Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-05-31


On account of the Panama canal The
governments announced intention is
to give preference to small bidders.
Domestic
President Taft has signed proc
lamation establishing the Harvey ma
tional forest in South Dakota. 1t
embraces 583,82O acres, formerly in
the Black Hills forest, and 58,727
acres taken from the public domain.
Chester, ILL.,, lays claim to the cham
pion ice-cream eater of the state. On
a wager Henry J. Heine, owner Of
hack line, ate one gallon in Is min
utes
James Elliott, a structural iron
worker of Pittsburg, appeared before
labor leaders there and made an al
legged confession, in which he charged
officers of the National Erectors' as
ISOLATION and detectives employed by
it with the wrecking of buildings con-
structed by nonunion labor.
Fire which for an hour endangered
the entire Kansas City stockyards and
the Live Stock Exchange building, de-
stroyed sheep pens covering a square,
burned 1000 sheep and partly de-
stroyed two mule barns.
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Following the bringing Of 10 suits
against former state banks of Okla
homa which have "nationalized" since
the recent special one per cent. as
sessment for the guaranty fund, suits
were brought against IA more banks
to recover the amount of the assess
ment.
Through hypnotic suggestion Melch-
ior Luysterborg, man of giant stat
ure, who for more than three years
has been completely paralyzed from
the waist down, was able to raise him.
self from the operating table in ST.
Marks hospital New York city, and
walk around the room.
In a suit replete with sensational
charges, Attorney General Wicker
eianl, through his special deputy,
Gfask MoEe!cher, entered suit in the
UritGd S ates circuit court in New
yol41 city asking that permanent in
Junction be issued against the lumber
trust restraining it from continuing a
onsriracy in undue and unreason-
able restraint Of trade"
The Illinois state senate adopted, SO
to 10, the resolution of the Helm COM
mittee declaring that William Lorimer
would not have been elected to the
United States senate in May, 1909.
had it not been for bribery and cor
ruption, and asking the national upper
house to reopen the Illinois scandal.
To this resolution was added an
amendment criticizing those senators
who bolted Albert j. Hopkins, the pri-
mary nominee, to succeed himself
Mayor Thomas E. Knots of Gary,
Ind, already under Indictment by the
Lake county grand jury, was arrested
by deputy sheriffs on warrants charg-
ing him with embezzlement, perjury
and malfeasance in office.
Prevailing upon his twelve-year-old
son to pull the trigger, Fred Hustled,
forty-six years old, prosperous farm
er of Greenwich, Conn, believed to
be crazy, had his head blown off with
his own shotgun.
Police Commissioner Cropsey of New
York has been attacked by James
Creelman, head of the municipal civil
service board, for alleged violation of
civil service rules. A shake-up of the
department is expected.
Col. Henry o. Seixas, a we'll known
tnancier and director in many prom
inent industrial corporations, commit
ted suicide in Central park, New York
city, by shooting. He was badly hit
in the collapse Of the Columbus and
Hooking pool.
sensation has been caused at
Lockport, N. Y, by the arrest of two
seVenteen-year-old school boys on a
charge preferred by Avery Murphy,
fourteen years old, who says they tied
him to tree and attempted to burn
him alive in Indian fashion.
Former President Roosevelt has an
article on "The Arbitration Treaty
With Great Britain" in the Outlook in
which he says the United States ought
never to bind itself to arbitrate ques-
fionc