The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-15

GENERAL NEWS.
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the Pressed Steel Car company, on
charges of bribery and conspiracy.
President Emil Winter, of the Work.
ingmen's Savings Bank and Trust com
pany of Allegheny, confessed he had
bribed councilmen to the extent OF
$4,000.
President Lewis of the United Mine
Workers, announced that scales have
been signed for the next two years in
the Guernzey, Tuscarawas and Column
biana districts, in Ohio, and that the
scale probably would be signed within
a few days for the Jackson, Massil-
lon and Crooksville districts.
Four hundred thousand employees of
railroad companies and other big cor
porations throughout the United States
have received voluntary wage in
creases from their employers since
Jan. 3d. according to a statement pre-
pared by an association of employers
in New York
Suspecting that certain bills are
"railroaded" through the New York
legislature a little band of "insur-
gents" led by Linden Bates Jr., who
has invented mechanical device, are
keeping count on the votes on the va
rious measures as they are taken
Mr.. Roosevelt's widely heralded
meeting with Clifford Pinchot, the de-
posed chief forester of the United
States department of agriculture, took
place on the veranda of Miss Carew's
villa overlooking the blue waters of the
bay of Porto Maurizio, in Italy.
The Borough Bank of Brook; n
closed its doors and the superInten-
dent of banks has taken possession
of the institutions business. The
bank has capital of 100000 with de-
posits of over 100000. B. R. Shears
is president of the institution
That 12,C0O persons arc starvsnr IN
Armenia and will die unless outside
help reaches them Aet
harvest season, two months hence, is
the statement made in a cablegram
received in New York by the Ameri-
can Relief association.
lucky senate have been summoned by
the Franklin county grand jury to tell
what they may know of State Sena-
tor J. J. Watkins charge that the
whisky interests used $4,000 to bride
four of his colleagues.
The Democrats of the house in.
dulged in noisy demonstration when
Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts,
Democrat, was escorted by his brother,
Representative Foss, of Illinois, Re-
publican, to the speakers desk to take
the oath of office.
The military court of inquiry which
during the last year has been investi
eating the shooting up of Brownsville,
Tex, finds that the evidence clearly
sustains the charge that the shooting
was done by soldiers of the Twenty
Fifth infantry.
The railroad telegraphers of the en-.
tire New York Central system have
reached an agreement with the rail
road company by which they will re-
ceive a salary increase of 1917 per
cent, amounting to almost 100000
Robert Goddard, Greensburg, Ind,
farmer, has gone to the Pasteur Insti-
tute at Indianapolis to take treatment
as he fears hydrophobia Ten days ago
a dog on the Goddard farm developed
prabies and bit Mr. Goddard.
King Albert of Belgium has ap-
proved the plans of the ministry of the
colonies for reforms in the Belgian
Congo, and they will become effective
on July 1, when large area will be
opened to free commerce.
Fire which started from some un-
known cause in store in North Pow
nal, VT, destroyed the Congregational
church. in which President James A.
Garfield taught school while student
at Williams college.
The government has started a new
Investigation of the American Sugar
Refining company, this time at New
Orleans, where the company refuses
to show it's books having importations
accounts.
The last chief of the Lake Superior
chippewa INDIANS ana the mead man
at the Barage county reservation, in
Michigan, Charles Bonochie, aged
ninety years, was killed by passen-
ger train.
Bishop Doane of the Episcopal
church was stricken with a fainting
spell while administering the commun-
ion rite in the church in Troy, N. Y,
and received severe injury when
he fell.
John A. Penton, secretary of the
Merchants Marine league of Cleve-
land, was arrested in Washington on
a charge of criminal libel in connec-
ton with the ship subsidy investiga-
ton.
John Gillian, seventy-nine years
old, who assisted in engraving the
steel plates for the first ''greenbacks"
used by the United States, is dead at
his home in Kansas City, Mo-
Negotiations between the New York
Central Railroad company and it's con-
ductors and trainmen reached crisis.