Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-29

The wholesale prices for refined oil
have been reduced from one and one
half cents to one cent a gallon by the
Standard Oil company, making the
prevailing price throughout the coun-
try now seven and one-half cents a
gallon. The Standard controls more
than 70 per cent. Of the refined output
of the country.
When Lackawanna freight train
arrived at Hoboken, N. j., two little
girls were found unconscious in one
of the cars, having been locked in by
mischievous boys at Buffalo, N. Y,
before the train WIS made up. The
victims had been without food and
water for three day..
The bankers of Kansas City and of
the southwest dependent on the Kan
sas City banks have agreed to lend no
money to anyone who intends to use
the cash for the purchase of a motor
car.
Senator Gore startled the senate by
announcing he had been in effect Of
fered a bribe Of $4,000 to withdraw
his opposition to recognition of the
so-called McMurry contracts for the
sale of Indian lands in Oklahoma. The
senator went further and added to this
declaration the statement that mem
Der of the house likewise had been ap-
preached. No names were mentioned.
Porter Charlton, self-confessed slav-
er of his wife, Mrs. Mary Castle Charl-
ton, whose body, stuffed in trunk he
tossed into Lake Como, Italy, may es-
cape punishment for his crime. The
murderer's counsel have determined
upon a defense of insanity to keep him
from being removed from this coun-
try.
Supreme Court Justice Fitzgerald
in New York city has refused to in
dorse the referees report recommend
ing annulment of the marriage of Julia
K. Earle to F. P. Earle.
On bid of $5,20O,00O the Chicago,
Cincinnati & Louisville railway was
sold to men representing the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railway at Richmond,
Ind This gives the Chesapeake &
Ohio a Chicago entrance.
AS a result of drinking water from
a poisoned we'll seven members of the
family of William Lee of Newark, w.
Va, became violently i'll, and girl six
months old is dead
H. Stamford Burton, an American
dentist practising at Oxford, England.
was found dead in his Office in that
city. He is believed to have taken
poison.
Thirty-seven Mexican officers and
soldiers were killed when a train carry
ing them near Zapotitic, Mexico, broke
from the engine and ran down hill
six miles, being dashed to pieces at
bottom.
Filing of certain paper demanded by
the Catholic authorities is said by Mrs.
Baldwin, mother of the bride to be, to
have caused the delay in the marriage
of Miss Dorothy Deacon to Prince An
tone Albert Radjiwill in London.
Between eighteen and twenty thou
sand men and women cloakmakers
have ceased work in the last two
days in New York and the union
leaders declare that the number will
be increased next week to $4,000.
The Prairie State express on the
Chicago & Alton railroad was wrecked
a short distance north of Carlinville,
ILL.,, and II persons were more or less
severely injured. The accident was
due to the spreading of the rails.
There were 45 passengers on the
train, but fortunately none was killed.
The Lorimer investigating commit
tee decided to meet in Chicago Sep
TENDER 10 and begin work. Senator
Burrows, chairman of the committee,
stated that the subcommittee intended
to continue it's sessions without inter
ruption and have it's report ready for
submission to the senate next Deem
Der.
Fred Kohler, the Golden Rule"
chief of police of Cleveland, o., who
was suspended by Mayor Baehr on the
filing Of charges alleging drunkenness
and immortality, was acquitted by the
civil service commission. Kohler will
be reinstated at once.
After exploding bomb in the city
hall at Friedberg, Germany, robber
killed the manager of the branch I'M
perial bank. When pursued the bandit
killed a boy, and, overtaken, commit
ted suicide.
When Thomas Henry Brown, an
employee of a saloon at Marysville.
Mont, found two nickels and dime
on the floor, he began laughing over
his good fortune and continued to
laugh until he fell dead.
Bonds valued at $4,000, owned by
T. M Talcott, ST., defendant in di-
vorce proceedings at South Bend Ind,
have been seized.
Goodwin Smith has bequeatheG ST.
100000 to Cornell university to be
used for the promotion Of liberal
studies.
DR.. Marieno Scimeca, an Italian
physician in New York city, is hunting
for his missing son, three years DID,
who is believed to have been kid