Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-02
HERE AND THERE.

wants 4,OUO ment at wages llOAh Yio
to $50 a month to harvest the crops
WashingtOn-Levi P. Morton, form
er vice-president who died recently
aged SO, left an estate OF ten million
dollars to heirs.
Omaha-Regular prices have pre-
vailed since last Saturday at two
stores which were first to announce
horizontal price reductions oil ~ 10
80 per cent ten days ago.
gO-Representative Winter Oh
the roads told the Railroad LABOR
hoard that the railroads did not OPP
nose a fair increase IN wages IL
guaranteed honest work in return.
SeattIe-Five dollar wheat may be
exnected before the 1921 crop is mar
vested Louis w. Hill of the Great
Northern road states. He said it had
been impossible for growers TO oD-
tain men enough to plant their crop.
Rockford. IH.-Michael Arlo is held
for the Staying of his wife, the motner
of six children. The murdered Wo-
man was found locked in a room
while her husband sat below smoking.
daughter testified that she heard
her father threaten to kill her noun
er.
PhiIadeIDhia-Th refusal OF negro
TO furnish whisky glasses for group
of white men drinking in the street
resulted in the death OF two ana the
wounding of six others. Two ponce
were among the hurt.
TacOnite, Minn.-Four children are
dead and their parents, Mr.. and MRS.
Bert Barre, are in a serious conoi-
tion from burns received when their
home was destroyed by fire. Efforts
TO rescue the children failed
Paris-In view of the increased
cost of living the French minister OF
Justice has increased fines 300 per
cent. 1t was felt that with the pres
ent deprecated value of currency the
old fines were an incentive to crime.
Paulina. Ja.-Art Strome, 30, and
Thorson Solsberg, %, theatre owner
and blacksmith, were instantly Kill
ed in attempting to alight following
a cross-country flight with an air.
plane of their own manufacture. The
men were single.
Anchorage, Alaska-The old boom
days seem to have come back in Alas
ka with the coming of hundreds OF
men to work on the railroad the gov
eminent is building between Seward
and Fairbanks. 1000 men will be
employed on the road work and much
activity is in sight.
WashingtOn-Th Federal Trade
Commissions report on the profits OF
the big Five" packers show that the
net profits increased 223 per cent dur
ing the war years, 1915 to 1917. $780,
100000 were added to the various ac-
counts the profits both in dollars and
rate on investment doubling, TRIPPING
and quadrupling.
Quincy, Ill.-Recent floods at Mey-
er, ILL.,, Mississippi river village, un-
covered a skeleton that may be that
of a missionary on the Joliet eXpedi-
tion in 1869. The remains reposed on
rock slab and by their side were two
silver bracelets and three silver eros
SEES one being stamped Montreal" and
others "R. c." and IN. H." The bones
and relics were sent to a college al
Canton, Mo-, where after an exhaust
i've search the authorities opined that
the remains were those of a pioneer
missionary.
GeneVa-Russian peasants have re-
verified to the life of the stone age
and learned to dispense with benefits
of modern civilization, say German
manufacturers, who arrived in Swift
zerland after startling experiences
while trading with Russia. Peasants
they say, spin their own flax, tan
hides and make their own clothes and
shoes. Knives and axes are fashion
ed of flint. Houses are lighted by
pine torches. German manufacture
ers accumulated large stocks expect
ing to make fortunes selling them to
Russia, but the soviet government is
not willing to spend money on any
thing except railroad material and
machinery.
MISUNDERSTANDING to the new
pension law, the minimum pension for
those who served in the Civil war 90
days or more or were discharged be-
fore serving that time because of dis
ability in line of duty, or for anyone
who served so days in the war with
Mexico, is $50 month. For those
who, having completed this service,
can show also disability which re-
quires the care of another person.
the minimum is SIS, or with the loss
of an arm or a foot, 500. For each
widow of a pensioner married before
child Army nurses and dependent
parents of officers or enlisted men
now receiving pensions. will have a
minimum of $50.
DeS MOineS Some Iowa ex-service
men have drafted a satirical bonus
bill to congressman who are against
the bonus plan. The bill limits con-
gressional pay to $50 a month for
the time on duty, less allotments, in
surance, payments on Liberty bonds
and cOurtmartial fines. Isue cloth
ing is to be allowed the members, al
though i'll fitting and renewable at
rare intervals. Rations at 50 cents a
day Will be allowed, and one-tenth
ounce of Bull Durham daily. Travel
in third-class coaches or box cars is
provided, and each man will be in his
seat at the Capitol at a. m. Kitchen
police and fatigue details will be pro-
vided from the rank and file of mem
bership. After enacting this bill, the
congressman are invited to kill the
soldiers bonus
ChicagO-Federal Judge Lands told
John Spies in court that the last one
hundred years of his life would be
the hardest, John, who formerly was
SalOOnkeeDer appeared and asked