Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-05-11

dlcted Dy the special grand jury at
Chicago on a charge of bribing Charles
A. White, Democratic member from
O'Fallon, ILL.,, to vote for William Lori
mer for United States senator. The
specific cRarge mentioned in each Of
the II counts of the Indictment is that
Browne paid White $3.50 at the Briggs
house, in Chicago, on June is, 1909, as
part of total bride Of 81 600. At the
same time the grand jury returned in
dictments charging rorjury against
Representative Robe g. Wilson OF
Chicago and Michael S. Link of Mitch
ell. They are accused of having per-
jured themselves in testifying before
the grand jury that they had not par
ticipated in the alleged Jackpot dis
tribution at st. Louis, which was one
of the features of the White "confes-
, sion" on which the Browne Indictment
is based.
The horror of the great earthquake
at Cartago Costa RIGA, is growing by
leaps and bounds. The loss of life, at
first estimated at 500, is now placed,
according to the latest news from the
ruined city, at not less than 1000, and
it may largely exceed that figure. Hun
dreds were seriously injured in the col
lapse of buildings. The property loss
will amount to many millions of dol
lars.
William Randolph Hearst entered
suit in the federal court against Henry
Watterson individually, for 100000,
and the CouEier-Journal for the same
sum. The suit against Mr. Watterson
is based on his editorial which, &C
cording to the petition, applauded the
attack made on Mr.. Hearst by Mayor
Gaynor at the Press banquet in New
York and accepting as proven Gay
nor's charges"
Fire, caused by an older child play
ing with matches, resulted in the loss
of two lives at Deimling, Mich. The
home of Matt Servis was destroyed
and three-year-old girl and an in
FAINT were burned to death. The par
ents were absent.
The Northern Baptist convention,
comprising several UNCONVENTIONAL So
cieties, opened it's fourth annual ses-
sion in Chicago.
King Edward is seriously i'll. Sud
den and unexpected announcement
was made that the monarch is sui
fering from bronchitis, which causes
anxiety to his physicians, three OF
whom are sleeping in Buckingham
palace to be on hand in case of need.
Two companies of the state militia
at Danville and Champaign were or
dered to Danville, H., by Governor
Deneen at the request of the sheriff
of Vermillion county to assist that Of
fetal in maintaining order in the Dan
vile mining district.
The story of Representative Charles
A. White that he was paid $1,000 for
voting for William Lorimer for United
States senator and that later he re-
ceived 5000 as his share of a general
corruption fund or Jack pot was cor
roborated before the special grand
jury by Representative H. ]. G. Becke-
meyer of Carlyle.
A large part of Carriage, Costa RIGA,
was destroyed by powerful seismic
!
as the telegraph wires have been lev
eled between San Jose and Carriage.
The operators at the latter place were
killed. Five hundred persons are dead
and fully as many are wounded. Half
the houses in the city have been de-
stroyed. Hundreds of men, women
and children are homeless.
no
are entombed in No 3 coal mine at
Pslos, Ala, as the result of an ex-
plosion. All hope for the entombed
men has been abandoned. 4 is
thought that any who escaped the ex-
plosion, which is believed to have
been caused by gas and dust, have
peen suffocated by black damp.
'It was not fair or truthful state
ment," exclaimed Secretary Ballinger
during the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga-
ton, referring to a sentence in former
! Secretary Garfeld's letter to the pres
ident last November, which read: HE
| (Ballinger) directed the reclamation
service to prepare lists for restoring
the withdrawn lands, but to do SO
| SLOWLY III OTQ0T uOI " dCCI dCC puOAAS
attention"
Striking employees of the Columbus
! co. Railway and Light company voted
| to accept an agreement for peace pro-
posed by Mayor Marshall, under which
four discharged union men are to be
given the option of returning to work
/ at wages equivalent to their former
pay or accepting employment under
{ the city administration.
President Taft gave vigorous de-
J nunciation of William j. Bryan for the
/ letters of criticism of the appointment
Of Gov. Charles E. Hughes Of New
York as associate justice of the United
States Supreme court. Mr.. Taft de-
cried the "cant of the demagogue" and
the disposition of public journals to
make unjust charges against men in
public life. "All | am speaking for
is justice and square DEAL" he said,