The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-08

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General Major is seeking to Gust from
Missouri filed demurrers in Jeffers ii
City, alleging no cause for action IS
shown in the petitions This s.
legal propositions, and the case s,,-
be argued on the demurrers af
October term of the Missouri u
court unless the attorney gere
mands the appointment CT con
sioner to take testimony renciGa :
tion on the demurrer.
About ninety names cay ale ies8
dropped from the IersiCn rolls. T
average is equivalent to about 2,7i
deaths a month. or about $4,000 a.
nually, among federal survivors Of t e
civil war carried on the pension lists.
TIE old soldiers of both armies ere
vanishing rapidly. Just how msny
survive will not be known until after
the completion of the thirteenth CEN
sus.
All the rooms of the White House
will he accessible to the public during
the present summer for the first time
In many years Before leaving for
Beverly President Taft gave instruc-
tions that the building should be
thrown open AS general rule only
the public reception rooms are shewn
to visitors.
Public confidence in airships of the
Zeppelin tyre has received crushing
blow as result of the wreck Of the
dirigible Deutschland, and the pres
poets of the successful operation OF
aerial passenger lines, which was to
be q feature of summer life in Ger
many, were suddenly dimmed.
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt met at the summer camp on
Burgess point, near Beverly, Mass, in
what il regarded as the most import
ant political conference in years It
was the first time the two men had
seen each other since the Inauguration
of President Taft in 1909.
King Georges cabinets decision to
appoint Hon. Lewis Harcourt vicer0y
OF India to succeed Lord Mimic IL az
cribed to the power welded by Q. beau.
tiful American woman, Mrs. Harcourt
herself, who was Miss Mary Ethel
Burns, daughter of w. HI. Burns OF
New York city.
Three steamers, the Tionesta, Eads,
and Schiller, grounded on Round isl
and in heavy cloud Of smoke caused
by forest fires in the vicinity of Sault
Ste Marie. The forest fires, while
causing no apprehension on shore, are
| making navigation in st. Mary's riv-
er hazardous.
Because of heart trouble augmented
session of the senate, Senator A B
| Cummins has Cancelled his Chautauqua
dates until Aug. IA upon the advice OF
| physicians. The senator has also been
ordered to give up golf and cigars tenn
| porarily.
kidnapping is to be made a capital
offense in Louisiana for both principals
and accomplices. A measure to this
| effect was passed almost unanimously
| in the house at Eaton Rouge and 1t is
| stated that no real opposition will de
velop against the bill in the senate.
Theodore Roosevelt, 80, at the an
nual commencement luncheon Of the
| Alumni. association in Memorial Hall
| participated with his classmates in the
| celebration of the thirtieth anniver
| sary of their graduation, at Harvard
| college, in Cambridge, Mass.
Groups of Ruthenian and Polish stu
dents in the University of Lemberg
in Hungary fought each other. Before
| the police separated the combatants
| many officials and students had been
seriously wounded. Broken heads were
| the rule.
A private cablegram received in
| New Orleans from Bluefields, Nicara
qua, states that General Matuty has
been executed, following a trial by
court-martial It was charged that he
/ BETRAYED the Estrada cause.
Port Arthur, the town taken from
| the Russians by the Japanese, which
was closed to international trade by
| the Japanese, has just been thrown
| open as a free commercial port of en-
| try.
DIR. B. C. Hyde, convicted May 16 OF
poisoning Colonel Thomas Fl. Swope
i the millionaire philanthropist, was de
MED a new trial by Judge Latshaw in
the criminal court at Kansas City
I Commissioners of immigration VIII
Jams report shows that $4,000 immi
grants landed at New York in the last
twelve months, against $4,000 last
| year and 1,004,766 in 1907.
The appropriations made by the ses
sion of congress just closed amounted
to 81 ,027, 1873, 446, according to an Off
cial announcement made by the house
appropriations committee.
/ Edwin s. Holmes, the statistician in
volved in the Theodore H. Price "cot
ton DEAL case, pleaded guilty in the
| district supreme court at Washington
and was fined $4,000.