Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-04-27
GENERAL NEWS.

In honor of Theodore Roosevelt,
special session of the municipal coun-
Gil of Paris was held, followed by
formal luncheon at which the Ameri-
can met many persons prominent in
the official life of the French capital
The centenary of the Argentine re-
public was marked by the opening OF
international expositions of art, trans
port facilities, agricultural and me-
chanical appliances and medicine and
hygiene, in Buenos Aires.
The fire-blackened, black-damp filled
shaft of the Youghiogheny & Ohio
Coal company's Amsterdam co.. mine,
gave UP Is dead, killed in a gas ex-
plosion. All the bodies were brought
to the pits mouth, there to be seized
on by the weeping, moaning women,
who, since the dull rumble and roar
of the explosion have watched through
tears hoping a miracle might bring
forth alive some few of the missing.
Seven miners escaped, Mine Boss Ed.
Jones bringing them through the air
shaft twenty-five were in the mine.
With the simplicity which he re-
quested a few hours before death
claimed him, the funeral services of
Samuel L. Clemens were conducted in
New York city. He was buried Sun
day in one of the white flannel suits
which he had worn so frequently in
his declining years, at Elmira, N. Y,
where in the family plot lie his wife
and three children.
Following the efforts of President
Taft to have the inquiry rushed, came
sensational climax in the Ballinger
practically accused Attorney General
Wickersham of juggling public rec
ords in the interest of his cabinet col
league. Secretary of State Knox Wis
tied the capitol and informed several
members of the committee that it was
the desire of the president that the
investigation be concluded as speed
lily as possible, regardless of who is
hurt
Senator Dolliver of Iowa, by start
ing little filibuster, prevented vote
on the pooling provision of the rail
road rate bill. AS a result Senator
Elkins was compelled to submit to an
other days delay in his plans to have
the administration measure disposed
of next week.
A report issued by the bureau of
statistics at Washington shows that
in eight months ending February %
the United States shipped goods worth
$10,151,27 to the Philippines.
]. n. Harwood, charged with pro-
noting a green goods scheme through
the United States mails, under the
alias of w. A. Wales, was arrested at
Bristol, Tenn, by a federal officer
when he applied for his mail.
Recovery of bodies from the mines
at Mulga, Ala, was very slow. When
% had been brought to the surface the
rescuers came upon a bad cave-in in
the mine and 1t was found necessary
to remove tons of earth and rock.
Some of the rock had to be blasted
away.
The situation in Human, China, prov
ince is reported as critical. Foreign
women and children are fleeing for
their lives from Chang Sha, the cap
| ital Several villages near that city
have been reduced to ashes by native
mobs. The country is placarded with
threats to kill all foreigners.
Because of a published statement
attributed to Charles A Peabody,
president of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, rejecting on his connection
with the insurance disclosures of
| 1906, Samuel Untermyer, the attorney,
has sued Mr.. Peabody for $4,000 dam
ages.
Arthur Hewitt, Thomas Heating,
Bob Clarke, John Gideon and Frank
Grigware. life-timers, and Theodore
Murdoch, a ten-year counterfeiter, es-
capped from the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kan, by capturing a
switch engine and crew. Four were
subsequently, recaptured.