only 142 miles of it's line from
Salt Lake City, Utah, to Oakland,
Cal, to be constructed, the Western
Pacific Company expects to have
trains in operation between the two
cities within 80 days.
Delight Weston, daughter of E. B.
Weston, president of the Terre Haute
Qnd) Paper Company, received a bal
loon as a gift from her father on the
occasion of her graduation from Smith
college.
When President Taft's new political
policy for the south is worked out,
tAe Republicans and Democrats, it is
said, will share in the federal jobs.
King Gustave of Sweden failed in
his efforts to bring about peaceable
settlement of the strike which threat
ems his country with revolution.
A cloudburst caused 100000 dam
age at West Colfax, Col, near Denver.
The mother of Lieut.. Sutton of the
United States marine corps, whose
death is being investigated, in a let
ter declared her sons spirit had Wis
tied her and told her he did not COM
NIT suicide, but was murdered.
Philip Spizzirri and his wife fought
a duel with pistols in their home in
Chicago, the woman being slain and
her husband MORALLY wounded.
Six foreigners lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed 20 frame build
ings near the steel plant in South
Chicago