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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
GEN. CALLS CIRCLE MEETS.
Do Honor to Memoir! OF Lincoln and
Washington.

The first regular meeting of Gen.
Calls Circle No. II, Ladies of the
G. A. r. in February, was Thursday
evening, Feb. 10. This date being so
near Lincoln's birthday, several of
the members entertained by readings
concerning the life of this good man.
Much can be said of Lincoln, and
each year the magazines and news
papers do not lose interest in relat-
ing his kindly acts, sympathetic words
to the afflicted and the hard lot
which was his to direct as president
of the United States when this ma
ton was in a tumult. Alas! his car
eer as valuable as It was, was cut
off in a moment by an assassin, but
Lincoln's name did not die with his
body and is held in cherished mem
DRY as the years go by.
The next regular meeting was Feb.
"a, again very near WashingtOn's
birthday, and it was remembered by
readings from Sisters Godfrey, Brad
ley, Portia Showalter and Nellie Okey
Mink. Sister Leila Bidwell sang and
gave a piano solo.
Washington is another of our beloved
and much honorod presidents. He
was also a president who knew the
hardships which war brings forth.
NELLIE A. FINNEY,
Assistant Press Correspondent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

The federal indictment charging
Franz Bopp, German consul general at
San Francisco, and five others with
conspiracy to set on foot military ex-
petition to encompass destruction of
British property, practically was dis
missed in the United States district
court.
One hundred and one indictments
against 100 brewing companies in
Pennsylvania and the United States
Brewers association Of New York
were returned by the federal grand
jury at Pittsburgh, Pa, which investi-
gated alleged political activity Of brew
ers.
A permanent organization of Ameri-
can mayors to promote the cause Of
national defense was effected at ST.
Louis at meeting of mayors and their
representatives from 80 large cities
The organization is to be known as the
National Defense Conference of May
Ors.
A dozen persons were injured when
west-bound passenger train No. 13 on
the Grand Trunk railway was derailed
near Kingston Mills, Ont.
An attempt was made to blow up
the Journal office at Providence, R. L.
The bomb used either was not power
full enough or went wrong. No great
damage was done. The Journal ex-
posed what it alleges to have been
German propaganda in the United
States.
The packing house strike at Sioux
City, Ia, involving $500 men, was set
tied at a mass meeting of the strikers.
The vote to return to work was near
ly unanimous.
The copper range mines Baltic, Tri-
mountain and Champion will pay ~
per cent bonus to all employees for
March and April, it was announced at
Houghton, Mich.
A cooperative committee represent
ing women's organizations in Mime
apolis, announces after an investiga-
ton that recent startling revelations
of vice conditions in that city only
skim the surface of actual conditions"
Plans of United States Notifications
have been found in the possession OF
Richard Won Arend and Rudolph Won
Kracht, two young Germans arrested
at New York on charge of operating
the mails to swindle, according to AS
sistant United States District Attorney
E. w. Mcdonald.
In a double execution at the Weth-
ersfeld, Conn.,, prison, Isaac N. Will
liams and Harry n. Roe were hanged
for the murder of Hubert B. Case.
Thirteen men are dead and fifty-two
have been brought safely from mine
No. AZ of the Davis Coal and Coke
company, near Kempton, w. Va,
where a dust explosion occurred.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
A $40 Steer THAT
MAY COST HUNDREDS
Continued from Page One.)

by the defendants on October 9Th was
his steer, and that the one returned
to him on the 18th was an animal that
had been substituted for it. 1t appear
ed that both the steers had a white
spot on the right hip. Mr.. Dyer tnSti-
fed on the last trial that the spot on
the animal he replevined was some
what larger than the spot on the ami
nal taken from the CarmOdy place
and offered to the plaintiff. It did nor
appear at the trial that Mr.. Dyer made
at the time he replevined the steer any
particular examination of the spots o.
the steer he took, for when he arrived
at Dan CarmOdy's place the latter
pointed out to him the steer, and in
effect said: "That is the steer you are
after" This steer Dyer took and
placed in James Carmody's stable. On
this f1imsy testimony of the size of the
spot on the right hip, according to
Dyer's recollection four months after
the steer was replevined, the attorneys
for the plaintiff persistently claimed
that James Carmody had put in the
stall between the Sth and the 18th,
when the veterinarians examination
was made steer of Dan Carmody's in
place of the steer replevined
They repeated and repeated in ar
gument 20 the jury that Dyer was a
disintercsted witness and that his tes-
timony as to the size of the spot con-
clusively proved that there has been
a substitution. They aroused the jury's
suspicious to the extent OF leading
them to find that there had been an
exchange of animals. This without
any evidence to support the finding,
and against the positife evidence that
the steer the sheriff had brought to
the stable of James Carmody was the
same animal that on the 18th was TAX
en- to Chris Anderson and offered to
him and refused. James Carmody
positively testified that it was the same
animal for which he gave the sheriff
a receipt and that he had seen it
every day since he received it and up
to the 18th of October when it was
taken away. His wife was equally
positive as to their being no exchange.
She had seen the steer every evening
after it was brought to the stable by
Dyer and while it remained there, for
every evening she MIXED the COWS
there. There was other testimony as
to it's identity. Mr.. and Mrs. Carmody
are farmers of responsibility and
standing. They were straightforward
in their testimony and evidently truth
full To disregard their testimony as
the jury did was in effect to convict
them of perjury, and bailee to find
James Carmody guilty of larceny un-
der section 4415. The motion was
perverse and absurd.
1t follows that the motion of the
plaintiff for judgment upon the YER
dict must be denied, and that the mo-
ton of the defendants to amend the
special verdict by reversing the ans
wers to all of the questions and for
judgment for the defendants upon
the special verdict as amended must
be granted. Let it be so ordered.
Dated this second day of March,
1916.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European WGy News

The British destroyer Viking was
blown up by a mine on or about Janu-
airy 20, and all of its officers and crew,
numbering about seventy. were lost,
according to word which reached New
York.
According to a Reuter- dispatch to
London from Petrograd the Russians
have captured Bitlis, in the Lake Van
region of Armenia. The city was
taken by assault.
A German phalanx, hurled forward
by the crown prince, has driven in the
French front northeast of Verdun. 1t
hes taken the village of Douaumont
By storm and relieved the force i'm
prisoned within Fort Douaumont, ac-
cording to the official statement from
Berlin. One thousand French were
captured.
The British official statement issued
at London on the fighting in the west
ern zone says: 1--WE recaptured the
trenches at the bluff Of the Ypres-
Confines canal, which were lost Feb
ruary IA, and also captured small
salient in the German line"
The French mine sweeper Au Re-
voir was torpedoed and sunk by Ger
man submarine in the English chan
mel. All the members of the crew
were saved, says dispatch to Havre,
France.
An Austrian naval squadron ap-
peared of the island of Corfu, but fed
back to-ard Cattaro when it sighted
q feet of allied warships, according to
q dispatch from Athens.
Germanys submarine war against
British shipping was opened on sched-
uIed time. Before noon word reached
London of the torpedoing o. two mer-
chantmen. They were the Thornsby,
1882 tons, and the Malvina, 1,244 tons.
All the members of the crew of the
Thornsby were killed.
Germany has sent an ult1matum 10
Portugal, demanding the restoration
within forty-eight hours of the Ger
man ships recently seized by that
country, according to a dispatch from
Madrid to London. A German declar-
alton of war against Portugal is immi-
nent.
More than 600 lives were lost in the
sinking of the French auxiliary cruis-
er La Provence. for 1erly in service as
a transatlantic liner, in the middle
Mediterranean Four hundred surviv-
ors were landed at Milo, while 296 of
the crew lave arrived at Malta, ac-
cording to an official Statement issued
at Paris. 1t believed the liner was
torpedoed.
Germany's second and greatest sub
marine campaign opened on March l.
II will be directed against armed mer-
chant ships of the entente powers.
Naval officials in Berlin expressed the
belief that it would be even more sue
cessfuI than the campaign which
opened a year ago.
The Turks are hastily evacuating
the important Black sea port of Trebi-
zond and neighboring cities before the
Russian advance, according to Tifiis
dispatches at Petrograd.
British casualties in all the war
areas for the month of February
showed total of 7SS officers and IT,
SAT men, it was announced at London.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
By the Court:
GEORGE B. CLEMEl

Judge.
For the reasons given in the decis-
ion herewith filed, it is by the court
now ordered that the motion of the
plaintiff for judgment in his favor up
on the special verdict must be denied; ;
and the motions Of the defendants to
change the answers to the special
verdictand to render judgment in fav-
or of the defendants upon the special
verdict as amended must be granted.
1t is now, therefore, ordered that the
motion of the plaintiff for judgment is
denied, and it is directed that the
special verdict shall be amended as
aforesaid, and that upon the verdict as
amended judgment shall be entered in
favor of the defendant Dan Carmody,
that he is the owner of the steer in
question and entitled to it's possession,
and for both of the defendants for
costs.
Dated this second day of March,
1916.
BY the Court:
GEORGE CLEMENTSON,
Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Washington

Admiral Fletcher told the house
naval committee at Washington that
only fifteen of the twenty-one battle
ships of the Atlantic fleet are on active
duty in West Indian waters, three are
so crippled for lack of officers and
men that they cannot operate with the
fleet, and the other three are undergo
ing repairs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Personal

A Bucharest dispatch received by
Reuters Telegram company at London
by way of Amsterdam says the queen
mother Elizabeth of Roumania (Car-
men SYLVIA is dead. The queen was
i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs Henrietta Williams, widow of
Gen. J. S. (Cerro Gordo) Williams, died
at Mount Sterling, Ky. During the
Civil war Mrs. Williams fitted out a
full company of Confederate infantry
at her own expense. She was ninety
years old.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Domestic

A quantity of paste oil in the dock
In which the superdreadnaught Nevada
was lying at Quincy, Mass, caught fire
and flames shot up 100 feet about the
warship. The Nevada, however, was
unchanged.
Henry Siegel, New York banker and
department store merchant, whose ten
months sentence in Monroe county
penitentiary expired, was rearrested
at Rochester, y. Y.
Three men were injured when a
compression air tank which they were
testing aboard the new U. S. dread
naUght Nevada at the Fore River
shipbuilding company's plant at
Quincy, Mass, exploded.
One hundred and fifty million dollars
IN gold was unloaded secretly in New
York, after passing safely through
Canada. It is from the British govern
ment indirectly shipped by Japan, on
securities.
When $4,000 persons crowded into
the Auditorium at Milwaukee to attend
the bazaar given for German and Aus
trtan war sufferers the police locked
the doors to keep out others who were
demanding admittance.
The hearing OF the suit for divorce
brought by Harry K. Thaw against his
wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, opened at
Pittsburgh, Pa. The hearings will be
private and none of the evidence will
be made public. Mrs. Thaw was not
present.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
Mexican Revolt

Gen. Benjaminza Argumedo, who op-
posed the CarranZa government in La
Cuna and Durango districts, was court
martialed and executed at Durango
City, according to word received at
Ell Paso. Tex, at the Mexican con-
sulate.
Forces of General Diaz have begun
their march on Mexico City. An
nouncement was made by the Diaz
junta at New York that Aguilar now
controls 80 per cent of the line of the
Mexican Southern railroad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08

An encouraging report on the condi-
ton and efficiency Of the nations sea
forces was given the house naval COM
mittee at Washington by Admiral
Frank Fletcher, commander in chief
Of the Atlantic feet. In individual
fighting efficiency, he declared, the
dreadnaughts led the world, while in
the skill of it's officers and men the
navy had no reason to fear compari-
son with that of any other power.
By a vote of 6S to IA the senate at
Washington tabled every resolution in
the senate seeking to interfere in any
way with President Wilson's conduct
of foreign affairs. 1t was said at the
White House that the result in the
senate was satisfactory and met the
wishes of President Wilson.
Senator Hitchcock, member Of the
senate foreign relations committee at
Washington, presented a bill carrying
money aid for the starving in Poland.
The bill was referred to the commit
tee on appropriations.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
JAPANESE RUN DOWN
BY AN AUTOMOBILE
G. P. AhIborn. Rushes Injured Man
To the Queens Hospital

Frank G. De Rego, driving an auto
No. 1898, owned by G. p. AhIborn of
Wall & Dougherty, last night ran down
and killed Tanaka, a Japanese
who was riding bicycle on Kaiakaua
avenue opposite the Boyd place.
The boy of the japanese lies in the
morgue. The chauffeur was arr ested
and charged with manslaughter.
About half-past six clock De Rego
was driving Ahlborn to Waikiki when
they caught up with japanese. 1t is
said that the chauffeur sounded his
horn a couple of times. He. was then GO
ing at rate of about 20 miles an hour,
and that the Japanese Irned sharply
to the left right in front of the oneom-
ing car. 49, e.. +
The fender of the car struck the BIZ
cycle and the car passed over the wheel.
and its rider. -, p,
AhlbOrn picked up the injured man
and ordered the chauffeur to drive with
all possible speed to tho Queens Hos
pital. The japanese died soon after ad A
mittance. He was apparently between.
30 and IS years old 49,. .
An inquest will be held on tie body
tomorrow.
Among the witnesses of the accident
was A. X. Sonny Cunha.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR
FALLS ILL AT TOXIC
tsrscial oablsgram to Nippu JiIf.)

TOXIC, January 29.-The Italian am.
baesador swooned yesterday in his Office
aud is very i'll. He has been minister
to Japan seven years. a:a ~
Establishing a japanese Legation In
Psrne, Switzerland, win be laid before
the diet by the ministry, according to
plans made by Foreign Minister Ishii
Japan has had n min ster to The Hague,
hot none 10 Bcrne
Prince Michaelovitch Of Russia arriy.
e. in Korea yesterday from Japan. He
viii go to Seoul with Governor general
Trrauehi and will leave the Korean
eAnital tomorrow for Vladiyostok via
Harbin. From VladivOstok he win re-
tfrn 10 Petroglad via the Trans.Siberi-
an railroad.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
COMPANY
must FILE ANSWER
Suit Of American Sugar Is Con-
fined To Louisiana Courts BY
Supreme Tribunal

An Associated Press despatch from
New Orleans states that the Louisiana
supreme court has ruled that the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company must file
its answer. in the Louisiana court in
the custer proceedings brought against
the Trust by the Governor of that
State
The Louisiana legislature at its last
session enacted antitrust Legislation
directed against this concern in partic-
ular, As the State owns and operates
several sugar plantations in connection
vita its .penitentiary system dissolu-
tiOD and custer suits have been brought
by the Louisiana attorney general on
the groGEds that the int rest of the
people is direct.
The American Sugar Refining Com,
pany sought to take the suit direct to
the United States Supreme Court on
constitutional grounds, but this has
now remanded ii TO the lower courts,
and the trust must face trial there on
the merits of the ease. 'e... III" T. !
The company owns and operates a
refinery at New Orleans. The Louisi /
ana cane growers have long been at
loggerheads with the refners because
the latter refused TO pay New York.
prices for raw sugars produced by them
In return the company has kept its re-
fnery in operation by importing car
goes of Porto Rican raws, at a rcduc
ton below Cuban prices. These su
gars, when refined, have been sold in.
direct compt titi with Louisiana
white sugars.
The Hght between the State ani.
trust has been waged bitterly and has
entered strongly into the political cam
paigns for several years. In addition,
TO the dissolution proceedings brought
against the company to prevent its
transactihg business within the State,
the Governor and attorney general have
brought damage suits against the com,
pany for many millions of dollars
which, IL Is claimed, has been Illegally
from the planters. E-<..
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
WOMAN PLEADS FOR
NAN WHO SHOT HER
Says Husband Was Shooting At
Chicken and Wounded Her Z

HILO, January 29.-Peculiar interest
among Hawaiian citizens Of Kohala is
eyinced in the case of Kaaima Paa,
a resident of the district, who was ar,
rested last week by Sheriff Pua on a
charge of shooting his wife. The case
appeared simple enough until, some days
after the mans arrest the wife APP
peared, declaring the shooting to be
entirely accidental. So. 80 ~
Mrs. Paa AYERS she, suddenly came
around the corner of the house while
her husband was trying to sheet chick,
en-, using shotgun for his weapon.
The wife says she stepped into the gun :
range just as Paa pulled the trigger. She
received the charge of shot in the neck
and shoulder. VI.
Sheriff Pua refuses to believe the
story. There is story among the neigh
bors that the couple had been quarreling
just prior to the shooting.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
Speaking At Cleveland IN His
Campaign For Full Prepared
ness President Warns Hearers
Of Dangers Ahead Of People
FACE MANY PROBLEMS =.
or PERIL TO COUNTRY
Time May Soon Come When II
Win Be Necessary To De-
fend Our Native Lands
Honor From Outside Attacks.

CLEVELAND, January 3d. In the
most solemn warning he has ever de.
hvered to the people Of the United sta
ties President Wilson last night told
them that now is the time in which
the preparations for possible war are
TO be made IL ever. a...- a....
Very quietly and without attempted
oIatorical effect the President said in
hls address here last night. ~ .
tai'I tell you people here tonight that
tie time may possible come when il will
No longer be able to keep the United
States out of the cauldron of war If
VIZ are to uphold that which is dearer
than all else to us, the honor of our
race, of our land. therefore urge Up
or you Immediate preparedness, that
preparedness which shall be a shield 20
yuu and to yours, not only against In
vaSion but against war itself. -
Daily, he told them, he is treating
with problems Of danger TO the peace
and honor Of the nation, and it is i'm.
= ssible tC say what single day will
bring forth.
81 am sorry" he said, "that this
hsue has arisen during the Presidential,
year, 80,
The navy, the coast defenses and the
acmy are of good quality he said but
Of "poor quantity
I" envy the trance of the peace ad-
vacate, he laughed, "who believes
that there Is no danger to the country
from abroad. He is lacking in imagi
nation 49,. =.
But he denounced those advocates of
an immense standing army, whose
e. uns ], he said is the "counsel Of pas
sion, not of reason"
The cheering, whore ever the Presi-
delt spoke yesterday was tremendou.,,
especially when he mentioned the needs
Of defending the honor of the land.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
PLANNING
BIG STANDING army
Wants To Introduce COMPULSORY
Military Service In Mexico
tAasOciatsd Press By Federal wirelssa.)

=
Ell PAso, january SO.-Taking a
leaf out Of the lessons taught by the
war in Europe General Carauza, pro-
visionai president Of Mexico has an.
nounced that he is preparing a plan
for compulsory military service in
Mexico, by which he expects to be able
to build up great army in the south.
cru Republic. No details Of the Car.
rama plans have reached mere as yet.
But the Carranza leaders are . not
waiting for the completion of this plan
of their general Under the command
OF General Castro. force Of twenty
thousand men have left Chihuahua
city to operate against the bands un-
der the leadership Of zapata, the band.
IL Several preliminary skirmishes are
reported already. tr.#
IN other parts Of northern Mexicn,
according to dispatches received here
from Douglas, Arizona, the situation.
is clouding again. General Gales, is
reported to have announced that he in
tends to eonfiscate all property belong
ing to Mexicans who are classed as
reactionaries, - 3. II ~ r.l
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
CATTLE THIEVES WERE
PROPERLY CONVICTED


That Judge Parsons of the HiIo cir
cult court did not err in the conduct
of the case when a jury convicted
willie Meyer and Kamohai of cattle
stealing is the decision Of the supreme
court in an. opinion just handed down.
The supreme court affirms the Judge,
ment of the lower court. ~
With Meyer and Kamohai, a third
man, named Haimende, alias Jaime
Aendez, was arrested for stealing a
steer valued at sixty dollars and owned
by W. II. ShiPman, the Hilo cattle king.
! nolle prosequi was later entered 10
the case as against Mendez. Then fol.
lowed the conviction on April IL, 1914,
OF Meyer and Kamohai. E,3@-a -
The opinion Of the supreme court,
which covers twelve typcwritten pages,
including the syllabus, was written by
A. sociatc Justice Watson aud concurred
IN by Chief Justice Robertson and Cir
cult Judge Ashford, the last mentIoned
sitting In place of Associate Justice
Quarles, who Is away In the mainland
at present. Harry Irwin, with Tristan
2, M. Osorio on the brief, appeared for
the plaintiffs in error, while Carl =.
with w II. Beers and s. S.
kolph, appeared for the Territory.