Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-09

by the senate at Madrid Dy vote
Of 149 to So.
The Philippine assembly unanimous
ly reelected Manuel Quezon delegate
to congress.
The first station of the United
States aeronautical reserve has been
established at Columbia university,
New York The station will furnish
series Of lectures on aeronautics next
winter,
An edict from the academic senior
council at Yale university, New
Haven, Conn, orders the discontinue
ance Of studying during chapel exer-
else under pain Of a penalty which
may involve suspension
Employees of the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton and Dayton railroad are held re-
sponsible for the collision Of one of
their freight trains with a Big Four
passenger train at Middleton on July
A. in the formal finding of Coroner
Burnett of Butler county The wreck
caused the death of tWenty-three per-
sons.
Martial law has been declared in
Honduras as a direct result Of the
revolt of Gen. Jose Valladares, the
deposed commandant Of Amapala
against the government. The port of
Amapala has been closed and the
island is in a state of siege.
Six men were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Spokane, Wash,
charged with conspiring to defraud
the government of coal lands in Alas
ka valued at $200,000,00O. Among
those who were alleged to be as
slgnees of one or more of the claims
are Gov James N. Gillett, California;
Congressman McLacblin, California,
and Henry T. Oznard, president of the
American Beet Sugar company.
| Indictments returned by the federal
grand jury against nine ranchmen
of western Nebraska were made pub
lie at Omaha, Neb The indictments
charge conspiracy to drive from their
claims, at the point of guns, home
steaders who took sections of semi
arid land under the Kinkaid home
stead law
United States Senator Alexander S.
Clay. desperately ILL., was brought
from his home at Marietta and placed
in an Atlanta (Ga) sanitarium.
A citizen Of Fullerton, Call has sent
ten cents to the postoffice department
at Washington, with letter III which
| he explains that he used several
stamps which had been used but not
| Cancelled. He added that he was try
ing to live right
| Herbert Jackson, a negro of Athens,
Ca, showed two pieces Of his skull to
/ judge when Ed Dimson, the alleged
| assailant of the complainant, was
| called to trial Jackson said Dimson
struck him on the head
To inspect immigration stations at
| Honolulu and points on the way
| Daniel Keefe, commissioners general
of immigration, left Washington on a
| tour that will require two and a half
months
A legal battle for the $3,OO0,0OO es-
tate of Gen. Thomas T. Eckert of
West End, N j., for a long time pres
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
company, is to be fought by one of
his sons, Clendennin Eckert, and the
| generals brother, William Eckert
Standing on frail platform 235
feet in the air RI Rev Nicholas G..
Matz, bishop of the diocese of Col
orado, sealed and blessed the capstone
of spire of the new Roman Catho-
lie Church of the Immaculate Concep-
| ton at Denver
| Preparations are being made in
| New York for a country wide strike
Of express drivers and helpers. All
drivers and helpers on the various ex-
press companies in Brooklyn not al~
| ready affected by the strike which has
| tied up the express business in Man
haitian and Jersey City, it was an
nounced, will be called out by the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters
M BRAND, after having handed the
resignation of the French cabinet to
| President Fallieres, acceded to the
request of the latter to form a new
ministry and set to work upon the
task at once. The new cabinet will
be largely the old ministry reorgan-
lied, with the distribution of the port
folios made with special reference to
solution of the vexatious labor prob
| lems
When Mrs. P M Guiou was killed
at the Nevada (Kan) insane asylum
tragedy stalked into the family for
the fifth time in six months Two
others of the family were slain, one
was wounded and one is in Jail facing
charge of attempted murder
After passing Newton Station, Mont,
the engine of Northern Pacific train
exploded, killing Fireman owen Jones,
fatally injuring Engineer Ben Wilson
and scalding John Pollard and John
Peterson, who were stealing ride.
President Taft has made public a
| letter from Chairman W. B. McKin-
ley of the Republican congressional
campaign committee giving practical
assurance that the Republicans will
retain control of the next house.