The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-06-02

G5z...E.iAl NEWS,


7 sea and sunk in deep water unless
| congress directs otherwise Informa-
/ ton to this effect was received by
| congress from Secretary of War Dick
! inson. Ee forwarded a report of the
! board of engineers in charge of the
| work Of raising the wrecked Maine.
| The board recommends that when
| the wreck is raised it shall be stripped
! of all material of value and the re-
| mains flowed out to sea and be sunk
| in deep water" In his letter of trans
| initial, Secretary Dickinson said that
| he had approved the recommendation
| of the board
| For the first time since the Hepburn
! act went into effect in June, 1906, the
/ interstate commerce commission has
/ allowed a general increase in freight
| rates On an important commodity.
| The commission handed down a de-
| cision sustaining the right of carriers
| I North and South Dakota to increase
| freight rates en- grain and grain prod
ucts from producing points in those
states to Minneapolis, Duluth, Milwau-
| kee and CHICAGO and points taking the
same rates The commissioner, how
| ever, declines to sustain proposed aG-
| vances in rates Of coarse grain from
| points in these states to Omaha, Neb.
| Formation of a combination Of cleo
! trio porcelain potteries in Trenton, n.
j., and East Liverpool, O., was finished
| b. J. H. Parker of Boston and George
| c. Anderson of this city The holding
| company will be the General Porce-
| lain company of New Jersey, recently
! incorporated. Deeds for all properties
| here have been filed at Lisbon, o., the
| consideration in the several instances
| being from one to five dollars New
| Office will be opened and all business
| directed by the local headquarters.
Portuguese monarchists have de-
| vised a plot to overthrow the Portu-
/ guese republic and restore his lost
| throne to Manuel. The plOtters are
| trying to prevail on Manuel to return
| to Portugal and lead the revolution.
So far the fugitive king has refused to
| to SO. He is willing, however, to go
| back to his country if asked to do SO
| by representative assembly"
w. r. Pinkerton, head of the datec-
tive Agency, has been summoned to
secretary of the British government,
| to become adviser-in-chief of the army
| of secret service men who will guard
| the capital from the hordes of good"
crooks now iCcking to that city in ex-
| pectation of rich plumber during the
| coronation of George V.
After years of exclusion from Rus
! STA, Jews who desire to enter that
| country on business will be admitted
| hereafter under restrictions to be pre-
scribed by the Russian government
! This is concession to the continued
protests of the United States against
the discrimination by Russia against
| Jews who are American citizens.
In The executive session of the SEN
| ate the nomination of Elmer Caldwell,
of Oregon, to be marshal for the dis
| trict of Oregon was rejected The
nomination had been unfavorably re-
| ported to the senate earlier in the day
| by the Judiciary committee. The
nomination was opposed by Senator
| Bourne.
| Three places on Lake Minnetonka,
| in Minnesota, have asked the privilege
| and honor of making themselves the
| summer headquarters of the president
| of the United States. A delegation
| from Michigan called at the White
~ of no
| ties of Mackinac Island.
Bishop Mcdowell of the Methodist
| Episcopal church, former chancellor Of
! Denver university, who returned from
! China on the steamer Mongolia, de-
| clares that the worst stage of the
famine in China is passed. Bishop
| Mcdowell has been on a tour of inspec-
| ton in India and China.
Homer M. Messenger, a trustee Of
| the National Order of Railway Mail
| Clerks, is missing from his home at
| Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland.
| Messenger took a rowboat and went
| out into the lake to fish. A short time
| later the boat was found adrift
The search of DR.. Orville Owen of
| Detroit, who has been eXcavating in
! the mud of the River Wye in England
| for manuscripts which he believes will
| establish that Bacon was the author
| of the Shakespearean plays, has been
| abandoned.
Three hundred men prominent in
| the business community of New York
city met at the call of the Postal Prog
| ress league to discuss the betterment
| of postal conditions and urge the
| passage by congress of a parcels post
| bill.
The yards of the Standard Lumber
company in Dubuque, "a, were de-
| stroyed by what is believed to have
| been an incendiary fire. The loss will
| aggregate S5O0,00O
! Six persons were saved from death
| by fire in four story uptown tene-
ment in New York by long slide