Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-16

he known death toll OF the recent
Delagua (CoI) mine disaster has
reached the total of 49, Seventy
bodies, including that of Willis Evans,
the youns mining engineer who gave
up his life to save a Slav miner from
suffocatfon, have been taken out.
Five men are dead and eighteen in
Jured as the result of an explosion in
the mine of the Shoal Creek Coal
company of Chicago, at Panama, II
miles north of Hillsboro, Ill. Four
OF the men were killed outright and
the fifth died later from injuries
Japan is preparing a factory law to
be brought before the diet next sea
son. The bill will prohibit employ
ment Of children under twelve years
old, and those of sixteen and over will
not be permitted to work more than
twelve hours day.
Royal millinery in huge quantities
was the final feather that caused the
Portuguese revolution, says Frances
F. Paulus, a Detroit artist who has
returned home from seven years resi-
dence in Europe.
Steamer reports tell of the cere-
monies of the SOW souI' celebration
which took place in Tokyo recently to
appease the "souls" Of the animals
slaughtered to feed the Japanese army
during the recent war with Russia.
With the hearty approval of the
judges of the juvenile court and the
police commissioner, the newsboys'
court was opened IN Boston with three
schoolboy judges. It will dispose Of
petty offenses by newsboys.
Reversing the decision Of the gen.
eral assembly Of the Presbyterian
church in America, the superior court
of Hamilton county, Ohio, declared il
legal proposed merger of the First,
Second and Central Presbyterian
churches of Cincinnati. Property val
ued at $750,00O is involved
BY the overturning Of the Sharp
Arrow car at the auto race track at
Savannah, Ga. Albert Fuchs, the
mechanician, was instantly killed, and
William E. Sharp, designer of the car,
and William H. Piger, driver, were
seriously injured.
Prof Herschel G. Parker of Column
bia university has just returned from
Alaska with what he declares is indis-
putable proof of the falsity of DR.. Fred
erick Cooks claims to having assembled
to the top of Mount Mckinley. Parker
declares that his proofs, in the shape
Of photographs, show that Cook really
did get within twenty miles of Mount
Mckinley.
Ex-Mayor David E. Rose of Milwau-
kee was married at his summer cot
tage near Paw Paw, Mich, to vaude-
vile girl, Mrs. Rosemary Whitney, nee
Glosz Only Mr. Roses son and daugh-
ter and Mr.. Roses secretary were pres
ant.
All the rivers of France have over
flowed their banks, doing vast damage
to property. Many villages in eastern
France are inundated and numerous
factories have been stopped. Fifteen
hundred people Of the city Of Nancy
are homeless.
Four women will sit in the Eigh-
teenth general assembly of Colorado
as result of the recent election.
Three of them are elected from state
representative districts in Denver.
United States Consul D. R. Birch of
Alexandria, Egypt, in a report to the
government, says the cotton crop in
Egypt this year will be nearly 700,-
100000 pounds, as compared with
yield of 50O,OO0,00O pounds last year.
Richard Lawrence is dead at La
porte Ind, from gunshot wound re-
ceived through the accidental dis
charge of gun as it was being
passed to him by his brother Ray.
The men were in boat hunting.
Census returns for Los Angeles,
Cal, given out by the census bureau,
give that city a population in 1910 of
319, 189, and allow it to maintain easily
its rlace as the second city beyond
the Jckies
Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenck,
wife of John o. Schenck, a.. packer,
was arrested at Wheeling, w. Va, on
warrant charging the attempted
murder Of her husband by admins
tering poison in his food
When working on the top Of the
new court house at Kankakee, H.,
Adam Bishop of Louisville, Ky,
pitched head foremost sixty feet to
the ground when the coping fell from
the building. He died in few hours.
Governor Deneen saw his son I'M
dergo a surgical operation for throat
trouble at the Culver Military acad-
envy, in Indiana, where young De