Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-07-12

An interstate trade commission OF
five members to control industrial
corporations, as the interstate com
merce commission controls the rail-
roads, is proposed in bill introduced
in the T. S. senate by Senator New
lands of Nevada.
Domestic
Ethel Barrymore, the actress, who
is playing at Los Angeles, Cal, took
steps to sue for divorce in New York
from Russell Griswold Colt, young
multi-millionaire, to whom she was
married less than two years ago. The
papers were taken east by a special
agent and are to be filed Immediately
upon his arrival.
A family autoR party, touring
from Portland to San Francisco, came
to grief near Crescent City, Ore, when
the machines fuel tank exploded, ia
tally burning Miss Myrna Kelly and
inf1icting serious injuries upon her
two little brothers, for whose protec-
ton she gave her life.
BY the terms of a seal treaty signed
IN Washington by representatives Of
the American, japanese, Russian and
British governments pelagic sealing is
prohibited in the seas of Bering, Ok
hotsk, Kamchatka and Japan.
In a speech at the International
Christian Endeavor convention at At
lantic City, N. j., President Taft said
the negotiations for the arbitration
treaty between Great Britain and the
United States have reached point
where there is no doubt as to the sign
ing of the agreement
i.
Believing that her husband is being
purued by Indian mystics, who desire
the return of marvelously hideous
ring he possesses, Mrs. Josephine
SwantOn of Chester, England, arrived
in Boston on the four hundred and
sixty-fifth day of her search, which has
carried her to India and across the
continent to Boston.
Two girls, giving the names of Mary
Johnson and Clara Peterson of SCOTS
Bluff Neb., attired in boys clothing,
were arrested at Thermopolis, Colo.
They had beaten their way from
SCOTS Bluff on freight trains.
The National Reform association,
through Clement H. CongdOn, it's ex-
ecutive agent, selected Portland, Ore,
for the session in 1913 of the worlds
Christian congress. The session will
begin June 20 and close July s.
Fire which started in the kitchen
of the dining room building at the
lonia (Mich.) prison for the criminal
insane threatened for time to reach
the main prison. Spontaneous com
< bustion is supposed to have been the
cause. The loss on the burned build
ing and contents is $4,000.
Pope Plus X, in an autograph let
ter received by the apostolic delegate
to Washington, applauds the lead TAX
en- by the United States In the world
wide campaign for international peace.
Although the pontiff does not mention
President Taft specifically by name
a copy of the letter was forwarded TO
the White House.
Ten or twelve passengers and mem
bers of the crew of the wrecked steam
er Santa Rosa of the Pacific Coast
Steamship line were drowned in the
surf while trying to escape from that
vessel, which stranded near Point Ar
gUellO, six miles south of Surf, Cal
Bert Curry, a Kansas City aeronaut,
and man who got tangled in the
ropes Of his balloon, were carried up
100 feet with the gas bag afre at
Topeka. The air craft fell and both
were shaken and scratched, but will
recover.
President Taft in a speech at the
banquet Of the Marion club at In
dianapolis declared that reciprocity
is genuine Republican doctrine and
hat the Canadian agreement now
before congress is less radical than
- u