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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17
New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. IL, 1908


Business in the leaf market has not
yet opened to any extent. This is being
chiefly accounted for by the fact that
most factories are still imperative, part
ly because of inventory taking and partly
because of the lack of sufficient orders.
What little business is being done is in
small quantities to supply an occasional
immediate want. Some time is likely to
elapse before factories will resume a
normal activity and then the leaf mar
ket will again become centre of hustle
and bargain.
The usual post holiday period of dull
ness prevails in the local cigar manu-
featuring industry. Practically no sales
men are out on the road and manufac
turers are making little effort to secure
trade. In the meantime manufacturers
have been kept busy taking the annual
inventory and number of the factories
were closed for day or two. Or the
whole the showing is not as bad as was
expected. It is true that the statistics
compiled show decrease in the output
of the Metropolitan district of la, ,377 1892
as compared with 1906. Fully 85 per
cent. of this falling off, however, took
place during the last quarter of the year,
and may in large measure be put down
to the financial panic, more or less ac-
cidental condition, which, there is rea-
son to hope, will not recur.-Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17

The Kentucky Governor Takes Hand
The net result of the outrages COM
mitted in the Southern tobacco sections
are summarized in the first message of
Gov Wilson to the general assembly as
follows: In the meantime not benefit
has resulted to the oppressed farmers
from those acts of violence. Even those
members of the association have their
property tied up, and liberty, in places
threatened by these bands, is an idle
theory and farce. Factories and ware
houses, which the farmers warmly wei
coined, have been burned and many 9TH
ers closed forever Our tobacco market
is nearly destroyed. Large customers
are driven elsewhere; large crops re-
main unsold; managers who have prom
ised large prices for pooled crops have
seen the buyers driven from the field,
and no one can tell when the end will
suits up to this time are that our mar
kets, not only for tobacco but for other
products, are paralyZed and in many
cases ruined, that in large districts the
law has been wholly overthrow and the
poor people who have no one to take
care Of them are deprived of the protec
tion of the laws and have lost their lib
erty and are helpless; that thousands of
people wish to move out of Kentucky,
and that the very flower of our working
population wishes to leave the state, as
thousands have done before, and that
the people of Kentucky have suddenly
and squarely to face the question wheth-
or the laws of more than 100000 or the
violence of few hundreds shall prevail.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Lancasrer.

LANCASTER, Pa, Jan 7, 1908.
There is absolu tely nothing new in the
local leaf tobacco market. The holidays
kept away the few would be buyers who
have been hunting Lancaster with the
expectation of finding a packer who
might be induced to part with his goods
below the market prices, and it would
not have mattered if there had been any
visitors. Buyers from abroad and the
holders of the goods are dead-locked
over prices, and there is nothing on
which even to hazard guess as to how
long this will last. 1t is waiting per-
iod now, packers waiting for customers,
and manufacturers and out of-town buy
ers waiting for break in prices.
There is nothing doing in the new
crop, either, though the growers are now
stripping. AS there will be no buying
Of the 1907 tobacco until that of 1906
moves off, nothing can be said of the
prices likely to prevail in connection
with the new crop.
The cigar industry is about as dull as
the leaf trade, and the manufacturers
are waiting for the long deferred orders
and drop in the prices of old tobacco.
New Era, 44e&
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17
Rush Tobacco To Safety,

Toba .co from all parts of the entire
state of Kentucky is being hurried TO
Louisville in storage warehouses. .h ~
it may be insured, to escape the c4ucsl-
lation of policies or refusal of rev risks
owing to apprehension of raids b. night
riders" Local Insurance metz say that
orders have not been received FOR the
cancellation of policies on to9acco stored
in Louisville.
A detail OF twelve men from he First
regiment, Kentucky National Guard, left
Louisville Thursday for Lebanon, In re-
sponse to orders issued by Gov Wilson.
to protect the property of the American
Tobacco people at that place. Lebanon
has been threatened by night riders"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17
wIsCOEsIE TOBACCO MARKET
EDaERToN, Wis, Jan. II, 1905

ED9ERTON, WIS.,, ian. Ii, lJUS.
While buyers are picking up a few
crops of '07 leaf, there is still absent the
indications of general movement that
ought to be due at this time of the year.
The prices paid seem low enough to en-
courage trading if there were not some
better reasons why the movement is not
under way. We hear few sales were
made to GAINESVILLE buyers in the Oxford
vile district this week at figures around
s cents, and further transactions reach
ing US are:
Hanson Bros, IA at 9&2c.
Ole Bakken, "a at S&2c.
S. A. Holland, Ia at 8&2c.
T. Melheim, ga at 7&2c.
Julius Sommerfeldt, "a at Gaze.
The new crop is being handled in
three warehouses of this market in a
limited way and the result of the grad
ing is being watched with considerable
interest as guide for future business.
The old leaf market is good deal of a
deadlock. Some 1906 goods might be
moved If packers were willing to accept
losses but as yet they are not ready to
do so, and thus matters will stand until
party makes concession. We
learn a few hundred cases of '05 goods
were sold by GAINESVILLE packer to an
eastern house this week.
The shipments out of storage continue
light, probably 400cs for the week to all
points from this market.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-01-17
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MIAMISRuRG. O.. Ian. z 1908

MIAMISBURG, %, JHH. Z, I5U0.
Last week brought more casing"
weather. and practically nearly all the
tobacco has been taken down in this
vicinity. This will give the farmers an
opport unity to work steadily at tobacco
stripping, and finish the job before
spring comes.-News.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
.NEWSNOTES.
FOR THE
BUSY MAN
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
PERSONAL.

Orville Wright. the aeroplanlsi, left
the hospital at the Fort Myer (W. Va
army post to which he had been con.
fined for six weeks.
After being out two hours, the Jer.
sey City IN. j. jury in the case of
Theodore Whitmore, on trial for the
murder of his wife, returned verdict
of not guilty.
William H. Flictner, a New York
lawyer with Offices in Wall street, was
sentenced to one years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for grand larceny.
Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds Cow
den was placed on the retired list Of
the navy on his siXty-second birthday.
Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., of Massachu-
setts was seized with severe attack
Of gastritis, the third within year.
William Montgomery, ex-cashier of
the Allegheny National bank, was for
the second time found guilty in Pitts
burg of embezzlemen and abstraction
of funds.
Prince Henry of Prussia spent sew
eral hours in the air as the guest of
Count Zeppelin, who made an ascen-
sion in his remodeled airship. Not
only did the prince thoroughly enjoy
his experience, but he sat at the steer
ing wheel for many miles of the fight.
DR.. C. S. Mack, coroner of Laporte
county, Indiana, resigned to become
pastor of a Swedenborgian church in
Toledo, o.
Countess Szchenyi, formerly Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt, gave birth to
daughter.
VIII H. Pettis, former county treas
urer, pleaded guilty at Sac City, Ia,
to embezzling $27, 900 of the FUNDS OF
the county and was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Port
land, Maine, was unanimously re-
elected president of the National
Women's Christian Temperance union.
Edward English, wealthy lumber
man of Mount Vernon, Wash, was kid
naped and forced to write home for
S., 900 ransom, but later escaped.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the liberal
government won by a substantial
though perhaps somewhat reduced
plurality in the Canadian general and
parliamentary elections.
President Roosevelt celebrated the
5Oth anniversary of his birth by work
ing as usual
William Montgomery, former cash
Ter of the defunct Allegheny National
bank, who was placed "a trial on two
indictments charging the embezzle-
ment and abstraction of $469,O00, was
found guilty by a jury in the United
States district court at Pittsburg.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
Exiles No LONGER.

In the numerous articles appearing
from time to time on the progress of
the home cure of tuberculosis nearly
all the emphasis is made upon the
purely scientific side-upon the won,
ders of modern medicine, of modern
experiments and modern achieve
ments. And that the scientific strides
in the treatment of tuberculosis are
little short of marvellous, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal, is not to be
denied. 1t is greatly to the credit OF
the medical profession that 1t has dem
Onstrated in the abstract the curabili
ty of the disease, and then in the con.
crete has wrought the cure at the
patients own home. But there is the
sentimental, the mental, the heart
side of the revolution which, while
spoken Of little, is not it's least impOr.
tant aspect. Under the home treat.
ment it is no longer necessary to
make eXiles of loved ones-to Danish
the tuberculosis patients to the dis.
tant lands of the west, there to while
away their hours in isolation, home,
sickness, introspection and dread.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
How Blind Children Are Trained.

/ How Blind Children Are Trained.
In the New York state school for
the blind at Batavia, some Of the best
work for the blind is being accom-
plished. 1t is, in fact, becoming a
standard school, and is showing re-
markable results as to what can be
done in the way of bodily improve
ment from carefully studied physical
training, says the Craftsman. 1t is
making self-reliance a most valued
possession of children who would other
wise go through life trembling with
fear and with Outstretched hands to
ward off peril The physical culture
work at Batavia is divided into eight
classes: kindergarten, primary boys
and primary girls, intermediate boys
and intermediate girls, junior boys.
senior boys and senior girls. Children
in the kindergarten are trained by
marching and simple exercises with
musical dumbbells. They graduate to
rings and wand exercises in the pri-
mary classes and attain to barbells in
the junior year. In the senior classes
boys are exercised with dumbbells and
chest weights and by running and
military marches. The senior girls
use dumbbells, barbells and Indian
clubs, and are also trained in marches.
Work is given outside Of the regular
hours to those whose interests or
needs are greater.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
Those "spy" Mirrors.

A woman from Philadelphia brought
to New York with her one of those
little spy window mirrors popular
down there because housewives can
look out from their sitting-rooms and
take in the identity Of callers before
sending down word whether they are
at home. This bred-in-the-bone Phila.
delphian attached the mirror to win.
dow sill in her Brooklyn apartment
and proceeded to feel at hcme be.
cause of it's presence. Within a week
the owner of the apartment requested
her to take the spy mirror down.
THE people in the next fiat com.
plain that you are trying to look into
their rooms" the owner said.-New
York Sun.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

From Winnipeg comes news of the
death of Louis Riel, the only son of
the leader of the Red river rebellion
in western Canada, which first
brought Lord Wolsetey into promi-
nence, and made him Sir Garnet. On
the approach of Col. Wolseley, Riei
fed across the border into the United
States, where he remained for some
years. Returning to Canada he was
elected a member of the house of COM
mons, but in 1885 he again headed an
armed insurrection, and this time he
WAS captured, tried for treason, con
victed and hanged. His son Louis, who
has just passed away, was only 36, and
was employed as an engineer OH the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
SIZE..
Prompt.

Two young men once wrote a joint
humorous production-at least, they
thought it was humorous-and sent
it to Life. They did not see each 9TH
er for "a hours.
When they met, Joint Author No.
remarked to Joint Author No. 2:
Since writing that thing I've
thought of some awfully funny twists
that we might have put in it, Too
bad We sent it away so hurriedly. ]
should have liked to make certain
changes and additions"
With a sardonic grin Joint Author
No. put his hand in his pocket, pro.
duced an envelope addressed to him
self, and drew therefrom the manu-
script Of the joint production.
Here it is,' he said. "It has just
come back. Make all the changes you
want"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

Holland for some unaccountable rea
son is putting off the spanking OF
Castro, although for some time past it
has had an official permit from the ma.
tions of the earth and several generous
offers to hold it's coat. Castro must
bear a charmed life. For one who has
been threatened with terrible lickings
for so many years he certainly looks
healthy and robust and good for many
happy returns of the ultimatums
Many schemes are being put forward
for the securing of universal peace,
but Castro has them all beaten. He
has tried his and it works Just what
it is no one seems to know, but GER
tainly it is fine medicine for the ward
ing off of an Impending war. Perhaps
ne is guarding the secret jealousy un-
til such time as he can bottle the dope
and put it on the markets of the
world.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

While Wilbur Wright, the American
aeroplanist, was making a flight at lie
Mans, France, the motor of the ma
chine exploded.
The first squadron of the Atlantic
battleship feet arrived at Olongapo,
p. 1.
Many accidents, one of which re-
suited in the death of a 12-year-old
schoolboy in the Bronx, were reported
in New York as a result of the 40
mile an hour northwest gale.
Pumped full Of air by three friends
"as joke John Schink. 81 years old,
died in Bridgeport, Conn.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Company let a contract for 100000
bushel elevator at Fort William, On
| tario.
"A prominent politician" of New
York is accused by a New York judge
with having engaged in white slave"
traffic.
Orders have been given that the
British squadron, under the command
of Rear Admiral Sir Percy Scott, pro-
ceed to South America ON the COM
pletion of its South African program
Thirty-nine New York cooks, laun-
dresses, nursery and chamber maids
were the recipients this year of the
prizes given annually by the German
Housewives society for faithfulness
and length of service.
Winston Green, a negro youth, was
electrocuted in the state penitentiary
at Richmond, Va, for attempted Grim.
tnal assault.
AS the hattleshIps of the Atlantic
feet proceed to the navy yard they
will be painted slate color.
]. w. Hutchinson of Harrison coun-
ty, Kentucky, widower with two
children, was married to Mrs. Mamie
G. Swinford of Cynthiana and killed
himself
Forty Yaquis were killed in a bat
tie with Papago Indians in Sonora.
Mexico.
The arrest of three youths has
cleared up the mystery of the robbery
Of bank in Chihuahua, Mexico, of
$1S5.000 last March. Most of the
money was recovered.
A Chicago jury awarded Hugh
Crabbe $41G.66 back salary from Joe
Letters Zeigler Coal Company.
M. w. Bayliss of Washington was
elected sovereign grand commander
of the supreme council of the Scottish
Rite Masons.
NJ Sergueieff, Russian minister to
Servia, was detained at the frontier
by Austro-Hungarian police, and
roughly handled.
Nicholas Tschaikovsky, the Rus.
sian patriot who has been imprisoned
in st. Petersburg for nearly year.
was released on bail.
Private Mike Beneham of the First
cavalry. who ran amuck at Manila
and killed four of his comrades. was
sentenced to life Imprisonment
Henry Bennett filed suit for 500, 900
damages in Louisville. KY, for night
rider abuses, naming a large number
of well-known persons as defendants.
Official dispatches give the losses in
the typhoon and foods in Caygan
province. Philippine Islands, as 500
lives and 100000 in property.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
OLDEST POLICE CELL IN LONDON.
Supposed to Be More Than 800 Years
oId-Undersround Passage.

Behind a building known as the old
Courthouse, Wellclose square, Step
ney, stand what are supposed to be
the Oldest police cells in London, and
under these is the entrance to a sub
way believed to have once led to the
tower, nearly a mile distant.
This subteranean passage is now
blocked up, and at the entrance there
stands a skeleton.
The building was formerly known as
the high court of liberty and is sup
posed to be over three hundred years
old. The courthouse is now the home
of the German Oak club, and the fine
apartment in which trials took place
is used for dancing, while the adjoin-
ing rooms provide accommodation for
billiards.
A winding stone staircase leads to the
two cells at the rear of the courthouse.
At the top of the stairs is a massive
and strongly barred. door with peep
hole in it. This leads to the first Of
the apartments. The only light which
penetrates these dens comes through
gratings high up against the ceiling,
and each is fitted with a shutter, by
means of which the cells can be
plunged into darkness.
Nearly half the floor space in each
room is filled by wooden bed, and
attached to the walls are the rusty
chains with which the prisoners were
manacled. Another object to be seen
is straight jacket made of stiff can
vas, with iron rings which can be fas-
tened to the chains.
Many names, inscriptions and pic
lures are carved on the wooden walls.
One can still read the name of Ed
ward Burk, who is said to have been
hanged for murder Close by is
carved Edward Ray, December, 27,
1885," and another inscription runs
Francis Britain, June 27, 1858. Pray
remember the poor debtors"
On the floor of the first cell can be
distinguished the squares of a chess
board cut in the solid oak Over the
door between the two cells can be
traced the words, THE rule of the
house is a gallon of beer" and just be-
low, in neater characters, are the
words, John Burn came in April II,
1751."
One prisoner broke into verse thus:
The cup is empty,
To our sorrow;
But hope it will
Be filled tomorrow.
Another prisoner signed himself
James Carr, smuggler, 1887" The
pictorial efforts include churches, a
crude representation of the tower of
London, an anchor and the triple en-
blem of the rose, shamrock and
thistle.
Running under the roadway of Well
close square is a dungeon lined with
brickwork foot thick.-London
STANDARD.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

Paris Pattern No. 2616, All Seams
Allowed.-Flowered or plain challis,
cashmere, voile, nuns yelling, alba
tross or china silk, are all adaptable
for this charming little dressing sack.
The fronts are gathered into the yoke,
which is of all-over lace or en-
broidery, according to taste. The
armbands are of similar lace and the
sleeves are finished with a ruffle Of
the material, trimmed with narrow in
sertion and lace edging; similar edg.
ing and insertion finishing the ruf
fie at the edge of the jacket. The
fullness of the back is tucked in box,
plait effect; a narrow belt fastening
in front holding in the fullness at the
waist-line. The pattern is in four
sizes-32, 36, 40 and A inches, bust
measure. For 36 bust the sack re-
quires Az yards of material 20 INCHES
wide, 23s yards sc inches wide, or "a
yards Al inches wide; as illustrated,
seven-eighths yard of wide insertion
for yoke, three -fourths yard of inser-
tion for armbands, four yards of mar
row insertion and six yards of edging
to trim.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper
Write name and address plainly and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
Valuable Work of Woman.

Mrs. Bertha Ayrton has succeeded
in ascertaining the cause of the re-
fractory behavior of the searchlight
in certain respects and in devising a
remedy. The British admiralty called
on Prof. Ayrton to investigate the
trouble some time ago. After making
many investigations he turned the
problem over to his wife, who is the
only woman member of the Institute
of Electrical Engineers and who re-
ceived the only medal ever awarded
to woman by the Royal Society of
London for original unaided work.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
OBITUARY..

Mrs. William Astor, who for 80
years had been regarded as the social
leader of New York, died of heart
disease at her home ON Fifth avenue
in New York.
DR.. ]. Edward Hall, noted dentist,
died of hydrophObia In Shanghai,
China.
Rev. 2. Jay Cooke. rector of ST.
Stephens Episcopal church at Schuy,
lerville. N. Y. and nephew OF Jay
Cooke. the famous finanCier, dropped
dead at Schenectady N. Y,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

A gas explosion in New York tore
up so feet of street and injured four
men. The explosion was a tribute to
the desire to make fool of oneself
which springs eternal in the human
breast. A man sought to locate the
leak with lighted match, and did so
with emphatic results.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

Paris Pattern No. 1902, All Seams
Allowed.-Made with the closing at
the left side Of the front, and the habit
back having a seam down the center,
this is one of the newest and most
popular models for late autumn and
early winter The best materials for
its development are cheviot, serge,
either striped or plain tweed, or
broadcloth. The buttons may be of
the bone or cloth-co"ered variety, or
of velvet, according to taste. The
lower edge is finished with a simple
hem; but if desired row of braid
might be applied as trimming above
the stitching. The pattern is in seven
sizes-22 to "a inches, waist measure
For 26 waist, the skirt, made of mate.
rial with nap, requires S1a yards 20
inches wide, 5B yards sc inches
wide, four yards AZ inches wide, or 33s
yards 54 inches wide; without nap, it
needs ~ y;.rds 20 inches wide, Az
yards SO inches wide, 31s yards AZ
inches wide, or 31s yards 54 inches
wide. Lower edge about q yards wide
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05
The Order nf nianraee.

II a man lives in a way that dis.
graces his order. the only people CON
cerned are the other members of his
order. They, therefore, are the peo'
pie who ought to bear the cost of saw
ing their order from disgrace.-LondoD
Truth.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

The countess of Yarmouth, having
dropped her husband, is dispensing
with her title and becoming Mrs.
Copley Thaw." Now If she could only
forget some of her relatives and live
in a country where they were never
heard of, she would have a fair
chance.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

Modern brick buildings Of ten and
twelve stories are being taken down
and replaced by steel frame structures
Of greater height on Broadway, New
York. While the foundations Of the
original skyscrapers are strong enough
TO sustain additions above them, there
is enough saving of space in the new
plan of thinner walls to make the
change profitable.