The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.
Observation-Disclosures

ney General Elliott M Major began
buster proceedings against five meat
packing companies by filing quo war
ranto informations in the supreme
court The companies attacked are
Armour Packing company, Swift & Co.,
Morris & Co., Hammond Packing COM
pany. and the st. Louis Dressed Beef
and Provision company.
Captain s. F Cody, the aviator. fell
100 feet in making a flight at Alder.
shot, in England, and was severely in.
jured. His aeroplane was caught in a
gust of wind and, becoming unmanage-
able, plunged to the ground. Cody
was pinned Beneath the wreckage and
rendered ir sensible. His most seri
GUS injuries were found to be on the
head
The Italian foreign Office decided to
follow the provisions Of the Italian
American extradition convention and
ask for the extraGit:on Of Porter
Charlton, the American who killed
his wife at Como Lake, Italy, and is
now under arrest at Hoboken, NJ r,
leaving it with the American authori-
ties to accent or refuse the request
FL. E. Honeywell and William Assur.
mann, pilots Of the balloon Centennial,
were forced to descend in the Ken
lucky mountains near Bowen. Fra
hundred and fifty seven miles Of tie
trip from ST. Louis to the coast had
been made It is said that mountain
GERS fired upon the ballonists when
they were high in the air.
Abandoning trip to New Haven to
see his son graduate from Yale, and
announcing that he would stay in the
capital all summer if necessary, Pres.
ident Taft began his first open fight
with the United States senate in de-
handing the passage Of the postal saw
ings bank bill.
Theodore Roosevelt began what he
hores will be period OF rest at Saga
more HILL With him are Clifford
Pinchot, former chief Of the forestry
service, and James r. Carrie ID, ex-sec-
rotary of the interior. The tennis
court at Sycamore Hill has been put
in shape.
Alexander Chittick, president Of the
Crescent Medical university in Chi
cago, alleged to sell diplomas, who
was charged with using the mails to
defraud, was sentenced to two months
in the county Jail by Judge Lands in
the United States district court at Chi
cagO.
Crop reports in South Dakota are
much more favorable Considerable
rain has fallen i'll practically every
portion of the northwestern and west
ern sections of the state. Parts OF
wyoming and Montana got soaking,
and more rain is predicted.
One of President Taft's automobiles,
driven by his son, Robert A. raft,
ran over and severely injured an Ital-
ian street laborer at Beverly, Mass.
At the hospital it was said there were
indications that the mans skull was
fractured
The whole district in Manitoba be-
tween Fort Francis and Atikekan, east
of Rainy lake, along the international
boundary line was ablaze with forest
fires Millions Of dollars loss was
caused to standing timber, mills and
lumber.
A strike of rag pickers is the latest
trouble threatening the New York pub
lie. Organizers are forming union
n.
nouncement, and strike for higher
wages is contemplated within few
weeks.
Reports that an operation had been
performed on the throat of Theodore
Roosevelt were denied by the secre-
tary of DR.. Walter f. Chappell, of New
York. who was said to have made an
engagement to attend the colonel.
AT Syracuse, n Y, the jury in the
case of Willard II. Peck, former Sec
rotary of the Peoples Mutual Life In
surance association and league, who
was charged with perjury, was unable
to agree and was discharged.
Leland H. Barnard, for number
of years cashier of the Oakland, CAL,
branch of the Sperry Flour company,
is in the city prison accused of en-
bezzling $4,000 from the firm. He
has confessed his shortage.
Mrs. Anna Sinton Taft, sister-in-law
of Pres dent Taft, won IL the appellate
court in Chicago, which gave her the
right to take possession of the La
Sale theater. The fight was over the
renewal of a lease.
The Taft administration scored when
the house passed the bill providing
for an issue of $20.000,0O0 of certifi-
Gates of indebtedness to be used in
completing reclamation projects al
ready started.
The most intense heat ever known
in western Canada was registered.
The thermometer touched 104 in the
shade at some points and it was SO in
Winnipeg. Many prostrations were re-
ported.
DR.. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New