The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-09-29
GENERAL NEWS


mounted police and is complete, show
ing population of 1900 Eskimos and
Indians and a few white and half
breed trapperS. The enumeratOrs
there and in the Yukon and northwest
districts had to travel thousands Of
miles by canoe and horseback and on
foot. In osme remote sections of the
far north the duties were performed
by missionaries and the men of the
Hudson Bay company. The census of
the Arctic waters was taken by Cap
tain Bernier, the explorer, who has
just returned
The strike of car men on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway which
began in the shops of the company
along the entire system is the result
of a demand for a new schedule of
We ges, according to W. A. Durham,
assistant general manager, that the
company cannot legally give them.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas
Hallway company is a separate cor
pcration from the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Of Texas, and the legal de-
partment of the read has held that tho
laws of Texas forbid the two corpora
tons from entering into an agreement
for the entire system, which is COM
posed of two corporations.
Near Wilkesbarre, Pa, Monday, thiT-
teen year old Joseph Crohona of
Edwardsville, Pa, was 'lynched"
h
til he was unconscious and almost
dead A man walking along the street
about II D. m. found the boy hanging
from a high fence with a rope around
bis neck and his hands and feet bound
After several hours he recovered
sufficiently to declare that Andrews
Lipsky and Edward Deshburn, fifteen,
had caught him and strung him up
after declaring that ne was the fell
low they wanted They were arrested
and held for a hearing
A semi-official note, just issued in
with NJ Cambon, the French ambas-
sador at Berlin, and Herr Won Kiderlin-
Waechter, the German foreign minis.
ter, have just had, confirms the dis.
position of Germany to seek a basis
for a definite understanding with
France regarding Moroccan situation.
1t may now be assumed, after an
examination of the German point of
view to which the French government
will devote itself for the next few
days and after precision has been Civ
en- to the formula before them, that
will be possible
Benjamin F. Hamilton, of Saco,
Maine, the first merchant in this
country to employ girls as saleswo.
men in a store, is dead at the age of
ninety-two years. Hamilton's store in
1856 was one of the largest drygoods
houses in the east. He caused a ire
mendous sensation in that year by en-
ploying comedy young women as clerks
and the women of Saco showed their
disaoproval by boycotting the store.
The idea eventually "took" how
ever, and Hamilton opened similar
stores in Biddeford and Portland where
the novelty of woman clerks made the
enterprises great successes.
Latest advices in Paris from
Toulon placed the death list at ass. 1t
was also said that the latest theory
of the explosion on the Liberte was
that it vas caused by the defagration
of the powder in the magazines. Min
lister Delcasse, however, agrees with
Admiral Germinet that the disaster
was due to a fire. The powder is
known as ''b" Admiral Reunier says
that it caused the explosion.
At Springfield, ILL.,, an announce
ment was made by President Sher-
man Of the state board of administra-
ton of the appointment of DR.. Sidney
D. Wilgus as superintendent of the
Eastern Hospital for the Insane at
Kankakee. Dr. Wilgus has been at
the Elgin asylum the last two years.
He succeeds as head Of the Kanka
kee institution Or. Frank p. NornUry,
who was named as a member of the
state board of administration to sue
coed DR.. J. L. Greene, who resigned to
take charge of the new Arkansas in
sane hospital at Little Rock.
At Charlottesville, Ind, the mem
bers of the junior and senior classes
of Wabash college cut down the time
limit of the annual class scrap to thir-
ty minutes. The scrap will be held
next week and will be initiated by the
freshmen, who are keeping the date
secret. Recently two freshmen were
caught and after having the sopho-
more numerals painted on their backs
and chests in red paint they were Civ
en- a ducking in horse watering
trough near the center of the town.
Sonoma, Cal, was saved from de-
by fire by the use of wine
from the great tanks in the wineries
there The town is built almost en-
tirely Of wood and when the fire
started it spread with great rapidity. |
The water supply was practically
exhausted when the fremen turned
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