Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-10-04

ing Secretary of the Treasury Curtis,
owing to rigid enforcement of laws
and infection Of Jail sentences.
Domestic
Corporal Rowland Beverly and Pri'
vate Howard w. Gam Of the Cleveland
(O.) state artillery company, were in
stantly killed at the United States
maneuver camp at Sparta, Wis, and
four other members Of the same com,
pany were seriously, if not fatally in
jured by the bursting of a cannon dur
ing target practice.
One of the greatest shop strikes in
the history of the country was inaug'
urated when about 10000 workers EN-.
ployed by the Hartman system and
the Illinois Railroad company quit
work. The area affected extends from
the Mississippi valley to the Pacific
coast, but the principal center Of the
struggle will be on the outskirts OF
Chicago, at the Burnside shops of the
Illinois Central
The nude body Of young woman
undoubtedly murdered was found on a
farm in ravine covered with leaves
about four miles north of Dixon, Ill.,
by Mr. and Mrs. William Meyers, who
were In the woods after nuts. Moth
1oot
lead to naturalization.
Frank J.. Kelbel, who just recently
retired from the mayoralty of Morris
ILL.,, shot and killed Ole Thompson
farmer and race horse owner, as the
result of trouble arising out of horse
race meeting in that city.
The three-day tour through Iowa by
President Taft was ended in Ottumwa
with a speech on the tariff and in ex
PLANTATION of the bills he has vetoed
Fire Chief Thomas A. Clancy Of Mil
waukee was adjudged guilty by the
board of fire and police commission
ers of the charges filed against him
several weeks ago by a discharged
fireman. It was charged that Clancy
maintained a system of espionage
that he was incompetent and that he
INDUCED in petty graft"
Because she was compelled to veal
overalls and mems shoes and mill
twenty cows day, Mrs. Mary Hair
rell of Waterloo, Cal, filed a complain
for divorce from her husband, Franz
H. Harrel
Mrs. Elizabeth Schmelebeck, whC
lived four miles south of St. Joseph
Mo-, died in hospital as the resul
of bite of rattlesnake which at
tackled her in her garden.
Burlington, Iowa, was visited by {
cloudburst, which fairly swamped The
city. Nearly two inches Of rain fel
in less than two hours. The streets
were running rivers.
One of the main objects of the Mis-
souri, rural life conference in session
at Kirksville, Mo-, will be to stop The
drifting from the farm to the city.
The equipment and machinery o.
the Risdon Iron works of San Fran
cisco have been purchased by the gov
eminent and will be removed to the
Mare island yards The amount paiC
was $2,25O,OOO
Thomas H. Ball, leader of the Pro
hibitionists in the recent Texas cleo
ton, announces that he will be a can
didate to succeed United States Sen
ator j. w. Bailey.
Tea merchants, headed by Presi
dent Nishi of the Japanese Contra
Tea Traders association, are agitat
ed over the governments course il
holding up imports of colored tea
President Nishi has taken the case
up with Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Curtis.
Alexander Tracey of Port Huron
Mich, was found guilty by the court
of general sessions at Toronto, Ont.
of criminal negligence in operating
an automobile. The penalty is i'm
prisonment for life. Tracey ran into
a crowd of people
dynamite hOmh fonnd within
thirty feet of the spot from which
President Taft started when he head
ed the civic parade at Hutchinson
has to be part of a plot to kill the
chief executive. The missile was
found by local detectives.
Only after she had been ordered
committed to the insane asylum by
the Lion county (Ore.) court was the