The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-04-14

GENERAL NEWS.


total number of cases in Mukden up
to Feb. IA was reported as 1,043, but
the figures are regarded as incomplete.
The total number of deaths up to Feb.
Is was given as 1923. The popula
ton of Mukden is about $4,000.
The total number of deaths in Man
churia up to Feb. Is was given as H.
0S3, but this is probably only a rough
estimate and does not in any case In
clude the deaths in the towns along
the Russian and Japanese railways,
which probably amount to as many
more. The plague has appeared at
nearly every town along the railway
from Chang Chun west to ChiIchou
and south to Liaoyang
George w. Rue. we'll known citizen
of Hamilton, o., and one OF the noted
veterans of the Civil war, is dead. He
was born in Harrodsburg, KY, June g.
1923. In 1916 he joined the Second
Kentucky infantry, serving one year
During the Civil war ne rose to tle
rank of major in the Ninth Kentucky
cavalry. 1t was while with this body
that Major Rue captured the famous
cavalry leader, General John Morgan,
near New Waterford, where year
ago a monument was erected to mark
the spot of the surrender.
When Cuba's congress convened in
Havana the message OF President
Gomez was read in both houses. 1t
congratulates the republic on the I'M
exampled prosperity of the country
and on the reign of peace and orcer.
The president points out that the
sugar crop is good in spite OF the lrck
of rain and that the national debt as
been reduced by $685. GOO in the last
two years.
To prevent Harry Cooper of Oak
land Cal, husband of the late Mrs.
Ida Mckinley Morse Cooper, from dis
posing of property belonging to Mar
jorie Mckinley Morse, his sixte ,n-
year-old stepdaughter, application has
been made for a restraining order and
for the appointment of Benjamin Il
Mckinley as guardian for the girl
Colonel Roosevelt went to Portland,
Ore, from Sacramento, Cal. He
stopped at Salem, the capital, le1g
enough to say that Jacob Riis was
about the best man in New York I'D
got to Portland in time to lay corner
stone for the new Multonomah Anna
teur Athletic Club building.
Passengers landing from the steam
ship George Washington at Pl.m-
outh, England, say that the assist Mt
surgeon of the ship was stabbed by
an elderly American when the vessel
was two or three days cut from New
York. The passenger was suffering
from delusion.
Professor George A. Reisner of
Harvard university claims to have
solved the riddle of the sphinx. He
says it is sculptured portrait of
Cephr Chephren, a Pharaoh of Egypt
of the fourth dynasty, who ruled in the
year $3.50 B. c.
Reports of new gold fields in the
Keekeek district of Quebec, are start
ling the camp at Cobalt, Ont, and hum
dreds of miners are planning fer a
rush into the new Quebec territory
where many claims have already been
staked out
Colonel and Mrs. Henry May of
Washington have announced that the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Cecilia May, and Robert Lew Bacon,
Jr., son of the United States ambas-
sador to France, will not take place.
The Sunday baseball bill was killed
in the Massachusetts senate by vote
of II to 90 The bill would have al
lowed amateur Sunday ball in cities
of $4,000 or over with admission fee
prohibited
The rain in Mobile, Ala, amounted
to 8.91 inches within twenty-four
hours, and $50 inches fell from p.
M. to a. m., an average of over an
inch an hour for the eight hours.
In the house of commons in London
the government began putting the
screws on the house with view to
pushing the passage Of the veto bill
through the committee stage.
Governor Dix of New York vetoed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for the
promotion of the success of the ma
tional G.. A. r. encampment to be held
in Rochester in August next.
Judge Sanborn of the United States
circuit court decided against the state
on every point in the Minnesota rate
cases, holding the rates are go low
as to be confiscatory.
William Waldorf Astor, who owns
the Pail Mall Gazatte in London, has
bought the Conservative Sunday news
paper, The Observer, from Lord North
cliffe.s
Year 1910 was the most prosperous
in history for the railroads of Illinois
and the nation, according to the an
nual report of the state commission.
Stories of exorbitant rents are keep
roon1o from andoY- ra1 G