The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.


spread movement to bar the moving
pictures of the contest from cities
where there is danger of race trouble.
Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta, Gin
cinnati, and many other cities in the
west and south are most active in this
direction and their example is likely
to be followed in other places where
there is large proportion of negro
population
Only two members of President
Taft's cabinet are In the capital of
the nation Sitting on the lid"
as former President Roosevelt desig-
mated this summer assignment. On
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch
cock, the ranking officer of the two
here, devolves the duty of being the
head of the government in Washington
at present. The other member of the
cabinet in Washington is Secretary. of
the Navy Meyer.
The big triple decked steamboat
Grand Republic, returning from Rock
away beach, with about thirty excur-
SionistS on board, took fire in the lower
New York bay. The burning craft,
the sister ship of the Inflated General
Slocum, was headed at once to the
dock of the Crescent Athletic club,
where all her panic-stricken passen-
gers were landed
Customs officers at New York have
been warned to watch for the dia-
monds, valued at 100000, smuggled
from Luderitz Bay in the German
province of Southwest Africa. The
first reports were that the smugglers
were aboard German liner, but now
there are suspicious that the diamonds
will be carried to New York.
The crew of the yacht Tolna, owned
by Count Rudolph Festetics de Tolna
of Austria mutinied with the purpose,
it is reported. of footing the vessel.
The sailors bound two of the officers,
but the count quelled the mutiny with
a revolver. The ringleaders OF the
mutiny were handed over to the au-
thorities at Madeira.
Glenn Curtiss added more laurels to
his already formidable title to king
of the Air." by setting a new Ameri-
can record for a fifty-mile aeroplane
flight at Atlantic City, N. ]. He
covered half-hundred measured miles
in five-mile laps along the beach in
elapsed time of 1 hour IA minutes SO
seconds.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Miss
Inez Milholland, the American suf-'
fragists, have arrived in London.
Miss Milholland stated that on the
trip across on the steamship Lusitania
Senator Depew presided at a meeting
of 600 passengers at which $1,000 was
subscribed for the suffrage cause.
Though he has just returned from
a fifteen months trip abroad with his
father, the ex-president, Kermit Roose-
welt sailed for Paris on the Hamburg
American liner America. The purpose
of the trip, it is stated, is to continue
his studies interrupted by his trip to
Africa
John D. and Mrs Rockefeller, with
retinue of servants, arrived at Forest
Hill, their home in East Cleveland, O.,
to pass the summer. The arrival had
been delayed by the illness of Mrs.
Rockefeller. She is said to be greatly
improved.
At Kansas City the jury that heard
the evidence in the bleached flour case
returned a verdict which declared
that the flour seized was adulterated
and misbranded, as charged by the
government in the prosecution OF the
case.
Representative Walter Preston
Brownlow of the First congressional
district of Tennessee, after suffering
for several years from BrigLt's disease,
died in the hospital of the National
Soldiers home at Johnson City, Tenn.
New York is in the throes of the
garment workers walkout, which has
called out more workers than even
the union leaders expected. The num-
Der of strikers is estimated at $4,000.
About 1900 shops are affected.
Colonel Jorge Valera, mulatto, and
six other persons, most of them col
Ored, were arrested in Cuba by the
secret police charged with conspiracy
to start an uprising against the gov
eminent.
The Louisiana legislature elected
Jared Young Sanders, governor of
Louisiana, United States senator to
succeed the late Senator McEnery, the
term running until March, 1915.
On petition of the International Pa
per company, Federal Judge Colt APP
pointed John Norris of New York and
Charles F. Weed receivers of the Bos-
ton Herald company.
President Taft has appointed B. S.
Rodey of Albuquerque, N. NJ, TO be
United States district attorney at
Nome. Alaska, vice George B. Grigs-
by, removed.
The school census, just completed,
gives 1858 children and 1929 per-
sons for the Joliet school district,
which includes small section outside