Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-30
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A major and three enlisted men were
killed and six persons, including three
women and a child, were seriously in
jured near the entrance to Camp Mer-
ritt, N. Y, in head-On collision be-
tween two automobile buses, both car
rying many passengers. Those killed
were Maj. Stanley A. Baldwin and
Privates Anthony Houck, Jeremiah
Snebbers and Timothy Marnell.
Running amuck, T. G. Cobb, a farm
er, eight-five, killed two persons one Of
whom was his son, shot his wife and
daughter-in-law and then committed
suicide at his home at Garland Okla.
The Chicago surface lines were de-
hied an increase to 7-cent fare by the
Illinois public utilities commission.
Commissioner P. J. Lucey returned a
dissenting opinion.
The giant troopship Leviathan, with
10000 soldier passengers, missed a
mine by only 80 feet while off the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland Tues
day morning, her officers reported
when she locked at New York.
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facture beer after May 1 in defiance
of A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gen.
eral of the United States.
Robbers entered the Harpster bank
of Harpster, near Upper Sandusky, O.,
and escaped with more than 100000
in Liberty bonds. Other valuables were
taken from safety deposit boxes.
Governor Sleeper at Lansing, Mich,
has signed the bill forbidding the dis
play of the red flag at any public as
sembly, parade or demonstration un-
der penalty Of five years imprison-
ment or $1,000 fine.
A Park field flying circus" will
leave Memphis, Tenn, April %. for. a
recruiting tour of Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and
points north of st. Louis and Peoria.
Ill. go 800, .s'1
Five hundred striking electrotypers
at Chicago, who have been idle for the
last Ave weeks, will return to work
following a readjustment in their
favor. They held out for a fiat scale
OF $38 per week and A hours.
Capt. Charles J. GIidden, an officer
In the United States air service, mill
tary aerOnautics, said in statement
issued at Washington that all men who
wish to take part in the development
of the natian's air service should send
their name and address Immediately
to the department air service officer,
1O4 Broad street, New York, and they
will receive an important communities
ton on the subject.
The severest penalty provided in the
Michigan criminal statutes, solitary
confinement for life, was imposed in
circuit court at Kalamazoo upon
George E. Bird, fifteen years old, and
Arthur W. Sterling, twenty, when they
pleaded guilty to numbering Walter w.
Madison.
A seaplane used in the Victory loan
campaign plunged into Lake Michigan,
off Chicago, as its pilot was trying to
make a landing. The aviator, Lieu.
tenant Brown, and his mechanic, Rob-
ert Lee, were both rescued.
The house at Providence, r. I.
adopted the bill declaring beer contain
ing not more than per cent of alcohol
nonintoxicant. The action was in
concurrence with the senate.
s. Nuorteva, secretary, and A. Hell
Ter, director of the commercial depart
ment of the Russian soviet bureau, are
in Chicago arranging for the exporta
ton Of foodstuffs. clothing, agricultural
and other machinery, and other of thu
city's products. to be made when trade
relations with this country are estah
nAhed.