Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

gale.
W. l. Seeley. a former bank examiner
of Ottawa, Ill. was found dead in his
home at Seattle. Wash. beside the bodies
of his murdered wife and daughter
New York City is throwing away 500
100000 yearly because of short hours and
easy bosses in municipal employment, ac-
cOrding to a tatement made to the board
of estimate.
President-eiect Taft in an address to
the negro Y. NJ. c. A. of Augusta. Ga.
told his hearers the race must work out
its own problem and he finds encouraging
signs in their condition in Georgia.
Monday.
Gov. Deneen and other State officials
of Illinois took the oath of Office in
Springfield in a s. pie and impressive
ceremony.
The Federal Supreme Court sustained
the Texas decision fining the Waters
Pierce Oil Company $1,623, 900 and GUST
ing it from the State.
Luther Latin Mills, States attorney
Of Cook county, ILL.,, from 1876 to 1884
and famous for his OratOrical powers,
President Roosevelt was grilled in both
branches of Congress. Willett of New
York was shut off by the House in the
midst of an abusive speech. Bailey. made
the attack in the Senate.
In his message to the Illinois LegiSa-
fure Gov. Deneen urged prompt action on
the deep waterway, enlargement of the
powers of the railroad and warehouse
commission and other reforms, and re-
viewed the progress made by the State
under his administration.
Tuesday.
The United States Senate voted to in
crease salary of the President to $780,
coo, chief justice to $4,000, associate JUS
tees to $4,000.
Oregon's Republican Legislature elected
George e. Chamberlain, Democrat. United
States Senator, carrying out the popular
will expressed at the polls.
A protocol for the settlement of all dis
putes between the United States and
Venezuela practically was agreed upon at
Caracas and diplomatic relations, will ne
restored at once.
In response to urgent protest from Pres
ident Roosevelt Gov. Gillett of Califor-
mia announced that the proposed anti
japanese legislation will not be enacted
by the Legislature of his State.
Wednesday.
Net earnings of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
of Chicago in six months ended Dec. 81,
1905 are reported at 1891, 456. the larg-
est the company ever made.
Twenty-six medals, $14.750 in cash. and
pensions aggregating 1865 month were
awarded by the Carnegie hero funi COM
mission at its annual meeting in Phila-
delphia.
Senator Tillman in replying to reported
criticism by W. H. Taft said the Presi-
dent-elect by his talks is Fastening the
conflict between whites and blacks and
declares the South will never educate the
negro to rule it.
Sixty lives were lost when fire attacked
the crib of the southwest land and water
tunnel in Lake Michigan off Chicago.
FOrty-seven men are known to have been
burned to death and a number of others
were drowned when they leaped into the
icy lake.
The Copeland hotel at Topeka, Kan.
crowded with members of the Legislature
and their families. burned. Isaac Lam
bert of Emporia lost his life.
Vice Admiral ROjestvensky, commander
of the Russian fleet which was practical
" annihilated by the japanese in the bat
tie of the Sea of Japan in 1905, died in
st. Petersburg.
Friday.
T. Jenkins Hairs was found not guilty
as a principal with his brother, Capt.
Peter G. Hams, Jr., in the killing of
William e. Annis.
Twenty-Five thousand hatmakers in
New England and the North Atlantic
States went out on strike when the Asso-
ciated Hat Manufacturers decided to dis
continue using the union label.
President Roosevelt, vetoing a bill for
construction of a private dam across a
navigable river. said the nation is threat
ened with a huge hydrO-electric power
monopoly that will prove more oppressive
than the oil combine.
Saturday.
The Miners union at Butte defied
courts and reiterated statement for which
Gompers and others stood trial.
Walter Wellman wrote that letters
from home have caused Congressman to
see that they have made a mistake in
their war on the President and the lead
ers have ordered a halt.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
thirty injured. several probably mortality.
in a head-on collision between a passen-
ger train and freight on the Denver and
Rio Grande near GlenwoOd Springs, Col.
Harry X. Thaw has been granted a
trial as to his sanity, but he has been
denied a jury hearing and the case is to
q to New York City, which has angered
Thaw's mother and she has issued a
statement accusing District Attorney
Jerome of persecution.
NUBBINS OF NEWS.