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

the rate OF 120,0OU, 0Ob ,0UU a day IN de-
nominations Of 20, 900, $4,000 and 10O,
900. This output keeps 80 printing
plants and II paper mills busy.
In California a series of raids
reaching from Stockton to Sacrament
to last Thursday by state pharmacy
inspectors, resulted in the confsca-
ton of thousands of dollars worth of
contraband drugs, and the arrest of
four alleged wholesale peddlers, two
OF which were women.
Sheriff Frank Smith Of Dekalb
county, Mo-, and five other persons are
prisoners at Maysville, Mo, on the
charge Of being connected with a
bOotlegging ring that made their
headquarters at the county Jail.
The Do, said to be the largestfai
ship of it's type in America, just COM
pleted at Scott Field, made test trip.
and during the test kept in communi
cation with the field.
Police of Brooklyn, n Y, had a
joke played on them by someone de-
livering non-combustible coal at the
station. The station force spent the
night around gas heater.
The Canadian naval authorities are
distributing over 100000 in prize
money arising out of seizure of enemy
vessels during the war The money is
going to more than 5000 officers and
men.
We see by the Chicago papers that
Coue is performing miracles" by re-
storing paralytics to normal use of
their limbs. Coue, like all healers
who use mental suggestion, cures
those who think they are sick, having
been really sick at one time.
Raymond L. Schrock, %, formerly
of Goshen, Ind, has been appointed
director general of production activi-
ties at Universal City, Calf, near
Hollywood, it is reported.
The flight to break the worlds en-
durance record was called off at Day
ton, o., Friday morning on account of
weather conditions.
Robert Griffin, engineer, was killed
and Crosby Galley, fireman, suffered
serious injuries as a result of col
lision between a truck and Grand
Trunk passenger train No. Z, Detroit
to Chicago, at Edwardsburg, Mich,
early Friday.
Pajama-clad girls, with fur coats as
kimonos, fiocked out into the street in
the Latin quarter in Madison, Wis,
Friday when fire broke out in the Red
Mill girls rooming house.
The cost of living in Germany, ac-
cording to wholesale index figures
compiled to Feb. 5, increased 5000
times since before the war. Prices for
January alone took a new SO per cent
of Lon
ure of the Ruhr. Industrial wares are
5000 times higher. Prices on import
ed rticles have risen 1900 times
above the prewar prices.
Jail sentences for bOttlegging were
imposed on the four La Montague
brothers Friday in New York. They
were distillers and socially prominent.
They were charged with releasing 3d.
900 gallons of liquor illegally, and
plead guilty.
Maj. Gen Enoch H. Crowder, now
in Havana as the representative Of
the United States, was Friday nomi-
mated by President Harding as ambas-
sador to Cuba.
Just before daylight Friday Joe B.
Reagin and Glenn M. Bolton were
hanged at Billings, Mont, for the
murder of Undersheriff Irving Keller.
Reagin made the following statement:
1T is my prayer that young men will
steer clear of guns and moonshlne. |
am ready to march upon the scaffold."
The people of Dublin, Ireland, Fri
day morning knew to a certainty that
De Valera would turn down the peace
move of Liam Deasy, the irregular
deputy chief of staff.
One of the largest increases in re-
cent years, amounting to 471,804 gross
tons, was reported in the production
of steel ingots in January by the
American Steel Institute.
There is no immediate prospect of
the United States building new canal
in Central America to connect the At
lantic with the Pacific, it was an
nounced at the White House Friday
following a cabinet meeting.
Mrs. Pearl Nelson, 80, of Louisville,
KY, a guest at the Honing Hotel, Gin
cinnati, was found Friday in her room
drugged and robbed of $50 in cash and
iewelry worth $500.
R. N. Begien, general manager of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has
brought to the outside world the first
news of a disaster which overlook the
little mountain town of Burdine, Ky,
recently. A landslide loosed 100000
cubic feet of shale on the roadbed of
the railroad, just below the town, in a
deep valley through which Shelby
creek runs. The landslide blocked
the stream, and the water backed up
into town, putting the so buildings
which the town boosted under water.
The inhabitants fed to the mountains.
There is no clue as to the where
abouts of pretty Miss Beatrice Brous-
seau, school teacher of Marion, Ia,
except a letter received by her mother
from Omaha, stating she was in hos
pital. Search of all hospitals did not
locate her.
Battling big Berthas, machine guns
and gas was nothing compared to the
matrimonial battle on his return from
war, states Capt. John NJ. Clarke, U.
S. A., in his petition for a divorce. The
captains attorney told the court of
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