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Important News Events of the World Summarized U. S. —Teutonic War News Ten thousand engineers, including 4,- 000 laborers, are soon to leave for France, it was learned officially at Washington. A far greater number will follow these troops shortly. Details of the dispatch of the engineer troops will not be divulged, * * * The vanguard of America's vast air fleet has reached France. The first of the armada of 1.500 airplanes are safely across the Atlantic, together with well-trained aviators to operate them. This fact became known at Washington. * * * Lord Robert Cecil, minister of block ade of England, indorsed President Wilson’s reply to the peace proposals of Pope Benedict and said he was not certain any further response would be necessary. ♦ ♦ ♦ Enlisted men of the National army, National Guard and regular army will be given every opportunity to fit them selves for commissions, it was learned at Washington. * * * The possibility that Austria and perhaps other allies of Germany may soon declare war against the United States because of the financial aid given to Italy is recognized by admin istration officials at Washington. * * * Personal Judge Lock wood Hon ore of the cir cuit court of Chicago, brother of Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, died at his home, 83 East Cedar street. He was fifty-two years old. * ♦ * Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of the American college in Rome, is dead after a long illness. sjt sfi j|c Lord Grey, former governor general of Canada, died in London. He had been ill for months. « ♦ ♦ Domestic The attempted shooting of a repre sentative of the department of justice and an attack with •an ax on Sheriff Kelner near Manitowoc, Wis.. by a man named Voss marked the first trouble over the draft law in Wiscon sin. * * * Judge James E. Boyd of the federal court at Greensboro, N. C., declared the Keating-Owen child-labor law un constitutional. The government will at once appeal the decision of Judge Boyd holding the federal child-labor law unconstitutional. ♦ * * In disapproving a proposal by Rep resentative Shouse of Kansas that all men engaged in agricultural pursuits last March be exempted from military service, President Wilson wrote the congressman that a class exemption would lead to “many difficulties and many heartburnings.” * * * Twenty-five thousand National Guardsmen, the rainbow division of the United States army, marched in parade as 1,000,000 New Yorkers gave them a farewell demonstration such as this city had never seen. * * * Six members of the People’s Peace council who went to Hudson. Wis., to make arrangements for holding a na tional pacifist convention, were placed on a truck by an angry crowd of 1,000 citizens, escorted to the depot, and placed on a train bound for Minne apolis. ♦ ♦ * Twenty-seven men. the majority of them alleged to be I. W. W. agitators, are in jail at Spokane, Wash., on or der of Major Wilkins. They were taken from a train as it arrived from Troy. Mont., and are held as military prisoners. • ♦ ♦ ♦ Thomas P. Flynn of Chicago was elected president of the American Federation of Catholic societies in the annual convention of that organiza tion. ♦ ♦ * Two men were shot and killed at Chicago by pay-roll bandits who de manded a satchel of money belonging to the Winslow Bros.’ company. The bandits escaped with s9,id). ♦ * * A contract for 1,074,000 gas masks to equip the army has been awarded to a manufacturing company of Phila delphia. The contract calls for an ex penditure of $1,502,000. The govern ment will furnish the material. ♦ * * Membership of the American Red Cross has reached the 3,500.000 mark and is increasing at the rate of 25,000 to 100,000 a day, according to a head quarters announcement at Washing ton. • * ♦ Byron Nelson, son of Congressman John M. Nelson of Madison, Wis., is to be arrested “somewhere in Canada” as a slacker. The warrant for the arrest was issued by United States District Attorney A. C. Wolfe. Nelson is work ing on his father's farm in ilr i'ana liian Northwest. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1917. With thousands of persons looking on. 100 policemen fought a battle in Chicago with Edward Wheede, a coun terfeiter. suspected of being a mem ber of the bandit gang in the Winslow iron foundry robbery. The battle lasted for three hours. After three detectives had been wounded the po lice captured Wheede. ♦ • * Washington Persistent efforts of the state de partment at Washington to obtain the release from Belgium of two Ameri cans—C. C. Clayton of the Western Electric company and Mr. Whipple of the Bell Telephone company—have been successful, according to a report to the department from The Hague. • ♦ • No street meetings under the au spices of the People’s Council of Amer ica for Democracy .and Terms of Peace will be permitted in Washington, D. C. The police department made this an nouncement. • « * In a statement the Navy league an nounced at Washington its acceptance of the report of the naval board on the Mare island explosion and expresses regret that in a former statement it gave currency to an opinion that the investigation was being hampered by the navy department under the influ ence of powerful labor interests. * * ♦ Widows or other dependents of American soldiers and sailors are given monthly compensations under the soldiers and sailors’ insurance bill reported to the house at Washington. * * ♦ Japan is in the war to a finish and will fight shoulder to shoulder with the United States until the peace of the world is secured. Viscount Ishii, head of the Japanese mission, declared be fore the United States senate at Wash ington. * ♦ ♦ It was announced at Washington that the United States is to have the strongest destroyer fleet in the world. Under Old Glory these vessels, which are held in many quarters to be the doom of the submarines, will insure the safety of the American merchant marine. • ♦ ♦ The senate at Washington, by a vote of 39 to 29, defeated the finance com mittee's plan to raise $50,000,000 by in creasing the two-cent letter postage to three cents. ♦ » ♦ Foreign Vice Rector O’Hearn of the Ameri can college in Rome, formerly of Chi cago. 111., was named to succeed Mgr. Kennedy as head of that institution. Mgr. Kennedy’s death a few days ago occasioned universal sorrow in Rome. * * ♦ In Vatican circles at Rome Pope Benedict is said to have signified his intention of issuing a reply after re ceiving the responses of all the bellig erents to his peace proposals. It is hoped gradually to make peace a ques tion of practical politics. ♦ * * The Russian government, the mem bers of which are in Moscow attending the extraordinary national council, have decided to restore the death pen alty in the army immediately, said a dispatch from that city. ♦ ♦ » President Wilson's message to the Russian conference at Moscow elec trified that assembly. His promise that America would aid New Russia “with all moral and material power” was greeted with thunderous cheers. ♦ ♦ ♦ The military conscription bill foi the Dominion of Canada became a law when it was signed by the governor general at Toronto, Ont. • * * Germany is suffering from an almost nation-wide epidemic of dysentery. This information came to the United Press from a source of highest au thority in Berne. ♦ ♦ ♦ European War News The total of British casualties on all fronts as reported to London in August, is 59.811, divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 1,278; men, 10,942; wounded or miss ing: Officers, 4,122; men, 43,464. ♦ * * Germany’s long-expected combined land and sea drive on Riga is believed to be near at hand. Forty Teuton air planes descended upon the various islands in the gulf, throwing bombs promiscuously. Enemy torpedo boats and submarines have been observed in the vicinity of the coast in the Gulf of Riga, an official announcement is sued at Petrograd declared. * * * For five days Italian and British monitors have shelled the defenses at Trieste incessantly, according to cables received by high Italian officials at Washington. On land, General Cador na’s artillery is bombarding the Her mada, pouring a constant rain of shells into the mountain fortress. * * • Word has been received at an At lantic port indicating that the British 7,000-ton steamship Verdi has been sunk by a submarine with the loss of six of its crew. The Verdi left here for an English port on August 12 with cargo, but no passengers. Its crew numbered 112. ♦ ♦ • An increase in the number of British vessels sunk by mines or submarines Is shown by the weekly admiralty statement issued at London. Eighteen vessels of more than 1.600 tons were sent to the bottom. TRAMP THREATENS; CHASED OFF ✓ Austin Farrand was accosted by a tramp last Tuesday while hauling ce ment to Ellenboro. The tramp met Mr. Farrand on the hill and asked for money. Mr. Farrand replied in the negative and kept on driving. Then the tramp climbed into the wagon and volunteered an inspection of Mr. Far rand’s pocket. The latter picked up a sled stake and told the tramp to “beat it quick.” The tramp did so and an interesting story ends. SUDDEN DEATHS IN A SILO. In this age of silos, we believe that the following item, clipped from a re cent periodical, will be of interest to all silo owners l : A fatal accident in Ohio calls atten tion to a danger to farmers which ! cannot be too widely circulated. 'Since 1875, when the first American j silo was built by Dr. Manley Miles, this method of preserving forage for I live stock has ben generally adopted. Although the department of agriculture ;has frequently called attention to the I danger of carbon dioxide gas accumu lating in silos under certain condi tions, no fatalities have been reported j heretofore. Recently four workmen lon the farm of the Athens (O.) state i hospital ascended the ladder on the outside of a silo to ar open door about twelve feet from the top, and jumped I down, one after another, onto the sil lage, the top of which was about six teet below the door. About five min utes later two other workmen follow ing them found them unconscious. Although a large force of workmen was immediately summoned and the bodies of the four men removed at once through a lower door, the physicians of the hospital who were at once on the ground were unable to resuscitate any of the four men. Evidently the gas had accumulated during the night, filling the silo up to the level of the door and forming a layer of carbon i dioxide six feet deep. Such accidents, says the Journal of the American Med ical Association, might easily be re peated on any modern farm. Mrs. C. H. Doyle. Mrs. Julia Doyle passed peacefully to the great beyond after an illness of about eleven months, during which times he was constantly confined to the house. Mrs. Doyle was born in the state of Vermont on Oct. 28, 1847, and died at Wilton on Aug. 13, 1917, at the age of 69 years, 10 months and 16 days. She leaves four sons and six daughters to mourn Ijer loss. They are Mrs. Pat Moran of Madison, J. B. Doyle of New Butler , Mrs. Mollie Conley of Sun Prairie, Mrs. M. J. Murphy of Milwau kee. H. M. Doyle of Grand Marsh, Jos eph Doyle of New Butler, Mrs. C. H. Bennett of Lancaster, Miss Agnes Doyle, Mrs. W. L. Mattis and Walter Doyle of Wilton. Her husband, J. B. Doyle, who died twenty-seven years, and a son, T. F. Doyle,, who died fifteen years ago, and one sister. Mrs. M. P. Morris of James town, N. D., and one brother, Michael Hayes, preceded her to the great be yond. Mrs. Doyle’s sister. Mrs. James Mac kinty of De Forest, and a cousin, Nel lie Star, of Madison, were at her bed side when she passed away. Her grandsons, Eddie Moran of Mil waukee, Thomas Moran of Madison. Art Doyle and Sylvester Doyle of New Butler, Art Conley of Sun Prairie and Art Morris of Minneapolis, a nephew, were the pallbearers. A niece, Mrs. Dick Murphy, and son James were also present at the fun eral. Sons'-in-law, Pat Moran of Mad ison, M. J. Murphy of Milwaukee, C. H. Bennett of Lancaster and W T . L. Mattis of Wilton, and daughters-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Doyle and sons Melvin and Francis and daughters Nora and Ver onica of New Butler, a niece, Miss Myrtle Doyle, and a nephew, Thomas Doyle, of Grand Marsh, were also present at the funeral. —Wilton (Wis.) Herald. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY BROWN, BRENNAN & CARTHEW— Attorneys at Law. Office in Baxter block, Lancaster, Wis. GEO. B. CLEMENTSON—Attorney at Law. Office over Peoples State bank, Lancaster, Wisconsin. FRANK C. MEYER —Lawyer. Web er building, Lancaster, Wisconsin. Physicians and Dentists. DR. A. B. COOK —Dentist. Office over Bennett’s drug store. Both phones: Bell 45-J, Farmers 147. Lancaster, Wisconsin. JAMES H. FOWLER, M. D.—Physi cian and surgeon. Office over Haley & Edwards clothing store. Hospital accommodations for surgical cases. Lancaster, Wisconsin. J. D. GODFREY —Physician and sur geon. Office over Lancaster State bank. Residence two blocks north west of Hotel Inda. Lancaster, Wis consin. J. A. GAULT, M. D. —Physician and surgeon. Calls city and country promptly attended. Special atten tion given to eye, ear, nose and throat work. Glasses fitted and guaranteed. Office over Ivey & Webb's store. Bell phone 110-W, Farmers phone 190-2. Lancaster, Wisconsin. S. W. DOOLITTLE, M. D., J. C. DOO LITTLE, M. D. —Doolittle Bros.’ hospital. Lancaster, Wisconsin. “Live and learn” is a good motto, but at the age of 80 some men begin to live and unlearn. 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