Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-30

at the state department at Washing
! ton.
The population of continental United
States under the 1920 census is APP
proXimately 1O5,O0O,O00 according to
an estimate worked out by DIR. Joseph
A. Hill, chief statistician of the CEN
sus bureau at Washington.
Benedict Crowell, assistant secre-
tary of war at Washington, has re-
signed, effective July,1. He will enter
| business.
Appointment of Van S. Merle-Smith
to be third assistant secretary of state,
was announced at Washington. He
succeeds Breckenridge Long, who re-
Gently resigned to enter the campaign
for United States senator from Mis-
souri,.
Secretaries Daniels and Payne of
Washington will go to Alaska next
month to study conditions there as re-
lating to their respective departments.
Philadelphfas population was an
nounced by the census bureau at
Washington as 1928, 15S, showing the
country's third most populous city to
have a numerical increase for the ten
years of pa, $50.
President Wilson at Washington
sent message to the railroad labor
beard at Chicago urging that it make
an immediate award in the wage con-
I troversy. ttt
The president at Washington, in a
telegram to Gov A. N. Roberts of Ten
nessee, urges that special session of
the state legislature be called to vote
on the Susan B. Anthony amendment.
Thirty-five states already have rati-
fed the amendment, and only one
more is needed to make it possible for
the women of the country to vote at
the coming presidential election.
With a view to restoring confidence
in the wool industry, the federal re
serve board at Washington has offered
to finance wool growers during the
present market emergency.
Exports for May increased SIS, OO0,-
000 while imports fell off $64,0OO,000
as compared with the trade figures for
| April, it was announced at the depart
ment of commerce at Washington.
Edward Capps of New Jersey was
named by President Wilson at Wash
ington as minister to Greece, a recess
appointment
Domestic
Railroad workers of the country
were called upon by their chiefs at
! Chicago to remain at work pending
| announcement of the wage award by
the United States railway labor board,
July 20.
Hailstones as large as apples
| crashed through roofs at Hillside, II
miles from Cheyenne, Wyo., and re-
duced two farm buildings near there
to kindling wood, according to tele-
phone reports.
Fire, said to have started from an
/ explosion in a room at the rear of
| the Criterion theater, 1920 Sedgwick
street, one of the Oldest playhouses in
! Chicago destroyed all of the building
except the walls.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
pay of all it's employees, effective July
l, has been granted by the Boston Edi-
son company, it was announced at Bos-
ton. About 1000 workers will benefit
| by the increase.
! Preliminaries to establishment Of
/ trade relations between soviet Russia
and Canada have been completed, ac-
cording to announcement at New York
by Ludwig G. A. X. Martens, soviet
ambassador"
Gimbel Brothers of New York, OPP
orators of a large department store
/ there and controlled by interests
| which own similar establishments in
other cities, were indicted on 207
counts for proiteering in clothing.
nonstop fight to New York will
be undertaken on the return trip of
the all-metal airplane which arrived
at Omaha. Neb., John NJ. Larson, the
owner said. Mr.. and Mrs. Larson came
to attend wedding.
A gift of 100000 by August Hecke-
cher of New York city was announced
at Ithaca, n Y, by President Schur-
man at Cornell university's f1fty-second
commencement. The university con-
| ferred $50 first degrees.
Fourteen persons awaiting deporta-
ton as alien radicals we're ordered re-
leased by Judge George w. Anderson
in the federal court at Boston.