The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-02-10
GENERAL NEWS.
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rant at 10 O'Clock SUNDAY morning.
The restaurant is at Clark and Mon
roe streets, in The heart of the bust
ness section The robbers got be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 and had no
trouble in making their escape Cash
Ter ]. P. Adams, waiter and scrub
woman, We're the only persons in the
restaurant. Four men entered by tbs
Monroe street door and went directly
to the cashiers deck. They they
drew reviewers and Hands up was
ordered. Waiter and woman were
forced to stand with their faces to a
wall with their hands above their
heads while Adams was ordered to.
open the safe and hard out its con-
tests. He opened the money box of
the safe and handed over receipts, es-
timated at between $4,000 and $4,000.
Adams was then ordered to join his
companions standing face to the wall
ard the four men backed out of the
place and made their escane.
The senate is now facing the GER
tainty of a vote on the popular cleo
ton of senators before the adjourn
ment OF congress. BY skillful maneu-
vering Senator Borah succeeded in
having the resolution made the un-
finished business Of the senate.
Hereafter it will come up automat-
ically evely day at o'clock and Sen
ator Borah will have it in a parlia-
mentary position where he can compel
it's continuous consideration and ulti-
mately force the senate to a vote.
1t cannot be displaced from it's COM
manding position on the senate calen-
dar without a yea and nay vote. The
majority that stood back of Senator
Borah is too large to permit this to be
done AS Senator Hale expressed it
in his short capitulation speech,
"manifestly the majority of the senate
wants this matter placed before the
body and it would be waste of time
to protest further"
The senate passed the ocean mail
subsidy bill by a tie vote, Vice Presi-
dent Sherman casting the deciding
ballot The vote was thirty-nine
to thirty-nine. On three separate votes
in the senate there was a tie. decided
by the vice presidents vote. Two roll
calls were had on the subsidy bill,
both resulting in a tie vote. And an
other roll call was had on motion to
adjourn, which also resulted in a tie.
None of the senators recalled prece-
dent for three tie votes in single day.
The ocean mail subsidy bill passed
authorizes the postmaster general to
enter into contracts Tor carrying the
mails to South African ports and to
the Philippines, Japan, China and Aus
tralasia, at rate of 81 mile on the
outward voyage to vessels of the Sec
ond class and 81 mile on the out
ward voyage to ships of third class.
Mrs. Russell Sage, of New York
city, has given 100000 to Cornell
university, to be used in the construc-
ton of women's dormitory or col
lege, according to statement issued
by President Schurmann. The new
building is to be known as the Pru-
dence Risley hall, in memory of the
mother of Russell Sage, and it will
house about It's women students.
This new building, with Sage col
lege, the dormitory given by Henry
w. Sage, number of years ago, will
take charge of all of the goods in the
university, who now number 400.
Near Greenwich, Conn.,, as the re-
suit of head-on collision between two
skaters on pond near Ernest Thomp-
son Seton's estate at Cos Cob, Fred
erick Drummer, a bank clerk, will lose
his sight and may die of his injuries.
Bruner was practicing for a race
and had his head down, going hard
against the wind, when he hit George
Crawford, who was skating toward
him. 1t being dark neither knew of
the others proximity. Both skaters
were knocked unconscious.
When 100 carloads of oil, stored
in an Erie railroad company's ware
house on the Weehawken riverside,
caught fire, a black plume of smoke,
as wide as the river itself waved over
the Manhattan shore, and as far east
as Coney Island all day and late into
the night At times the river was so
obscured that ferry boats had to sound
their whistles and grope blindIy
through it as if through fog.
At a meeting held in Washington Of
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Progressive Republican league
q call was issued to all those who ia
vor the direct election of United States
senators to communicate at once with
their senators and urge them to vote
for the Borat resolution providing for
an amendment to the constitution
which will permit the direct election
of senators.
The charter for the government
of st. Louis was. defeated at the polls
by 40,155 majority. OF the 154,958
registered voters, 90,071 casting their
ballots in all sections of the city ex-
cept the fashionable west end resi-
Dental district voted heavily against
the proposition.
In New York city it is announced