Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-05-04

dent was driven in an automobile.
King Albert went there to surprise
Mr.. Roosevelt.
John w. Kern of indianapolis was
nominated for the United States SEN
ate on the third ballot in the Demo
cratic state convention. The platform
denounces the Payne-Aldrich bill as
a master piece of injustice; involving
remorseless eXactions from the many
to enrich the few, condemns coward
ice of the Republican party in Indi-
ana, which commends Taft, approves
Payne-Aldrich tariff act, and in same
resolutions, Beverage, who voted
against it.
Construction Of the edifice for St.
Thomas Protestant Episcopal church
at Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street,
New York city, will begin next month.
The structure will cost more than
$1,000,000, and two-thirds of this
amount is in the hands of the trustees.
The National Tube company has post
ed notices that all employees wages
will be advanced May 1. The amount
will be from one to six per cent. and
4
which will be paid S1.75 instead of
SLIGO a day.
S. r. Nelson, vice-president of a
bank at Chillicothe, Mo-, and former
president of the Missouri State Bank
fers' association, committed suicide at
his home by drinking carbolic acid. 1t
is said that his accounts are correct.
Fifteen persons were injured, one
of them so severely that it is believed
he will die, in the collapse of a con-
crete and tile floor newly laid before
the entrance to a New York East side
moving picture theater
John Morris, a miner, maddened by
drink, shot and killed two men,
wounded several others and a woman,
at Welch, w. Va, and later met death
while trying to escape into Virginia on
freight train, by losing his balance
and falling under the wheels.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, u. S. A., re-
tired, was thrown from a new horse
he was riding in Potomac park. Wash
ington. One rib was broken, he re-
ceived a slight scalp wound and was
bruised on one shoulder and side.
| AS the result of a conference here
between Michigan Republican leaders
in Washington it is announced that
Senator Burrows will remain in the
senatorial race. At the September
primaries Burrows and Representa-
! tive Townsend will be candidates
Stanley Ketchel, champion middle
weight of the world, defeated Sam
Langford, the negro challenger for the
title, in six viciously fast rounds be-
! fore the National Athletic club, Phil
adelphia. 1t was a toss-up between
the pair until the final round The
champion tore into his foe in the sixth
round, hammered Langford all over
the ring and had the negro so busily
occupied that he could do nothing but
protect himself.
Theodore Roosevelt for the United
States senate as successor to Chaun-
cey Depew," is the way the political
prophets and wiseacres of Washing
ton have the situation in New York
state forecast.
Search of the sea for the British
sealing steamship Aurora with crew
of 1877 men, which has been missing
since April 1, has revealed no trace of
the vessel. While its owners are hold
ing out hope that ice conditions may
have kept the ship from reaching ST.
Johns. N. F., and that she is safe. cap
tains of the fishing fleet are pessimis-
/ tic.
Richard A Ballinger, secretary of
! the interior, went on the stand at
| Washington to give his version of his
| conservation controversy with Clifford
| Pinchot, which resulted in the ousting
! of the latter as chief forester. The
secretary's testimony will mark the
beginning Of the end of the long con-
| gressional inquiry
His mind unbalanced by anxiety
over the illness of his wife, Herman
| w. Clough, a railroad switchman of
Concord, NJ H., killed her by splitting
her head with an ak and then cut his
own throat with meat knife. dying
| Immediately.
At Washington, the house passed
the Wiley resolution calling upon the
attorney general to make a full inves-
tigation of the finances and manage
ment of George Washington univer-
sity.
| Members of the American Newspa-
per Publishers association and the
Associated Press, which have been in
annual session in New York, attended
a joint banquet at the Waldorf-As-
| toria. Mayor Gaynor, in responding
to THE Press and It's Relation to
| Public Officials" which subject had
! been assigned him by the editors,
| took occasion to assail w. R. Hearst.
He referred to recent article in one
of Mr.. Hearst's papers and branded
it as a forgery and Justification of
a public document"
After successfully holding up and
robbing crews and passengers of sew
eral street cars gang of negroes, dis
4 vr-hi4 Io5