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

airy Z. The papers arc to be delivered
at San Bernardino, go miles from Los
Angeles.
Police Commissioner Cropsey of
New York received letter demanding
$4,000 and threatening if the money
was not paid to bury him alive and
kidnap his wife. The letter was turned
over to postal inspectors for investiga-
ton.
The Panama canal commission has
entered upon an extensive scheme Of
enlargement at both ends of the canal
of landing facilities, according to the
canal record.
Through the cooperation of Rodman
Wanamaker and the city of PhiIadel-
phia, fund of $150,000 will be estab-
lished for the support of widows and
orphans of city employees killed or in
capacitated in the discharge of their
duties
Arch Hoxsey, holder of the worlds
altitude record at 11,474 feet, few
over Mount Wilson, the highest crest
of the range which surrounds Los
Angeles (Cal.) valley. He went up
10,0O5 feet, which took him 1900
feet above Mount Wilson. This flight
demonstrated a new method of trans
porting armies across mountain
ranges, according to regular officers
who witnessed the exhibition.
According to dispatches received at
Madrid from Lisbon, the restoration
of King Manuel to the throne of Por-
tugal is well within the range of pos
slbilities as result of the present
unrest in the new republic.
Rhode Island has 508.5 persons to
the square mile, thus, according to
census bureau figures, leading the list
of states in density of population.
Nevada, with seven-tenths of a per-
son to the mile, is last
Fifteen men were killed and 20
seriously injured when the boiler ex-
ploded in the plant of the Norwood
Lake Ice company, about two miles
from Pittsfield, Mass. Almost the en-
tire force of ice harvesters were sit
ting around the boiler warming them
selves when the explosion occurred
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, the ex-
communicated former leader of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
New York, proclaims her belief n
the imminent resurrection in the SEM
blance of human form of Mary Baker
Eddy, the discoverer of Christian
Science, who, "the world believes"
died on December 8.
Threatened by wild bears when his
horse fell in a hunt near Galveston.
Tex, Col. B. F. Yoakum, chairman of
the Frisco system, was saved from the
poisonous bites of the animals by cow
boys who shot several of the beasts.
After month of negotiation the
conductors, baggagemen, brakemen
and f1agmen employed by 81 railroad
systems operating in and west of Chi
cago, were granted fat increase of
ten per cent. The increase affects
$4,000 members and will cost the
roads an added expense of $4,000, 900
a year.
The Republican state executive com
mittee of North Carolina has adopted
resolutions indorsing President Taft as
national and not a section presi-
dent and pledged support for his re-
nomination and reelection.
AS the clock struck IL o'clock mid
night 300 Masons seated at banquet
table in new consistory temple at &C.
dar Rapids, Ia, celebrated st. Johns
day by registering a mental VOW never
again to use profanity.
A grocery owned by Jim Mano was
wrecked, ten houses were damaged
and twelve persons were thrown from
their beds by two explosions in Detroit,
Mich. ManO accuses his enemies OF
placing the bombs.
The leaders of the old guard in the
house of representatives as we'll as
in the senate have surrendered to
President Taft's demand for the crea-
ton of permanent tariff commission
at this session of congress. They
have given formal promise that the
senate finance committee and the
house committee on ways and means
will report bills without delay.
The Adams county grand jury, at
West Union, Ohio, reported 145 addi-
tional true bills against citizens &C
cused of selling their votes at the No
vember election. This makes a total
of 95 indictments.
President Taft, Governor Harm on
or Ohio and some fifty other members
of the Perry centennial commission,
gathered in Chicago to further plans
for the erection of a monument to
Commodore Perry.
Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairm~a
OF the interstate commerce commits
sion, ard ]. P. Mabie, chief of the :.
railway commission OF Canada,
reached an agreement to recommend
to the governments of the United
States and Canada the creation of an
international railroad commission
which shall have authority over the
railway rates in operation between
the countries.
A passenge7-carryi1g no-e-a are,
with Aviator Laffon ard M. Paula.
fell $50 feet shortly after leavir~
ISSy, France on a round frin IN