The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GENERAL NEWS.


Guided its three days convention
at the national capital after
adopting resolutions urging the appro-
prlation annually OF at least $50,000,-
goo for Improvement of rivers and har-
bors and petitioning congress to in
crease materially the corps of engi-
neers of the army. The resolutions
also set forth that it ought to be
cardinal principle of waterway i'm
provement that no project should be
adopted by congress which has not re-
celved the approval of the army en-
glneeTs. The resolutions also recon-
mended the enlargement of the pow
ers of the interstate commerce COM
mission to the end that the commits
sion may more effectually regulate
competing lines and water carriers.
Representative Joseph F, Ransdell
of Louisville, was reelected president
and Congressman j. f. Ellison of Gin
cinnati. secretary and treasurer.
Nothing short of omniscience can
grasp the value of the farm products
of this year. At no time in the worlds
history has country produced farm
products within one year with value
reaching $8,926,000,000 which is the
value of the agricultural products of
this country for 1910. The value of
farm products from 1899 to the pres
ent year has been progressive without
interruption. If the value of the prod
ucts of 1899 is placed at 100 the value
for this year is 189, or almost double
the value for the census year eleven
years ago. During this period of I'M
exampled agricultural production, a
period of twelve years, during which
the farmers of this country have stead
lily advanced in prosperity and wealth
and in economic independence, in in
telligence and knowledge of agricul-
ture, the total value of farm products
is 1000. 600, 900. From Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson's report.
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
of the proposed terms was voted by
the Chicago Federation of Labor and
the idle operatives were ad, ised to &C.
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 shop.
The federal grand jury at Detroit,
Mich, indicted thirty-two individu-
ais and sixteen firms alleged to con-
troll IS per cent of the annual output
of bathtubs in the Uuited States.
This is one of the biggest hauls so
far as individual prosecutions are con-
gcerned that the department of justice
has ever made under the antitrust
law. If the officers are convicted they
will be liable to jail sentences and the
department will, no doubt, bend every
effort to have such punishment meted
out instead of fines The sixteen COM
panies also were indicted as corpor-
ate ones.
After scathing arraignment in court
in Chicago for the failure OF Mrs.
Aileen Christopher, nemesis OF the
brick trust, and Attorney ]. A. Brown
to establish charges against Charles
F. DeWoody, division superintendent
of the bureau of justice, OF tipping
off, grand jury secrets, the court or
dered them to be held in the county
Jail until the woman produced the pa
pers she claims to have proving her
charges.
Secret service men raided dwell
ling house at 604 Academy street, AS
toria, Long Island, and bagged two
prisoners, quantities of gold, silver
crucibles. copper, alloys and mixing
machines, which made up, they say,
one of the best counterfeiting plants
in the country One of the prisoners
got his education in making coins in
the imperial German mint In Berlin,
and ranks way up in his chosen pro-
fession,
An explosion at Waban Hill, a Boston
suburb was felt in dozen towns Of
Greater Boston with all the violence OF
an earthquake and gave rise to numer-
Gus reports of disaster. 1t occurred
where the Boston Water Works COM
pany is blasting for new water sup
ply tunnel One workman is believed
to have been killed and it is probable
that the damage to the half-completed
tunnel will be considerable.
The United States government has
begun in Chicago relentless hunt
for a band of bomb throwers of the
Black Hand, as a result of an attempt
to blow up the three-story brick build
ing at 108 West Twentieth street, oc-
cupied on the ground floor by Modes
tino Mastrogiovanni, wealthy Ital-
ian, who conducts sub-postal station,
bank and steamship agency.
At Philadelphia, flames on the
fourth floor of the house of Robert W.
Downing, 1924 Locust street, president
of the Colonial Trust company and
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