The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-30
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GENERAL NEWS.


of the brick pool Before the last
grand jury, however, she changed her
tactics and refused to turn over GER
tain papers to the investigating body.
An attempt to smuggle the papers from
Judge Lands court room followed and
a sentence of thirty days in jail for her
self and seventy days for her attor-
ney John A. Brown, was imposed.
Brown filed a writ of error and was
released on a supersedeas some time
ago.
Accusing Knud Rasmussen, Danish
explorer, of "stooping to the depths of
a literary muckraker to get public at
tention," DIR. Frederick A. Cook, the
Brooklyn explorer. gave cut reply to
Rasmussen's recent attack on Cook,
which was published on Nov. 8.
Incidental to his defense of his own
narrative of arctic exploration, DR..
Cook says that by Rasmussen's meth
DDS of investigating Robert E. Peary
with equal ease could be discredited,
but declares he "will take Mr.. Pearys
word in preference to either that Of
ter of his, own accomplishments"
Robert E. Davie, the missing Boy
Broker" of Boston, Mass, who is &C
cused of swindling customers out of
100000 or more by means of stock
deals, and for whom warrant has
been issued, is coming back 10 Boston
and will surrender to the police here
Davie went direct to Chicago when
he left Boston. There he wrote a
letter to an uncle in Mexico. That
letter was returned to his former bust
ness associate, Ralph B. Dudley. I'M
mediately after writing the letter Da-
vie went to Denver and later to the
ranch of his uncle 1t is said that Da-
vie is practically penniless.
The city council of Traverse City,
Mich, is causing survey to be
made and data to be compiled relative
to an entire new sewage system and
sewage disposal plant, and has asked
the Northern Michigan asylum, which
now has independent sewer arrange
nlents, to join with the city in the new
system. Petitions will be- made to the
legislature and a request made for the
state institution to join with the city
in the establishing of modern sew
age disposal plant.
At Terre Haute, Ind, the leg
islative committee of District No. II
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea met with Henry W. Bullock, legal
adviser of the Indiana State Fedora
ton of Labor at district headquarters.
After a conference with the legisla-
tive committee and executive officers
of this district it was decided that the
miners have their measures prepared
and introduced to the legislature with
out further efforts to agree with the
operators.
At Manchester, Ohio, fifty resi-
dents of Adams county pleaded guilty
to indictments charging the sale of
their votes at the November election
and were disfranchised for from five
to seven years and fined $25 and costs.
These pleas came simultaneously
with the return of seventy-nine in
documents by the grand jury for vote
selling. The seventy-nine makes a
total of 241 persons indicted on this
charge as a result of the November
election.
The authorities in the Yang Use
Kiang district in China are en-
deavoring to suppress the sale of chill
dren. which has been carried on re-
Gently on a wholesale scale. 1t is es-
timated that 100000 children have
been sold. Many of these are girls.
Winter is intensifying the famine in
these districts. The roadways are
dotted with the starving and dead.
The relief committee is now making
appeals abroad for aid
The present conditions at the
Danville, Ill.,, branch of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
are criticised, and in report OF an in
spection of the home, submitted to
congress, some glazing defects are
pointed out The report asserts that
"the police of the hospital are not
good sanitary conditions are de-
clared to be bad, and the opinion is ex-
pressed that "the surgeon is too old to
perform his duties
John D. Rockefeller, the great oil
king, has given the University of Chi
cago another $1O,OO0,000. Announce
ment of this fact was made at the uni
versity convocation by Martin A. Ryer-
son, chairman OF. the board of trustees.
The Standard Oil magnate said in
making the gift that he retired from
all connection with the university and
would give it nothing more. His
total gifts in twenty-one years aggre-
gate 100000.
Mrs. Susanna Hinton, of Muncie,
Ind, "a years of age, has become heir
to the $500 estate of her grand grand
children, William and Melissa Site
The children were taken away twenty
years ago by an uncle and all efforts
to locate them have proven futile, so
the court has declared them legally
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