The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-03-31
Observation-Disclosures
GENERAL NEWS.
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for instant use, according to a report.
Lieutenant Franklin r. Kenney, en-
gagged in the local recruiting work, has
received permission from headquar-
tiers to enlist N below the required
weight and height. New recruits are
being shipped to the Texas border
from Chicago at the rate of about fifty
a day. A strenuous effort to gather
large force of aeroplane operators is
being made at the Chicago office Men
who are experts in the operation of
gas engines and skillful chauffeurs are
being accepted for this service
Nearly 1900 men joined in celebra-
ton of William ]. Bryan's 51st birth
day, sitting down to a dollar dinner at
Lincoln NeD., and later listening to
a dozen speeches from distinguished
Democrats The event was principal
ly intended to convey to those who
have again been burying Bryan that
they must postpone that ceremony
Speeches were made by Speaker
Champ Clark on "Cannonism Over
THROWN" by Senator Owen. of Okla
homa on Arizona legislature by
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska on
Election of Senators by Direct Vote,
by Senator. Kern of Indiana on "The
Tariff" Congressman Mcguire and
several members of the state legisla-
ture were also on the toast list
Richard A. Ballinger, the former
secreatry of the interior department,
who has left for the west, will begin
a libel suit against Clifford Pinchot
and others as soon as he has had
rest from the duties of his Office that
kept him busy during the closing
months Of his REDUNDANCY Before
his departure Mr.. Ballinger issued
formal statement in which he says
Gas to Mr.. Pinchot and his compan-
ions, in their plot to inJure and de-
fame me, / propose to take ample time
in planning a legal campaign for ret
ributive justice. l have given the
subject no mature reflection as re-
CARDS the jurisdiction in which to pro-
ceed or the scope of the proceedings.
The schooner yacht Loyal, as trim as
foot schooner yacht Loyal as trim as
any boat in New Yory harbor, lies a
prisoner alongside the destroyer Sene-
ca, off the Tompkinsville warship sta
ton. It was seized by Captain Car
mine of the revenue cutter service On
orders from the treasury department
in Washington while it was stealing
past Sandy Hook just before day Wight.
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the Loyal was seized because Of re-
presentations of the Haitian minister
to the United States, who said he
understood that arms and ammunition
were being put on board the boat
which was to clear for Haiti.
Shattered by storm of shell, the
old battleship Texas rests on the mud
of Tangier sound The veteran of the
United States navy sank under the
spectacular workmanship of her new
er sister, the New Hampshire. Gap
ing holes in her port side and two
Jagged wounds in her forward armOr.
where shells passed completely through
her. showed how she succumbed Part
of both the fighting masts were shot
away and her deck was cluster of
debris.
Lightning struck the liner Oceanic
while she was in mfd-ocean during a
terrific storm. Her foremost was bro
waking up passengers and creating a
small panic. Many, thinking the ship
had struck or was in collision, jumped
from their berths and crowded the
companionways Officers went about
among them assuring them that there
was no danger and they returned to
their staterooms.
At Des Moines, Ia, Saturday, DR.. III.
B. Kelly of Council Bluffs, being taken
to the inebriate asylum at Knoxville,
drew a revolver from his pocket and
killed Deputy Sheriff Clarence Wool
man. also of Council Bluffs, as the lat
ter was taking him from the Rock ISL
and station to the union station in Des
Moines. E. Stursing, bartender, hear
ing the shots, ran to the officers az
sistance and was fatally wounded.
The plan of patrolling portions of the
plan of patrolling portions of the
boundary along the Rio Grande, al
ready proven feasible by the flight of
one of the army biplanes from Laredo
to Eagle Pass month ago, is soon to
be put into actual practice. Major
George o. Squier is in command of the
aeronautical detachment of the Unit
ed States army signal corps that is to
do the work
Dispatches from Georgia, which is
in the fruit belt, state that there is
no longer any doubt that the peach
crop has succumbed to the March
frosts. Many of the growers state
that they will use the axe and cut
thousands of trees down to make room
for cotton, which is surer crop.
John Buckley of the transport Crook
claims that the United States cutter
Pathfinder recently picked up the end
of a Japanese cable near Guam and
also that the mikado's people not long
ago had wireless station upon the
island