Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-05

All epidemic Of smallpox has devel.
hoped in East Chicago ard Hammond,
Ind. and has attained such proper,
ticns that city officials and health Of
ficials talk of closing the great indus
trial plants Of the district.
/ Theodore Nelson. for years leader
Tor the prohibition forces in Geneva.
county seat Of Kane county. Illinois.
was arrested on Il warrant charging
him with making moonshine whisky.
Decreased consumption left Il large
number Of southern Illinois milk pro-
ducers without market and thou
sands of gallons of milk are being
poured into rivers and creeks daily. it
is announced at EdwardsvfHe.
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Forty-seyen Atlantic City hotel and
cafe proprietors were fined an aggre-
gate Of $4,000 by Judge Robert H.
/ ingersoll in the county court nj Mays
Landing, y. J., on charges Of selling
Intoxicating liquors.
Evidence that labor leaders in the
Chicago building trades have extored
sums of money running into the thou
sands from contractors constructing
large buildings in Chicago has been
unearthed.
Nine dead and one dying was the rec
ord for Gas asphyxiations in Chicago
for one day. Low pressure is blamed
by relatives OF the Victims
Burglars blew open the safe of the
New Way Manufacturing company at
Eau Claire. Wis, Tuesday night, but
secured only / cent. They escaped
With the money, leaving no clues.
Gov.-eect Joseph NJ Dixon called
off an inaugural ball planned for
Helena, Mont. next week in his homer.
Il don't want to be the honor guest at
a party costing 50 4 ticket he said
Tom w Vickery, 4 White man held
OH a charge of murder in connection
with the killing Of Policeman Jeff G.
Couch, was taken from the county Jail
at Fort Worth, Tex, shortly after mid
night by mob and hanged.
Nine thousand employees in the
Pullman car shops at Chicago have no
titled the management they are willing
TO accept wage reductions ranging as
high as 20 per cent. The action was
voluntary.
George Ruster, engineer, is dead and
II passengers are suffering injuries,
some serious, as Il result of the wreck
ing of Big -Four passenger train at
Ansonia, O.
Fire at Terre Haute, Ind, swept the
retail district in the downtown sec
ton, entailing financial loss which con-
servative estimates say Will reach
100000.
With a normal pay roll of 1000 re-
duced to 40 per cent, 1,500 more OF the
Inland Steel company's 5000 en-
ployees at Hammond, Ind, Will be laid
off temporarily next week.
Based on the company'S output ca
pacity for 1920, the Ford Motor com
pany at Detroit, Mich, estimates that
next years production will total 1,250,-
000 cars.
Closing Of the locks at Sautt Ste
Marie, Mich, on Monday officially
marked the close of the 1920 naviga-
tion season in the upper Great Lakes
lit was the latest closing in the history
of the 500 canals.
Governor Robertson announced at
Oklahoma City, Okla, that the state
of Oklahoma would aid in the prose
cntion Of Clara Barton Smith, charged
with murder of Jake l.. Hamon.
Senator Harding will resign his seat
as a United States senator as soon as
Harry L. Davis takes office as gov
ernor of Ohio, January 10, it became
known following a conference of the
two at Marion, o.
Foreign
Insistence on the ACCESSIBILITY of ne-