Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-02

1ulO 1Is h1liiuS mis-. lSdOOI rluhG1St6lQ
Of New York and Samuel and Max
Hoffman Of East Schodack and injur-
ing sixteen others
Attorneys for the electrical trust
have submitted to Attorney General
Wickersham a decree which, it is said,
they are willing to have entered
against the alleged combination in the
governments suit for dissolution. The
significance of this move is that the
trust is willing to dissolve without a
fight
Testifying under oath that he threw
the ashes of Col George E. Waring,
Jr., who was street cleaning commits
sioner, out Of the window and used
the urn to make gin rickey, Arthur
r. Denyse, formerly an attache Of the
quarantine station at Rosebank, Stat
en- Island, was the chief witness at the
state quarantine investigation at New
York city.
Details of the rescue of twelve fish
ermen of the fishing schooner Vega,
off Cape Hancock, Alaska, were
brought to San Francisco by the
schooner GaIilee. The fishermen, each
adrift in a small dory, battled with a
terrific gale five days without food or
water
Frank H. Henwood, convicted of
murder in the second degree for kill
ing George E. Copeland, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment, at Denver, Colo.
He killed S. L. Won Phul in a hotel
barroom on May "a and one of the
stray bullets he fired killed Cope
land.
The flying trip of the scout cruiser
Chester from New England to Haiti
to protect Americans in that quarter
has amply justified the building of the
rapid scouting ships, in the opinion
of naval officers. The Chester covered
the 400 miles in three days and three
hours.
Mrs. William Knight of Farming
ton, Mo-, gave birth to triplets, all
girls. Weights of the babies were
seven, seven and five pounds. Mrs.
Knight is only nineteen years old and
is the mother of five children.
| Twenty New Workers at a summer
boarding house at Monticello, N. Y,
were injured when the house was
struck by lightning. One woman will
probably die. Every one of the TWEEN
ty were burned on top Of the head.
Thirteen-year-old John Mccain,
walking in his sleep in New York,
stepped out of a window Of his sixth
floor apartment and fell a hundred
feet. He was taken into a hospital
with twenty broken bones, but may
/ live.
The government scored heavily in
! it's effort to break up the alleged wire
trust when 81 of the SO men indicted
June 20 withdrew the plea of not
guilty and accepted sentence, without
trial, on pleas of nolo contendere.
Judge Archibald in the United States
district court at New York imposed
! fines Of from 81 900 to $1,700 and costs
in each case.
Bobby Leach, forty-nine years old,
/ Of Niagara Falls, Ont. went over the
Horseshoe falls in a barrel and still
lives. Though he was severely bat
tered anG bruised in the drop Of 158
feet his injuries are only superficial
and he is able to be about his house.
Nebraska Republicans, in cOnven-
ton, gave President Taft and his adj
ministration a strong Endorsement and
blocked all efforts Of a small band Of
! insurgent delegates to arouse senti-
ment for Senator Robert M. La Fol
lette of Wisconsin as a presidential
candidate.
The Big Blue river in northern Kan
sas is out of it's banks on account
of the heavy rains, completely inter-
rupting traffic on the Union Pacific
cutoff between Marysville, Kas., and
Beatrice, Neb.
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