The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-06-09
GENERAL NEWS.

night, Iruse Rey, former mayor of
the little town of Guadalupe, forty
miles east of Juarez alighted from a
street car in front of the Juarez Gus
Toulouse and bulge in his hip peck
ct attracted the attention of the po-
lice, who saw him about to ascend the
STEPS of the customhouse. Roja, po-
hceman, placed him under arrest and
found tin can bomb in his hip peck
ct. He took the prisoner to the jail,
where he was placed in confinement
Two other men were arrested as sus-
poets, but released later The bomb
was full of dynamite The prisoner
will probably be put to death.
Representative George B. Nye of
Pike county was acquitted by jury
at Columbus, Ohio, of soliciting $500
bride from State Supervisor of Pub
lie Printing E. w. Crawford on April
1S. The state of Ohio thus loses the
first of the legislative bribery cases.
The jury was in session only one
hour and half. DR.. Nye faces three
other indictments. The case which
the state lost was considered its
strongest. The other cases depend
upon the evidence of Burns detectives
and their character has been raked
over and their previous regulations
deIved into by detectives employed by
the indicted solons.
Many of the insurrecto generals are
&c be retained in the service of the
Mexican army. General Jose De La
Luz Blanco, now in command of
JuareZ, is to be retained as a general
of rurales, and Jose Perfecto Lomeli,
who quit lieutenant-colonelcy in the
federal army for an irsurrecto general
ship, is to succeed General Torres as
military commander Of Sonora, and
will be made a brigadier in the regu-
lar establishment. Pascual Orozco, in
command of the insurrecto troops Of
Chihuahua, is to be made a brigadier
in the regular
Attornew General Wickersham, ap-
pearing in Washington City before
the house committee Oh expenditures
in the department of justice, testified
that he had advised the United States
Steel corporation on several occasions
from 1901 to 1909 during his connec-
ton with the firm of Strong & Cad
wallader and that he had received his
share Of the fee turned into the firm
for services to the American Sugar
Refining company, personally attend
ed to by Henry w. Taft, brother Of the
president.
The state of Michigan has eighty
secondary schools on the list OF
schools accredited by the North Cen
trial Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools. This means that any
student graduated by one of these
schools will be admitted to any uni
versity or college belonging to the as
ISOLATION without examination, upon
presenting certificate from his school
showing that he has done the work
required for entrance to the college
or university at which he applies for
admission.
Taft's speech on Canadian reciprocity
in Chicago has aroused bitter resent
ment among certain senators who are
opposing the pending trade agreement.
These senators are ugly over the
charge of the president that the OPP
position is inspired by the American
manufacturers of print paper and
those who control the lumber supply
Of the United States.
At Chicago a mad dog bit if
teen persons, a majority OF them girls
and little children. Four of the vic
tins were taken to the Pasteur insti-
tute. The dog finally was shot and
killed by policemen after a crowd of
citizens, led by the police, had chased
it to Thirty-eighth street and Campbell
avenue.
Cleveland and northern Ohio were
swept by three storms which did great
damage to property in cities and the
farming districts Several persons are
reported to have been injured A de-
LUCE Of water resembling a cloudburst
fell in the business section of Cleve-
land.
Four central western cities, through
their commercial organizations, have
protested to the interstate commerce
con mission against the cancellation
by middle western railways of what
are known as return shipment rates. 4"
Jack Johnson engaged the chief en-
gineer's staterocm on the Kronprinz
Wilhelm for the trip to Europe, and
trouble is prophesied when the black
man appears to eat at the first cabin
table.
Judge Dyer of the United States cir
cult court in St Louis appointed a re-
ceiver for the University Heights
Realty and Development company,
sone OF the E, c. Lewis corporations.
In secluded defile on the road over
which Sultan Mehmed will pass on
his tour of Macedonia have been found
large stores of dynamite and bomb
making apparatus.
Six hundred hotel men from all parts
of the United States and Canada are
attending the annual meeting of the
Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit associa-