Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-02

aviation records for time and distance
by flying 289 miles in six hours in q
continuous trip at Etampes, France
He used a Farman biplane.
The cupola furnace of the Pasadena
foundry at Los Angeles, Cal, was
blown up with dynamite. The explo
sion undoubtedly. was the result of ma
licious intent The foundry has beer
from the beginning an open shop.
The provisional Portuguese minister
Of justice has drafted a divorce Law
which proposes the most startling
marital emancipation yet presented to
Europe. It is based simply on mutual
desire.
a young American student Of the
piano, Lucinda Farrar of New Orleans
committed suicide by gas in her rooms
in the Latin quarter Of Paris. She had
been in bad health.
SiXty-siX Jewish artisans were ex
PEELED from st. Petersburg on the
ground that they were not following
trades, employment in which would
entitle them to live outside the re
stricted district set apart by law for
their habitation
Complete remuneration of popula.
ton of Tacoma, Wash, was ordered
by Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel as result Of the protests made
by the people of that city.
The gruesome sight Of blaze in the
clothing of a woman's body in a cot.
fin greeted the mourners preparing for
funeral in Boston. An overturned
candle started the fire.
The largest automobile ambulance
ever built for the transportation of ami
mails has been put in commission by
the New York Society for the Proven.
ton of Cruelty to Animals. 1t is a gift
from Mrs. Russell Sage.
A combined railroad and public utili-
ties commission is provided in propo-
sition which was to be presented to
the Arizona constitutional convention
meeting in Phoenix.
Plans for the establishment of a
Mormon colony in Mexico have been
communicated to this government by
Consul Luther T. Ellsworth of Ciudad
Porfrio Diaz. The colony is to be 25
miles west of Ciudad Porfrio Diaz.
M. A. Unruh, executor of the will of
the late E. j. (Lucky) Baldwin, filed
an answer in the Los Angeles probate
court in which he denies that Beatrice
Anita Turnbull Baldwin is the daugh-
a FL Of
Allan r. Hawley and Augustus Post
are alive and well, and are the cham
pion balloonists of the world Word
came from them from the hamlet Of
st. Ambrose, province of Quebec, to
the effect that their balloon, which
started in the race from ST. Louis on
October II, had landed two days later
in the untrayersed wilds of the Chi
coutimi district, about 800 miles
northwest of Quebec.
After having been abandoned by his
crew of seven men and refused, or at
least not furnished food or water
Capt E. E. Walls of the schooner Hol-
liswood was picked up 100 miles off
the Campechy banks on October 20
by the steamship Parkwood, which
brought the wrecked schooner with
about 100000 feet of cypress lumber
below decks, into Galveston, Texas.
Proposed advances in live stock
rates between Missouri river transfers
and Mississippi river transfers and
Chicago were suspended by the inter-
state commerce commission pending
an investigation of their reasonable
ness.
Department Of commerce and labor
statistics for the fiscal year ended
June 30 1910, show that United States
imports of wood pulp from all coun-
tries aggregated in value $11, 768,O14.
After voyage in which many per-
lis, including storms and fires, were
endured, the British steamer Kaisen-
ga has arrived at Boston with a car
go valued at $2,5OO,0OO from the far
east
Economies already introduced in the
administration Of the national govern
ment by President Taft and his cab
met ministers amount to more than
$15,O00,O00 year, according to fig
ures obtained from the treasury de-
partment.
Direct evidence that Senator Stan
ton c. Pemberton, Senator David w.
Holstlaw and Representative Joseph
5. Clark wanted money for letting the
contract for legislative chamber furni-
ture was brought out on the conspir-
acy case of Pemberton and Clark in
the Sangamon circuit court, Spring
field, ILL.,, when ]. W. Knox of Chi
cago, sales agent of the Derby Desk
COMPANY, testified
One hundred lives were blotted out
at Cetara, Italy, and vicinity and prop
lerty damage estimated in the hun
.dreds of thousands was wrought
along the coasts of the Bay of Naples
and the Gulf of Salerno and on the
islands Of Ischia and Procida by a
peculiar combination of a cyclone,
cloudburst, tidal wave and violent
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