Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-07-06

A masked bandit held up the mail
and express stage which runs between
Placerville and Norwood in San Mi
guel county, Colorado Several pas
sengers were lined up along the road
and compelled to surrender their val
uables.
Prof William F. Babe of the Uni
versity of California will soon under
take an expedition into the Klamath
region of Asia Minor to excavate
cities of the ancient tribes of Hitties,
which f1ourished several thousand
years before the Christian era.
Collector Loeb's figures for the fiscal
year just ended show he collected in
duties and fines at the port of New
York $234,250,OOO.O1.
Reports from London say that Mrs.
Anthony j. Drexel, Jr., who before
her marriage a few weeks ago was
Miss Marjorie Gould, is suffering
/ from an abscess in the ear, which may
make dangerous operation necessary.
Philip Schanz, secretary and cash
Ter of the Aldo Sommers Drug COM
pany at Quincy, Ill, has disappeared
and expert examination of his books
is alleged to show shortage of more
than $4,000
When the parachpte in which he
was attempting to come to earth after
a balloon ascension at Albany, Ind,
failed to open Ray Bradley, twenty
! five years DID, dropped 1900 feet and
met instant death.
Three persons were killed, twenty
or more were injured nd a number Of
buildings were destroyed by pow
der explosion in the store of the
Graves Mercantile company at
Boulder, Mont.
Decisions important to all parts of
the country we're handed down by the
Interstate Commerce commission.
They affect freight rates, both class
and commodity, on all transcontinen-
tai lines between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. Extensive reductions
were ordered running all the way
from 20 to so per cent.
Fifteen people are known to be
dead, fifteen additional are reported
as having died and fully forty are
missing as the result of a cloudburst
in Magof1n, Floyd and Knott coun-
ties, Kentucky, Twelve bodies of the
known dead have been secured.
The Illinois supreme court has
decided that religious exercises
consisting of the reading of the
Bible, singing and prayer, cannot be
hold in tho p1,hlio schools of thic ctata
during the time pupils are required to
be in attendance.
Yale opened the regatta on the
Thames river at New London, Conn,
against Harvard by winning the fresh
man four-oared one-mile race in 5
minutes 371a seconds. The time was
the best on record for a freshman
( four-oared crew.
An unidentified woman returned a
kidnapped child to its mother at Pas
sale, N. f., and escaped with another
child of the same family.
The probe into charges made by
/ Senator Gore has been postponed until
the December session of congress, ow-
ing to lack Of funds.
! Col August Fleishman, sixty-eight
years old, a Civil war veteran, whose
home was in Cleveland, escaped from
the Ohio Epileptic hospital at Gallipo-
lis and was killed by train.
Eight hundred chickens and twenty
horses we're burned to death in a fire
along the Harlem river in New York,
in which twenty firms suffered losses.
j Pledges amounting to 100000 for
the endowment fund Of the Univer-
sity Of Vermont, necessary to obtain
$4,000 offered by the Rockefeller fund
managers, have been secured.
The duchess of Wien, who was Miss
Anita Stewart of New York, gave birth
to a daughter at the residence of the
duchess mother, Mrs. James Henry
{ Smith, on Grosvenor square, London.
1 Frank L. Farris, the thirteen-year-
/ old son of Charles L. Farris, formerly
a state representative from Louisville,
Ill eloped with Nellie Krutsinger, nine
teen years Old
DR.. B. c. Hyde, convicted May 16 of
! poisoning Col. Thomas H. Swope, the
millionaire philanthropist, was
I wednesday uGulGu q new Lildl DIT Nall
! sas City by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw
/ in the criminal court
The Baron de Hirsch school for i'm
migrants in New York city graduated
it's last class, as it is believed the city
educational facilities are sufficient.
/ The fund will be devoted to other
! charitable work
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Library association and of several
allied organizations opened at Mack
i mac Island, Mich, with a large at
/ tendance.
The case of Lee O'Nel Browne, the
legislator charged with bribery in be-
/ half of the election of William Lori
mer to the United States senate, re-
suited in mistrial. The jury was out
115 hours, the longest session by Al
hours ever held by jury in Chicago.
Twenty-four ballots were taken, the
count throughout standing eight for