Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-01-25

when the steamer Nan Smith succeed
ed in getting tow line on the ship.
The crew of Is was taken aboard.
Two gifts Of $4,000 each to the
Wright memorial dormitory fund at
Yale university are announced. One
is from Henry R. Winthrop and the
other from Mrs. Edward N Gibbs.
If a committee representing every
asylum in Michigan has any weight
with the state legislature, the word
asylum" will no longer be used in ref
suggests the use Of "hospital' and also
opposes the word insane"
1t is announced that King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy has subscribed
$1,000 to the annual fund for the main
tenance Of the proposed Verdi charity
schools for italian immigrants in New
York city and, in addition, will send
staff of 20 Italians to teach in the
schools.
The island town Of Port Sal, so
miles off the coast Of Honduras, has
been taken by the revolutionary forces
under Manuel Bonilla, and an attack
upon Ceiba is expected at any time.
Protesting against certain decora-
tons on the battleship Utah, Mrs. H.
o. Owen in Washington spoke of Brig
ham Young as "treacherous rebel
The Sangamon Qll.) county grand
jury has begun an investigation Of the
charges Of graft in Springfield city af-
fairs. A recent investigation shows q
shortage of $4,000.
A threat to withdraw from the
American Federation Of Labor was
embraced in resolution introduced at
the meeting Of the United Mine Work
ers of America at Columbus, 0. The
resolution declares that If the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor does not at
once take in the Western Federation
of Miners it shall break off all rela-
tics with the parent body.
A recommendation for the establish
ment by Massachusetts of school saw.
ings banks, with the idea Of encour-
aging children in the schools to form
the habit of saving money Is en-
bodied in the annual report of Bank
Commissioner Chaplin.
It is announced that President Taft,
sit at the same table on the evening
of Washington's birthday as guests Of
the Police Lieutenants' Benevolent
association at the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York.
Political corruption and vote selling
and buying in Vermillion county, ILL
nois, may be revealed as the result of
the calling of half a dozen of the lead
ing bankers Of Danville before the
grand jury to testify concerning the
$27,0000 shortage Of former County
Treasurer Hardy Whitlock, which
they, as bondsmen, made good.
The national board of trade, in ses-
sion at Washington, substantially in
dorsed the principles of the Aldrich
plan of monetary reform by adopting
resolutions recommending a central
banking organization" State banks,
however, are included within the
membership Of the proposed organiza-
ton.
The New York Central railroad has
motorman in charge of the train
which knocked over bumper and in
directly caused the explosion at the
Grand Central in New York, in which
eleven people were killed.
Upon the conclusion of the argu-
ments Of the proposed advances Of
freight rates at Washington Chairman
Clements of the interstate commerce
commission announced that the car
riers had consented further to post
pone the increases from February l
to March Is, in order to afford the
commission adequate time in which to
deal with the great question presented.
One hundred and fffty-five panic
stricken children, aged from three to
ten, were saved from death by the
promptness of attendants and fremen
when the Susquehanna Valley home
at Binghamton, N. Y, burned.
The Japanese supreme court pub
licly sentenced at Tokyo twenty-three
men and one woman to death who
were charged with conspiring against
the throne and with forming plot to
murQ0r Cn0 crown pT1uC0 ana SOVG1 Il
ment officials of the empire.
Champ Clark and Joseph A. Bailey
Of Texas came into direct conflict at
the big Democratic conference at
| Baltimore, and on the vital issue OF
the tariff Clark unqualifiedly de-
clared in favor of tariff revision by
! schedule. With equal insistence,
| Bailey demanded straightforward
and complete revision in one compre-
hensive measure.
Governor Hay of Washington has
ben notified by Secretary of State
Knox that the action Of the Spokane
council in passing an ordinance bar
ring aliens from employment on pub.
lie work is in conflict with treaty
between the United States and Italy.
The Callan automobile law, which
provides that a person who runs down
another with an automobile must stop
and give his name and address, Is I'M