The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-22
GENERAL NEWS.


have the contract for the interior
work in the Cathedral Of st. John the
Divine, on Morningside Heights. re-
straining the joint district council OF
New York of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners and the
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners from interfering with the
work on the cathedral, has been made
permanent by Judge Ward of the
United States circuit court.
Henry Dexter, the millionaire pres
; fdent of the American News company,
who died at his home in New York
the other day in the ninety eighth year
of his life, passed the greater part of
the last seven years in an unavailing
search for the murderer of his SON,
Orlando P. Dexter A reward of &c.,
900 offered by Mr. Dexter for the ap-
pTehension of the murderer is said
to be continued in a codicil to the
nonogenarian's will.
Although no formal announcement
has been made it is the understanding
of the friends CT Miss Mary Mannering
the actress that she will be married
soon to Frederick w. Wadsworth, the
wealthy business man of Detroit, Mich.
Asked abC;-t the report, Miss Manner
ment of her approaching marriage was
premature but would say nothing
further
Porter Charlton, who is at the pres
n. j., charged with the murder of his
wife, Mrs. Mary Scott Charlton, at
Lake Como, Italy, will not be surren-
dered in response to the request made
by the Italian government for his ex-
tradition to Italy for trial. The inten-
tons of the officers of the state de-
partment is to decline to surrender
him.
Discovery of new counterfeit SO
gold certificate has been announced
The certificate is represented to be
of the act of July 70, 1882, series of
1901, and bears the check letter ID"
plate No. $50, the signature Of ". I.
Vernon, register of the treasury. Lee
McClung, treasurer of the United
States and the portrait of Hilligas
Fifty Sharpsville, Pa, excursionistS
were taken i'll on a train while return
ing from Conneaut Lake and half
dozen physicians had to be summoned
on the arrival of the train at Scranton.
The symptoms displayed, according to
the physicians, were like ptomaine
poisoning, and were caused, they say,
by eating ice cream. None of the cas-
es has resulted seriously.
Japanese immigration to the United
States has decreased considerably
since the strict enforcement of the
Japanese-American agreement. ORR
entail immigration companies have suf-
fered considerably, and several have
been disorganized. These facts are
given in a report received at the state
department in Washington
Determined to die with the least
possible amount of funds on hand,
DIR. Daniel K. Pearsons of Chicago,
who is more than 80 years old and af-
f1icted with rheumatism, has planned
to sell his home and enter a SAM
tarium, to spend the rest of his days.
He has given $6,oOO,OOO to Twenty-Five
small colleges.
At Logansport, Ind, just because
his mother threatened to send him to
the reform school, Verl Mooney IL
years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mooney. swallowed the contents of a
bottle of chloroform with suicidal in
tent and physicians saved his life with
the greatest difficulty.
A sharp earthquake was felt at
Munich Bavaria. The walls of several
buildings were cracked The wavelike
movement continued three seconds,
terrifying the people, who fled from
their homes and remained in the
streets long after the disturbance had
ceased.
Two lives were lost, scores of per.
sons were injured, $50 horses burned
to death and damage amounting to
half million dollars wrought in fire
on the edge of the business district
of Portland, Ore The fire started in
the big exposition building.
John B. Miller, convicted of en-
bezzling the funds of Washington,
D. c., building and loan association,
was sentenced to twenty years in the
federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. 1t was the extreme penalty OF
the law.
The affairs of James Guffey, Demo
cratic leader of Pennsylvania, and one
of the best known oil and coal men of
the entire country, were placed il the
hands of a receiver Liabilities are
81 900 600 and assets $15,000,000.
At New York sentence of twenty
days in Jail, the record penalty in that
city for the offense, was imposed upon
J. J. Heald, doorkeeper for a moving
picture show, for admitting an unac-
companied minor to his place.
The interstate commerce commits
sion announced that the recently filed