Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-09-20
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The agility of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., saved his life when the rope by
which a bundle of construction steel
was being hoisted to the roof of his
fathers mansion near Tarytown, N.
Y, broke, allowing the steel to drop.
Mr.. Rockefeller leaped from under,
calling to the Workmen to jump for
their lives. Five were not quick
enough, and sustained serious injuries.
/ One will die.
Cold storage chicken is believed to
have caused the death of William
Starkweather of New York and the
Illness of between sixty and seventy
sailors on board the battleship Mich.
gan, which arrived at Boston. from the
southern drill grounds. All Of the sick
men have recovered.
Damage estimated at 100000 was
done and one life lost in cloudburst
which swept Etna, Sharpsburg and
Millvale, suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Georgia will be the first southern
state to begin the manufacture OF
serum for hog cholera The serum will
be made at the state college.
A confetti-covered automobile re.
turning from the Coney island Mardi
Gras was wrecked while rounding
curve in Brooklyn, n. Y. A fashion
ably dressed woman, said to be Mrs.
Josephine Noble, was killed. Her es.
cort, Thomas Swain, a contractor, was
probably fatally injured.
Governors of twenty-five states, in
conference at Spring Lake, N j., de-
cided to protest to the United States
Supreme court against what they con-
slider an invasion of their rights by the
federal courts The decision of Judge
Sanborn Ia the United States circuit
court in the Minnesota case is the par
ticular invasion" to which the gov
errors object Judson Harmon, gov
ernor of Ohio, will head a committee
Of protest.
President Taft started from Boston !
on his tour of the country, the itin-
erary of which covers 1900 miles
in "a states.
three armored cruisers and eight
torpedo boat destroyers sailed from
San Francisco for Hawaii
The aged widow of James D, Fisk,
Jr, victim in the famous tragedy that
stirred New York when Edward S.
Stokes shot. him on January 6, 1872
is reported to be dying in the humble
little frame cottage in South Boston
where she has lived in poverty-strick-
en- retirement for rs years.
Practically 1000 tailor shops in New
York, where the better class of gar
ments for women are made, were de-
serted by their workers. Ten thou
sand tailors, 1000 of them women,
were employed in the shops affected.
Lost in a great maze Of railroad
tracks, Aviator Jimmy Ward of Chi
cago, the second of the contestants
for the Hearst $4,000 coast-to-coast
aerial prize, made only % miles actual
Roadway during his first days work.
Ward started from Governors island,
New York, and landed at Paterson,
N. ].
In round numbers the cost of the
Roosevelt expedition into Africa I'M
der the auspices of the Smithsonian
institution was $4,000. The expenses
of the actual hunting were divided,
the Smithsonian paying about three
fifths and Colonel Roosevelt about two
fifths.
John A. ("Dogskin") Johnson. form
err convict and former inmate of the |
state insane asylum at Mendoza,
pleaded guilty at Madison, Mo-, to the |
charge Of having kidnapped and MUIR
dered Anna Lemberger on September |
g. He was Immediately sentenced to |
the state prison for life, hurried into |
an automobile and driven across the
country to Waupun.
Wholesale frauds in the branding Of
inferior grades of liquors with spuri-
Gus trademarks of staple products
were revealed through the arrest OF
Martin Alborie in New York city,
charged with infringement of trade
marks.
The Rock Island Golden State Linn
tied. west bound, was derailed just
east Of the station at Ainsworth, Ia.