The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-08-05

GENERAL NEWS.
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attorney General Wickersham has
decided that there is no law under
which the statue Of Robert E. Lee can
be refused a position in Statuary hall,
IN the capitol at Washington. The
statue is in Statuary hall now, gift
to the nation from Virginia, but objec-
tlorts have been raised to it because of
General Lees utilization with the south
ern CcGfederacy Speeches have been
made in congress against it, and the
departn ent of New York Grand Army
organization adopted resolutions
against it. To settle the matter finally
the president referred the protests to
the attoney general.
Uncle Sam is looking for 500 practf-
cal farmers who would like to own
homes of their own. The government
now has about 500 farms awaiting set
Element under the various irrigation
projects in the northwest. There is no
drawing or any element of chance in
applying for one of these farms. 1t is
only necessary to make a homestead
entry, the only charge besides the reg
ular land Office fee for filing being the
actual cost of getting water to the
land. Payment may be made in ten
annual installments, without interest.
Millionaire Edward H. Jennings
of Pittsburg stepped from his prison
in the Allegheny county jail and into
his $4,000 touring car, which had been
driven up to the jail door by one of his
daughters Mrs. Jennings being forced
to remain home through illness. The
president of the Columbia National
bank of Pittsburg, who had just finish
ed his sixty days Imprisonment for
completely in bribing Pittsburg coun-
cilmen, was cheered by many of the
jail prisoners as he left his cell for
freedom.
Much excitement prevailed at the
Brooklyn navy yard when an ammuni-
ton lighter, which was berthed along
side the supply ship Culgoa, caught on
fire from some unknown cause and
was almost destroyed, together with
her ammunition, after being towed
out into midstream. The Culgoa was
damaged slightly The ammunition,
which was in the form of powder,
flashed up and burned, but being in
unsealed cans did not explode.
Chief of Police Steward of Chi
cago announced that the exhibition
of the Johns on-Jeffries fight pictures
will not be permitted in Chicago In
a sweeping order, which, according to
the manager of a large film firm, will
force the withdrawal from Chicago
of films now being exhibited here, the
chief commanded his subordinates to
stop the exhibition of any pictures de-
picting acts which are contrary to the
laws of Illinois.
John La Monte Hurst of Denver has
presented to the American University
of Washington a sofa which was used
in the White House by Abraham Lin
coin. The sofa, which is upholstered
in green leather, is just as it was when
in the possession of the martyred pres
ident Mr. Hurst, who is a son of the
late Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, has
had the article in his possession for
many years.
Marshall P. Wilder, known all over
the English speaking world as a popu-
lar platform lecturer, monologist and
humorist, has been seriously ill at his
home in Atlanta City from an attack
of acute indigestion and breakdown
from overwork. For a time the physi-
clans treating him considered his con-
dition very grave, but he rallied and
the doctors say it is possible that he
will recover.
The biggest Arbor day tree-planting
on record will be tried in Brooklyn
this year More than 100000 Seeding
trees-hardy Catalpas, which grow
rapidly and attain a height of twenty
feet in as many years, have been do
mated to the Brooklyn board of edu-
cation and will be distributed, one
each to every public school pupil in
the big borough.
Jacob M. Dickerson, secretary OF
war of the United States, assisted at
Manila in the organization OF a ma
tional society to fight tuberculosis in
the Philippines. The secretary will
depart soon for North Luzon to visit
several none Christian tribes.
Unrest in Tibet, due to activity OF
the Chinese, has caused the Indian
government to order a considerable
force of troops to be held on the from
tier in readiness to proceed to the re-
lief of Gyantse and Guatong, British
agencies in Tibet.
Damage caused to French crops by
continued cold and wet weather is esti-
mated unofficially at $400,000,000. The
wheat crop is estimated at 312,2OO.OOO
900 bushels, compared with 369,2OO,OOO
bushels in 1909.
At Los Angeles, Cal, sixteen
year-old Beatrice Anita Turnbull, alias
Baldwin, began her fight for share
of the $2O,0O0000 estate of the old
turfman Lucky" Baldwin, before the
superior court.