Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-08-17

stepped from the ranks on being or
dered by Mayor Marshall to board
street cars for duty against the strlK-
ing motormen and conductors.
Without using the short and ugly
word Senator Bristow of Kansas
passed the direct lie to Senator Aid
rich at Milwaukee when, in a speech
in behalf of the candidacy Of Senator
La Toilette for denomination, he an
swered Senator Aldrich's reply to the
former charges of the Kansan that
Aldrich juggled the tarIfr on rubber to
further his own financial interests.
That J. P. McMurray had contracts
with the Indians by which in the sale
of their lands he would receive not
only 100000 as attorneys fees, but
also agreements calling for $1,500,0OO
in other fees, was testified to by
George w. Scott, before the special
Investigating committee at Sulpher,
Okla. Scott acted as an agent for
McMurray.
E. NJ. Heigho, president of the Pa
cific & Idaho Northern railroad, was
held for trial in Boise, Idaho, on a
charge of causing the death from
fright of Mrs. Sylvia Riegelman by
threatening the life of her son. Heigho
was released on $4,000 bail.
Struck behind the ear by a ball in
a game at Cornf1eld, Md, Howard
Layer, twelve-year-old member of a
camping party of choir boys of Wash
ington, died almost instantly.
In rioting at Columbus, O., six
street-car men were injured, one,
Henry Dick, motorman, being shot
in the leg. The others were hit by
flying stones and bricks.
Denver authorities have issued an
order forbidding Salvation Army
women to enter saloons in that city to
solicit money, on the theory that the
practise is demoralizing.
Frank G. Drew, a San Francisco at
torney, has engaged special Pullman
to take his wifes pet bulldog across
the continent, because the animal was
not permitted to ride on a regular
tourist car.
The special grand jury called to
consider the lynching of Dry Detec-
tive Carl Etherington at Newark, O..
on July 8 last reported indictments
against Is alleged members Of the
mob for first degree murder.
Trouble between contractors was
followed by the mysterious explosion
Of two charges Of dynamite under a
nine-story building which Montgomery
Ward & Co. are erecting in Kansas
City. Little damage was done.
The prank Of a boy in playing he
was drowning caused the death in
Wickham lake, near Middletown, N
Y, of Angelo Fratuli and Henry
Crapello, aged twelve and ten years,
of New York. Crapello, while swim
ming, pretended he was going under
and Fratuli went to his aid. The
boys stepped into a deep hole and
sank.
The strike and counter-lockout in
the Bremen shipbuilding industry are
spreading. The Vulkan and other
yards locked out $500 men and the
Weber works have dismissed 60 per
cent. OF CnS1r employees.
Dispatches received at the Guate-
malan legation in Washington report
that seventy Honduran rebels have
been captured in Guatemala and that
the end of former President BOnilla's
revolt is at hand.
Joseph A. Proctor, missing lumber
man of Peoria, ILL.,, was arrested at
Chillicothe, Mo-, and returned to his
home. Relatives will pay his debts,
which amount to 100000, it is said.
Disclosures of a most sensational
nature involving high former officials
of the Illinois Central railroad in the
conspiracy by which the Memphis Car
company defrauded the railroad of
hundreds of thousands Of dollars, were
made when a decree was entered in
Chancellor HeiskelPs court at Mem
phis, Tenn.
The selection of Denver as the place
Of the next conclave in 1913 and the
election of officers of the grand en-
campment was the last work of the
supreme body. The only new officer
elected was Sir Knight Jehiel w.
Chamberlain of st. Paul, Mimi, who
succeeds Joseph K. Orr as grand jul
nior warden. The other officers, ac-
cording to long established precedent,
moved up one ranks higher
Thomas G.. Lee, manager of the
dressed Def sales department of Ar
mour & Co., was indicted for perjury
by the federal grand jury. A bench
warrant was issued for his arrest. The
grand jury sent report to Judge
Lands, in which it was charged that
stenographers' notebooks of Armour &
Co., containing information which the
grand jury wanted, had been restroyed.
The fight over the Illinois compro-
mise agreement began before the spe
cial international convention Of
miners. At the opening session Presi-
dent Lewis counseled harmony in
speech to the delegates.
Walter A. Brookins, who holds the
worlds altitude aeroplane record, and
49, In