Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-02-14
WEEKLY WIRE FLASHES

K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White and
former husband of Evelyn Nesbit will
| be made at Philadelphia this week.
accommodation for clemency by
! the man who prosecuted him, saved
/ Dr.. Henry Green of Quicy, ILL.,, from
the penitentiagy. He was sentenced
last week to pay a fine of $4,000 and
serve Two years at Leavenworth for
/ violation Of the antl-narcotic law.
Sentence was reduced to $1,000 fine.
Henry Ford has entered into the
/ coal producing business so that his
own and other industries in Michigan
may, have coal
Thermometers at Brentwood, Wis,
I Saturday registered 30 degrees below
zero.
Coue, the French auto-suggestion
advocate sailed for France from New
York Saturday.
The S80O,O00 damage suit against
/ Benjamin Purnell, head Of the House
of David of Benton Harbor, Mich, by
two women who charge him with i'm
moral practices and with forcing them
20 marry against their will to protect
themselves against his misconduct
will not be heard during the February
term OF court at Paw Paw.
Several young Mexicans living at FL
Monte, suburb Of Los Angeles, have
appealed for aid in resisting the Cali
fornia school laws compelling their
wives between the ages of IS and q
to attend school
Rsbert Lee Ellis of San Francisco,
was jailed at Nice, France, Saturday
on a charge of passing worthless
checks for 10000 francs on a hotel.
He said that he had lost 10000 francs
at Monte Carlo.
The soldiers compensation measure
voted by referendum by the people OF
Montana, last November, was held to
be unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court in test case Saturday.
The new fight for re-enactment OF
a soldier bonus bill in the present con-
gress was temporarily delayed when
the Senate military affairs committee
postponed meeting to consider the
Bursum bill. The bonus session will
be resumed next week.
The total value Of American mer
chandise exports during 1922 was 3d.
S31, 952, 1913, compared to $4,4S5;031, 1856
in 1921.
The bill of Senator Gooding, Repub-
lican, Idaho, to create government
wheat sterilization corporation with
sell wheat, was reported favorably by
the Senate agricultural committee
Saturday.
Feeling i'll, Geo. Wilson, residing
near Lodi, Calf, tainted at his auto
wheel after driving in town. The car
hit a fire hydrant and was wrecked,
but Wilson was uninjured. He re-
turned home feeling better than he
] had IN years, he said.
AS a result of referendum all the
former Bulgarian ministers in the
cabinets of former Premiers Kostrus-
off and Guetchkoff will be tried on the
charge of being responsible for Bul-
garia's entrance into the war.
Ten million pounds of -four and corn
grits, costing $3.50, 500. will be dis
patched to Greece by the Red Cross on
the shipping board steamer Croton,
Feb. "a
Serious rioting has broken out in
the Wadhawan Kathawar Province be-
tween the Mohammedan and Hindu
natives, according to dispatches from
= Bombay.
Within a few hours after hearing
: funeral services for Mrs. Martha Bur-
CESS, their mother, who died OF pneu
monia, at Hyattsville, Ind, Charles
:: Burgess, So and Miss Agnes Burgess,
50, both died of the same disease at
the family home.
Using ether as an anesthetic, hos
thieves succeeded in removing "A val
liable brood sows, weighing between
ESQ and 800 pounds each from the
farm of Charles Hatch, at Dixon, III.
A tree growing upside down in
sewer manhole was found at Martins
Ferry, O., by Service Director James
Sweeney The discovery was made
when the cover was removed to re-
lieve a clogged sewer.
Danville, Ill, has dedicated its new
Y. W. C. A. building built and furnish
ed at "a cost of .$325,O00 1T is said to
be one of the finest and most COM
pletely equipped in the United States.
The army air service is to make an
experimental fight with six planes
from the United States to Porto Rico,
by way of Cuba.
Warning: Any person caught
bringing white mule on these prem
ises will be prosecuted under the law"
This sign was responsible for the po-
lice raiding the establishment OF
James Henry, Indianapolis, Ind,
where 12O bottles of white mule"
were found and two ten-gallon cans.
Just as q young man of Martins
Ferry, O., tipped cigarette toward
the gutter a pair of Russian boots,
adjoining a very attractive miss, came
within range. The cigarette fell into
one of the boots, igniting the girls
stocking. Hundreds were attracted
to the scene.
i Three truck loads of beer, in sugar
barrels, marked apples from Cuba"
were confiscated by state police at
Palmyra, near Harrisburg, Pa.
Retail food prices in Is representa-
tive American cities showed increases
during the year ending Jan. 10, rang
ing up to 6 per cent, the Department