The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-06
GENERAL NEWS,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Ballinger-Pinchot congressional com
mittee in Washington and declared
that President Roosevelt had made
| office for the purpose of cleaning up"
that bureau. The secretary character
lied one statement of Louis r. CLAWS
before the committee as a 'swillful and
deliberate lie."
Railroad freight rates throughout
the country will be materially increas-
ed by tariffs filed with the interstate
commerce commission by western
trunk lines The rates changed pri-
marily affect points on and between
Missouri river and Mississippi river
transfers, and proportionately will in
crease the rates from those points to
Atlantic and Pacific seaboard termin-
ais.
The supreme court of South Carroll
ma sustained the Judgment of the cir
cult court in which w B. Avant and
Dr. G. C. Bingham were sentenced to
three and one-half years in the peni-
Tertiary for killing Mrs. Bingham. the
wife of the Doctor Mrs Bingham was
killed at Murrells Inlet beach while
dressed i'm bathing suit.
AS the result of conference held
in Washington by Michigan Republi-
can political leaders, it was announced
that Senator Burrows will remain in
the senatorial race AT the SepIem-
Der primaries Burrows and Represen-
tative Townsend both will be candi
dates and will agree to abide by the re-
suit of the vote
Fritz Augustus Heinze, heralded at
one time as the copper king, was put
on trial before Judge Hough in the
United States circuit court in New
York on consolidated Indictment
charging generalization and misap-
plication of the funds of the Mercan-
tile National bank, of which he was
president.
Frank Maier, of the firm of Morri-
son & Maier, A Broad street, New
York, was arrested and arraigned be-
fore Commissioner Shields on charge
of conspiracy against the federal gov
eminent in connection with the buck
et-shop crusade.
The hearing of the government case
Union Pacific railroads will take place
probably about Oct. /. The selection
of definite date and place will be
made by the judges of the eighth cir
cult at ST Paul in May
President Taft at Carnegie institute
in Pittsburg discussed the aesthetic
side of human life. In the afternoon
at Forbes park he joined 10000 ether
enthusiastic fans at the base ball game
between the Pirates and the Cubs of
the National league
Announcement is made at Cincins
natl that an agreement has been ar
rived at by which switchmen in the en-
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio South
western are to be given an increase
of per cent over the present scale
Black Hand letters threatening the
destruction by dynamite of the new
st. Ladislaus Roman Catholic church
at South Norwalk, Conn, have filled
the foreign born members of the con-
gregation with CONSERVATION.
The law enacted few years ago
limiting the employment of certain
railway employees engaged in moving
trains to eight hours out of twenty-fouf
was declared constitutional by the
New York court of appeals.
T o,,ic DoY,JboY hoe Vuon Tho QE0 000
offered by the London Daily Mail for
the first aviator who should fly from
London to Manchester, within TWEEN
ty-four hours with not more than two
descents to the ground.
The jury in the case Of Joseph NJ
Huston, the Philadelphia architect
charged with conspiracy in connection
with furniture contract for the state
capitol, returned verdict of guilty of
defrauS:ng the state
Fire of unknown. origin caused loss
estimated at $4,000 in the plant of
the Anheuser-Busch Brewing associa-
ton at ST. Louis, Id for a time it
threatened the enti e establishment
with destruction.
The betrothal is announced of Ruth,
daughter of William ]. Bryan Of Ne
braska, and Lieut. enant Reginald Alt
ham Owen, of the British royal engin-
GERS, who Is now stationed at Jamacai
The decree of the supreme court OF
Tennessee busting the STANDARD Oil
company from doing business III the
state of Tennessee was affirmed by the
supreme court Of the United States
A special from Saloniki says that
500 Albanians, chiefly women and chill
dren, are reported as having been kill
ed in the artillery bombardment of
Godauntz by the Turkish forces.
Theodore Roosevelt was the guest
of the city of Paris in the Magnificent
Hotel de Vile, or Town Hall, which
has played so conspicuous part In the
history of France.
The beautiful new home of the In