The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-09
GENERAL NEWS.

AAC department %ICCOHiLuSHuS luO
authorization of the following addi-
lions to the naval establishment for
the coming fiscal year. Two battle
ships, two golfers, one gunboat, one
river gunboat, two seagoing tugs,
two submarines, one submarine tend
er. The department invites attention
to the fact that it is more economical
to build new vessels than to continual
ly repair those which have outlived
their usefulness The department
therefore recommends the construction
of gunboats each year until the exist
ing vessels of that class are replaced"
Acceptance or rejection of the terms
offered by Hart, Sshaffner & Marx as
a settlement of the garment workers
strike in so far as their former en-
ployes are concerned now rests with
the strikers themselves. Endorsement
of the proposed terms was voted by
the Chicago Federation of Labor and
the idle operatives were advised to ac-
cept. Many strikers speakers, how
ever, have so impressed their followers
with the idea that nothing could be
gained without the closed shop that the
leaders realize they will have some
trouble convincing the rank and file
that they have won substantial vic
tory, even without the closed shoD.
Officials of the Mexican government
are rapidly rounding up the lead
ers and plotters of the revolutionary
movement. In many towns the jails
are overcrowded with the political
prisoners. One of the most import
ant captures is Jan B. Vaca, who is
alleged to have laid the plans for the
attack on Parral and other places in
that region. Vaca has been brought
here and placed in prison. He is said
to have been one of Madero's right
hand men, and to have laid plans for
attacks on towns all over the repub-
lie, but in person supervised the plan
ming of the raid on Parral.
There was the greatest interest at
Mexico City in the Inauguration
of Diaz and Vice President Cor
RAIL- The ceremonies took place
in the School of Mines building, in
stead of the new chamber of deputies
as had previously been arranged. The
excuse given is that the new building
is not ready for use, but it is whis-
pered about that the change was made
to keep a crowd away from the place
where the inaugural ceremonies are
to be held The School of Mines has
not one-ffth the capacity of the new
building.
Garden City, Ia. was rocked by a
blast of dynamite when four robbers
blew open the safe in the Farmers
bank The safe-crackers secured ST.
800 from the wrecked bank, but faced
a small army of citizens when they be-
gan to retreat from the town.
A pitched battle followed in which
one of the robbers is believed to hav&
been wounded. The four thieves re-
treated along a country road leading
out of town and escaped in the dark.
ness after a free eIchange of shots.
August Ropke entered plea of gull
ty in a Louisville, KY court, to five
counts of an indictment charging en-
bezzlement of funds of the Fidelity
Trust company. He was given pen1-
Tertiary sentence of ten to eighteen
years. His speculations in New York,
Chicago and other cities with the
Fidelity's money were of the widest
and most spectacular character. After
his arrest he turned over nearly $780,
900 worth of property toward liqui-
dating his debt to the Fidelity.
Fourteen men lost their lives in the
Jumbo mine pits, owned by the Choc-
taw Mining company of st. Louis and
located near Antlers, Okla. After
nine men had gone down into the mine
there was an explosion near the foot
of the shaft. Five other men were at
the time of the explosion on their way
down into the pits and they were
hurled out of the shaft, their bodies
going high into the air.
At the annual dinner of the Indiana
society at the Waldorf hotel in New
York, despite the enforced absence
of George AIDE and Lew Swank, the |
Indiana society turned out about 225
strong. While they were working up |
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walters in and out of the grand ball
room where the banquet was held to |
the strains of "On the Banks of the |
Wabash Far Away
The Pennsylvania road has given its |
order for 10000 tons of steel rails
for 1911 delivery. The order, which |
is considerably larger than had been |
expected, was distributed among the
United States Steel corporation, the
Lackawanna Steel company, the Penn
sylvania Steel company, the Cambria |
Steel company and the Bethlehem |
Steel company.
Seven business houses in the heart |
of the city of Petersburg, Va. /
were destroyed by fire at loss of
100000 For a time hotel in an adj
joining block in which large number