Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-01-11

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chopped to pieces before the power
could be shut off.
Engineer John Shields, Fireman O.
M. Earn and Brakeman W. T. LAS
were killed when passenger train No
Is on the Santa Fee railroad was
wrecked on curve mile and a half
south of Mulvane, Kan. Three bag
i gage and mail cars were burned.
Chairman Crumpacker of the house
J committee on census presented his
reapportionment bill based on the last
/ census returns. 1t provides for house
membership of 433, or AZ more than
at present.
/ Two thousand soldiers, accounted
for relief work, were rushed into the
earthquake stricken territory of
Semiryetchensk, Turkestan, Thurs
day, where fully 1000 are reported to
have been killed or wounded in the
terrific and devastating earth shocks.
Practically 1000 square miles of ter
ritory are said to have been shaken
and whole towns wiped out
Endorsement of the Democratic
caucus for United States senator was
given to Lieut. Gov-elect Atlee Pome-
rene of Canton, Stark county, o.
When the legislature meets in Joint
session he will be elected to succeed
the Republican senator, Charles Dick
The Long Island railroad has issued
an order compelling persons travelling
on passes to make known their iden-
| tity If the train is crowded and give up
their seats to the fare-paying passen-
gers.
With the temperature 25 degrees be-
low zero 40 students in ST. Joseph's
| college, a Roman Catholic institution
at CRANKY, Que, were routed from
their beds shortly before midnight by
fire which destroyed the main build
ing Of the college.
The second fight of the American
Tobacco corporations against dissolu-
ton by decree of the Supreme court
of the United States under the Sher-
man antitrust law was begun when
their attorneys advanced a fusillade
of arguments in behalf of their cause
Advanced measures against boss
rule" and for popular control of gov
eminent, such as direct nominations,
the recall and the initiative and ref
erendum were advocated by Gov
Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts in
his inaugural address.
Over forty recommendations cover
ing wide range of questions was
contained in the first message to the
Michigan legislature by Gov. Chase
s. Osborn. Among his recommends
tons were state control of the express
companies, mining, royalty and in
come tax, the initiative, referendum
and recall.
Two masked bandits entered the
mail car on the orthern Pacific rail
road just as the ain was leaving the
King street depot, Seattle. AS soon
as the first robber got in the door
he shot Mail Clerk Harry O. Clark in
the mouth.
Peru has agreed to submit its
boundary dispute with Ecuador to the
arbitration of The Hague tribunal.
This is in compliance with the sugges-
ton of the United States, Brazil and
Argentina.
Expulsion of Senator D. W. Hoist
law, self confessed bride taker, from
the senate of Illinois, was the feature
of the converting of that body. This
action is expected to go far in the pre-
Guiding of an extended investigation
by the senate of the Lorimer scandal,
in which Senator Holstlaw confessed
he received $4,000 for his vote.
Twelve years at hard labor in the
prison, "and thence until the cost Of
prosecution is paid" was the sentence
pronounced on James j. Gallagher,
who shot Mayor Gaynor, in the court
of oyer and terminer in Jersey City
The federal government brought
suit in the United States circuit court
at New York under the Sherman anti
trust law against 43 of the principal
transatlantic steamer lines, which are
estimated to control 90 per cent. Of the
steerage traffic, worth to them S55,-
100000 a year. Twelve officers of the
defendant companies, all residents in
America, are named as co-defendants.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
has been advised that an approximate
cLOO1CAOn VI pow q OEtJ Los bSO11 MAUI
to the governments revenue from the
lease Of Indian oil lands in Oklahoma
and Kansas, through the advance in
the price of crude OIL
Deputy sherifs arrested Chill Rossi
in Seattle just as he reached for a
decoy money package placed under
the Spokane avenue bridge in answer
to letters demanding $4,000 from Fred
Marino, a prosperous Georgetown
, Italian.
The first human remains from the
old battleship Maine were brought to
the surface in Havana harbor by q
dredge. They consisted Of two ribs
and some small bones, apparently
bones of the hand.
G. c. McChord Of Kentucky and e.
H. Meyer of Wisconsin, the newly-ap-
pointed members of the interstate