The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-09-08
GENERAL NEWS


has numbled the city fathers in a
number of conflicts. They allowed the
time for levying taxes for next years
expenses to expire without making
levy. AS result Mrs. Wilson faces
enough money to pay the towns 1912
expenses. Mrs Wilson was agitated,
but she declared her confidence in be-
ing able to adjust the situation. She
said she was considering the institu-
ton of custer suits against the con-
Gil, using the ground of negligence as
a basis. She pointed out that there
was still a way to secure the revenue
by the collection of a poll tax, but the
council must pass an ordinance before
this can be done, and the council is
firm and refuses to act.
Fully 1000 persons from drought
out the state of Indiana attended the
first annual picnic given by the In
diana Brotherhood of American Yeo-
man, at Anderson. All brought heaTy
baskets and big dinner spread under
the trees was the special feature of
the day. Twenty-Five homesteads
were represented and among the Of
ficers present were w. +. Carter of
Decatur, ILL.,, state manager, and Ell
mer H. Ely of Indianapolis, district
manager, In the drill team contests
after the dinner the Crescent Home
stead team of Indianapolis won first
prize while Marion Homestead team
of Marion won second prize. Owing
to the inability of the chief correspond
ent, w. e. Davy, of Des Moines, Ia, to
arrive in time, the speaking part of
the program was omitted.
Prosperity's blessings and the smile
of Providence upon the fruit bearing
trees of the state present to Michigan
railway men and orchardists just now
the problem: How best to handle the
crop of fruits under which the trees
of the state are grooming.
Railway men have made prepara-
lions to handle from $4,000 to $4,000
cars of fruit before the New Year;
perhaps rs per cent Of this crop will
have been moved by fall. The Pere
Marquette and the Michigan Central
railways will haul the lions share OF
the crop, which is said to be likely
to reach a new high level this year,
unless a blighting frost Injuries the
grapes before they are garnefed.
At New York City, grocery cir
cles here showed concern over the
high prices now prevailing in the sugar
market. There was another advance
in granulated during the day, to 6.25,
representing a full cent rise in the last
few weeks and highest in many years.
Coming at the height of the canning
season, this advance is Ut tital inter
est to consumers all over the country
Tt is attributed primarily to a poor
sugar beet crop in Europe. To make
matters worse the Cuban crop, which
furnishes the bulk of raw material for
American refiners. also proved short.
1t is possible that King Albert will
paw a visit to America in the near
future in connection with his cherish
ed scheme to create national mer-
camille marine, with the view OF hav-
ing Belgian freights carried by Bel
gian bottoms instead of in foreign bot
toms. King Albert has been holding
conferences with those interested. He
has not found them excessively en-
thusiastic. but he hopes to be able to
carry out his scheme, partly by means
of private capital and partly by state
aid. He is now planning tour OF
the principal SeaLOrtS of Europe.
10 Of r{+T1c o.
land, France and Germany failed to
terrify w. Hiles, ostrich farmer OF
Pennsylvania on his latest trip to Afri-
ca. The three governments had issued
flats that no ostriches be taken out OF
Africa Mr. Hiles is in Boston with
fifty-three of the birds, brought to
America and the steamer Kansas
The birds were put on the Kansas
secretly at Jibuti. Owing to the fact
that it is practically impossible to OBJ
tain more Mr. Hiles values his birds at
$4,000 each.
Calling themselves the advance guard
of the only army which ever can pre-
vail against the trusts, with coop
Grafton as their cry and object the re-
duction of the cost of living to its
lowest possible level, fifty farmers OF
New York and Pennsylvania have ar
rived in New York for the purpose
of placing on a business basis a plan
whereby the farmer is to sell his pro-
duce direct to the city retailer with
out intervention by the middleman.
Money on deposit in the United
States postal savings banks is sub
ject to taxation, according to ali opin-
ion given by Attorney General Carmo-
dy to the state board of tax commits
sioners The attorney general holds
that the state ia law which exempts
from taxation money due saving bank
depositors was intended to apply only
to savings banks provided for in, the
state banking law
George w Norris of Nebraska
one of the most uncompromising of
the Republican insurgents, the man
who led the fight to unhOrSe Uncle