Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-10-05

tempt at cOunterf61tlng ndJlOnal Dank
notes. Notes of the same denomina-
ton and issue as were found in the
Pasadena (Cal) National bank were
discovered. They had been issued on
the First National bank of Williams
ort, Pa
Senator William Lorimer was di-
Iectly accused of obtaining one of the
votes that elected him to the United
States senate by promises which I'M
der the Illinois statutes are declared
to constitute bribery. State Repre-
sentative Henry A. Sheppard of Jer-
SEVILLE testified at Chicago that Lori
mer promised, in return for his vote,
to prevent two candidates from Sc
curing the postmastership of Jersey
vile and to appoint Shepherds friend.
Dogfish are good to eat-just as
good served as "dogfsh' as they are
labeled in cafes as ocean whitefsh, +"
"sea bass" or Japanese halibut'
says DR.. Irving Field of the United
States fish commission.
DR.. Robert Thompson, alias Grant,
was indicted at San Francisco for the
death of Eva G. Swan, the young
teacher and stenographer who sue
cumbed after an operation and whose
body was buried in the basement Of
an old house. Murder is the charge.
The war department has ruled that
the cadet organizations Of educational
institutions are not properly part Of
! the organized militia and that army
officers should not be detailed to in
spect the personnel of such organiza-
tions.
The navy department has received
report on the sinking of the dry
dock Dewey in Manila, which oc-
Cured several months ago, but the
report makes no recommendations
Responsibility apparently is left be-
tween the naval constructor and the
civil engineer.
The government at Washington has
been informed that a great landslide
has taken place in t. Culebra cut
on the Panama canal, representing
more than one-ha1f of one per cent
of the total excavation of the Culebra
cut, and that it will be several days
before the obstruction can be re-
moved
Eleven hundred and ninety-three
miles has been made on a trolley car
by Henry E. Juergens of Pittsburg,
who has returned from the New Eng
land states. The cost of the trip
was $3.50.
The state of Missouri has a popula-
ton of 3,293,335, according to the thir-
teenth census statistics This is an
increase of 1880, or six per cent.
over the population of 1900, which was
3,106,665
Wholesale raids upon alleged "buck-
ct shops" and fraud mail order
houses in Chicago and other cities
by the federal authorities resulted
in the breaking up of the chain of
brokerage offices owned and operated
by B. H. Scheftels & Co.. in Chicago,
Milwaukee, New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia. Washington, Detroit and
Providence, and the arrest OF Alfred
H. M. Monroe, president of the Globe
association. a mail order house in
Chicago.
Kneeling in the midst of a bonfire,
which she had made of pages of rel1
giOus books and magazines and satura-
ted with oil, Mamie Mccarthy. eigh-
teen years old, slowly burned to death
at her home in ST. Louis, while she
prayed.
One hundred thousand gallons Of
olive oil and $4,000 worth of olives
were burned when the American Olive
company's plant in Los Angeles, CAL,
was destroyed by fire. The plant was
the largest of it's kind in the world
and the loss was 100000.
Government inspectors who investi
gated the wreck of the steamer Pere
Marquette blame the captain, Peter
Kitty, for holding the crew on board
too long. Kitty was one of those who
persisted
China is declared to be on the
verge of another uprising similar to
the boxer uprising and the lives of
foreigners are in jeopardy. Advices
received recently at Washington from
government officials in China express
the belief that an outbreak at any
time would not surprise them. The
state department has instructed Off
Gals to maintain a close watch on
the internal conditions.
Walter Brookins, in a Wright BIZ
plane, smashed all records for cross
country navigation and with only two
stops, neither of which was actually
necessary, made the trip from Chi
cago to Springfield, distance of 186
miles, in five hours and forty-nine
minutes, maintaining an average
speed Of 1927 miles an hour, and won
the $4,000 prize offered by a Chi
cago newspaper.
H. J. G. Beckemcyes' created a
sensation at the hearing OF the senate
committee at Chicago that is inQuir-
ing into the election of Senator Viii
ham Lorimer when he testified that
after Lee O'Neil Browne had asked
him to vote for orjTnnr he handed