Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-09
Domestic

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The first 5000 of the Homecoming
Yankee division arrived at Boston on
the transport Mount Vernon.
The state supreme court at Lansing,
Mich, denied petition by Henry Ford
for a writ of mandamus to compel the
circuit court of Wayne county Ode
troit) to vacate its order for a change
of venue from Wayne to Macomb coun-
ty Mount Clemens) in the $1,000,000
libel suit brought by Mr.. Ford against
the Chicago Tribune.
The house of representatives at
Nashville, Tenn, by a vote of 81 to
80, passed the bill giving women in the
state the right to vote at all munich
pal elections in the state, and also for
presidential electors.
The Chicago Millwork Supply COM
pany, mail order lumber concern, has
been cited by the federal trade COM
mission to make answer to charges
that it has used false advertising.
Policeman Robert M. Hamilton was
shot and killed, Peter Sampus, wait
er, was probably fatally wounded and
one of trio of bandits was shot in an
attempted holdup of a restaurant at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lieut.. Col Frederick W. Dickman
and Maj. John w. Butts, executive Of
ficer, were killed in an airplane acct
dent at Americas, Ga. Lieutenant Col
onel Dickman is the son of Major Cen
eral Dickman. commander of the Third
army of the American expeditionary
forces.
Records show that at the three Fort
Worth (Tex) air fields, where flying
practically ceased and all enlisted men
were discharged, 100 men were killed
from November Z, 1917, to April 1,
1919.
big Bill" Haywood, secretary of
the Industrial Workers of the World,
and 35 of his comrades for whom at
torneys pleaded in the United States
circuit court of appeals at Chicago,
will be allowed their freedom on bonds
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000, pend
ing the decision of their appeal by the
court. They are prisoners in Leaven-
worth penitentiary.
What is believed to be the severest
penalty imposed in Illinois for illicit
liquor traffic was given Frank Barney
for his third offense at Belvidere. He
was sentenced to four years and two
months in Jail and fined $1,000.
A Washington dispatch says the
United States troops which fought with
the allies on the Italian front will be-
gin to arrive in New York about April
10, and the entire command will be
home probably before April 20.
The appeal of the war department
for $4,000 men for overseas service
was answered at New York by more
than 500 applicants. This number is
said to be a record for peace-time en-
liStments.
A phenomenon was recorded in Wis
consin when every city which is so
far recorded as voting on the wet and
dry issue went wet. Madison, the state
capital, and Superior, the second city
in the state, returned to the wet col.
umn, after being dry.
Lieut.. G. Ripperger of Moline, H.,
was killed at Riverside, CAL, when the
airplane in which he was flying over
March field fell 1000 feet.
Dissolution of the Corn Products
Refining company, which is required
to sell to competitors before 1921 all
but three of its manufacturing plants,
was ordered by Federal Judge
Learned Hand at New York.
Fire in warehouses at Darlington, S.
c.. destroyed over 1000 bales Of cot
ton, and, with other damage caused
losses estimated at more than $780,.
600.
The red flag which had Deen flying
from the tower of the city hall at Ham.
burg since the revolution last Novem-
Der has been hauled down.
William Hale Thompson was re,
elected mayor of Chicago by plural.
ity of 1900 votes. The city went
wet by a majority of 247, DDS.
Troop X and Troop M, Eightieth
cavalry, dashed more than sixty miles
into Mexico, near Maria, Tex, in puf-
suit of Mexican bandits. The Ameri
cans, overtaking the bandits, recov.
cred all stolen American property af-
ter battle in which five Of the out
laws were killed. All the troops re.
urned to the Texas side without caN
ialties.