The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-06-30
GENERAL NEWS

has existed between wheat, corn and
oats for some time was even more
apparent in the eventful daily session
of the ST. Louis grain market. Dam
age of more or less Importance to the
latter crop in some of the more prolific
regions has been conceded, as also has
big shortage in the 1911 hay and pota-
to output, while the new corn crop
seems to be threatened. In the OpiD-
ion of several observers, with repeti-
ton of the drouthy conditions that
cycles, winter wheat, the bulk of
which has come to maturity, seems to
be falling far short of earlier promise
and the spring sown variety is an un.
known quantity. The wheat pit was
in a state of feverish excitement all
through the day and prices assembled
to a decidedly higher range than for
merly noted.
News was received in Douglas, Ariz..
by Judge D. A. Richardson from one
of the leading business men of Cam
anea to the effect that wholesale
butchery was perpetrated by the fed
eral troops at that place. When the
revolution first started sixty rebel SYM
pathizers were thrown into prison at
Cananea. When Colonel Juan Cabral
and his rebels entered the city and
took possession, his first act was to
proceed to the Jail with a view to lib
Grating the political prisoners. He
hot %Iaxr or fhn1.0 "a
Japanese grave digger said he had
been ordered by the federals to dig
some extra deep graves. The insur-
recto forces exhumed the bodies and
found from three to fifteen in each
grave.
AT Wilmington, Del, Friday, Judges
Gray of Wilmington, Burlington of
Pittsburg, and Lanning of Trenton,
N. j., filed an opinion in the United
States circuit court declaring Dupont
Powder company and twenty-seven
other companies and individuals to be
guilty of maintaining combination
in restraint of interstate commerce in
powder and other explosives"
.The bills against United States Sen
ator Henry A Dupont and fourteen
other defendants were dismissed. This
is the celebrated suit of the govern
ment against the powder trust for al
legged violation of the Sherman anti
trust act
Captain Williamson, inventor of the
Williamson submarine tube caisson,
has been awarded a contract to recov-
er the treasures sunk with the steam
er Merida of the New York and Cuba
Steamship company, which went down
IN collision with the steamer Admiral
Farragut recently east of Cape Charles
The Merida carried besides the valu-
ables of 800 passengers, half million
dollars in silver bars. She also car
ried a valuable cargo of general mer-
chanUise She was sunk in 200 feet
of water, and marine men claim she
cannot be reached by divers.
Justice Daniel T. Wright of the Dis,
trict supreme court, at Washington
Monday issued a rule against Samuel
Gompers, Frank Morrison and John
Mitchell labor leaders, requiring theEl
to show cause July II why they should
not be judged guilty of contempt of
court. This action followed filing of the
report of the special committee of at
torneys appointed by Justice Wright
to inquire into the contempt proceed.
ings in the Bucks Stove and Range
boycott case
The saengerfest held in Milwaukee
of the North American Saenger.
bund closed with a picnic at which an
election of officers was held and Lou
isville was chosen as the city to enter
tain the next convention in 1914
For the first time in the history Of
the organization there is deficit in
prospect of nearly $4,000, due partly to.
the excessive heat during the concert
days Charles G. Schmidt of Cincin-
natl was reelected president.
Standing at an altar of quartz and
granite carved and fashioned by the
hands of the bride on narrow ledge
100 feet above the ground. and reached
by>a trail hewn out of the solid rock
by the bridegroom, Miss Beatrice
Farnham, the Boston artist and sculp-
tress, and John Otto, eccentric hermit
and prospector, were married in the
Monument National park, of which
Otto has recently been appointed su-
nerintendent.
Beat of the Pu.Se.
The average pulse CT a meath. 10
beats seventy-two times a minute