Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-23
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! Domestic
John Bergman, leading stockman OF
! st. Joseph. Mo-, and prominent for
some years, was shot and killed by
William B. Richardson, an employee.
The two men quarreled over a bust
ness deal.
w. H. Hull, president Of the st. Jo-
seph- Chicago Steamship company; Z.
t. Arnold, manager; H. Petersen cap
tain; J. M. Erickson, engineer, and X.
Reid and G. C. Eckliff, federal inspec-
tors. charged by the government with
responsibility for the Eastland dlsas-
ter at Chicago, do not have to go there
to stand trial. This decision was. hand
ed down by Federal Judge Clarence
w. Sessions at Grand Rapids, Mich.
| The greatest disorder prevailed IN
the house of representatives at Okla-
homa City, Okla, when the lie was
passed between two representatives
during a debate. Legislators hurled
several inkwells across the hall ana
Arthur H. Geissler, chairman OF the
Republican state central committee,
was knocked insensible.
! The Seaboard Air Line Florida Spe-
cial No. 10 northbound, was wrecked
between Richmond, Va, and Chester.
Forty persons were injured.
Authorities are investigating the
causes of the mysterious $5,OO0,OOO
fire in the Atlantic basin, Brooklyn.
| Three large ocean steamships, char
| tered to carry munitions of war to the
allies, were partially destroyed.
| A temporary injunction restraining
| the Nebraska state railway commits
sion from interfering with a proposed
increase in interstate passenger rates
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railroad was granted at Omaha,
Neb., by a court in chancery consist
ing Of three federal judges.
Twenty-one dead and missing sums
I'D the extent of the fire that visited
the depths of the Pennsylvania mlne'
one of the properties of the Anacona
| Copper Mining company at Butte
| Mont
Mrs. Rose Wood, young married
woman, was shot and instantly killed
on a crowded interurban car at Hunt
ington, w. Va, by Mrs. Leonard De-
foe, who declared Mrs. Wood had
aIienated her husbands affections
An agreed jury of only IL men re-
turned a verdict of second degree MUIR
der against Mrs. Ida Meyer, sixty at
Winterset, Ia, who was charged with
completely in the murder Of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer.
The secret marriage two weeks ago,
after a three-day courtship OF MISS
Louise Lansing Of Jacksonville, Fla,
niece of Secretary of State Lansing,
and Louis G. Logsdon of greensboro,
KY, was revealed at st. Louis.
\
Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked priest
who murdered his sweetheart, Anna
Aumueller, was put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing prison at.
Ossining, n. Y.
John E. HartenbOwer Of Chicago,
president of the Tonica Exchange
bank, and George D. Hiltabrand, the
cashier, were found guilty at Ottawa,
Ill, of receiving deposits after know
ing the bank was insolvent. Each was
sentenced to three years in prison.
Miss Catherine A. Bliss, daughter
of Cornelius N. Bliss Of New York,
left an estate estimated in state tax
appraisers report at $1,674,O54. She
possessed a collection of jewels worth
almost $4,000. Miss Bliss died in
March, 1915.
The superdreadnaught Pennsylvania,
the largest battleship yet built for the
United States navy, left the plant or
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Docks company for Rockland, Me-,
to run the official government speed
and endurance trials.