Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-08-31

eled to undertake investigation into
charges OF wholesale perjury in the
trial OF Lee O'Neil Browne, accused
of giving bribe for the election of
Senator LOrimer.
Theodore Roosevelt has definitely
aligned himself with the progressiyes
| of New York state in a statement
which he issued on the train as he
was travelling across Iowa He de-
clared that the main issue in the fight
In New York was not a specific re-
form measure, but bossism Bossism,
he declared, frequently led to corrup-
ton, and he promised to wage war
on corrupt alliances between business
and bosses.
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., of New
York city, aged thirty-two, is acting
as president of the New York Central
lines, and is said to be the youngest
man who ever filled a position of the
| kind.
Harry Pugh of Niagara Falls, N. Y,
became insane on a Union Pacific
train near Ellis, Kan, and probably
| fatally wounded the Pullman porter
and DR.. H. H. Temple of Kansas City.
Because Of the serving Of quail out
of season at dinner given by Mrs
Stuyvesant Fish in New York and
also because no action was taken by
| the game commission, an investiga-
| ton is being conducted at Albany,
N. Y.
Police at Munich by mistake arrest
| ed Albrecht Birling, who plays the
part Of John the Baptist in the pas
sion play at Oberammergau, on suspi-
cion of being a woman murderer for
whom they have been looking.
Hoke Smith was nominated by the
Democrats of Georgia for governor,
defeating Joseph M. Brown, incum-
bent, for second term.
More than a score of persons we're
injured, one probably fatally, at Chi
cago, crops in the surrounding districts
were destroyed, and damage which
may amount to 81 100000 was wrought
in storm which swept the city and
suburbs. The wind at the height Of
the gale was of cyclonic proportions.
b1lity, supported by the testimony Of
her maid, Elizabeth Johnson Mrs.
Edna Gown Cudahy got a divorce
from Jack Cudahy, son of the million
atre Chicago packer, at Kansas City.
She was given alimony amounting
to 81.
Representative Charles A. White,
~ -
the charges of bribery against Minor
ity Leader Lee O'NeiI Browne Of the
general assembly, was under a grilling
cross-examination by Attorney Forrest
for the defense at Chicago He con-
tradfcted much Of the testimony which
he gave at the first trial and made
sworn statements which lay him open
to perjury charges.
Killing frosts, the first of the sea-
son, were reported from the Yellow
stone Park, Havre, Mont, Sheridan,
Wyo., and other places in the north
west, doing much damage to corn, 20
tatoes and other vegetables. Temper
atures as low as "a were reported.
Attorney w. T. Forrest made a mo-
ton to take the case of Lee O'Neil
Browne, on trial at Chicago charged
With bribery in the election of Uni
ted States Senator Lorimer, from the
jury and strike from the records the
testimony of several Of the state wit
nesses. This was the first step of the
defense, as the prosecution closed it's
case. Judge Kersten refused both re-
quests.
The cholera epidemic, believed to
have been controlled in st. Peters
, burg, has broken out with renewed
/ severity. Advices received from Kief
say that it is sweeping that city also,
being particularly bad in the Jewish
quarter
The worlds pacing record was bro
ken on the Galesburg (Ill.) track By
Minor Heir in heat with Hedgewood
Boy, the mile being covered in two
minutes fiat The weather was cold
and high wind was prevailing at the
time, making the going slow.
Former District Attorney Delancey
! Nicoll Of New York county was rem.
dered unconscious recently by being
hit on the head by golf ball driven
by Luke Wright, formerly governor
general Of the Philippines. at Long
Island links.
Russian sturgeon, which supply
caviar, are reported to have been dis
covered in the Gulf of Mexico. The
migration is unexplained
Fifteen bodies have been recovered
from the wreck of Grand Trunk train
No. IA, Chicago to Montreal, which
was struck by train No. three miles
east of Durand, Mich. The wreck
Immediately caught fire and manv Of
the bodies were burned almost beyond
recognition. Nearly all the dead
we're in the rear sleeper attached to
No. IA.
Harrison Aronson and Sam Kruka.
junk dealers of Pittsburg, Pa, pre-
tended injury SO hard that they got a
eroo rocf IN hOcp;+oI