Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-31

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An epidemic of the bubonic plague in
the province of Shan-tung, China, has
caused the Chinese government to take
precautionary sanitary and quarantine
measures all along the coast. This
sanitary alertness in the Flowery King
dom is one of the gratifying evidences
of the awakening of China"
Although it will be several months be-
fore Rear-Admiral Evans fleet reaches
the Manila, Golfers are already head
ing for that port, and for Honolulu:
Fully 100000 tons of fuel win be ready
for him at the former port. Fleets can
not move promptly nowadays, unless adj
vance agents provide store of fuel at
stopping places.
The collision between a passenger and
freight train on a trestle near Vinegar
Bend, Alabama, and the consequent col
lapse of the structure with both trains
is another example of the recklessness
of engineers in taking trains acroGs such
structures at high rates of speed If
the trains were not moving fast the engi-
neers would have been able to stop their
respective trains in time to avert disas-
ter.
Reasoning people will not be alarmed
over the inclination Of the War Depart
ment to permit japanese laborers to as
sist in building Notifications in Hawaii.
The structures will be in accordance with
advanced military science, and when
Americans are inside of them their OPP.
ponents will have a big job in trying to
drive them out. 1t would be impossible
TO maintain secrecy as to the form and
thickness of Notifications.
The practical combination of the
North German Lloyd and Hamburg
American Steamship Companies, so far
as routes and rates are concerned, is evil
dence from Bremen that German inter
ests on the sea are to stand together
against British and American interests
Travel between the continents has grown
so tremendously that it makes a big
bone of contention for rival shipowners
of the various maritime nations.
The winning of the Deutsch- Archdea-
con prize of $4,000 for making fight
of a kilometer, in a circle, with a ma
chine heavier than the air, puts Henry
Farman, the French aeronaut. a peg
ahead of all competitors on the other
side of the Atlantic. But what he has
accomplished is nothing in comparison
with the fight of many miles to the
credit of the Wright brothers, during
their experiments near Dayton, Ohio.
The maintenance of navigation on
Green Bay, from the east shore through
the Door passage to Menominee, and to
Sturgeon bay by way of the canal, is one
of the remarkable incidents of this rec
undertaking winter so far as freedom
of navigation is concerned. Thus far
there has been no more trouble on the
routes along the west shore of Lake
Michigan and on the routes across the
lake than is experience in midsummer
Michigan has retired from the big
Nine of university athletics, which will
now have to be known as the big
Eight" But there are others, and the
figure may be still further reduced when
the returns have all been received. The
cause of the dissensions is a difference
between the students, backed by the
alumni, and the faculty members of
boards of athletic control who desire TO
reduce programmes in order to more
surely establish certain reforms.
German manufacturers are said to be
worried because of the quantity of agri-
cultural machinery sent into the empire
AAVNh ~AAuEi1Sd. IL tHtg WOulu quit W0r-
rying, and Try to produce machinery of
equal merits at prices that cannot be
duplicated by American manufacturers
they would again become members of
their home markets. System in Ameri-
can factories, and production on large
scale. more than offset the difference in
the wages of factory employees.
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The people of Guadalaiara, Mexico.
have become so enamored of up-to-date
head-wear that they have enacted a law
taxing the sombrero and compelling
wearers thereof to attach "a tag showing,
that the annual license has been paid.
The attack on the sombrero affects not
only those who prefer it to the modern
hat, but it Injuries Il hat industry that is
centuries old, II will probably be very
difficult to enforce the law, and il, the
course of a short time the neoDle &c