Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-07-27


death OF Mr.. RaWn. After a four-hour
third degree" eXamin alton Stevens
came through with an alibi practically
mistaken. He was held that his state
ments might be investigated, though
the police were about ready to admit
he had no connection with the crime
Vice-President James Murdoch, rep
resenting the general committee of the
Grand Trunk and Central Vermont
conductors and trainmen, in tele-
graphic message to Ottawa, accepted
Minister of Labor Kings suggestion
/ for arbitration of the Grand Trunk
wage dispute by a board to be named
by the government mutually satisfac-
tory to both parties involved
Senator Joseph L. Bristow, in a
speech at Manhattan, Kan, charged
Speaker Cannon and the "standpat"
congressman with manipulation of the
lead schedules of the tariff bill in sup
port Of the S'smelter trust" so-called.
Willis Counselman, the Chicago
grain broker, was sentenced to three
months in the county Jail for fraud
pract1sed in obtaining a divorce from
his insane wife, Lulu Counselman.
Henry Gentry, a negro, eighteen
years old, paid the penalty of his
crime-murder and intended assault
at the stake at Bolton, Tex Two
others, a brother and a companion,
charged with implication, missed a
like fate only through the pleadings of
Sheriff Burke and several citizens.
What is expected to be one of the
most bitterly fought industrial strug-
giles that has occurred in Chicago in
years was begun when business agents
of various building trades unions called
strikes on three buildings, either in
course of construction or repair, that
brought idleness to 1900 workmen.
Verdicts Of not guilty were returned
| in the cases of IL Cairo CID citizens,
charged in indictments with having
been leaders of the mob which stormed
the Alexander county Jail and lynched
the negro, John Pratt, the night of
February Is last. The jury was out
two hours.
Senior Antonio Maura, erstWhile
prime minister, was shot at the Fran
cia station, Barcelona, Spain,. Upon
alighting from the train from Madrid
man fired three shots at the states
man, one wounding him in the leg.
The man was arrested
Joseph Bush, alleged leader of the
mob which hanged Carl M. Ethering
ton at Newark, o., on July g. was ar
rested at Harper, O., and rushed to
the Newark Jail.
The hanging of Robert Martin, ne
gro, at Belleville, Ill, furnished holt
day spectacle for 1,500 men, who held
tickets of admission to the jail yard.
Among the sheriff's guests were many
negroes. Martin was executed for the
murder of another negro.
Twenty-one Mormons will be ex-
PEELED from Germany as the mission
aries are believed to be teaching
principles subversive Of morality.
Oregon Republicans are split into
Assembly and "anti-assembly" fac
tons, the former opposing the selec-
ton of United States senators by the
people. The assembly faction has
| nominated a complete state ticket.
United States revenue officers have
destroyed one of the largest moon
shine stills found in years at the
home of Charles Pesnell, a candidate
for sheriff of Admission county, Ala
bama.
| Ira G. RaWn, president of the Monon
railroad, was killed by bullet, in his
summer home at Winnetka, a suburb
of Chicago. There is considerable
mystery surrounding the circum-
stances attending his death. Accord
ing to the story told by the family
Mr.. Rawn was killed by burglar, but
! detectives who have been investiga-
ting the case declare that the railroad
! president committed suicide.
A young woman, who committed sui
/ eide at hotel in Bourges, France, on
1 July Is, is now believed to have been
Ethel Clara Leneve, the companion of
! Doctor Crippen. There are striking
! points of resemblance.
Eleven already dead and eight more
i
! by a 12-inch rifle at Fort Monroe, Va,
when the breach of the gun exploded
without warning. Whether the acct
dent was due to faulty mechanism in
| the gun, or negligence upon the part
Of the men who were hurled into
eternity is to be determined by a
| board of inquiry.
Edwin w. Trimmer, United States
consul at Cape Gracias Dios, Nicara-
! qua, has been threatened with assas-
sination. The cruiser Tacoma, with
fifty marines and her full complement
of e-jackets aboard. has been dis
patched to the scene, with orders to
land men under arms for the protec-
ton Of the life Of the consul and OF
American property there at all costs.
The second day Of the strike on the
Grand Trunk was uneventful through
out Ontario. Through passenger trains
were running fairly on time. few
locals were abandoned. No attempt