The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-09-02
GENERAL NEWS.

ers were held in New York city tc
ratify the compromise agreement fixed
up with the bosses. The majority OF
the meetings broke up in disorder. The
Manhattan Lyceum meeting was
crowded with strikers. Treasurer John
B. Lennon, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, Delegate Mitchell of
Cloakmakers local No. 9, and several
others were scheduled to speak When
one of them read the agreement and
came to the portion where cne closed
shop read "Do and is waived" he
could get no further Shouts, cav calls
and other noises assaulted his ears and
the audience, en- masse, began to press
forward threateningly. Lennon tried
to speak, but his voice was drowned in
the babel of excavations and invective.
Jacob Goldberg, chairman, had no bet
ter luck
Five persons were badly injured
near Scranton, Pa, one of them fatally,
while returning from joy ride through
Nay Aug Park. The auto containing
the party became unmanageable and
plunged down fifty foot embankment,
landing on pile of rocks. The party
had been to Astors Road for dinner.
N. d. Simpson, aged 30, a freight Of
fetal of the Laurel line, the man who
gave the dinner, was caught under the
automobile and crushed He died at
the state hospital. Roy A. Hunts1nger,
the chauffeur, with marvellous luck, es-
capped with a few bruises. The other
three We're girls.
President Taft at Beverly heard from
John F. O'Rourke, president of the
O'Rourke Engineering Construction
company of New York the story of
how, on next Christmas morning the
hull of the Maine can be lifted clear
of the waters in Havana harbor. Mr..
O'Rourke, whose company wants the
contract for raising the wreck of the
Maine, explained to the president that
the hull can be brought up in such
perfect condition as to permit the
"hOAC WIN " WuCLuSl IH6
Spanish-American war was justified.
Mrs. Jack" Cudahy has won her
suit for divorce in Kansas City, Mo.
The petition WAS on account of SIN.
compatibility 1t had been agreed
that the four children should be given
Michael Cudahy of Omaha Mrs.
Cudahy was on the stand ten minutes
only and Immediately after her testi-
mony that her husband had treated
her cruelty, divorce decree was
granted her, fifteen minutes after the
action had been begun
Alleging that F. L. Shutter, who has
served one term as sheriff of Grand
Traverse Mich, is not an American
citizen, c. E. Taylor has filed his peti.
ton for the Republican nomination.
In an advertisement published Tay-
Tor states that Shutters father came
to this country from Canada and took
out his first naturalization papers but
failed to take out his second Under
a special act Shutter could become a
citizen in ninety days, but filed his
petition only Aug. 16.
Former President Roosevelt has
started on a speech making tour of the
country. His first stop was at Utica
N. Y, the home of Vice President
Sherman, at whom the colonel took
rap by indorsingq State Senator F. M.
Davenport for denomination to the leg
islature. Mr.. Davenport and the vice
president are bitter political foes, and
warfare is imminent.
Circulars will shortly be sent
next day or two circulars will be sent
from the headquarters of the United
Mine Workers to all the local unions
throughout the country that have no
strikes on hand, levying 81 a week on
each working member to support the
strikes which are now in progress in
several districts.
j. c. Mars barely escaped death by
drowning in the sea when he was
hurled in the Narrows opposite Fort
Wadsworth, while attempting thrill
ing flight from the Sheepshead Bay
race track to Staten island. The avi-
ator and his machine, a Curtiss BIZ
plane, fell 200 feet.
81 will not be candidate for pres
ident in 1902" declared William Jen-
nings Bryan while on visit to KaIa-
mazoo. This is the first time the Ne.
braskan has positively stated that he
will not make an effor. to secure the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency in 1872
: Preparations in London, Eng, of
the evidence for the preliminary hear
ing of DR.. H. H. Crippen, accused Of
numbering his wife, Belle Elmore, the
actress. have been completed and he
will be given as swift justice as the
English law permits.
Hoke Smith has again been nomin-
ated for governor of Georgia, defeat.
ing Gov Joseph M. Brown, who, two
years ago, defeated Smith after he had
dismissed Brown from the railroad
commission on the ground that Brown
uync dominated nv tho raiIroodC