The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-08-04
GENERAL NEWS

uOnal Federation OF PCStChce CLERKS
assemblies for the sixth annual conven-
ton in Des Moines, Ia The Eostoffice
clerks, according to President Nelson,
expect then to affiliate formally
with the American Federation of La
5or. A government clerks right 60 join
a labor organization las been IN doubt
since President RooseVelt's ''gag-rule"
for civil service employees was issued
in 1902 That Cr0er stated employees
1f the government shall neither direct
~ ncr indirectly through associations
make any attempt to have their rate
Of compression increased
At New York Friday L. G. Hanna
of Cleveland, O., a brother of Mark A.
Hanna, told the house of representa-
tives' committee of inquiry into the
United States Steel corporation his
version of the absorption of the Ten
neesee Coal and Iron company by the
steel trust in 1907. He was one of the
managers of the Tennessee company.
E. w. Oglesby Of Cleveland, who
also was connected with the Tennessee
deal, followed Mr.. Hanna on the wit
ness stand He is now director OF
the Republic Iron and Steel company
The county grand jury at Keyser,
w. Va, returned indictments against
the Davis Coal and Coke company, sub
sidiary to The Western Maryland rail
way, and Mine Foreman John Kinney
for responsibility for the deaths OF
twenty-three miners, all Americans,
but one-in the explosion of OFT Mine
No. 20, near Elk Garden, April "a last
The evidence tended to show that
there was an accumulation Of Goa!
dust and gas and lack of proper and
lawful mining facilities, and that the
fans were inactive nearly three days
The regulars, or the Taft men, were
in control of the Nebraska Republican
convention. Resolutions endorsing
the administration of President Taft
were adopted without any opposition
by the insurgents, who were supposed
to be lined up for LaFollette. The lat
ter did not even resist the adoption OF
the resolutions as they had threatened
to do Resolutions endorsing the Ne
braska delegation in congress were
also passed. Reciprocity was not
mentioned.
A dispatch from Bay City, Mich,
says that for five minutes snow f1ur-
nv occurred several miles southeast OF
that city the only snow ever recorded
during July in that part of the state.
InWnrnn
the river to such extent that the
traction and electric lighting plants
we're deprived of water for their bo1l-
ers. Street car power and light cur
rent were off nearly an hour while an
extension was fitted to the power
house intake pipe.
A falling off of casualties on inter
state railways during the quarter end
ed March 81 last is shown in the &C
cident bulletin for that period, issued
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. There were 2,124 killed and
16,430 injured during the quarter, in
Guiding 706 employees killed and TO-
974 injured This is a decrease of 229
in the number killed and of 2,908 in
the injured, as compared with the cor
responding quarter of last year.
The Paris, France, Mathis Berlin
correspondent says he learns on high
authority that the German emperor is
furious at the situation in which Baron
Won Kiderlen-Waechter, the foreign
secretary, placed Germany in his aD-
sence, which was the result of false in
formation. 1t was believed that Great
Britain was utterly Indifferent to Mo-
rocco and would abandon France in
the moment Of danger
After being hit by an auto at Kala-
mazoo, Mich, and knocked TO the
pavement. Jerry Linihan, an aged resi-
dent of the city, saved himself from
being crushed under the machine by
catching hold of the front axle. He
was dragged along on the pavement
until the machine was stopped. While
badly hurt it is not believed his IN
juries will prove fatal.
Commander Decker of the Chester,
in a telegram from Cape Haytien,
stated that the conditions there have
improved to such an extent that the
work on the new American railway IN
Haiti has been resumed. Commander
Decker stated he went over the rail-
way property with the manager, and
they found everything quiet.
At Philadelphia in the presence
of high dignitaries of the church
and virtually all the clergy in the
archdiocese, the Most Rev. Edmund
Prendergast was enthroned archblsn-
CD of the Metropolital See of Philadel-
phai in the cathedral of SIS. Peter and
Paul, succeeding the late Archbishop
Patrick John Ryan.
At New York Friday the offices or
the American Tanning company in the
Produce Exchange annex, were raided
by postoffice inspectors, who made
four arrests Illegal use of the mails
was the charge on which the raid was
based.
w. F. NJ Rice aged ninety-seven,