Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-10-19

Inc united States, the greatest cot
producing country of the world,
imported in the fiscal year 1910 &c.
O37691 pounds of raw cotton, valued
at $15,S16,138, the second largest
years importation of cotton in the his
tory of the country.
The United States embassy in
Paris was endangered when a power
full dynamite bomb was placed near
the building, but was discovered and
removed in time to prevent an ex-
| plosion. The police attribute the at
tempted outrage to anarchists, who
sought to put new life into the appar-
! emily dying railroad strike
The French government is meeting
the situation resulting from the gen
eral strike of railroad employees with
a firmness that challenges the admira-
| ton even of those who sympathize
with the men in their demands for a
minimum wage of 81 day. Five of
the most influential strike leaders
have been placed under arrest.
President Taft assisted Boston in
the observation of the first formal
recognition of Columbus day, by re-
viewing with Governor Draper the big
military and civic procession in that
city For an hour and half t&a pres
ident stood on his lame foot and
watched the $4,000 enthusiastic para
ders march past. Then We was com
| PEELED to give up.
Another great slide has developed
in the east bank of the Culebra cut Of
the Panama canal at Bias Obispo,
where quantity of rock estimated at
| $4,000 cubic yards is slowly moving
| toward the canal prism. This slide is
IS feet above the sea level and the
! break follows the lines of fault in
the rock
Willard Sc Grue, aged fifteen, and
Joseph Pendegast aged sixteen, both
| said to be of Chicago families, were
taken from a freight car in the Fort
! Wayne railroad yards in Pittsburg. 1t
had been sealed at Elkhart, Ind. five
days ago.
Benjamin J Duveen, one of the rest
dent managers of Duveen Brothers of
| New York city, the greatest art deal
ers and Importers in America was
/ arrested on bench warrant charging
him and the other members of the
| firm with Systematically swindling the
| United States government out of Gus
| toms that run high up into the mil
| lions.
Richard A. Ballinger secretary Of
| the interior, was one of the II passen-
| gers who were more or less seriously
| injured in the wreck of two passenger
| trains which met in head-on callision
! in the outskirts Of Cincinnati. Secre
tary Ballinger's injuries consisted of
only severe shaking up and slight
| ly bruised left arm.
Theodore Roosevelt plunged into the
Indiana campaign with a trip across
| the state, in which he made a vigor
Gus plea for votes to send United
| States Senator Albert J. Beveridge
| back to the senate.
The first case of Asiatic cholera has
| appeared in England. A man who
lived in one of the Rowton houses, in
London. a series of poor macs ho-
| tells" died in public hospital.
Wilson R. Evans, receiving teller OF
| the Farmers and Merchants bank,
| Los Angeles, CAL, has not returned
from his vacation and officers. of the
bank estimate he is sAort $4,000.
Contending his party loyalty had
been questioned through the failure Of
Ezra p Prentice, the new chairman of
| the Republican state committee, to re-
| appoint him member of the execu-
| tive committee of the state committee,
William Barnes, Jr., of Albany N. Y,
| has rendered his resignation as state
| committeeman
The strike Of the railroad men,
which threatens to spread throughout
! the length and breadth of France, was
denounced by Premier BRAND as IAN
insurrection purely, built upon Grim
| inal foundations" The premier de-
| clared the strike was called while ne
| gotiations were going on through him.
self and the minister of public works
| for an adjustment of grievances.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis business
| men have decided to ask Governor
Eberhart to appeal for a 100000 re-
| lief fund for the forest fire sufferers.
1t will be several days before the ac-
| tual loss of life in the fires is known.
| TIE known dead number SO. The
| higher figures given out at various
| points in the fire zone undoubtedly re-
! suited from many Implications Of re-
| ports of bodies found.
Application was made by the Grand
| Trunk Pacific railway to the British
Columbia government for nermisSiOn
| to employ Chinese on the railroad.
| The request was not granted.
Fire rangers through the Minnesota
| fire-swept zone report that they have
recovered 139 bodies of those who
| lost their lives in the forest flames.
Sixty of the bodies have been identi-
| fed Most Of them were homestead
ers near Spooner and Baudette. The
estimated toll of death is now placed