Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07

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litical character in London.
The marines who were ordered off
Of United States warships by Presi-
dent Roosevelt are again on the YES
sells.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York has
caused one of the greatest political
stirs that turbulent city has known in
years by ousting Theodore Bingham,
commissioner of police, and several
other heads of the department. from
office.
The attendance for the first month
of the ska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
was 667,971. President ]. E. Chilberg
said the net profits for the month
were $4,000.
Capt. John c. Raymond of the Sec
ond cavalry at Fort Des Moines, Ia,
who was shot by Corporal Lisle Crab
tree three weeks ago, died of his
wound.
The Alabama supreme court de-
cided that liquor when kept in lock-
ers by individuals and is not for sale
is personal property and that any
municipal ordinance prohibiting such
possession is void.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, speak
ing at Jackson, Mich, said he hoped
to see the time when woman would
join her husband in political affairs,
because politics would be better with
her refining influences"
The Republican party must keep
it's pledges to the people or be rele-
gated to the minority, said President
Taft in an address to Yale graduates.
Fully $4,000 employees of the Ameri-
cam Sheet and Tin Plate Company
went on a strike against the open
shop order in the trusts mills.
Prof. James H. Hyslop told re-
markable story of how the ghost Of
r. Swain Clifford, a great artist, has
taught Frederick L. Thompson, gold
smith, to paint masterpieces.
Tennessee's dry" law went into eff
feet at midnight June 80 and all but
two saloons were closed.
Calvin Littlepage, who killed his
wife's parents at Valley Junction, Ia,
committed suicide when near capture
by posse.
Russia is preparing to send troops
to Teheran. capital of Persia, which
is threatened with invasion by bandits.
Three boys were hurt, several fire.
men overcome by smoke and heat and
$250,000 damaged caused at a fire in
the Kiechhefer Box Company's plant
in Milwaukee.
The 116 suffragettes who were ar
rested for rioting in London were re-
leased from Jail without bond and
must appear in court on July 9.
A verdict for $9,145 was awarded
at Laporte, Ind, against the estate of
Mrs. Belle Guinness in favor of the
administrator for the estate Of An
drew Helgelein, one of her several al
legged victims.
Five persons died and more than a
score were Frustrated by the heat in
/ Minneapolis and st. Paul.
An operation for appendicitis was
performed on Mayor Fred A. Busse of
Chicago and for more than "a hours
his condition was critical.
Joseph Jurette, farmer near Alton.
ILL.,, has trained ducks to eat bugs off
potatoes and plans to hire them out at
one dollar day for each duck to
clean potato fields of the pest.
Bruno Buizingslowen, New York
engineer, has invented an airship
which will either fly or run on the
ground.
1t has been discovered that Arkan-
sas has a new law prohibiting the sale
of cannon crackers or toy pistols and
dealers are dispensing of Fourth of
July stocks.
While driving his harvester through
his fields near Ural, Okla, John Mich
OILS ran over and killed his little daugh-
ter, who was asleep.
Orville Wright, after three unsuc-
cessful attempts, assembled in the new
aeroplane and circled the aerodrome
at Fort Myer.
Broughton Brandenburg was acquit-
ted in New York on the charge of lar
ceny in connection with the Grover
Cleveland letter and rearrested, ac-
cused of kidnapping his step-son in St.
Louis.
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quarters of the old Honduras lottery
has been established at Albany, Ind,
and caused the arrest of four men in
that city.
Bloodhounds trailed two of the ban
dts who held up a Canadian Pacific
train at Red Gulch, to an abandoned
coal mine.
The old-time gold-brick game was
worked successfully on Joseph Satlow,
New York jeweler. He gave up
$500 for "a pounds of brass filings,
sold him by a peddler.
Alderman Donohue, sitting as trial
judge at Wilkesbarre, Pa, told Mrs.
Michael Promick to give her husband,
who had mistreated her, thrashing
and she promised to do it.
Samuel S. Rowland, brother-in-law