Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02

Shanghai cablegram states that
10000 Koreans have been killed and
$4,000 arrested by the Japanese. In
dependence movements are rife in
Korea. The Japanese are depressing
the rioters with a stern hand.
New York James Harvey, 81, seek
ing annulment of marriage to his 49,
year-old wife, alleging his physical
condition as the cause, is physically
fit save for slight heart mumur, DR..
Farron B. Pierson testified Cross
examined by the brides attorney, DR..
| Pierson admitted the couple undoubt-
edly could have lived happily despite
the heart murmuring.
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| New YOrk-Giovani Ferraro. con-
demned to die in the electric chair at
Sing Sing, fashioned a knife from a
strip of metal and ground it to a
! O'Toole, guard, opened Ferraro's cell
for daily exercise the Italian attack
| ed him raining blows on the guard.
| Other inmates echoed O'Toole's calls
| for aid as the guard was liked in the
prison. Help came and Ferraro was
chobed into submission. O'Toole was
badly cut but will live.
Dublin-Sinn Feiners will resist
| the two plans of solution of the Irish
question. One calls for local govern
ment Of some sort for the whole of
! Ireland and the other for the division
of the island the northern part to be
| directly a part of Great Britain and
the southwestern part to be controll-
| ed by home rule. The Irish cannot
| agree among themselves. Ulster has
the promise of the government that
it shall not be coerced.
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! ChicagO-Mrs. Margaret Reeves.
wife of Melville Reeves, known as
the "skyscraper burglar" was award
/ ed $4,000 in damages against Nicho-
| las Hunt, former chief of detectives,
and Detective Sergeant Charles Graf
ton, on her charge of false arrest. Mrs.
Reeves charged the officers while
seeking her husband, broke into her
hotel apartment while she was in her
bath and compelled her to dress in
their presence. She sued for SIS 900.
The award was made by jury
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LOndOn-Several important confer
ences were held between representa-
tives of the railway men and the gov
eminent after General Secretary
Thomas of the National Union of
Railway Men ~otrrned from an air
plane trip to Paris where he had a
talk with Premier Lloy1 George. Mr..
Thomas flew through i snow storm
{ large part of the way. Re has hopes
that the great strike may yet be avert
ed. The Nottinghamshire miners who
have local grievances, lid not await
the decision of the coal commission.
and $4,000 have quit work. Their
strike came with a blizzard, which is
sweeping over North England.
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PariS-BoIshevis wireless messag-
es from Russia announce that soviet
troops have advanced 10 within fif-
teen miles northeast of Odessa, since
their occupation of Kherzen and Mix
oIayoff. The situation of the allied
troops, which have little support from
Russian volunteers, has been criti-
cal and it is understood that the
evacuation of Odessa is under way.
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a painful reminder to the peace con
ference that it should NOT much long
er postpone decision on the policy to
be adopted toward Russia.
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New YOrk-Harry Hawker, pilot.
and Lieut.. Mackenzie Grieve will at
tempt the conquest of the Atlantic by
aeropIane. The men will use Sop
with
375 h. p. engine The flight will be
made from st. Johns, n F.. to Ire
land It is said that were an aero
plane able to keep poised in the air
at London that in five hours the rev.
olutiOn of the tarth on IFS axis would
without any motion, put it above New
York in five hours. Winds moving
with the earth prevent this. The
flight eastward is made to take adj
vantage of the earth movement.
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LOndOn-VirtuaIIy all of the Tx
raine is in the hands of the BoIshe-
wiki, according to advices In heavy
fighting at Nokolaiev, northeast of
Odessa, the BoIsheviki lost between
5000 and 5000 men, but forced the
French garrison to withdraw to Odes-
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Russia, and Odessa before the war was
the greatest grain shipping port in
Russia. If the Bolsheviki can con-
troll the greatest agricultural region
of the Ukraine they might be able to
relieve the serious food shortage in
Moscow and the north. In the defense
fof Odessa and the nearby region, the
French, British, Greek and Rouman-
ian forces are aiding non Bolshevik
Ukrainians and Cossack attachments
| of Gen. Denikine's forces.
Chicago@The late Henry Field,
grandson of Marshall Field, never
represented Peggy Marsh, an actress.
as his wife, and only once did he ex-
press to her closest friend a desire
to make Mrs. Marsh his lawful wife.
These two statements were the fea-
lures of deposition fled by ATTORNEYS
representing Mrs. Marsh in the legal
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