Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-01
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causes and prevention. Scientists
agree that the germ must be isolated
| before a cure can result
Lake City, Ia, Sept 25-Mrs. Frank
Stanfield, wife of a farmer, is dead
today, but her two-year-old daughter
lives, because of her sacrifice When
the child toddled upon the Northwest
ern tracks which border the Stanfield
farm as a passenger train approach
eds Mrs. Stanfield dashed forward and
pushed her daughter out of the trains
way. The mother, however, was
caught under the wheels of the loco
motive and ground to death.
| Joliet, Ill.-Five men working in
I the penitentiary boiler house, attack
ed their guard. VIM. Gatlin, convict,
was shot and died later. Geo. Czech
ota, convict, was shot thru the abb
domen and wrist Three convicts es-
capped and are thought to be in Chi
cago.
New YORK Converting the discon-
tented foreigner to sound principles
OF Americanism was the keynote of
the opening address of the Rt Rev.
Chales S. Burch bishop-elect of the
Episcopal diocese of New York, de-
livered before leaders of thee Episco-
pal church. The meeting was called
to discuss proposed 81, 900, 900 Amer
icanization program.
New YOrk-Trusted messenger boys
in the financial district have disap-
peared with nearly $1000,000 in ne
gotiable bonds and other securities
in the last six months, according to
an estimate made here Saturday. The
latest loss reported was charged to
Leo Jufolsky, 20, messenger who
disappeared Friday worth $141,00 in
Liberty bonds.
WaShingtOn-The House pension
committee reported favorably bill
granting minimum monthly pension
! of $50 to veterans of the war between
the states. Their widows would re-
ceive $50 a month and their children
under 16 years of age S. a month
while nurses would receive $50 a
month. The measure would add
! $65,000,000 to the pension roll in it's
first year. The bill would grant $72
monthly to all totally disabled veter-
ans and $50 month to those who
suffered disability in service.
ChicagO-A gigantic theft carefully
planned and executed, was brought
to naught by efforts of the Chicago
police. John Wejda, postal clerk, no.
ticed for several months that every
i Thursday registered package went
thru the mails consigned by the Fed
! eral Reserve bank to Whiting, Ind.
Wejda took into his confidence Leo
and Walter Phillips, brothers of Is
and 20 years. A dummy package was
made up and a haul of $240000 in
paper money obtained The police
officials arrested the Phillips boys
for saloon hold-up and found $4,000
in the elder brothers pocket They
confessed duplicating the willy en-
ploye
Chicago Grand jury indictments
were returned Wednesday against c..
w. French and "a members of an al
legged band of swindlers, charged with
having cleaned up more than $3,000,
900 during the last few years by huge
! financial manipulations. Herr L.
lThornburgh, trustee Transit Security
Co., and former vice president RAJ
cine National bank, Racine, Wis, is
among the defendants Others in
clude a former state senator of Penn
/ sylvania, a Chicago lawyer, broker
and number of we'll known Chicago
business men. Eight counts of fraud
or embezzlement are charged, the de-
PENDANTS being admitted to bail of
! $4,000 on each count.
LOndOn-Plans for reaching the
South pole by airplane were outlined
by John L. Cope, who heads the Brit
ish Imperial Antarctic expedition
leaving England next June. Cope ac-
companied Shackleton and the Trans
Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917, ex-
| poets to make a five years stay, and
hopes to secure valuable scientific in
/ formation, particularly in regard to
meteorology. Wireless stations will
be established at Scott island and New
harbor, and the last $50 miles to the
Pole will be done by airplane Cope
thinks there is a good possibility of
discovering gold, among other min
erals and metals, but as meteorol-
ogist he banks mostly on securing
| important data, which will not only
/ be valuable to aviation in the prepar-
alton of meteorological reports, but
also to agriculture, if it enables ex-
perts to prepare long-range weather
/ timetables.
i Booze smugglers have recently been
shipping whisky into Texas from Mis-
souri, points using steel record safes
as means of transportation. The
great demand for the safes led to
discovery Of the scheme. The work
was cleverly done and no arrests
have been made.
Thomas Fitzgerald, the Chicago de-
generate who raped Janet Wilkin-
son and then murdered her, will hang
| for his crime. Fitzgerald when asked
what he had to say threw himself up
on the mercy of the court. He asked
the child's parents forgiveness.
A billion dollar fund to make the
world safe for alcoholism may be
raised by the Anti-Saloon league of
America as a gift to the world league.
Work is going on in Scotland which
votes on the dry issue this year and
in New Zealand which votes in 1920.
The u. S. Air service is 90 per cent
! demobilized but 1857 officers and
men remaining of 195023 the war
strength. There are now 1892 Off
GERS, 12,072 men and 3 cadets. But
eighteen student officers and six men
were in training in September.
Five bandits looted thn mail nOuph