The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-14
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GENERAL NEWS


many years one of the best known
lawyers and radical thinkers Of Chi.
cage, who is now in charge of the de.
tense in the Los Angeles Times dyna-
hitting case, has given up his Chicago
apartment, dissolved his law partner.
ship and has resolved on the compile.
ton Of his present case to retire from
the practice of law and abandon Chi.
cago as place of residence. The
firm OF DarICw, Masters & Wilson was
dissolved a month ago it is learned
The dissolution was due to Darrow's
i'll health, advancing years and a de.
sire to devote the rest of his life to
study and literary work rather than
to The drudgery of the law.
President Taft spoke on arbitration
and currency reform to the Hoosiers
at Marion. He was the guest of the
town of Marion in particular, but al!
Indiana joined in the welcome. En-
thusiastic crowds greeted him at every
station along the route of his journey
and he was interrupted in his work
on his speeches every little while BY
calls for speech. He made short ad
dresses at half a dozen places from
the platform of hi scar and chatted
with the people who gathered to gree,
him at every stop. The heat was in
tense, the thermometer in the presi
dents car registering over 100 de
gress. Mr.. Taft, however, stood it re
markedly well.
At London, Eng, fashionable audi
ence, assembled in church for a we'd
ding, was disappointed when the bride
elect, Lady Constance Foljambe,
half-sister of the earl of Liverpool
comptroller of the kings household
failed to appear for her marriage tC
the Rev. A. H. K Hawkins
1t is believed that the discrepancy il
ages Of the bride and bridegroom
twenty-six and forty-six, was RESPONSE
BILE for Lady Constances change Of
mind. Lazy Constance attained noto
riety two years ago by climbing the
spire CT Whitwell church.
There W hot fighting in the harb01
district of Amsterdam between rioters
on the one hand and police and troops
on the other in the early hours of the
day. The strikers stoned the police
and the troops replied with rifles
The striking shipping men then pro
duced revolvers, and in the fusilladt
that followed a number of persons re
ceived bullet wounds. During the rio
the street lamps were eXtinguished
The troops ultimately routed the strik
ers and later patrolled the streets II
strong detachments
It is likely that within a few days
Senator PenrOse, chairman OF th'
finance openittee, will ask the senats
to fix a date by unanimous consent fol
a vote on the Canadian bill. The in
surgent senators declare they have nt
intention to obstruct and, with a few
speeches yet to come, they will bt
ready for a vote On the Canadian bill,
There was general feeling arount
the senate that that body was nearei
to an adjournment vote than has beer
generally believed
Three Presbyterian clergyme1
have departed on the Carona to visi
all the Presbyterian missions of the
world They are the Rev. Charles E
Brandt of Chicago, secretary of tfle
foreign board in the central district
the Rev. Dr. William r. King of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, chairman of the foreign
missions committee of the synod, aIlC
the Rev Dr. w. Fl. Reherd of Water
loo, Ia, chairman of the synodica
committee of Iowa.
At Princeton, Ind, on iearnins
that his father-in-law, John Miley, haze
fled an affidavit against him for child
desertion, Webb Slifer, thirty-twt
years old, is alleged to have fired his
home and left it. Neighbors seeins
the names burst in the door and found
coal oil had been poured on the foo
of a closet where the fire was burning
fercely.
The first tariff vote of the United
States senate was taken with the re
suit a victory for the president. The
vote was upon the amendment Of Sen
ator Cummins of Iowa to the Canadian |
reciprocity bill, adding meats TO the |
free list provided in the me sure. The |
was defeated, IA to 80.
A telegraph message Just received |
in Noblesville, Ind, from But
falo, N Y, announced the murder OF |
Reuben Benjamin Pooler by two Ia |
borers. He was known in Indiana as |
BENJAMIN Pooler and for many Yes |
was assistant superintendent of the |
Central Indiana railroad
AT Greenfield, Ind, the township |
assessors of the county were /
locked SIS each by the county asses
sors, and they threaten to sue the |
county if the money is not paid The
amount claimed is for Sunday work. |
which the commissioners say they(
nave nc right to pay
At ROCKFORD, Colo, Robert Har
ris, negro, shot and instantly killed /
Chief of Police A. B. Craig and NOR
tally wounded Jacob Ripper, night
MARSHAL, when the officers went to
20 Harris home to place him under
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