Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
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Following sensational charges by
Senator La Toilette at Washington Of
corruption in connection with grant
ing Of operating leases on naval oil
reserves to private corporations, a
sweeping Investigation by congress Of
the prevailing leasing system seems
imminent.
Senator Lodge and other Republican
leaders believe that whatever soldiers
bonus plan is adopted finally can be
readily financed without imposing
serious drain upon the treasury at
Washington.
In extending formal recognition to
the government Of Egypt as an indie
pendent state, the United States, it
was made known at Washington, re-
served all its extra-territorial and
other rights as they exist by treaty.
The United States has informed
the government Of Cuba that she must
put her economic affairs in order i'm
mediately, or that financial interven-
ton by the United States will be
necessary, it was stated at the State
department at Washington.
Representative Johnson (Rep, S.
ID declared in the house at Wash
ington that investigation of the bu-
,.on,, of rn,rrax,i,,,r ana nv;p+ipor 1uOUld
show that hundreds Of millions of dol
lars in spurious certificates had been
printed and put into circulation.
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President Harding would be glad to
have Governor Strong of the NetT
York Federal Reserve bank take part
In an international conference of
banks of issue, it was made known at
Washington.
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Louis and Jack Wolfe and Jacob Il.
Price were arrested by New York
post office inspectors, in connection
with the S2,5OO,000 mail truck rob
berry perpetrated i'll. lower Broadway
on October II 1921.
Ben w. Hooper, member OF the pub
lie group of the United States rail
road labor board and former governor
of Tennessee, was elected chairman
of the board at the annual meeting,
at Chicago.
Formal announcement of the loan OF
$1OO,O00,000 to the Canadian govern
ment by syndicate of bankers has
been made at New York. The bonds
mature in 30 years ana pay 5 per cent
interest.
Sleeping sickness claimed the life
of eleven-year-old Mildred McGrew,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L.
McGrew of Pekin, Ill. The girf had
been i'll but three weeks of the NAL
ady.
J. p. Morgan at New York an
nOunced his acceptance of the allied
PREPARATION commissions invitation to
become a member of The committee
which will consider tIotation of an in
ternational loan for Germany.
A shortage Of coal, due to The min
ers' strike, will force suspension
Of operations at the Benwood plant
of the Wheeling Steel and Iron com
pany, it is officially announced at
Wheeling, w. Va.
The seaplane Santa Maria, missing
since it began a flight from Key West
to Nassau, with six persons aboard,
has been found at Wilson island, ac-
cording to IA wireless message received
at Miami, Fla.
A special from Durango, Colo, says
Rod S. Day, editor of the Durango
Democrat following a quarrel on the
streets Of that city, shot and killed
William L. Wood, editor Of the Du-
range Herald.
President Harding, in speech at
the Grant centennial at P0lnt Pleas
amt, o., praised the leader of the
Union armies as a lover of peace and
generous to his foes at the end of the
war.
Five persons were killed and two
others seriously injured when Sea-
board Air Line mail train struck an
automobile driven by Rev. c. b.
Prickett Of the First Methodist church
of White Oaks Ga.
Charles H. Russell, siXty-four, was
found dead in a chair in his office, at
Champaign, Ill. He was shot through
the heart. A Bible on his desk was
opened at the sixth and seventh chap
tiers of Romans.
Total damage Of the flood in the
Beardstown Ill.) section is estimated
at S20,000,000. This figure State Sena-
tor E. c. Mills Of Virginia reported to
Governor Small at Chicago.