The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-08-12
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GENERAL NEWS.

the phone or permitting any outside
sweetheart to hang phone tolls on the
city will be discharged. 1t has been
customary for lovesick ones to call up
their sWeethearts daily, even though
in distant cities. and have tolls
charged to the city, Fictitious names
being given so that the checks cannot
be traced.
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-
tons have been raised to it because of
General Lees utilization with the south
ern Confederacy Speeches have been
made in congress against it, and the
department. of New York Grand Army
organization adopted resolutions
against it. To settle the matter finally
the president referred the protests to
the attorney general.
The Belle Elmore murder case
reached the commercial stage when
Miss Leneve received a telegram from
New York theatrical manager offer
ing her $1,000 a week for an indefinite
engagement in vaudeville, to begin i'm
mediately upon her release from pris-
on in the event that she is set free.
Whether the girl who is jointly charg-
ed with Crippen with guilty knowledge
of one of the most brutal crimes of the
decade will elect to make an asset of
her notoriety was not made known at
the provincial jail, where the two pris-
oners are confined awaiting extradi-
ton to England.
Jacob M. Dickerson, United States
secretary of war, and his party, have
had some remarkable experiences in
the Philippines. They have made their
journeys on horseback, in jinrickshas
and Sedan chairs and have been re-
ceived by the natives everywhere Two
hundred and fifty armed Igorot tribes
men in their regalia and arms escorted
the party during their stay at BoutOc.
Primitive dances, the tribesmen being
dressed in barbaric costumes, have been
witnessed by the party and in their
visits unprecedented assemblages Of
natives have turned out to give well
come.
Admissions made while Gin his cups"
by G. M. Gernbrush, sailor at Port
land, Ore, may clear the name of John
Devine of the charge of train wreck
ing, but not restore him his life. De-
vine died in state prison at Canon
City, Col, one year ago, after having
served six years of a life sentence for
wrecking Santa Fe train near Fow-
Ter, Col, in 1908 Gernbush is under
arrest and has been brought to Canon
City, Col, for trial.
Otilla Johnson, of Colorado Springs,
Colo, Swedish girl, respondent be-
cause she lost her position, sought
death by living the life of savage in
the Garden of the Gods. In the day.
time she picked berries and herbs and
at night slept in cave. With cloth
ing in shreds, she was found kneeling
on the steps of the Swedish church.
She was turned over to the police.
Lionel Walden and Jules Pages, the
American artists, and Alexander Gar
field, the American explorer OF Africa,
have been decorated at Paris with the
cross of the Legion of honor. Henry
E. Gourd. president of the French
chamber of commerce at New York,
was at the same time promoted from
chevalier to office of the Legion of
Honor.
The honor of shaking hands with
Theodore Roosevelt almost cost [. j.
Shea his life Roosevelt travelling to
the coal districts of Pennsylvania by
auto, stopped Shea to ask fer guidance,
and leaned over and shook his hand.
Shea was so eager to tell his friends
that he ran two miles into the city and
dropped unconscious.
Drs. Brinckerhoff and Curry and M.
T. Mailman of Honolulu have succeed
ed in isolating germs of leprosy. This
means the ultimate discovery OF a
cure for the disease. The doctors are
now attempting to make toxine from
the bacilli. Experiments at the leper
settlements soon will be made.
A new bread trust, suspected of hav-
ing close relations with the National
Buscuic company, has been launched
at New York under the laws of Dele
ware The name of the new concern
will be the Federal Bakeries company.
1t will start with capitalization or
$50 900.
The seizure of another Japanese
schooner, preaching in the Boring sea,
has been reported to the treasury de-
partment at Washington by Captain
Foley of the revenue cutter Tacoma,
which is guarding sealing fields in that
section
Walter Leitz of Seattle, Wash, while
cleaning a rife accidentally shot and
killed his mother. The father was pres
ont and with dif7cu1tv restrained the