The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-10-21

GENERAL NEWS.


was also filed against them by Stern,
Singer & Barr, attorneys for a group
OF creditors. on the ground that they
committed an act of bankruptcy BY
making an assignment. Judge Holt,
sitting in the United States court, az.
pointed Edward G. Benedict receiver
for the firm with a bond of $4,000.
No definite figures were forthcom.
ing, but it was stated that their liza.
hlllties were in excess of 81, 000,0
1t is estimated that cash and stocks
which the firm has on hand are in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and that
stocks Of customers exceeding 100000
are held in trust by the firm.
A disastrous fire broke >out in the
elevator at Ann Arbor, Mich, of the
gas works and before it was extin-
guished $4,000 worth of property was.
destroyed. Just what caused the fire
is at present unknown, but according
to the theory of one of the employees
a load of coke was dumped in the
screen before all the fire was cut of
it. This set fire to the elevator which
was entirely destroyed, and which, in
falling, crushed through the roof of
the engine room, destroying some of
the machinery.
Colonel Roosevelt finally did the
trick in st. Louis. He went up in the
air. Like good many others he has
succumbed to the temptation OF flying.
Late in the afternoon at the Kin
loch aviation field, eighteen miles east
of ST. Louis, Mr. Roosevelt made his
first fight with Arch Hoxsey. In a
Wright biplane he encircled the field
twice, and remained in the air min.
utes and 20 seconds. When he came
down to earth the colonel exclaimed
that it was the bulliest experiment he
had ever had.
At Columbus, Ohio, John R. Mar.
ker, chief engineer Of the board OF
public works, created sensation by
filing charges of graft against former
Chief Engineer Charles e. Perkins, for
eighteen years an official and whom
Mr.. Marker succeeded several months
ago by appointment of Governor Har.
mon; Superintendent Charles Hatch
of Akron. and Collector Charles Wat
kins of Waverly, nephew of George Fl.
Watkins of Portsmouth, president OF
the state board of public works.
The River Seine, which in January
threatened to destroy Paris, now looms
UP in the role of savior in the present
hoo
made arrangements to rush food sup.
plies to the capital from the sea. re-
QUESTIONING all tugs, boats and barges
to meet the crisis brought about by
the stoppage of the railroad service
and to ease the food market, which al.
ready is hard hit.
The anniversary of the execution OF
Professor Francisco Ferrer, founder OF
the modern school at Barcelona, who
was convicted of having conspired
against the government, had been
dreaded by the authorities, as the free
thinkers, socialists and republicans
had planned Ferrer demonstrations
that might easily lead to bloodshed.
However. no serious disorder occurred
anywhere.
John Lane, a laborer, of Lansing,
Mich. about forty years old, and I'M
married, attempted to commit suicide
at his home by placing muzzle OF a
shotgun against the base of his skull
and then pulling the trigger with
string. The charge tore through his
neck, fracturing the skull and bury
ing itself in the ceiling. His chances
of recovery are very slim.
The keepers and deputy sheriffs
who are searching for five convicts
who escaped from Sing Sing prison.
including big Bill" Green, the latest
convict in the institution, are now al
most positive that the fugitives are
hiding in the dense woods on Butter
milk mountain, which is part OF the
great estate of John D. Rockefeller at
Pocantico Hill.
Near Belfast, Ireland, Aviator Fer
guson was injured, perhaps fatally,
when he fell thirty feet with his mon
oplane. The accident happened while
Ferguson was making an exhibition
flight at the aviation tourney here.
His machine was caught by a gust OF
wind and capsized. Ferguson fell
head foremost with the monoplane on
top Of him.
At Chicago scores of the guests
in the Bismarck hotel, $50 Randolph
street, fed through smoke-flled halls
to the lobby without taking time to
don the clothes they had hastily
gnatched up. There were about zoo
guests in the hotel at the time and
majority of these were thrown into ex-
element by the blaze.
Fearing riot trouble in Chicago
from the spread of the strike in the
forty-eight tailoring shops OF Hart,
Schaffner & Marx. 5000 Of whose EN-
ployes are now said to be out, addltlon-
al police and private detectives were
pressed into service to guard the nom
,,pio,, xx,orlyorc Uho remained at work