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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
Mattress Company ReOrganizes.

Reorganized and with $4,000 in
crease in capital the ManitOwOc Mattress
Company has closed a deal for purchase
of the plant of the ManitowOc Toy Com
pany. dissolved, and will own its own
home. The company has negotiated a
contract with a Chicago sales agency
that will command a product four times
it's present annual output.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
Sentenced to Industrial school.

Bernice Fuller, aged II years, was
sentenced to the industrial school for girls
a. milwaukee. She was apprehended at
Groom Ray. She was arrested first for
stealing $11.95 from Mrs. George Amen
IF Green Bay at the Oshkosh public IL
braFy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
c. Annnints WedgeNood.

Gov. Davidson has appointed David
Wedgewood of Little Suamico a member
of the board of agriculture for three years
70 succeed c. G. Wilcox of Depere, re-
signed, as the member from the Ninth dis
trict.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
COASTERS NEAR DEATH.
Lester and Belle GOOdIand Probably
Fatally Injured at Appleton.

Lester and Belle Goodland were seri-
ously injured, possibly fatally, in a coast
ing accident on Packard street hill in Az
pleton. The accident occurred when
crowded bOb-sled collided with a single
runner occupied by the GOOdland chill
dren. Packard street hill is a double in
cline and the collision occurred in the Pa
vine when both hobs, running at high
speed collided. Lester GoOdland, it is
feared. has suffered fractured skull and
internal INJURIES
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
STATE FARMERS SEEKING HELP.
Demand for Labor Is Greater than
Apparent supply.

The question of farmNlabor for the year
1909 promises to be a problem of no
mean proportions. The commissioner of
labor, J. d. Beck, is being besieged with
applications from farmers all over the
State for farm help. either by the month
or by the year. The commissioner also
has many requests for girls to work in
many of the best homes in the State at
wages ranging from So to So per week, in-
Guiding board and washing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
WORK OF
CONGRESS

by vote or 81 TO. ~ the Senate
Monday fixed the salary of the Speak
er of the House of Representatives at
$4,000 instead of $4,000. as at pres
ent, and instead of $4,000, as proposed
by the Committee on Appropriations.
Senator Rayner endeavere to have the
Senate adopt resolution ealing on the
Attorney General for information as to
whether the President had ordered a
suit brought against the New York
World and the indianapolis News be-
cause of an alleged libel, and under
what statute this action had been TAX
en-. Mr.. Rayner declared that there
was no statute authorizing such legal
procedure and that the attempt to sue
the newspapers in the name of the
United States, if entered upon, was an
attempt to apply the seditiOn laws long
since repealed. Under objection fur
Their consideration was postponed. A
sensational and bitter attack on Pres
ident Roosevelt was made in the House
by Mr.. Willett of New York. His re-
marks were Delivered under the license
of general debate on the pension apprO-
priation bill. The President was char
acterized by Mr.. Wilett as "gargoyle,
tyrant, pygmy descendant of Dutch
tradespeople, shay tedder, fountain of
biHingsgate, a POPULARITY, imitation of
a king and bogus hero" On motion
by Mr.. Gambler of Mississippi that the
New Yorker be allowed to proceed ''in
order" the House voted him off the
floor, 78 to 1876 Mr. Willett declared
the action put an end to free speech"
-
The salary of the President of the
United States was Tuesday fixed at
100000 per annum, SO far as the Sen
ate could fix it, and salaries of the
Vice President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives at $4,000
each. The salary of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court was increased
from $4,000 to $4,000, and those of
associate justices from $4,000 to S14,-
500. These changes were made as
amendments to the legislative, eXecu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill and
after an extended debate Amendments
allowing $1,000 each to the Vice Pres
ident and the Speaker of the House
for horses and carriages were stricken
from the bill. Senator Rayner's resO-
luton calling on the Attorney General
for information concerning the suit he
purposes bringing against certain news
papers on the charge Of libel in cOnnec-
ton with the purchase of the Panama
Canal property was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary after a
strong fight to have it adopted without
such reference. Various pension bills
were passed. After disposing of the
speech of Representative Willett at
lacking the President by referring it
to a special committee, the House
passed the pensions and urgent def
cheney bills, and when adjournment
bill was under consideration. The pen
sions bill abolishes all but one of the
eighteen pension agencies throughout
the country and carries total appro-
priation of $16O,S690OO. A plan to
pay pensioners quarterly was defeated.
The urgent deficiency bill carries APP
preparations amounting to $1,026, 402. A
message from the President recommend
ing an appropriation of $4,000 for a
commission to investigate conditions
in the Republic of Liberia, Africa, was
read.
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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-30
RECOGNITION
OF |NADRIz
Would Prove Offensive
to the United States
Government

Washington, Dec. 3o.-NTuch spec
ulation was current today in official
and diplomatic circles here concern
Ing the probable action of Central
American republics in the recognition
OF the Madriz government at Managua.
The state department thus far has re-
ceiyed To official information OF such
recognition by any Latin-American
country.
1T Is an open secret that the Ameri-
can state department would be sur
prised 10 learn that Mexico had rec.
ognized President Madriz without
having previously consulted tho Unit
ed States,
Zelnya's influence in Honduras has
been such that the recognition of the
Madriz government by that country
would seem quite natural, in the view
of diplomats here.
The Intense desire of Costa Rica
for peace at any price. 1t Is said. might
lead that nation To wish for a settle
ment cf the disturbed stated OF Mic.
araguun affairs at the earliest possible
moment. and. for that reason, II is
believed, will lend its influence to givo
stability TO the Madriz government
by recognizing It.
Ofncial information that General
Toledo. who is supposed to he in pos.
sion Of arms distributed by Zelaya
before his departure. is at Managua
directing military operations In tho
capacity of minister OF war, was re.
ceiyed at the state department today.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-30
DISS()LVIN(l
A Big TRUST 7.
Kansas Judge Orders
Traders Livestock Go
Out of Business

Kansas City, Dec. 30.-Judge l.. C.
True OF the district court in Kansas
City, Kansas, today declared that the
Traders Livestock Exchange associa-
ton. operating at the Kansas CITY
stock yards, was a trust, the methods
of which violate the Kansas antitrust
law He ordered the association dis.
solved. in rendering A decision In 4
suit brought against the association
by the attorney general of Kansas.
The Traders Livestock association is
composed OF 1S5 members. who deal
principally in stockers and feeders
cattle not fat nouGh for slaughter
The state brought a suit against the
company two years ago, alleging that
the methods Of the concern placed
such restrictions on trade and COM
merce as to violate the antitrust law.
The Cooperative Livestock Commits
sion company. also at the Kansas City
stock yards, filed the complaint
against the Traders exchange. In
this complaint it was alleged that the
Traders Livestock Exchange associa-
ton boycotted the members Of the Co
Operative Livestock Commission COM
pany, of whom there are more than
four hundred
The defendant association Will ap.
peal the case to the supreme court of
Kansas. An action similar to the one
brought against the Traders Livestcck
Exchange association is pending
against the Kansas City Livestock eX.
change.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-30
RESCUFRS
SUCCEED
John Brown is Found
None Too Early
by Miners

McAlestcr, Okla. Dec. 30.-After
having been cntombed twenty-eight
hours in a smoke-flled cut of the
Bolen-DSrnell compaays coal mine.
superintendent John Brown was res.
cued alive. but unconscious. this
morning. Had his rescuers failed
TO reach him Brown would surely
have died within another hour AS
ii Is, hts condition is serious.
brown, who Is a well known mining
man Of Hartford, Ark. risked his life
In an heroic attempt TO rescue Angel
10 Asnicar, shot firer. who was en-
tombed following an explosion on one
oil the lower levels Of the mine late
Tuesday Brown apparently had not
reached even close to the point where
Asnicar had been overcome when he
himself Succumbed to the foul gases.
The shot tirer's fate still remains un.
known.
Brown was known to have passed
the first landing safely and TO have
entered the smoking chambers be-
meath. Some of these chambers have
no air courses as result of the ex-
plosion, Party after party, however,
volunteered to go after Brown. and
the attempt at his rescue was kept up
LII this morning when. Just at day.
light, one Of the men stumbled up
ON the superintendent body a few
yards below the first level.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-30
DWIGHT CONFERS ON
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL

Washington, Dec. 29.-Representa.
tive Dwight of New York. Republican
whip" OF the house. talked with the
president today about ship subsidy
legislation. On leaving he asserted
that the presidents recommendations
will not be enacted into law by con
gress and that the house would act
soon after reaSsembling.
The bill of Representative Humph-
rey OF Washington is the one that
has been agreed upon by the presi-
dent and Republican leaders.
In his message 10 congress the
president urged a ship subsidy look
ing ito tho establishment Of lines be-
tween our Atlantic seaboard and the
eastern coast Of South America as
we'll a. lines from the west coast of
the United States TO South America.
China, Japan and the Philippines.
Representative Dwight declared
Democratic opposition to the ship sub
sidy would not retard passage Of the
measure to any degree,
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-30
RANCE. IS
O|SCRACEO
White Slave Trade Is
a Source of
Shame

Paris, Dec. 30,-The Matin today de-
clares that the finding OF the United
States migration commission, which
placed France first among the nations
as an exporter of so-called white slave
recruits, constitutes national dis
grace. and appeals to the government
to commence Immediately pour par
lers with Washington for the suppress
sion OF the traffic. The paper insists
that France in reality is the most de-
cent country on the globe, and one
where home life and virtue are most
beautifully exemplifled. yet abroad,
and especially in America, scandalous
French literature is circulated and the
extent Of the monstrous white slave
trade has given her The reputation of
being the center of depravity. Paris,
the Matn says, Is pictured as the mod
crn Babylon. and adds.
The government must intervene 1t
is a question of humanity and ma
tiOnal honor"
Washington. Dec. 9O-The report
of the immigration commission. show
ing the nationality of the girls in the
white slave trade. deals especially,
so far as nationality is concerned,
with importations and trials in the
courts.
II shows that Of SO women deported
from New York on account of pros
tltution between January LIST, 1907.
and December 1st. 1908. forty-siX were
French, thirteen Hebrews. thirteen
Germans and ten Italians.
A table Is also given showing the
number of convictions In New York
City court during the period from No
vember 18th. 1908, to March 18th.
1909. OH account of soliciting on the
streets and practicing prostitution.
The total for the year was 2.093. OF
this number 1.5l2 were native born
and 5Sl were foreigners. OF the for
eigncrs 154 were French and 225 He
brewS, the next largest number being
69 Germans.
Commenting on these facts. the
commission expressed the opinion
that the table did not show the real
proportion OF the races.