The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-27

GENERAL NEWS.

sy1vania railroad station at Oil City.
Pa, while John j. TRULY, the station
agent was loading baggage onto Buff.
falo-bound train. The money was be-
ing shipped by the Adams Express
company to Philadelphia. Detectives
believe the theft was the work of one
man who knew precisely where the
money was.
News has been received of further
persecution of the Jews at Kiev, Rus
sia Hundreds of families have re-
ceived notices to leave within twenty
four hours. Many houses are sur
rounded by police, and occupants in
Guiding women and children are driv-
en- out by and escorted with epithets
to the railway station where they are
forced to take trains for other places.
Attorney General Simpson OF Min
Aesota transmitted to the state a draft
for $345,325, representing the amount
due Minnesota from the estate OF the
late John S. Kennedy, Of New York,
owned by the estate in Minnesota.
Forty-two candidates were nominal
ed in Ohio for the states twenty-one
seats in the lower house OF congress.
Both Democrats and Republicans held
primaries. Ralph D. Cole, Republican,
Eighth district, was the only congress
man defeated for denomination.
Detroit's common council passed a
resolution asking the prosecuting at
torney and the police department to
investigate charges Of bribery in the
council in connection with the issuing
of liquor licenses. No names Of posi-
BILE offenders were mentioned
The federal income tax resolve was
killed in the Massachusetts senate by
a vote of % to l. and is now dead as
far as the Massachusetts legislature
is concerned. The house killed the
measure by vote of 1875 to 1O1 on
May 4.
John J. Cahill, of Salem, Mass, is
said to have saved the lives or nine
persons who were in danger OF drown
ing. and as a reward for his gallant
deed the treasury department at Wash
ington has given him a life-saving
medal.
/ George W. Coleman, after admitting
that he looted the National City Bank
of Cambridge, Mass of 100000, was
sentenced to fifteen years in the coun-
Toll In
Hale in the United States district
court.
The new international bridge be-
tween Brownsville, Tex, and Matamo-
ras, Mex, will be formally opened July
21 and %. President Taft, Colonel
Roosevelt and President Diaz of Next
CO, have been invited to be present.
The Erie railroad averted strike
of it's conductors and trainmen, Tor
the present at least, by offering at a
conference with representative of the
unions to submit new proposition on
the question of increased wages.
Halley's comet is now in the west
ern sky, and may be seen at a point
directly above the point where the
sun passes below the horizon, unless
the brightness of the moon or posi-
BILE cloudiness or haze prevents
Fire which swept Placerville, Edo
RADIO county, Cal, destroyed the coun-
ty buildings and the Odd Fellows
building is believed to have been in
cendiary. The loss is 100000. Many
valuable records were burned.
The house declined to give the nee
essary two-thirds vote in favor of a
change in the date of inaugurating the
president and vice president of tie
United States from March 4 to the
last Thursday in April.
General Louis Botha, premier Of the
Transvaal, has been summoned to form
the first union ministry cabinet Of
United South Africa, of which Wis
count Herbert Gladstone is the first
governor general.
Trainmen and conductors on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
and the Michigan Central railroads
have been granted wage increases by
the arbitrator, P H. Morrissey and
e. e. Clark.
More than 200 letters, some of them
rif1ed, found in the home of Mrs. Cath
crime Mulcahy, in ST. Louis, led to the
arrest of the woman, her husbanu, and
Edward Fallen, charged with robbing
the mails.
According to the latest assertions of
some of their friends, DR.. Frederick
A. Cook, the arctic explorer, and Mrs.
Cook, are now in New York city, but
are keeping their place of abode Sc
cret.
Charles w. Morse, the financier now
in the Atlanta Ga, prison, was denied
the privilege Of filing an application
for writ of habeas corpus by the SUI
preme court of the United States.
By emptying her revolver into a
mob of negroes who had chased Ed
Simmons, colored, onto the porch of
her home, Mrs Thomas Murphy pre-