The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-09-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GENERAL NEWS.

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ollie in which they were riding and
which was speeding at the rate OF
twenty-five miles an hour, collided
tn a train of three moving cauldrons
OF molten metal and Stag on ! e Hun
ored and Fourth street, near an en-
trance to the Illinois Steel company's
plant. The auto was driven by
Peter Lesterhouse, a contractor, of
3O9 One Hundred and Twelfth street.
Sitting in. front beside him was his
Vile. In the rear seats were Miss
Anna Becker, Mrs. Lesterhouseis sis
ter, and Miss Blanche Hunt, friend.
Inc impact had tossed Mr.. and Mrs.
Lesterhouse and Mrs. Hunt out of the
car and into the path of the molten
shower They were instantly burned
TO death. The steel men stopped
their train and ran to the rescue. Miss
Baker was sent to the hospital
At S. Paul, Mimi, the national con-
serVation congress at the closing ses-
sion adopted platform demanding ma
tlonal control of the country's natural
resources. This followed lively fight
in the committee on the mention of
Theodore Roosevelt as the originator
Of the policies mentioned and the ig-
noring of President Taft, which ended
in the elimination of both names.
When the congress reached the cleo
ton of officers, Clifford Pinchot and
J. B. White, chairman of the executive
committee, having declined to contest
for the presidency, Henry w. Wallace
OF Des Moines, Ia, was chosen. DR..
Austin Latchaw of Kansas City was
named treasurer and Thomas Shipp
was reelected secretary.
The Pacific Coast express that left
ST. Louis in the night for st. Joseph
and the west, was boarded at the
Union station by lone robber He
killed and threw overheard J. NJ. Wine
of st. Louis, a, f1agman held up the
porter who came back to let the flag
man in, ordered him to turn out the
lights in his car which he then enter
ed and robber four passengers. The
desperate got off the train at the Carr
street station on the levee and made
good his escape. The entire time con-
sumed in the murder, robbery and es-
cape did not exceed ten minutes.
The civil service commission at
Columbus, o., has handed down it's
decision in the cases of the thirty
three city patrolmen who were dis
missed by the director of public safety,
approving the action of the director
and refusing to grant to the police
mutineers the privilege of reinstate-
meIt in the department of police
The patrolmen were dismissed from
the force for refusing to obey orders
when directed by Mayor Marshall to
ride on cars to prevent lawlessness
during the strike riots
If Governor Hughes is to be made
chief justice of the supreme court
he will be promoted from an associate
justiceship. Reports that the nominal
ton of the governor as an associate
justice would be withdrawn and his
name sent to the cenate as chief JUS
tice have been put to rest by arrange
ments that the New York executive
has been making to take up his duties
on the bench on the second Monday
in October.
But for the fact that lack of quo
rum was declared it is evident that
the Ballinger-Pinchot congressional in
vestigation committee, which met in
Minneapolis, would have adopted a
resolution asking the removal of the
secretary from office in direct and
forcible manner. Ballinger was saved
by Chairman Nelson who delayed ac-
ton and telegraphed for reinforce
ments in the persons of Senator Root
and Representative DENLY and Ohm
stead
Lloyd w. Bowers, solicitor general Of
United States who has been mentioned
as the probable successor of Chief JUS
tice Fuller on the supreme bench, is
dead in Boston. He was a Chicogoan
and we'll known as a corporation law
yer, before his appointment to the de-
partment of justice by President Taft
M. Bowers was taken Ill a month ago
and came here to recuperate. 1t was
announced that he was on the way to
recovery when the collapse came.
At Issy-Les-Molineux, in France,
Peruvian aviator of the name OF
the name of Chavez reached record
height in Bleriot monoplane, ascend
ing $3.50 feet He says that after
passing the heigth reached by Morane
at Deauville, 8,472 feet, on Sept. 3, he
began to feel that he could go no
higher. The cold was intense. He
continually felt as if his nose was
bleeding.
The retaining wall of the speed
way in New York city along the Har-
lem river gave way in two different
places and slid into the water The
first cave-in occurred above High
Bridge at One Hundred and Seventy
Seventh street, whe nabout 600 feet
of the wall caved, carrying with it
about tuontv foot of the SDeo0WaY