Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-01-18

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became evident when the advocates
of the plan won on test vote of 43
to II. The matter arose in connec-
ton with the joint resolution for the
amendment Of the constitution recent
ly reported from the committee on
judiciary.
President Taft, in an address at
the banquet of the National Tariff
Commission association at Washing
ton openly Endorsed the Longworth
bill, characterizing it "as a concilia-
tory measure embodying all the i'm
pOrtant features that are necessary
to make the tariff commission eff
fective.' He had previously sum-
moned the Republican members of
the ways and means committee to
the White House, and urged them to
harmonic their differences.
The gift of 100000 to the ''Moth-
err Church of Christ, Scientist, de-
vised in the will of Mrs Mary G.
Baker Eddy, may be null and void,
and the estate may go to her sons
The residuary clause in the will is
not legal, in the opinion of ex-United
States Senator William E. Chandler,
Hannis Taylor, the professor of con-
stitutional law at George Washing
ton university, and others.
In an address before the annual
meeting Of the National Civic fedora
ton at New York city, Samuel I'm
termyer attacked the governments
attitude toward the trusts as a mon
strous sham" According to him the
large and vicious" corporations go
unmolested while "the little fellows
are being pursued with a brass band
and the greatest press bureau ever
put in action
Another serious battle between the
Mexican revolutionists and the fed
eral forces has been fought just
across the border and the dead are
estimated at more than forty, accord
ing to advices received at San An
tonic, Tex.
John Michels, a young cooper, is
dead in Brooklyn hospital because
he was suddenly deprived of cigarettes
dicted to their use for fifteen years.
He had been in the habit of smoking
80 day, he said.
The recent tidings from Wellesley
college that half of the young women
students there are deficient in spelling
has aroused a sympathetic response
from Andrew Carnegie, and in an open
letter he hastens to congratulate the
bad spoilers on their independence.
Prof. S. J. Hunter Of the University
of Kansas says the solution of the
grasshopper problem is to disk the
alfalfa fields in the spring, just after
the frost has left the ground This,
he says, kills the eggs of the hoppers.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has equipped it's passenger trainss on
the Utah division with an armed guard
in preparation for attempted robbery,
following the hold up of the Overland
Limited last week
Bubonic plague has caused 600
deaths in Hardin, Manchuria, within
fifteen days, according to consular re-
ports received by the state department
at Washington
Hubert Latham, the young French
aviator, had remarkable escape from
death. on the San Francisco aviation
field. In his second flight he encoun-
tered adverse winds that forced him
suddenly to the ground. He crashed
into fence, wrecking his monoplane
Senator David w. Holstlaw was
dropped from the Illinois senate by
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby, acting
on communication from Governor
Deneen. The communication and the
ruling of the chair that the Iuka bank
er is no longer a member of the SEN
ate foresttalled the report of the COM
mittee Investigating the reports Of
bribery in connection with Senator
Lorimer's election.
The most powerful argument ever
submitted to the United States senate
advocating the election of senators by
direct vote of the people is found in
the report written by Senator Borah
on behalf of the judiciary committee
when he favorably reported the joint
resolution providing for the submis-
sion of a constitutional amendment to
the various states.
Louis d. Brandeis of Boston, appear
ing for the shippers against the rail-
roads in the northern part of the
country, told the interstate commerce
commission at Washington that if the
railroads would stop their wasteful
expenditures they could save $180,00O,-
600 year, and would not need to adj
vance their freight rates, as they ask,
and which will bring them only ST.
100000 year.
A fire which will probably exceed
$1,000,000 in the value of the property
damaged totally destroyed the Gin
cinnati Chamber of Commerce build
ing.
Almost "a per cent of the increase
in population of Illinois the last ten
wears wac bu bo 71115pi-