Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-04
Domestic

The First squadron of the Fifth cav
airy, stationed at Fort Bliss, has been
ordered to the Big Bend district east
of Ell Paso, on the Mexican border, to
take station under Colonel Langhorne
and re-enforce the Eighth cavalry. Ma
jor Frank commands the squadron.
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The First State bank of Forest
River, N. d., was burglaized and So
GEO in cash and $4,000 in coupon Lib
erty bonds were stolen.
Canadian militia officers who re-
ported to headquarters at Winnipeg
were instructed to be in readiness at
any time for call for emergency SER
Headquarters.
The Salvation Army campaign for a
S13,000,000 home service fund has
passed its goal, according to latest re-
ports from all sections of the country
received at New York.
Returned soldiers in pleasing num-
bers" are cooperating with the fed
eral government to reorganize it's post
al service in the Winnipeg district, it
was announced at the Winnipeg post
Office.
A Dawson (Y. To dispatch says the
Yukon legislature has extended the
franchise to women in all territorial
elections on full equality with men
and has asked the Canadian federal
government to grant similar rights.
Two native Americans and A men
of Mexican birth, but citizens of the
United States by naturalization. plead
ed guilty at Corpus Christi, Tex, to
violating the selective service act and
were given sentences.
The Atlantic ocean has been crossed
for the first time in history in an
aerial passage, the American navy win
ming the honor. The American naval
seaplane NC-4 accomplished the feat
by winging it's way to Lisbon, Portugal,
from the Azores, whence it had flown
from Newfoundland. The flight of APP
proXimately 7S6 miles was made by
Lieut.. Com. Albert G. Read and his
crew of five in hours and "A min
utes.
The transport Europa arrived at
New York from Marseilles with is of
f1cers and 1000 men representing the
Three Hundred and Ninth machine
gun battalion and the First army
headquarters troop.
The Wall street district of New
York was the scene of $4,000 holdup
and robbery when Denis Forest, an
eighteen-year-old bank messenger, was
attacked and beaten as he was enter
ing Pine street building.
Wiley Glover, self-styled liking of
Jefferson county moonshiners," is dead
and L. NJ FELTON,, his alleged assist
ant, is in the county Jail as result
of a pitched battle with deputy sher-
ifs near Sayre, Ala.
The American relief administration
at New York received for the Jugo-
Slav relief a check for 100000, rep
resenting a gift of the United States
Steel corporation for relief work in
Serbia and the Jugo-Slav states.
Five children of Alfred Duperron, a
farmer living near Sherbrooke, Que.
were burned to death and a sixth child
is in a serious condition, the result of
a fire which broke out while the Du-
perrons were away.
Without the slightest disorder, the
Overland, Auto-Lite and Book Bearing
plants at Toledo, O.. idle since Nav
on account of the strike of 10000
employees, reopened Monday. About
5000 men resumed their places.
Wholesale coffee roasters at New
Orleans, supplying retail grocers. an
nounced an advance of two cents a
pound on parched and ground coffee
sold in cans.
The form of collective bargaining
submitted by the central strike COM
mittee as the basis for settling the
strike was rejected by the Winnipeg
citizens committee.
J. Lynch, slayer of Sheriff John Har-
low and Harlow's son March 9. was
hanged hv mOh at Ia Mar No