Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-07-20

United States delegation being headed
by Henry White.
Baroness De la Roche, the first
French woman aeroplanist, was in
Jured probably fatally at Rheims,
France, by falling from a height of
more than $50 feet. She appeared to
become frightened and confused at
the APPROACH of two other aeroplanes
and lost control of the machine.
AS result of beer" riots at New
ark, O., Carl Etherington, the twenty
tWo-year-old Kentucky strikebreaker
and dry detective, who shot Will
liam Howard, saloon man and former
policeman, was hanged to telephone
pole opposite the post Office in the
women and children.
The state of New York was robbed
last year of nearly $2,000,000 by
widely organized gang of stock trans
fer stamp thieves. State Controller
Williams has obtained the confession
of six messenger boys connected with
prominent Wall street brokerage Of
fees
BY an order of the United States
circuit court of appeals at Chicago,
reduced sleeping car rates ordered by
the interstate commerce commission
cannot go into effect for several
lannths The judges granted stay
order pending a rehearing by the COM
mission as to the justice of it's man
date.
At a joint meeting of representa-
tives of the state railroad commits
sions Of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana,
at Indianapolis. a petition was pre-
sented to the Interstate Commerce
commission requesting the suspension
Of the operation of the new freight
rates submitted by roads in the Cen
trail Freight association territory until
4 thorough investigation of the cause
could be made.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago
was elected president of the National
Education association, after contest
in which she and her supporters de-
feated the nominating committee.
The state department at Washing
ton is informed that Nicaragua has
begun the RECOMMENDATION policy
which made Spanish rule in Cuba so
Infamous
About so tons of armor plate, SO de-
fective as to be worthless, was fitted
to the two American Dreadnaughts,
the North Dakota and the Utah. The
- Jo%A con 000 N0Wc
Of this startling discovery became
public as the result of protracted
conference held at the navy depart
ment
President Taft, accompanied by his
family, will on July Is start on a
cruise aboard the naval yatch May
flower for Bar Harbor and other ports
along the Maine coast. His cruise will
last ten days.
Colored residents of Chicago gave
Jack Johnson, the new fistic champion,
a welcome when he arrived in the
city, which eclipsed any demonstra-
ton ever given before to person of
his race.
Woodrow Wilson, president OF
Princeton university, will be the Dem
ocratic candidate for president of the
United States in 1912 if a combination
of Wall street and political interests
can make him So Preliminary plans
are already under way.
Continuing the policy of conserva-
ton, President Taft signed orders
withdrawing 35,073, 164 acres of coal
lands from the public domain in the
states of North and South Dakota,
Utah, Colorado and the Territory OF
Arizona.
At the close of a political meeting
at Charlevoix, Mich, Gov. Judson Har-
mon of Ohio, in chat with friends,
stated he would be a candidate for the
presidency on the Democratic ticket
in 1912 of the party called on him.
The New York court of appeals Sc
verely scores Arthur P. Heinze, whose
sentence of ten days to Blackwell's
island for obstructing the court in the
United Copper company proceedings
in New York, it confirms.
A bomb hanging from tree in such
a position that an automobile top
would strike it, was found on the Har-
riman estate, near Arden, N. Y.
W. J. Bryan has given out a state
ment again refusing to be a cand1-
date for senator.
Four hundred union carpenters were
locked out by the Master Builders as
ISOLATION of Des Moines, Ia, because
the carpenters refused to work with
nonunion structural iron workers.
DR.. R. J. Walker of Toledo, O., was
found dead on a Michigan Central rail-
road train at Dorchester, Mich. The
body was taken to Detroit and the
coroner decided death was caused by
apoplexy.
That bleached flour is adulterated is
the verdict reached by jury in the
government case to test the issue at
Kansas City, Mo.
Charles K Hamilton, the aeronaut,
used his automobile near Atlantic
City to transport fire engine and
later to carry water. The endangered