Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-07-19

teen-year-old Brooklyn boy, is dying.
He fell heavily on the back of his
neck. The hospital surgeons found
that his spinal column was fractured.
Theodore Roosevelt will be the star
witness before the Stanley steel in
Vestigation. committee at it's meeting
IN New York, according to informa-
ton received in Washington.
The painting, "The Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin Into Heaven" BY
Murillo, worth 100000, has been dis
covered in the little chapel of St.
Vincent's Orphan Home in Boston.
In a call sent out by the federal
council Of churches more than 1876
900 Protestant ministers are required
to preach on some phase Of the Ia
Dor question on Labor Sunday, Sep
TENDER 3.
The American state department has
arranged with Mexico for the payment
by that country of all losses sustained
by United States citizens as result
OF the recent revolution.
Pensacola, Fla, refused to appropri-
ate money for the maintenance Of a
Carnegie public library. The philan-
thropist had offered $4,000 if Pensa-
cola would raise one-tenth of that
amount.
Fourteen small concerns doing fire
insurance business in Philadelphia
were raided by Samuel w. McCulloch,
state insurance commissioner. It is
charged that the companies were
started as a conspiracy to deceive.
The builders trial at Baltimore of
the United States collier Neptune, the
first collier to be equipped with tur-
bines, shows a speed of II knots, al
though the contract calls for only four
teen knots.
Indictments against three revenue
officers for accepting brides and
against % officers and statesmen Of
three big oleomargarine corporations
were returned before Judge Lands at
Chicago by the federal grand jury,
which has been investigating frauds
alleged to have cost the government
s1,000,OOO in tax loss.
Crashing to the earth in a CurtisS
biplane from height of 20 feet at the
aviation field in Chicago, Aviator Dan
A. Kreamer received injuries from
which he died.
Walla Walla, Wash, has adopted
the commission plan Of city govern
ment by vote of to 1, and at the
same time elected DR.. j. F. Crop,
Democrat, as mayor.
Charles T. Montague, Nation, Ill,
will contest the will of his father,
who left him S25O00O provided be
marries and has issue before he is so
years old.
Half a million dollars will be. ex-
pended to erect a building for the ma
tional board of the Y. w. G. A at Lex
ington avenue and Fifty-second street,
New York.
A bill appropriating $1,250.000 for
the rehabilitation of the New York
state library, which was destroyed by
the recent fire in the Albany capitol,
has been passed by the legislature.
A moving picture machine set up to
make film Of the rescue Of young
woman from the waters of a lake In
Staten island, New York. recorded In
stead the drowning of the actor-rescu-
er and the saving of the actress by
herself. The actor drowned was Al
bert Brighton.
The little red brick building in the
back yard" of the state, war and
navy building, Washington, which has
served as the White House stable for
nearly half a century, is about to be
destroyed.
Carroll G. Pearse, superintendent of
schools of Milwaukee, was elected
president Of the National Educational
association in session at San Fran
cisco.
Foreign
Thirty-two passengers and twenty
members Of the crew were drowned
when the small steamship Irma was
struck by the steamship Diamante.
The collision occurred in the estuary
Of the San Juan river, Costa Rica.
Sarah Hershy Marsh. who was o.
world wide prominence in musical cir
cles, is dead at her home in Paris.
She was seventy years old. Her first