The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-29
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GENERAL NEWS.


three employees, while several guests
received severe injuries. Among those
surviving who suffered the most were
the Rev. William John McCaughan,
former pastor of the Third Presbyter-
ian church in Chicago, and his wife.
Iney were caught on an upper floor,
and IN attempting to find an exit
through the hall were terribly burned
Thelr escape being cut OF the minis
ter and his wife finally threw them
selves from an upper window. Both
struck the pavement with great force
and when removed to hospital it was
found that their skulls were fractured.
Because he placed in a window of
his saloon an Ontario street and st.
ing This Is John DIS Place" John D.
Schnapps was arrested. The COM
plant was filed by Frank F. Marmann,
who says Mr. Rockefeller is known as
John D., and asked what the oil
kings Sunday school pupils would say
saw that sign. Marmann said he con-
sidered the sign an insult to my good
friend, Rockefeller
Herkimer county New York, is
used to red hot political conflicts, but
it is conceded that the present fight
for the Republican congressional nom
ination in the REIMBURSEMENT district,
composed of the counties of Oneida
and Herkimer, between Theodore
Douglas Robinson, nephew Of EXPIRES
ident Roosevelt, and Charles S. Mil
lington. the present incumbent, is
about the warmest contest ever waged
in this hot bed of Reprblicanism.
At Omaha, Neb.. the National AS
ISOLATION of Advertising Clubs of
America took liberties with Charles
w. Fairbanks of Indianapolis, when
they had the ex-vice president of the
United States arrested, and in the po-
lice patrol started Ostensibly for the
city Jail but instead carried him to
the Field club, where he was the
guest of honor at luncheon which
had been prepared for him.
Reports from Santiago de Cuba tell
of great excitement, it being feared
that an Instruction will start there.
General Vincent Mimet has disap-
peared and Colonel Janet was seen
leaving the harbor in boat, his des.
tination being unknown. It is sus-
pected that they are involved in the
movement and have left to meet at
an appointed place.
AT Sacramento, Cal, two young
men giving the names of James Brown
and Charles Dunbar who were arrested
as horsethief suspects, have been prac-
tically identified as the bandits who
held up and robbed the Japan mail
train on the Southern Pacific at Good
year on April L. The numbers OF the
revolvers they carried led to the iden.
LITIGATION.
Congressman Joseph F. O'Connell,
Tenth Massachusetts district, was con-
victed at Boston of having violated
the election laws of the state. 1t was
charged that he distributed cards at
polling place in Dorchester during the
city election last January. Judge
Churchill imposed a fine of $40. The
congressman appealed the case.
A Philadelphia, Pa, after the
Joint committee of the Conductors
and Trainmens Union on the Pennsyl.
yania lines, east of Pittsburg had held
conferences with General Manager
Meyers of the railroad, it was said by
both sides that working basis of set
Element had been agreed upon, many
misunderstanding cleared.
August Ropke. assistant secretary
and bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust
company of Louisville, KY, is now be.
lieved to Lave stolen S1,140,000 from
the institution which employed him
for eighteen years. His thetts nave
wiped out the banks entire surplus.
President Taft has appointed Hen
derson M. Somerville of New York as
president of the board of United States
general appraisers. Mr.. Somerv1lle
has been a general appraiser OF mer-
chandise at New York for many years
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, has announced
that the Bucks Stove and Range COM
pany of St. Louis has agreed to aban-
don it's open shop policy and here
after to employ none but union men.
Near Barcelona, in Spain, while
he was making cross-country flight
Aviator Ehrmann's aeroplane was hit
by lightning and fell to the ground.
The aviator escaped uninjured, which
is regarded as almost miraculous.
The late Melville w Fuller, chief
Justice of the United States supreme
court, died possessed of proNrty val
ued at sa5O,000, while his wife, who
died in 1904. possessed an estate val
ued at 81: coo.
London directors of the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills company OF
Minneapolis charge that 100000 are
mysterious missing and blame spec
ulation in wheat and loose business