The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-08

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~ lORk-About two thousand
= czsonger boys and brokers' clerks
crte.1e the offices of ]. P. Morgan &
90, at Bread and Wall streets. drown
ed ne voice Of Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst, the British suffragette, in
tunult of jeers, catcalls and cheers.
Mrs Pankhurst was scheduled to
make an address on suffrage there at
noon She matched her voice against
her tormentors for fifteen minutes and
then gave up the unequal struggle.
When. she sat down there was a rush
for the automobile from which she
spoke. The crowd wedged about the
machine, stripped it of its flags and
bunting, and with derisive cheering
opened a lane in front through which
a score of men and boys propelled
the car down the street
WASHINGTON Some interesting
results are expected to be obtained
from experiments to be conducted Off
Pensacola, Fla, during the winter
months by the cruiser Montgomery,
the torpedo experiment ship of the
navy. Ike vessel has lust arrived at
Pensacola and probably will begin its
torpedo tests within a short time
Although the Montgomery gees to
southern waters every winter for eX-
periments special interest attaches TO
it's trip this year owing to the tact
that it has aboard number Of mid
shipmen who Will be taught the secrets
of torpedo firing and building.
KANSAS CITY, KAN.-In a strone
effort to remedy the marriage laws and
thereby diminish the divorce evil, John
T. Simms, judge of the probate curt
and juvenile courts, will introduce a
resolution for adoption at the session
of the charities and corrections foarG
To do away with srlove at first sight"
marriages, Judge Simms would have a
declaration of intention to be married
filed with the county clerk ninety
days before the ceremony takes place.
He advocates also medical eXamina
tons of both the man and the woman
by board of physicians to be appoint
ed by the governor.
RICHMOND, IND.-The establish
ment Of a new central system by
the Pennsylvania railroad, by which
Nettleton Neff, superintendent Of tho
Richmond division, will be promoted
to become superintendent Of the Akron
division, was announced. The new
system will include the Cleveland,
Akron and Cincinnati railway and the
Toledo, Columbus and Ohio River rail,
way, in charge of general superin'
tendent, with headquarters at Toledo.
There will be four divisions on tho
new system, namely: Toledo, Akron,
GAINESVILLE and Marietta.
TORONTO, ONT.-About quarter
of a million people from Toronto and
surrounding districts welcomed the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught to
this city on the occasion of their first
official visit to Toronto. They were
met at the station by the lieutenant
and mayor of Toronto, who escorted
them with a bodyguard through four
miles of gorgeously decorated streets,
lined with the military, high school
cadets and school children and a
cheering multitude.
SAN ANTONIO, TEx.-All the or
M, ind ivyf6 o1r
refused to allow their halls to be used
by General Bernardo Reyes, for an
address. The Atheneum ASSOCIATION of
the High school invited the general to
deliver an address, and when they
sought an auditorium they met with
fiat refusals, officers of all organiza-
lions fearing they would become in
volyed with federal authorities, mas
much as Reyes is under bond for VIC
lation of the neutrality laws.
TETERAN, PERSIA-Russia made
in plain words a demand for the dis
missal of w Morgan Shuster, the
American treasurer general of Persia,
a point at which she has long trans
parently been aiming. She has sent
another ultimatum to Persia specify
ing certain conditions which must be
complied with within forty-eight hours
or otherwise the Russian troops now
at Resht, sixteen miles from the CAPT
tai of Gillian, will advance at once.
DIES MONIES, IOWA-Mrs. L. J.
Parm2nter has haen aS1eaD for q wool-
and the efforts of friends and physi
clans to awaken her have been I'M
awaiting. She takes nourishment from
a bottle as naturally as a child, but
without rousing from her slumber.
Mrs. Parmenter is seventy-eight
years old, the mother of thirteen child
rem and in addition to the cares of her