The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GENERAL NEWS


IA-O 4uOTfldLn CC4UiIlSSlUI, oilu CIGThS
in the Chicago city comptroller's Of
fee, appeared before the grand jury
in the investigation of the alleged coal
graft charges in connection with fur
nishing fuel to the Chicago fire depart
ment.
The aeroplane of Graham White,
who reached Litchfcld, Enc, in his at
tempt to win the London Daily Mail
prize of $4,000 for flight from Lon
don to Manchester, was blown over by
a furious squaH in the field where it
was lying at Litchfeld and the ma
chinery was badly damaged.
TIE tug Zenith, Duluth bound from
Chicago, after a sixty-hour battle in
the aging lake tempest. during which
the crew of twelve men and the cap
tain worked unc easingly to bail out
the water pouring in through leak in
the bottom, was towed into Chicago
harbor helpless and sinking.
The situation in Human province in
China is reported as critical. Foreign
women and children are fleeing for
their lives from Changsha, the capital.
Several villages near that city have
been reduced to ashes by native mobs.
The country is placarded with threats
to kill all foreigners.
James S. Ravens, a Democrat was
elected to fill the vacancy in congress
from New York caused by the death of
James Brock Perkins over George w.
Aldridge, Republican, by the unprece-
denied plurality Of $500. The district,
the Thirty second, had not gone Demo-
cratic since 1900.
Suit to enjoin the Wright brothers
from engaging further in the manufac-
ture and sale of aeroplanes was filed
in the United States court in Cincin-
natl by Charles Lamson, of Pasadena,
Cal, who charges that they are an in
fringement on patent box kite which
he invented.
Theodore Roosevelt, former presi-
dent of the United States, entered Par
is and was received with all the hon.
ors Of reigning sovereign travelling
AhSO5AltO "A COIOOA III CIOOpO sui
rounded the railway station and held
back the multitude which had assem-
bled there.
Congress will adjourn before the
middle of June, and possibly by June
/, it is believed by President Taft
and administration leaders. And be-
fore that time, it is expected, most of
the so-called administration measures
now before congress will have been
passed.
Roosevelt's conservation policy was
given Endorsement in the house when
by committee of Democrats and in
surgents bill was passed, after an
allday struggle, which has the effect
Of giving a legal status to the with
draWals made by the last administers
tiOn
The hearing of the government case
for the dissolution of the merger or the
Union Pacific railroads will take place
probably about Oct. i. The selection
of definite date and place will be
made by the judges of the eighth cir
cult at st. Paul in May.
Russians in New York have received
advices from st. Petersburg that John
d. Rockefeller has given a large sum
reported as $500, 000-to establish a
sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers
at Abbas-T uman, a watering place in
Transcaucasia.
The federal government has arrested
William J. Keliher at his fine home
in Winthrop, Mass. Keliher is charged
with aiding and abetting'' George w.
Coleman in Incorporating the funds
of the National City Bank of Cam
bridge.
Thomas Taggart, former chairman
of the Democratic national commit
Tee, formally announced that he will
be candidate before rhe general as
semBly next year to succeed Albert
]. Beverage in the United States SEN
ate.
The Yerkes residence and art gal
lery in New York has been sold to
Robert e. Bowling, president of the
City Investing company. Mr.. Bowling
purchased the property at auction for
81, 239 900 after spirited bidding.
Senator julius c. Burrows of Michi-
gan is very emphatic in his denial OF
story printed in the newspapers as a
dispatch from Detroit saying that he
was preparing to retire from the race
for denomination for the senate.
Six life convicts, heavily armed,
made daring escape from the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas. They
forcibly seized a switch engine, cleared
the prison yards and then took to the
woods Four were recaptured.
Famed by a high wind fire which
started at Charles Lake, La. swept
over twenty blocks of the city, destroy
ing several hundred buildings and re-
sulting in property loss estimated at
100000
AS the result of a battle between the
strikers and township constables at
McKees Rocks, Pa, at least seven per-