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


French Broad river more than ten feet
above the normal. The water SUBJ
merged the plant of the Asheyille
Electric company and street cars and
electric lights are out of commission.
Three of the five lines Of the South
ern railway out of Asheville were not
operated on account of washouts. One
freight train on the Murphy division,
ran onto an undermined track and
turned completely over in the stream.
The fireman, pinned under the en-
CINE, with his head about six inches
above the water, was almost dead be-
fore extricated Three hours later
trestles over creeks and one bridge
across the French Broad river were
washed away. A $4,000 county bridge
was swept away in the stream
A big sensation was sprung IN
|. the trial at Chicago of Frank. B. Har-
riman, Charles L. Ewing and John M.
Taylor, former Illinois Central Of,
ficials, before Judge Bruggemeyer,
when Attorney Fisher asked G. Fl.
Petty, who was testifyine, to identity
a letter written to him by Henry O.
Ostermann May 25, 1910, in which Os-
termann told Petty to Leep quiet in
case he should be questioned by Illi-
nois Central officials as te graft in the
car repair bills presented to the Hi.
nois Central. Witness Petty at once
identified the signature as that OF
Henry o. Ostermann, following which
the letter was introduced as evidence.
The Kansas Republican party couns
Gil held in Topeka, Kan, was over.
whelmingly insurgent and the band
wagon was run over Senator Curtis
and others who sought to secure an
unqualified endorsement of President
Taft The only endorsement the preSi.
dent received was an assurance that
the Kansas Republicans would COM
mend only such acts as met with the
approval of the Kansas insurgents.
William Allen White, under the di.
rectin of Senators Bristow, Victor
Murdoch and Gov. Stubs, wrote that
part of the platforms which relates to
national matters.
At meeting of the American Bar
association held in Chattanooga,
Tenn, George W. Chamlee, counsel
for James r. Watts Of New York,
brought charges against Joseph II.
Choate, former ambassador to Eng
land, and asked fer his expulsion from
the American Bar association. The
charges were referred to the griev
ance committee Choate is accused,
Of neglecting the interests of his eli
emit, Watts, in lawsuit
The defense in the bribery trial
at Chicago of Lee O'Neil Browne
introduced testimony to show that
Charles A. White star witness for the
state, had threatened to make the
Lorimer bunch come across by de-
claring that he had been bribed to
vote for Lorimes for senator, and thus
get money for bis silence on the sub
ject White at that time declared he
was looking ous for Charlie.
At Columbus o., mob of fully
1000 people battled with the police
when street car rioting broke out with
fresh fury. Struck down by the clubs
of policemen, several were seriously
injured. One, deputy sheriff, mis-
taken for rioter, may die. A chauf-
feur for police automobile was
struck unconscious with a brick. Fifty
rioters are arrested and locked in the
city prison
1t has developed in steel circles in
Pennsylvania that one of the indus.
tries stopped by the great Johnst own
flood of 1889 is to be resumed at once.
The intelligence came through the
placing of contracts for the construc-
ton of the new mills on the site of
those destroyed by the flood, and
which for years has been about the
only scar caused by the waters that
is visible.
At Montreal, Can, foremost figures
in the Roman Catholic hierarchy al
dressed Montreal congregations at the
twenty-first Iucharistic congress when
Cardinal Vannutelli, the papal legate
to the congress, presided at mass at
the cathedral Cardinal Logue at Notre
Dame and Father Vaughan, the most
militant and most picturesque speaker
of the faith, at ST. Patrick's.
At Bilbao, Spain, violent attacks By
strikers on workers led 20 frequent
clashes with. the troops The worst
rioting was in the Gale Rivera and
the neighboring streets Gen. De
Bourbon, personally heading the sol
diery, occupied the bridges and
stopped all traffic between the upper
and lower towns. This confined the
rioters to the lower town.
The retaining wall of the speed
way in New York city along the Har-
lem river gave way in two different |
places and slid into the water The
first cave-:n occurred above High |
Bridge at One Hundred and Seventy
Seventh street, whe nabout 500 feet
of the wall caved, carrying with it
about twerty feet of the speedway
proper