The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-05-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
GENERAL NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Arizona held the attention of the
house of representatives. Reports were
received from committees on resclu-
tons of inquiry and the committee on
territories, which met early in the day
and approved the subcommittee report,
recommending statehood for both ter
ritories after they shall have voted on
certain cons titutional amendments.
Arizona is asked to resubmit the re
call provision of it's constitution, vot-
ing on an amendment which eliminates
the judiciary New Mexico is asked
to vote on an amendment making its
constitution more easily amen6able
The joint resolution reported by Chair
man Flood OF the committee on terri
tories, will be called up later in the
week
At New York, Saturday twenty-five
men standing in First avenue saloon
experienced a spasm of terror when
powerful racing automobile leaped
through the plate glass window, push
ed its hood into the room and came to
a standstiil in the debris just as the
rear wheels cleared the window sill.
The men liberated John Juhasz and
his wife. Juhasz is a noted racing
driver and he deliberately pointed his
car al the window to avoid running
down two children who toddled in
front of the car. He wrecked the car
and was glad of it, he said, SO long as
he did not strike the children,
At Los Angeles, Cal, The ap-
plication of John J. Mcnamara for the
fixing of bail on the charge of dy-
namiting was disallowed by Superior
Judge BorGwell without prejudice and
with leave to renew it at any time.
Recently Mrs. Inez c. Decker, repre-
senting an organization of working
women in Los Angeles, invited the
mother of J. j. Mcnamara to come to
this city as their guest. Mrs. McNa-
mara's reply contains an acceptance.
She said she is unable to pay her own
way and must depend on the women
who invited her for fare and other eX
penses.
Education of the Filipino is a task
toward which insular bureau officials
are directing special effort and to aug
ment the small army of 5000 American
teachers already employed ins Philip
pine schools the government is appeal
ing for more instructors. Examina-
tons will be held throughout the coun-
try Aug. so and 81 next to obtain list
of eligibles.
The educational system in the Phil
ippines, according to the insular bu-
reau, has grown during the last ten
years to such an extent that there is
now an attendance of more than half
a million school children. Three and
a quarter million dollars of Philippine
revenues is expended annually in this
branch of the service.
Leaving his engine, which was pull
ing an eastbound Wabash passenger
train, Charles Miller, an engineer, led
a party of fifty passengers to the burn
ing home of Miss Daisy Whitaker,
west of Chilliccthe, Mo-, and ex-
tinguished the flames, probably saving
the lives of Miss Whitaker and her
aged mother.
Following the placing of a small
brown bean pot filled with white
powder under the famous Bridge of
Signs at the Tombs prison, New
York, an Italian boy and an old wom-
an were arrested They are suspected
of trying to blow up the prison
Attorneys for the Alpha Cement
company have presented to the inter-
state commerce commission figures to
show that the total capitalization of
the United States Steel corporation
and ]. P. Morgan & Co. concerns
amounts to SIS, 857 629,339.
AT Washington Monday the Republi-
can senators in party conferences unan-
imously nominated Senator j. H. Gal
linger of New Hampshire as president
pro tenn. OF the senate to succeed SEN
ator William p Frye of Maine, who re-
signed owing to ill-health.
Captain John III. Gibbons assumed
the superintendency of the United
States naval academy at Annapolis.
The wealth produced on farms of
the United States was $8,926, 100000
during 1910, as estimated by the de-
partment of agriculture.
Representative of eight states met
at Fargo, N d., and formed the North
western Live Stock Sanitary associa-
ton, the object of which is to adopt
a uniform method of stock inspection
and to secure a uniform certificate of
sanitation.
The government is holding out at
tractive inducements to ambitious
young men and women to become
teachers in the Philippine Island
schools. Examinations are to be held
Aug. 80 and 81.
The steamship Corwin sailed from
Seattle for Nome, the famous gold
camp on Boring sea, where 1900 peo-
pie have been cut off from direct con-
nection with the world since last
October.
Farm life is more perilous than that
of the artisan or factory employee, say
Of he National Association