The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-03-25
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
GENERAL NEWS.


Christened with water that came
from springs on the old farms of JEFF
ferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln IN
Kentucky, the big steamship Kentuck-
ian was launched at Sparrow's Point.
Md. Miss Nancy Johnson, daughter OF
Congressman Johnson Of Kentucky,
was the sponsor for the vessel.
Forty present and former members
of the Pittsburg select and common
councils were Indicted on charges OF
bribery. Ten more are under sus-
pended sentences and held in $500
bonds upon their confession of sharing
in a pool of 100000 to influence the
votes of the municipal bodies.
A statewide strike IS now the hope
of the Philadelphia car strike leaders
Carrying out the action taken by the
State Federation of Labor at its con-
vention at Newcastle last week, state
President E. e. Greenawalt has sent
out a call for a vote on state strike
The Italian cabinet resigned The
retirement Of the ministry, which was
formed on Dec 10, 1909, with Baron
Sidney %>nnino as premier, was due to
the realization that the governments
mercantile marine subsidies measure
was doomed to defeat.
Enrico Caruso, the tenor, appeared
in a Brooklyn police court as wit
ness against two Italians who are &C.
cused of trying to extort $4,000 from
him by threatening letter., signed
"Black Hand" The prison 3rs were
held in $4,000 bail.
Robert Mather, chairman of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing company, authorized 6 denial of
the Pittsburg report that negotiations
are under way for combination of the
Westinghouse and General Electric
companies.
One man was shot near Youngs-
town, O., when a mob of infuriateG
strikers from local powder plant sur
rounded the home of George Hayre,
who had refused to join them, and at
tempted to storm the house. HayTe
opened fire.
That bad teeth play an important
part in the making of criminals was
the theory advanced by Dr. w. A..
Evans, health commissioner of Chica-
go, who addressed the dental conven-
ton at it's closing session at Cleve-
land.
Mrs. Beulah Stubs Sunderland,
daughter of Traffic Manager J. C.
Stubs, of the Hartman lines at Chi.
cago, was granted divorce and SIS
alimony at Reno New, from John Sun
derland, prominent socially in that
city.
Mrs. J. Harchibald, 101, and her
brother, Francisco Arbello, 104 years
old, appeared in court at Los Angeles,
Cal, in a suit resulting from the en-
ployment of detective to trace $500
in coin dug from their back yard.
The jury in the French Lick Hotel
company gambling case at Paoli, Ind.
returned a verdict for the company
Thomas Taggart, the politician, is said
to be the owner Of the hotel and was
one of the witnesses in the case.
Colonel Temple, in his closing argu-
ment for the government in the case
of John c. Mabray and his associates
at Council Bluffs, Ia, said the proceeds
of the alleged fake race swindles
amounted to $1,500,000.
The four men-Abe Reed, John Earle,
Harry McCrum and Carleton Gates
who were arrested on suspicion of be.
ing implicated in the numerous in
cendiary fires in Huntington, Pa, have
made a full confession.
Application for the extradition of
three of the most prominent Chicago
packers indicted by the Hudson coun-
ty grand jury will be made by Prosecu-
tor Garven to Governor Fort of New
Jersey at Trenton.
Beth Lawson, fishing from a skiff
off the ocean end of the San Pedro,
Cal, breakwater, hooked a sixty foot
brown whale, which later made for
the open sea, carrying pole and line
with it.
The police of Baltimore and other
cities have been requested to find
George E. Sutton, aged forty-five, sec
rotary of the Wholesale Fish Associa-
ton OF Baltimore who has disap-
peared.
The beef packers are charged di-
rectly with the high cost of meat in
the report of the Cleveland special
grand jury which was called to inves-
tigate the high cost of living
A demand for an increase in wages
has been made to officials of the Big
Four railroad at Cincinnati by COM
mittee representing the engineers in
the employ of the company.
Six altar boys have been arrested
following the discovery of systematic
robbery of charity boxes in the I'm
maculate Conception church, Pitts
burg, Pa.
Announcement was made in Mexico
City that Paul Morton, head of the
Equitable, has been appointed vice
president of the Pan-American rail
road.
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