Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-09

HERE AND THERE.

Syracuse, n. Y.-The John A. Roberts
corporation, Of Utica, wearing appar-
Ell dealers, We're fined S55 900 in Fed
eral court. They were convicted of
profteeri2g on eleven counts.
Chicago Charges that the campaign
OF Palmer had been conducted in
Pennsylvania with an open appeaI TO
dlstlliery and brewery interests were
made to the Senate investigation on
campaign expenditures by Eugene
Bonniwell.
st. Paul, Mimi. Available cash is
exhausted the Minnesota Soldiers
Bonus Board announced and no bon
uses will be paid until additional
FUNDS are raised through the sale of
Bonus Bonds. The Board paid $4,000
claims. Over $4,000 are unpaid.
Lynn, MaSS.-Lynn shoe manufacture
ers may open retail stores and sell
Sl5 and SIS shoes at 81 because of the
large number of returned shoes and
cancelled orders. Business agents say
loo shoe cutters are idle now, and
Will be for more than a month.
Albany, n. Y.-The overcrowding of
the New York state hospitals for the
insane will be greatly reduced by the
sending to Europe Of 500 alien in
sane now in these institutions. This
VIII form part of the wholesale de-
portatlon Of 5000 alien insane now
being arranged for by the bureau of
immigration.
.Berlin-Germany has begun, in ac-
cordance with a special agreement
with Belgium, to rebuild the famous
university library at Louyain, destroy
ed when the torch was set to that city.
The cost will be more than 100000
francs in gold The value of securi-
ties and money alone restored to
France up to April l is given as more
than 8,000,000,000 francs.
ChlcagO-Cafe proprietors are pro-
viding corset rooms" for their wo-
men patrons who state that corsets
prevent proper 'shimmying" during
warm weather The Wiggle-dance
women have forced corset manufac-
turers to produce a dancing corset. it
was learned. It's a small band affair
with only three or four ribs.
Los Angeles Nineteen thousand
eight hundred sacks of cane sugar
that arrived from Mexico recently
were stacke don the dock at Los An
geles harbor because the two local
warehouses bonded for sugar were
full to capacity, according to John B.
Elliot, collector of customs. Most of
the sugar was consigned to eastern
points.
ChlcagO-Backers of the daylight saw
ing plan in Chicago declared recently
that they have so votes pledged in
the city council, fourteen more than
necessary to pass the proposed ordi-
nance. 1t is said the mayor it not
opposed to the plan If passed. the
clocks here would be set ahead in
June and changed back the last Sun
day in October.
Washington Continuation of the
present federal wheat standards was
decided upon by Secretary Meredith
IN an opinion covering the hearings
held to inquire into the dissatisfac-
ton in the central northwest with
the existing grades for hard, red
spring and durum. Requests for low
erlng the standards, the Secretary an
nounced, tend to decrease the farm
ers' returns
Washington Statistics of army
personnel made public show that
there are still in Germany 5000
American troops, or with $500 of the
total military strength in the Philip
( pine islands, which includes 1900
members of the Philippine scouts. The
total estimated strength of the army
is 1894 officers and POI, 511 enlisted
men, In addition to Germany and the
Philippines, there are American sol
iers in France, England, Siberia
China, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Pana-
ma.
New YOrk-M. Schigeeda, Japanese
silk expert, who sailed for England
and France recently. said the price 81
silk will he cut in half within 80 DAYS
and will be back at pre-war figures
within three months He is at the
head of Mitsui Koshi. Ltd. of Osaka
and Toxic. "The peak of the silk price
was reached in February" said Mr.
Schigeeda. 'The price was then three
times the pre-war figure. People re-
fused to buy, and there was bic
slump. The drop now in effect is
only a beginning"
William of Hohenzollern
former emperor of Germany, is try
ing his hand as tailor, according tc
a dispatch from Amsterdam. He is
cutting out patterns for many new
suits with which he intends to stock
his wardrobe, and the dispatch quotes
trade paper as declaring he is EEK
ceiling at the job "How unfortun-
ate it is says this paper, 'that Will
liam missed his vocation. After all
the notoriety he achieved as an EN-
peror, one can imagine what fame he
would have won as a tailor
Milwaukee Mrs. Harry Sternbere
| has received letter from an Amer.
/ lean woman, wife of a Russian, resid.
ing in Petrograd. This woman saws
| that the winter just passed was awful
There was little or no fuel and peo.
pie dressed warmer in their apart
ments than they did on the street
People are starving in Petrograd and
illnesses of all kinds are prevalent
The money is so deprecated that
this family uses 100000 rubles a month
to live. Food consists mostly of CRU
| els. Butter and eggs are rarely seen
Butter is 200 rubles a pound. tea
10000 rubles pound milk 240 rubles
quart, chicken 1000 rubles. geese
1000 rubles, potatoes $50 rubles a
pound. A ruble formerly worth Sc