The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-17
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trail Railway company fled suit in Chi
cago for an accounting against four of
its former officials. They are o. s.
Keith, former superintendent OF trans-
portation; Joseph E. Buker, former su-
perintendent of the car department:
William Renshaw, former superintend-
ent of the machinery department and
John NJ Taylor, former general store
keeper.
Charles K Hamilton, the frail-look-
ing, boyish master of the air, accom-
plished fhe feat of sailing in his BIZ
plane from New York to Philadelphia
and return, winning the $4,000 prize
offered by New York and Philadelphia
newspapers. He left New York at
TAB a. M, and returned to the spot
from which be started at $40 D. m.
He was delayed five hours on the re-
turn trip at Perth Amboy, N. j., by a
broken propeller.
It was announced at Denver that
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of some CT the most powerful light
and power companies in the country,
will becon.e an important factor in the
fight to secure control of the Denver
Reservoir md Irrigation company, the
$12,000,GG0 corporation which was put
in the bands Of a receiver in the Dis
trict court in Denver.
Formal charges against the right
of Senator Lorimer to hold his seat
were presented in the senate by Sena-
tor Cullom They were in the form
of a memorial signed by Clifford w.
Barnes, president of the Legislative
Voters league and others of Chicago.
The memorial was referred to the COM
mittee On privileges and elections with
out comment.
The new rules committee of the ma
tional house by strict party vote of
to 3, reported special rule to gov
ern the postal savings bank bill in the
house The rule provides for the cut
ting off of all amendments, for eight
hours of general debate and for per-
mission to offer one substitute for the
entire bill.
Fire that started on the northern
water front in Seattle, Wash, during
a hurricane in the night swept east
ward into district thickly covered
with wooden buildings. In short
time the fire covered twenty acres.
The loss was $1,000.000 and 500 peo-
pie were driven homeless into the
storm.
On the assertion that the public
records of the city OF Cambridge,
Mass, have not been safe suarded in
a proper manner, warrants were re-
quested for the arrest .! every one of
Cambridge's thirty-three city fathers,
by Henry E. Woods, os Boston, state
commissioner Of public records.
J. C. Mars, aviator, had a fall from
a height of fifty feet with his Curtiss
biplane while making an exhibition
flight at Topeka, Kan His machine
was caught in a gust of wind while
making turn and capsized. The bi.
plane was broken but Mars climbed
out of the wreck unhurt.
The old chapel of the United States
military academy at West Point, built
in 1886, has passed into history. With
impressive ceremonies the old cdifice
was closed and West Points new
chapel, a beautiful building browning
the mountain back of the old cadet
barracks, was dedicated.
A joint resolution originating in the
house and authorizing Illinois, Indiana
and Michigan to agree on the question
of jurisdiction over crimes committed
on Lake Michigan was adopted by the
senate. It now goes to the president
for his signature.
The last word has been said by the
counsel in the Ballinger-Pin inves.
tigation. The next step will be the re.
port of the congressional committee.
Briefs were filed for the principals in
the controversy with the investigat.
ing committee.
Official dispatches from Managua,
Nicaragua, state that the war Is faStI
reducing western Nicaragua to state
of panic. The expectation of fruit
products has been prohibited and the
money exchange is rapidly increasing.
Governor B. F. Carroll, standpatter,
was renominated for governor at the
Iowa Republican primaries by ma
jority of about 5000 over Warren
Garst, progressive. The progressives
nominated several congressman.
Princeton university will receive
about S1,500,000 as a result of All.
nouncement made at special meeting
OF the board of trustees. The con-
troversy over the graduate college is
said to be at an end
The federal grand jury at Washing
ton returned an Indictment against the
Western Union Telegraph company,
charging it with forty-two violations of
the bucket shop law of March. 1909.
At Harrington, Wash, mob of 100
white men chased all of the thirty
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