Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-09-14

| when he drew his owner, G. K. G..
Billings, hitched to speed wagon, in
2:01A. The last quarter he covered
in 29 seconds.
F. F. Gardner, head of the Shore
Electric company, operating in New
Jersey, was found murdered in the
bushes near Red Bank, N. J. The
police are unable to find clue to his
slayer.
John Kakas, a Greek, in an ad-
vanced stage of leprosy, has escaped
quarantine at Salt Lake City, and is
supposed to be on his way to New
York city, where he expects to sail
for his native country.
New York and Philadelphia physi~
clans are interested in tests that are
being made with rattlesnake venom,
which 1t is said may cure epilepsy.
A thoroughbred racehorse, once the
property of Capt. Sims Brown, delib-
erately committed suicide near Pitts
burg, it is said, when it was forced to
draw an old farm wagon.
President Taft received a telegram
on his train at Kendallville, Ind, tell
ing Of the desperate illness of Solicit
tor General Lloyd w. Bowers in
Boston. Mr.. Bowers has been con-
sidered the probable choice for one
of the vacant places on the Supreme
court.
There is too much hysteria abroad
in the country. Let your watchword
be Down with the demagogue and up
with the patriot" Thus spoke
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president Of the United States, to the
survivors Of the Mexican war, at their
reunion at Indianapolis.
At the opening of the trial of DR..
HaWley H. Crippen il London, who is
charged with the murder of his wife.
Belle Gilmore, the prosecution an
nounced that large quantities OF
poison had been found in the wom-
ans body and that there were evil
dences that she had been subjected
to an operation
Vice-President Elias Fernandez AL
bano, acting president of Chile, since
the death of President MOntt, died
suddenly from an attack of heart
failure.
The California legislature met in
special session to finance an interna-
t1onal exposition to be held at San
Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the
opening of the Panama canal
Mrs. w. ]. DENIAL and her three
daughters-Marie, aged eight; Ethel,
aged three, and baby, aged one
were drowned in the Licking river,
near Cincinnati.
Black Hand" representatives from
New York city are accused of the
murder of Arthur Rovolino and his
SIX children in Pallaro, Italy.
The four years, war between organ
lied labor and Bucks Stove and Range
company Of ST. Louis was formally
/ ended when an agreement was signed
by representatives of both sides in
conference. The st. Louis unions will
unionize the plant.
Condemnation of the course of Sec
rotary Ballinger in the administration
Of the department of the interior, and
a declaration that he should no long
er be retained in that office, are con
tanned in resolution adopted by five
members of the Ballinger-Pinchot in
vestigating committee These five,
four Democrats and one Republican,
assert that their vote is binding upon
the committee as a whole This, how
ever is disputed by the other three
members Of the committee, who at
tended the meeting at Minneapolis.
Holding Bible in his right hand
and declaring the jury must choose
between the book of God and the
clustered tongue of perjury of Charles
A. White and Sidney and Otis Var
borough" Attorney Patrick II. ODon-
nell concluded the battle at Chicago
to save Lee O'Nei1I Browne, Democrat
ic minority leader at Springfield, from
a prison cell.
DR.. Wayne Hatfield, a nephew of
Devil Anse" Hatfield, the nefarious
feudist, was shot and killed by a six
teen-year-old boy named BIankenship
ten miles from Wharncliffe, w. Va.
The Connecticut Democrats in state
convention nominated a state ticket
headed by Simeon E. Baldwin for
governor. The platform declares in
favor of an extension Of the free list
and reduction Of many of the tariff
rates in that law
/ Upon the conclusion of States At
torney Wayman's closing address the
case of Lee O'Neil Browne at Chicago.
charged with bribery in connection
with the election Of William Lorimer
to the United States senate, was Civ
en- to the jury.
Forty-four thousand Illinois coal mi
ners will resume work at once after
an idleness of more than five months,
as a result Of an agreement reached
between the officials Of the mine
workers and the Illinois Coal Oper-
ators' association at Chicago. Prac-
ticalIy every demand of the men has
been granted
An explosion Of fuel oil and the en-
suing fire aboard the United. States
I 5roo dDO11chT hatf1eShiD North DalyO.