Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-05-18

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The National Association Of Manu-
facturers met in New York to dis
cuss the prevention Of accidents in
Industrial establishments, employers
liability and industrial insurance.
The biggest convention Of Socialists
ever held in the United States opened
in Chicago with delegates present
from every state and territory and
from Europe.
The seventh annual session of the
National Conference on Education of
Backward, Truant, Delinquent and De-
pendent Children began in st. Louis.
BY a vote of 81 to 10 the senate
at Washington adopted a modified
form of the Dixon long and short haul
amendment to the railroad bill. The
amendment represents the combined
efforts of Republican, Democratic and
Insurgent leaders.
A bill to authorize the United
States Steel corporation to reclaim
hundreds of acres of the submerged
bed Of Lake Michigan at Gary, Ind,
and to extend a series of gigantic
docks $500 feet into navigable waters
passed the senate at Washington. 1t
is still pending in the house.
An inspection of terminal property
at Port st. Joe, Fla, by New York
Central officials leads to the belief
that the railroad is planning a south
ern line to handle Panama traffic
when the canal is finished.
Theodore Roosevelt delivered a lee
ture on 1.-THE World Movement" at the
University of Berlin and received from
the university the honorary degree of
doctor Of philosophy. Emperor Will
liam honored the occasion With his
presence. 1t was the first time that
his majesty had graced conferment
and the courtesy was significant in
view of the fact that the German
court is in mourning for the monarch's
uncle, King Edward
A bullet fired at thieves in Philadel-
phia by policeman struck a trolley
pole, glanced off and killed John Gal
lon, forty-six years old.
Bandits. masked and mounted, blew
the post Office safe at Mount Pleas
ant, Mich, securing $4,000 in stamps
and money and terrorizing the entire
town.
John D. Rockefeller, always popular
among the people of Tarrytown, N. Y,
where he lives, is ,dding to that pop
ularity this spring by his fondness
for taking his friends and neighbors
out driving. Not pleasant day goes
by without the oil king inviting some
of them, men, women and children, to
ride with him in automobile or car
riage, and it is safe to say that the in
vitations are seldom declined, for his
vehicles are the best to be had, and
the drives around Tarrytown are beau
tiful. Mr.. Rockefeller, before starting
for ride, always dons paper vest, de-
claring 1t q great protection against
colds, and he insists that his guests do
the same. After the ride he refuses
to take back the garments, and conse-
quently in nearly every home in larry
town may be found a paper vest pre-
served as a souvenir of a delightful
ride with the multi-millionaire.
Throwing rings at knives or canes
at country fairs or other places of
amusement is not gambling within
the law, but test of skill, according
to an opinion issued at Albany by the
attorney general of New York state.
Kenosha, Wis, has followed the eX-
ample of Chicago and has appointed a
woman to head its public school sys-
tenn, the board of education selecting
Mrs. Mary d. Bradford, now in charge
of the teachers training college of the
state normal school at Whitewater.
An explosion in the Wellington
coal mine at Whitehaven, England,
who were working below the surface.
Rescue parties succeeded in saving
four men who lad been working at
the bottom of the shaft.
Rocking the BOAT to frighten the
girls caused the drowning of six girls
and two boys out of party of IL on
an old mill dam at Huntington Mills,
a country village ID miles from
WiIkesbarre, Pa. The four who es-
capped are boys and they got to the
shore exhausted after vain effort to
save the girls.
The new history Office building of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers in Cleveland, o., was dedi-
Gated, many prominent union labor
leaders and about 1000 members of
the brotherhood being present.
Thirteen persons, seven of them
passengers, lost their lives in the sink
ing of the steamship City of Saltillo
in the Mississippi river near Glen
Park, Mo. The boat was thrown
against a rock by the swift current
George E. Cole of Chicago was the
unanimous choice of the Prohibition
convention as candidate for state treas
urer at the Decatur Qll.) convention.
Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, wife Of ex-na-
tional chairman of the party, Oliver w.
Stewart, was nominated for trustee of
the state university.
Coincident with the celebration of