Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-21

Northern New Jersey is overrun
with rattlesnakes and they have be-
come such a nuisance that snake clubs
have been formed to fight the pests.
| Already many thousands of snakes
have been killed.
Apparently uneasy over the growing
| habit of mineral water drinking by
! United States senators and their Office
staffs, Senator Lodge introduced and
had adopted a resolution which is ex-
| pected to check the practice.
When Mrs Jeanette Stewart-Ford
was forced, in the trial at Cincinnati
of Edgar S. Cooke, charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 from the Big Four
| railroad, under cross-examination to
acknowledge that her siX-year-old
daughter was born out of wedlock
and that Cooke was her father, she
burst into sobs and tears streamed
down the faces of judge. jury, attor-
neys and spectators.
! AS the water is lowered in the cof-
ferdam surrounding the sunken bat
! tleship Maine, a terrific explosion,
more violent that has been expected,
is revealed.
! An exact copy of the original Betsy
Ross flag will fly henceforth from a
commanding site on the heights OF
| Middlebrook, about mile and half
from Bound Brook, N. j. The pole is
on the site Of the headquarters Of
Gen. George Washington in the spring
of 1777.
Capt. John L. Lowry, owner of the
river steamer of the same name, ar
rived in Paducah, KY, and reported
the destruction of his boat by fire at
Hamlettsburg, III. Six passengers and
! crew of 20 men escaped.
The Illinois state senate passed the
administration waterway bill with
slight changes after a long and at
times bitter personal debate.
James W. Sibley, former Chicago
business man, and his family, for
whose safety fears were entertained,
are alive and well in Mexico.
By the removal of a piece of bone
from her skull, Mrs. M. M. Bard of
Cleveland is cured of her abnormal de-
sire to play the piano.
A strike was formally declared by
the international Seamen's union, to
take effect at once at all the ports
of the Atlantic coast of America and
Of Great Britain, Norway, Denmark,
Holland, Belgium and Sweden. An in
ternational tieup is not expected by
the shipowners, who assert that the
movement will he failure before it
is fairly under way.
The 25-foot yawl, Sea Bird, bound
with a crew Of three on cruise to
Italy, was spoken on Sunday night
southeast Of Martha's Vineyard island
by the sloop Barbara.
The historic New Orleans mint will
be closed July l, and thereafter will
be storehouse for 100000 silver
dollars.
Frank Marshall, nineteen years old,
is under arrest at Buffalo, N. Y, on
charge of attempted suicide. He called
on his fiancee, Miss Nellie fryer, and
left late in the evening, downhearted
after lovers quarrel
The General Baking company, a
combination Of Fl leading bakers of
| the country, has been incorporated
under the laws of the state Of New
| York, with a capitalization of $751;
! 100000. In order to escape any viola
ton Of the antitrust law there will be
no attempt to establish monopoly.
|
After a battle with the police and
fire apparatus, lasting more than six
| hours, William Wimberly, negro,
/ who was wanted for attacking another
negro, finally was killed at Savannah,
| Ga.
! harvesting Of wheat is on in central
Missouri The grain is in excellent
! condition. The average yield is esti-
mated at Is bushels to the acre
|
President Taft presented medals of
! honor to six members of the crew of
! the warship North Dakota and spoke
| in praise of their heroic deeds when
on September 8, 1910, an oil fuel ey-
plosion on the North Dakota killed
three men, put in Jeopardy the lives
of scores of others, and placed the
battleship itself in danger
Personal
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