Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-01

cOurt-martial at Paris. Grady was
sentenced to death, Michel to 20
years Imprisonment.
The attorneys in the Ballinger in
vestigation began their closing argu-
ments before the joint investigating
committee. BaIlinger was arraigned
by Attorneys Brandeis and Pepper,
and they made savage onslaughts on
the secretary. Attorney Vertrees, rep
resenting Mr.. Ballinger, poured vol
ley after vOlley of scathing invective
into Pinchot, Garfield, CLAWS and
others, accusing them of conspiring
to besmirch the character of the cab
met officer.
The old fight over the canteen cues
ton was reopened in the house by an
amendment offered by Mr.. Keliher of
Massachusetts to the sundry civil bill
to allow canteens at all old soldiers
homes within five miles of cities
where liquor is sold. The house re-
jected the amendment by a vote of
II to 351.
President Taft gave out a letter to
expressing regret at an incident in the
house of representatives, in which Mr..
Tawney criticized members Of con-
gress from the south who had travelled
with the president on his tour last fall
for their opposition to an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to cover the presidents
travelling expenses in the next fiscal
year.
The navy department received a
cablegram from Captain Gilmer of the
gunboat Paducah, located in Nicara-
guam waters, that the Madriz army
have completely hemmed in the city
Of Bluefields, the last stronghold Of
the Estrada revolutionists.
States Attorney Wayman fred a
raking broadside into the fabric of
technicalities raised by the defense
for Lee O'Neil Browne in seeking to
quash the bribery Indictment against
the minority leader and with invec-
tive, sarcasm and ridicule, fortified by
citations from the law books, assailed
the theory that it was no criminal act
under the laws of Illinois to give or to
take a bride for voting for United
States senator.
Senator D. w. Holstlaw of Iuka,
Marion county, representing the For
ty-second district in the upper house
of the Illinois legislature, was indicted
by the Sangamon county grand jury
on charge of perjury, the result of a
statement made to the jury in connec-
ton with the purchase of $19,710
worth of desks by the joint commit
tee of which Holstlaw was a member.
While trying to dive under a ferry
boat in the English channel, the
French submarine Pluviose was
rammed and sunk with all on board.
The Pluviose carried a crew of % men
and four officers, and all went down
when the vessel sank
Oliver Splitter, former superintend-
ent of the docks of the American Sugar
Refining company in Williamsburg, ex-
planned in court at New York why he
did not confess during the trial which
ended last February with his being
sentenced to two years at Atlanta.
Such confession, he declared, would
have carried him to a cemetery" IN
other words, he would have implicated
a dead man, Henry o. Havemeyer, late
head of the sugar trust.
Beaten by woman with a cuspidor
and a rollingpin, Louis Gratch, a
burglar, fell out of third-story win
dow in New York house which he
had entered and was dashed to death.
Belle Moore, the negress convicted
in New York of placing two girls for
immoral purposes, was sentenced to
the Auburn prison for women for not
less than two years and six months
nor more than five years.
James A. Patten was forced to take
the count" in one of the liveliest bouts
he has ever had with the bears on the
Chicago board of trade. The big spec
ulator acknowledged defeat by
throwing on the market sever
al million bushels of September
wheat at quotations said to aver
age fully ten cents bushel under the
purchase price. Many of his follow
ers likewise suffered losses which in
sum.
Commissioners of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Atlantic City, N.
j., object to Speaker Cannon having
the power of appointing the proposed
federal commission for the investiga-
ton of the liquor traffic in the United
States.
Motion for a new trial for DR.. Hal
dane Cleminson, convicted of the muir
der of his wife, was overruled by
Judge McSurley at Chicago. A motion
in arrest of judgment was granted and
sentence deferred to allow appeal.
A union of washerwomen has been
formed at Orange, n. j., with a mem
bership Of 800. The officers announce
that the standard of wages will be
raised from $125 to So a day and
the hours of labor will be reduced
from nine to eight.