The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.



normal course and according to Dr.
Bier, his physician, the emperor is suf-
fering no pain. The operation on the
hand became necessary owing to a
sharp inflammation which developed.
The Eastern shipyard at Greenport,
N. Y, was burned and twelve yachts
were destroyed. The loss is S275,000.
Canada is becoming one of the
best customers. of the United States.
Exports Of domestic merchandise from
this country to Canada during the first
ten months of the current fiscal year
were greater by s45,00000O than in the
same period of the previous year, while
the total increase in exports to all
ports during the same period was only
s55,OO0,0C0.
Orville Wright made five flights at
Dayton, o., in one of which he reached
an altitude of 1900 feet, from which
height he landed at terrific sreed,
reaching the earth in one minute and
twentw-eight seccn6s, or at the rate
Of over twenty niles an hour, mus
establishing Wcr,l's record for sue.
cessful descent.
Glenn T.. Curtiss won prize of $10,-
0C0 in t. C hours ard thirty-two min,
utes WheE lie flew from Albany to New
York in an aeroplane. He made an
average speed Of 54.06 miles an hour
for the 1877 miles, the distance between
the two cities. surprising any record
ever made by an aeroplane in Iong-dis'
lance flight.
Alexandra, the British queen mother.
received Mr.. Roosevelt at Buckingham
palace. Tie two had long chat, dur
ing which her majesty took occasion
to personally tell the former president
how much she appreciated the sympa-
thy exhibited for her in America at
the time Of her bereavement.
rid at the monument erected to the
memory of the victims of the attempt
against King Alfonso on his wedding
day, May 81, 1906. The bomb did lit
tie damage beyond wounding the an
archist, who, when pursued by the po-
lice, committed suicide.
Edmund T. Parkins, engineer in
charge of the Chicago bureau of the
United States reclamation service, and
one of the chief supporters of Secre-
tary Ballinger in his controversy with
Clifford Pinchot, announced that he will
retire from the active service of the
government.
Practically the entire business Sec
ton of Wister, Okla, was destroyed
by fire. The first fire burned seven
business houses and three hotels. Sew
eral more business blocks were later
destroyed by another fire. Houses
and stores were dynamited to check
the flames
The eighteenth annual convention
of the United States League of Local
Building and Loan Associations open
ed at Charlotte, N c., with about 5000
associations represented. These have
a membership of nearly 100000 and
total assets of almost $800,000,000.
The firm of Durant & Gilmore, grain
merchants with Offices in Albany, Chi
cago and Buffalo, is practically in the
hands of the officials of the National,
Commercial and First National banks
of Albany, who are it's creditors to
the extent of nearly $500,000
General Lara, commanding the gov
eminent troops in Nicaragua, fiercely
attacked the provisional governments
position at the rear of Bluefields. The
government steamer Venus landed 500
troops at lagoon twenty-five miles
north of Blueields bluff.
Announcement was made by the New
York brokerage firm of E. f. Hutton
& Co. that the firm had been sus'
pended from the privileges Of the New
York stock exchange for year, fol-
lowing charges that it had been guilty
of sharing commissions.
1t is announced from Port Arthur.
Tex, that John w. Gates has donated
$25O,GOO for a university for the Meth
odist church and has offered forty.
acre tract of land on a ridge overlook
ing the gulf of Mexico as a site for the
institution
Senator D. W. Holstlaw of Iuka, Mar
ion county, H.. was indicted by the San"
canon county grand jury on charge
of perjury in connection with its inves-
tigation of the $4,000 purchase OF
desks for the Illinois senate and house
chambers.
During a fire at Tampa, Fla, at the
home of the parents of f1ve-year-old
Manuel Hackney, blazing can OF gas
oline tossed from the house by fire.
man, struck the boy and the flames
quickly enveloped him, burning him
to death.
Under the impression that a train
on the siding at Jefferson Junction
was coming toward him on the main
line, w. A. Kelley, freight engineer
for the Northwestern road, Jumped
from his cab and was seriously in
jured.
Fred W. Carpenter, secretary to
President Taft. has resigned and has
been appointed minister to Morocco.