Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-30

them were killed outright
Three persons were shot and wound
ed, one seriously, and many others
narrowly escaped being struck by bull
let's in riot at Chicago caused by
striking garment workers, who attack
ed non-union employees. Bricks were
also thrown.
Twenty suffragettes who were ar
rested for smashing windows in the
British government Offices in London
were sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment each.
Record-breaking exhibits and crowds
marked opening of the Interna-
tional Ii Stock exposition in Chi
cago.
The government of Brazil yielded
to it's mutinous navy Congress, meet
ing in extraordinary session, voted to
concede every demand Of the ulti-
matum presented by the sailors, in
Guiding general amnesty for the men
who, after numbering as many of their
superior officers as was necessary to
place them in complete control,
trained the guns Of the warships on
the capital.
President Taft struck an effectual
blow in favor of publicity of the af-
fairs of corporations when he ap-
proved the rules of the secretary Of
the treasury under which all returns
made under the corporation tax law
shall be available to the public.
Frank B. Hartman, John M. Taylor,
G. L. Ewing and Joseph E. Buker
were indicted by the grand jury at
Chicago in connection with frauds
said to have been practised against
the Illinois Central railroad. The in
dictments charge conspiracy to OBJ
tain money by means Of false pre-
lenses, Each defendants bond is
fixed at $4,000.
The lives of 800 passengers on train
No. of the st. Paul road, bound to
Chicago, hung in the balance when
Michael Crowley, the engineer, was
stricken with apoplexy at his post and
died as the train was running at the
rate Of forty miles an hour.
Secretary Dickinson left Washing
ton for his old home at Nashville,
Tenn, where his son, J. OvertOn Dick
inson, died from heart failure.
The most valuable shipment Of
grain ever carried across the great
lakes started from Fort William, Ont,
on the steamer Ireland, one of the big
American freighters. The cargo con
sists of 241, 900 bushels of fax, valued
at $3.50 ,220
Postmaster General Hitchcock says
in connection with the arrest of ]. w.
Knight of knight, Yancy & Co. of De-
catur, Ala, that the operations of the
cotton brokerage concern through sup
posedly fraudulent use of the mails
would exceed $1,O0O,0OO
Fire destroyed Young's hotel, Win
throp Beach, Mass. Mrs. John c.
Beggs and her son, John G. Beggs,
Jr., seventeen years old, Jumped from
window and were so seriously in
jured they are likely to die.
Two Italian boys of Brooklyn, N. Y,
have disappeared and demands for S.
900 ransom for each, under threat of
beheading the lads, have been re-
ceived
A statement which may be of vital
Importance to DR.. B. Clark Hyde, in
connection with his appeal from the
decision Of the Kansas City (Mo.)
court, which sentenced him to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of Col. T.
H. Swope, has been made by John Ed
gerton of Helena, Mont. Edgerton
says he sent Hyde two pounds Of
cyanide. Hyde was unable to account
for his possession of the poison.
Charles Leathers, once a prosperous
merchant of Glasford, Ill, shot and
killed his supposed wife, Anna Leath-
ers, at the home of Harry Willis in
Peoria and then committed suicide.
The Edward Hines Lumber company
of Chicago has purchased the entire
properties of the st. Croix Lumber
company of Winton, Mimi, including
standing pine owned by the firm, for
$2,500,000.
Advices from Mexico received IN
Washington through diplomatic and
business channels, while confirming
in part the reports of insurgent vic
tories in the early stages Of the revolt,
Indicate that the government of Presi-
dent Diaz has the situation we'll in
hand. The general expectation is that
the struggle will be short
Augustine Birrell, the veteran chief
secretary for Ireland, was the victim
of a most vicious assault on the part
Of the London militant suffragettes.
Mr.. Birrell is confined to his bed un-
der the care Of physicians. He was
badly kicked and beaten, and has been
forced to cancel all immediate private
and official engagements. He was set
upon by the women as he was making
his way through st. James park
The annual convention of the Lakes
to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway associa-
ton opened in ST. Louis with about
5000 delegates present who were de-
termined to demand that the federal
government recognize and carry out
their project.