Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-07-02
Domestic


Domestic
Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins, charged
with having killed his wife, Julia, at
their Long Beach home, February q,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree by a jury in the state supreme
court at Mineola, N. Y.
Robbers held up officials of the Mid
dle-Fork mine, near Benton, ILL.,, and
obtained $4,000, according to advices.
Two of the robbers were reported to
have been killed by posse which pur-
sued.
The Wisconsin senate at Madison
passed unanimously the soldier bonus
bill providing for the raising of $751;
man and woman in Wisconsin who
served in the world war $40 for every
month in the service, or a minimum
of $50.
P. S. Peter, deputy sheriff of Lafay.
cite county, Kansas, was fatally shot
by liquor runners near Chetopa, Kan.
The liquor haulers were in an auto.
mobile, headed for Oklahoma.
Trailed for ten days through south
ern Mississippi by posses which in
Guided several hundred members OF
his own race, John fairfield, negro,
confessed assailant of an Ellisville
(Miss.) young woman, was captured.
desperately wounded, in a canebrake,
rushed by automobile to the scene OF
his crime, hanged to a gum tree and
burned to ashes. His victim identified
him and witnessed his execution.
Horace G. Murphy. prosecuting at.
torney of Delaware county, and DR..
Rollin H. Bunch, mayor of Muncie,
Ind, were arrested in connection with
operations by ALLEGED swindlers who
made their headquarters in Muncie.
Brice Ringer of Petersburg, Ind, an
enlisted man connected with the Red
Cross mission at Berlin, committed
suicide June "a. The motive for the
deed is unknown.
Approximately $4,000 was paid fol
the private liquor stock of the late Nat
G. Goodwin, actor, when it was put ur
al. auction in New York.
strike of LOO operatives in the
textile mills of George H. Gilbert
company at Ware. Mass, and in Gill
bertville was ended, the operatives
receiving wage advances ranging from
Is to 20 per cent.
Three unmasked men robbed the
Valeda State bank at Valeda, Kan, of
$4,000 in cash and Liberty bonds.
Massachusetts completed ratif1ca-
ton of the woman suffrage amend
ment to the federal Constitution. The
house at Boston, by vote of 185 to
AZ, declared in favor, and the senate
voted "a to a week ago.
Arthur w. Lehman, Wheatland
(Ia.) farmer, reported to Chief De
Electives Mooney of Chicago that he
had been swindled out of $4,000 by
three confidence men whom he met in
Chicago.
anG many more wounded in a fight
between federal troops and Villa
forces for possession of Villa Ahu-
mazda, according to an official military
dispatch given out at Ell Paso. Tex.
The house of the Texas legislature
at Austin, by vote of SO to 81, adopt
ed the resolution ratifying the woman
suffrage amendment to the federal
Constitution.
The American steamer Sarnam, from
Baltimore, has been sunk by a mine
explosion, according to reports from
Gothenburg and London.
One man was shot to death, an
other was fatally wounded and
about $1,000 is missing in a hold-up
by four men at the saloon of Andrew
F. Bowman. AT West Twenty-second
street, Chicago.
The Ramsey house bill permitting
the brewing and selling of beer con-
tanning "a per cent alcohol was
passed by the Pennsylvania senate at
Harrisburg by vote of % to 10.
The anti-sedition bin passed the