Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-06-30

CO1u anu OIu0I CUPS.
Eighty superintendent of telegraph
of leading railroads met in Detroit in
annual convention. Dispatching trains
by telephone will be discussed.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Ethel,
Archie and Quentin Roosevelt sailed
for Naples from New York with the
intention of spending the summer on
the continent and returning in Novem-
Der.
Forced by the third Degree" Chung
Sin, room mate of Leon Ling, told the
New York police and District Attorney
Jerome how Ling killed Elsie Sigel
Judge Belden of Kenosha, Wis, re-
fused to grant citizenship papers to
two Lithuanians because they had
kept their saloons open on Sunday.
A lone bandit entered a bank in the
heart of the business district of Fort
Worth, Tex, in broad daylight, held UP
the cashier and fed in an automobile
with $500.
DR.. Frank G. Richardson Of Boston
told physicians attending a branch
meeting of the Homeopathic congress
at Detroit that drinking among bust
ness men is increasing.
A report of parliamentary commits
sion of France declared the country's
S700,000,000 navy is practically help
less because of red tape methods.
Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania ap-
proved the state pardon boards rec
ommendation that James B. Gentry,
who murdered Madge Yorke, an &C.
tress, in 1895, be freed.
A princess was born to the queen
of Spain, and the royal house was de-
lighted at the arrival of daughter,
the two other children being boys.
Mistrusting banks, Mrs. Elizabeth
Farrier of Sperry, Ia, who died re-
Gently, hid several thousands of dol
lars under a carpet and in an organ.
Battling" Nelson. lightweight cham
pion pugilist, knocked out Jack Cliff.
! ford in five rounds at Oklahoma City.
Kermit Roosevelt, according to re-
port from the Loietta plains, where
the hunting party is now located,
killed the largest lion yet slain.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
in Los Angeles for a $30,000,000 gas
and electric company, which is de-
signed to control all the gas and light
ing plants in southern California.
The first expedition ever sent out by
! the National Geological Society of
Washington, to study the big glaciers
of Alaska, will sail firm Seattle on the
steamship Portland. 1t is headed by
Prof Starr of Cornell and Prof.
Mathew of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
With the arrival in New York soon
of ]. P. Morgan and other financiers it
/ is expected in Washington that negoti-
atoms for the organization of pam
American bank soon will begin.
Attorneys for So Nebraska banks
have filed suit in the federal court in
Lincoln, asking an injunction against
the enforcement of the new bank
deposit guaranty law. The lawyers
contend the act is confiscatory.
Representative Young of Michigan
has introduced bill in the house at
Washington providing that prelimin-
airy or interlocutory injunctions shall
be issued by the federal court after a
hearing.
Alleging liabilities of $1,000,000, a
petition in bankruptcy was filed in
New York by creditors against the
Leeds & Catlin Company, photograph
dealers, which has Offices in Chicago
and other cities.
The Wright brothers took every
precaution to prevent accident in the
preparation of their new aeroplane
for the government tests at Fort
Myer.
Reports that E. H. Hartman was
seriously Ill in Vienna caused great
alarm in Wall street, but were denied
by his business associates.
Hezekiah Marshall, a negro tramp,
who had attacked two women at
Green Ridge, ILL.,, escaped from mob
by tagging a train with his red IN
dershirt He was captured in Carlin-
vile.
Passengers ON the New York Cen
trails Chicago special, a fast train,
were excited when two Pullman cars
caught fire as the speeder was leav-
ing New York city.
The Mauretania broke the Atlantic
ocean speed record when her passen-
gers landed in London after five days
and eight hours from New York
The American Envelope Manufac-
turers' association met in Buffalo to
devise means to stop the injury. to
their business through government
manufacture of stamped envelopes.
Bob Fitzsimmons returned from Eu-
rope and declared he is willing to
fight Johnson, any time and any.
where.
Henry Clark and Chesley Hubbard.
negroes, are under arrest at Denison,
Ia, charged with killing Lee c.
Warner and wounding Alva Bechtel,
brakemen in the Northwestern rail-
road. The negroes, it is said, were
stealing ride and the killing fol-
lowed an attempt to eject them.