Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-22


the expenditure of 100000 by the
Santa Fe railroad in California have
been abandoned.
1t was a unique bequest that Rob-
ert Reidel of Detroit, Mich, who
fought through the Franco-Prussian
war, left to the Detroit survivors of
his old company He willed them SIS
with which to buy beer after they
marched to the cemetery to his
funeral
/ Sidney Hursey, a young lawyer Of
Dillon, S. c., was shot and probably
mortally wounded as he left a court
room, by Richard S. Davis, hotel
man. Davis said Hursey ruined his
home
Charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes, Christopher c.
Wilson, president of the $20,000,000
United Wireless Telegraph company;
Samuel S. Bogart, its vice-president,
and William M. Tompkins, who had
charge of selling it's stock to the pub
lie, were arrested in New York on
complaint of United States post Office
inspectors.
In an address on 1.-THE History of
the Northwest Territory" President
Taft, speaking at the diamond jubl-
lee anniversary of the founding Of
the Marietta CO., college, referred to
the ordinance of 1887, for the govern
ment of the territory, as the greatest
instrument of fundamental law, except
the Constitution Of the United States,
which has ever been enunciated by
men.
Stirred to action by insistent pro-
tests from all parts of the state, Gov.
Gillett of California took steps to pre-
vent the championship fight between
James j. Jeffries and Jack Johnson,
scheduled to be held in San Francisco
July A. In a letter to Attorney Gen.
eral Webb the governor directs that
the aid of the courts be invoked to
prevent the match.
With $3O,0O0,OO0 provided for the
completion of irrigation projects and
various other amendments, the house
bill authorizing the withdrawal of pub
lie lands by the president passed the
senate
Oberammergau, the scene of the.
Passion Play, is cut off from railway
communication with outside points by
the flood that has invaded the district.
OF the 600 strangers in the place TO
witness the sacred performance, 300
are Americans.
Charles Plantus has been convicted
in Detroit of concealing himself In a
trunk designated as jewelry and then
escaping in order to defraud an ex-
press company.
The torpedo boat Foote was taken
to Southport, N. c., by the steamer
General G. w. Getty, having been dis
abled in a gale and picked up OFF
Frying Pan shoals.
The insurgents in the prefecture of
Jurua, in the Acre district of west
ern Brazil, have driven out the gov
ernor and declared their independence.
Niagara's first international carnival
nearly came to tragic end when
Oscar Williams, a local steeplejack,
who essayed a trip across tn gorge
on wire, hung at the base of the
teeth, came + a stop when about the
middle of the river and hung As min
utes until rescued by the Maid of the
Mist.
The Republican leaders in congress
advised the president to cancel his out
of-town engagements. They told him
that if all goes we'll they expect to
bring about an adjournment of con-
gress by Saturday, June 25.
At the thirty-third annual conven-
ton of the Danish Evangelical Lu-
theran Church of America, in session
in Ludington, Mich, Rev. K. G. Bod
holdt of Racine, Wis, the president
for eight years, was reelected for that
Office
The greatest international religious
meeting of the year, the Protestant
Worlds Missionary conference, opened
in Edinburgh, Scotland, every nation
of the globe being represented by lead
ing laymen and churchmen.
About rs cars started from Cincin-
natl il the reliability tour of the Amer
lean Automobile association for the
ends in Chicago on June 80.
Great loss of life occurred in the
Abr valley OF the Eifel region
in Germany as the result of a
cloudburst which swept the dis
trict. Late estimates place the total
number of dead at $50.
Briefs have been filed by the attor-
neys for the prosecution" and "de-
tense" with the Ballinger-Pinchot in
vestigating committee. The commit
tee will assemble next Saturday to pre-
pare for it's deliberations.
Vice-President Sherman, while at
Utica, n. Y, attending the wedding of
his niece, said that he believes the
Insurgent movement in political af-
fairs is subsiding, basing his opinion
on conditions found in Wisconsin and
Iowa
Tho Venezuelan government Sch0on.