Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-01-04
GENERAL NEWS.

A monarchist plot to overthrow the
Republic of Portugal has been discov-
cred at Lisbon; scores have been ar
rested and the ringleader has already
been executed. This news was re-
ceived by the Portuguese minister,
Viscount De Alte, at Washington. His
brief official message also stated that
the plot had been suppressed.
A pack Of half-mad bloOdhOunds,
trailing man suspected of burglary
at Carrier Mills, near Mt. Vernon, ILL.,,
broke away from their keeper, cor
nered their victim in an empty shed
and tore him to pieces. The authori-
ties have no clue to the identity of
the dead man.
Pm a dead man. I've taken poison
tablets" gasped Banker Joseph G..
Robin when he collapsed as he was
about to enter a New York court
room to face arraignment on an in
dictment charging larceny of $4,000
from the Washington Savings bank
Quick resort to a stomach pump by
a Tombs physician probably saved
Robins life.
Julia Kuttner Earle had her mar
riage to Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the
eccentric artist who deals in afini-
ties, annulled by the appellate divi-
sion of the New York state supreme
court. She was Earle's second wife,
having been married to him March
IT, 1908, after he had cast aside his
first wife.
Sixteen battleships, comprising the
United States Atlantic fleet, rendez-
Voused off the Scilly islands, follow
ing goodbye at the French and Eng
lish ports, where the officers and men
have been entertained splendidly by
government officials and civic bodies
for six weeks. The warships have
turned their prcws homeward
Thirty-fve hundred people at Mes
sina, Italy, are homeless as the re-
suit of fire one day after the ami
versary of the earthquake calamity.
The loss is more than $1,000,OOO. A
large number of the buildings erected
following the earthquake were de-
stroyed
West One HUr 1red and Seventy.
ninth street, New York, was a river of
flame for half a mile. A truck that
carried gasoline for the public park
lamps spilled several barrels into the
street. They burst and the gasoline
flowed down the hill for ten blocks.
Small boys set the stream on fire.
Frank Kins, father of 81 children, is
dead at his home at Grafton, Mass, in
his one hundred and fourth year. He
was born in Quebec and until a few
days ago had never seen a sick day.
Warning Chinese tongs of New
York signed peace pact, establishing
friendly relations.
The resignation of DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell as a trustee of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, which has just
been made public, makes six vacan-
cies the boz of trustees must fill.
The yearly convention OF the Inter
Collegiate 6 cialist society opened in
New York city.
The annual [ t1ngs Of the E-nerl-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science, the American Chemical SO.
ciety and other organizations of scion
fists opened in Minneapolis.
The American Society of Esricul-
tural Engineers met at Purdue uni
versity, Lafayette, IND
The grand jury at New Yo~k hand
ed down an Indictment inst Jo-
seph G. Robin, whose fl rams
actions are alleged to be onslble
for the closing of the No ern bank
of New York and it's ninu branches.
The indictment specifically charges
Robin with the larceny of $4,000.