Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-09-27
Domestic

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Domestic
Emil Dignos, twenty-three years old,
formerly a foreign correspondent
for a packing company, was shot
and instantly killed by DR.. William
H. Falker, following a struggle in
a vacant building at 6431 Hamilton
avenue, hCicago. Dignos had sum-
moned DR.. Falker to the building on
the pretense that his uncle was ILL,
and then held up the physician.
Frank Miller, member of the Glenn
Curtiss camp Of aviators, was burned
to death at Troy, Ohio, while giving
an exhibition flight in his aeroplane.
Miller was 200 feet in the air when
his gasoline tank exploded.
A 50-foot plunge from an upper
window of the Palmer house at Chi
cagO into court caused the instant
death of Charles W. Allen Of Kenosha,
capitalist and possessor of a $1O,-
100000 estate Allen is a brother of
Nathan Allen, indicted in New York
for the alleged smuggling of jewels
into the United States. Whether the
fatal fall was the result of accident
or intent has not been established.
Trembling perilously on the brink Of
panic, Wall street was saved when
the large banking interests threw
their enormous resources to the sup
port Of the market Alarm at the re
ports Of approaching dissolution of
the United States Steel corporation
resulted in an enormous volume of
selling by holders of the corporation s
stock in all parts of the country and
| Europe.
Twenty-three members of the crew
of the steamer Joliet had narrow es-
capes when that vessel was rammed
and sunk by the steamer Henry Phipps
In a fog in the st. Clair river.
War is on between settlers on Alder
creek, near Ukiah, Cal, and ennis
saries of a lumber company over
rights to thousands of acres of red
wood timber country. Settlers have
been dispossessed and their cabins
J have been burned
Less than one-fourth of all the earth
and rock to be removed from the bed
| of the Panama canal was in place
| September /. The excavation in
Culebra cut during August reached
! 1,442,4 cubic yards, the best record
for a rainy season month in the his
| tory of the cut
At the ninety-ninth annual session
| of the supreme council, Ancient Ac-
copied Scottish Rite Masons, for the
northern jurisdiction of the United
States at Saratoga, N. Y, Leon M.
Abbott Of Boston was elected first
Pettibone of Chicago grand minister
of state, to succeed themselves.
|
| With a score Of senators and repre-
sentat1ves appointed by the national
government present, and wide rep
resentation of prominent Kansans at
tending, the funeral of Representative
Edmond H. Madison was held at
Dodge City, Kan. All business houses
in the city were closed.
|
| Mrs. Peter Frydendal, who lives at
Crystal Plains, Kas., reports that she
has marketed 1,446 dozen eggs since
March 1 from $50 hens. Mrs. Fryden-
! dial makes her daily trips to market IN
| a motor car.
| At least four persons were burned
| to death and a dozen injured at
| Youngstown, o., when an eight-inch
| gas main on viaduct burst and
poured a stream of the fluid into a
| was destroyed.
Mission Indians Of southern Call
fornia discovered that bathtubs In
their quarters made excellent beds.
| The discovery was communicated to
others and now the head of each fam
lily possessed Of tub seeks his night
| ly repose within It,
The Detroit (Mich) street car
strike, which lasted but one day, is
settled. The strikers were given
everything they demanded and re-
turned to work. Fifteen hundred men
walked out and the city car service
was tied