The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-08-26
neutrality-suspicious.
GENERAL NEWS.

An alleged plot OF the Clerical
party in Portugal forg the overthrow
of the Portuguese government and
the establishment Of military dicta-
torship is given space in the press. It
is known that rifles and revolvers are
being struggled into the country daily
across the Spanish frontiers and that
the Republicans are now well armed.
1t is feared that the elections will be
marked by disturbances
An abnormal condition over which
the city of Denver has no control is
given as the reason for the high sui
eide record there. According to a re-
cent report of the government Den
yer is fourth in the number of suicides
City officials say that the high rate is
due to persons in destitute circum-
stances coming to the city in search
of health, becoming discouraged and
ending their lives.
The railroad and warehouse commits.
sion of the state or illinois has
come to the conclusion that it has the
same power over express companies
that it has over railroads, and it's in
vestigation of express rates in Illi-
nois has convinced it that they are too
high. 1t will therefore order a reduc-
ton of 10 Fer cent in all rates between
Illinois points, to become effective
Oct. 1.
Henry G. Frick, the American steel
king of Pitsburg, has just purchased
Rembrandts celebrated portrait "A
Polish Cavalier" for 100000. The
price, one that has set art-lov.
ing Paris agog with gossip, is rec.
ord one for Rembrandt. Mr.. Prick
is an art lover and is the possessor of
one of the finest private collections OF
the old masters in America.
The two new members of the bench
of the supreme court of the United
States, who have been house hunting
in Washington have found homes af
ter a long search and careful consider
alton. Associate Justice Hughes has
leased residence at Twenty-fourth
street and Massachusetts, avenue, N.
W., and Associate Justice Lurton one
at 1921 I street, N. w.
That the state Of California Is
insurgent in it's Republican
politics was proved beyond doubt
when Hiram Johnson. leading expo
nent of anti-administration doctrines
swept the field in the direct primaries
winning his party's nomination for
governor by plurality that borders
on 10000
The boom of cannon was frequent
ly heard over lower Narragansett bay
in honor of the secretary of the navy
Geo. Won L. Meyer. The occasion
was the secretary's inspection of the
ship of the Atlantic battleship feet
which he did not have a chance to
visit at Provincetown earlier in the
month
At Detroit, Mich, John Purcell and
Eddie Mullin and Peter Drucelius mar
1owly escaped being burned to death
when the James B and ], a 35-foot
launch in which they were sitting, pre-
pared to take vacation trip to the
Flats, caught fire and burned at the
dock at the foot of Hubbard avenue.
At Plymouth, Ind, in a rear
end collision of two sections of a
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail
road, Joseph Mcfarland, fire.
man, was probably fatally injured and
John HALEY, conductor; Charles
Moore, engineer, and Clyde Faulkner.
fireman, were seriously hurt.
Rev. Conzolazia an Italian priest
of the Trenton, N. j., diocese, who ere.
ated stir in church circles by marry.
ing the 16-year-old daughter of Franz
Johann, is on his way to Rome, deter
mined, 1t is said, to confess that he
has broken his vows to the church and
to accept his punishment.
At St. Paul Mimi, Frank W. Water.
man, president Of the Ramsey County
tence of ferty-five days in the work
house, without the option of a fine, by
Judge Finchout in police court for ex-
ceeding the speed limit allowed by law.
Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of former
President Roosevelt, is roughing it In
MOuLdud, dCCOlnpduACO w I1Cus
ry Fairfield Osborn, famous paleento1.
ogist of the United States geological
survey; Miss Osborn, his daughter;
and party of guides.
An unusual lowering Of the water
In Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the
principal sources of the Merrimac riv.
err, threatens to tie up millions OF
spindles in the textile cities along the
Merrimac in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire.
Unless the late run Of salmon In
western and central Alaska exceeds
that of previous years the output Of
packers this season will fall short.
The pack in nearly all districts, en-
cept Cooks inlet, is far below that of
last year
President Pedro Montt of Chile died
at Bremen shortly after arriving on
the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse from New York. His death was
caused by heart failure following re.
cant alto ck of angina DactoriS