The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-01

GENERAL NEWS.

number OF trust prosecutions. More
suits against alleged Illegal combina-
tons have been instituted during the
last five months than during the en-
tire term of any other president ex-
cept Colonel Roosevelt, and while the
Taft term has year and three months
yet to run its record already nearly
equals that for the seven years Roose-
Welt was in the chair as president
In all, seventeen bills in equity have
been filed and twenty indictments Sc
cured Seven bills in equity and four
indictments make the total for the
last five months.
HAVANA, CUBA-The Maine in
spection board will start for home
some day this week. 1t has been
amply demonstrated to them that the
Maine was destroyed by an outside
explosion, which occurred under the
ship a little to the port of the keel be-
tween frames % and 80, where the
outside skin was blown up and
doubled over toward the starboard by
the first explosion. After this the
transverse armor bulkhead was blown
aft from frame "A by a second eXplo-
sion and buried itself in the mud
through the chile left by the first ex-
plosion. which removed that part Of
the bottom Of the vessel
sAUMUR, FRANCE-At least tv-c~-
ty-four passengers lost their lives
through the pluneing OF train
into the River Thouet, owing to the
breakdown Of railroad bridge on the
state railway at Monueuil-Bella in
the department Of the Maine-et-Lo;re.
The train, which had started frc~?
Anglers, was travelling to Poitiers. 1t
contained about 100 passengers. While
it was crossing the bridge over the
Thouet the structure which had been
greatly weakened by recent foods,
broke down, crashing with the whole.
of the cars into the swollen st cam.
LAREDO, TEXAS-FOr sCme reason
not made public Federal Judge Walter
T. Burns instructed that Jose Sanchez
and Severe Villareal, under. ar est
charged with a violation of the neu-
trality laws, be removed from The
county prison at Laredo to the jail at
Corpus Christi unless bail was provid-
ed for the men in the meantime.
They were indicted Jointly with Gen
era1 Bernardo Reyes of Mexico and
several others. Efforts are being made
by friends of the two men to have the
bond set by Judge Burns reduced from
$4,000 to 81 900.
GREENWICH, CONN.-The burglars
will have little chance Of escaping
with their lives if they ply their trade
in the vicinity of the Rockefeller es-
tate here Two English bloodhounds
have been installed there for the pur.
pose of guarding the house at night.
The dogs, weighing 210 pounds each.
are said to be the only imported spec
linens of this breed in America. They
are double the size Of the southern
bloodhounds and have the reputation
of being able to track a person through
a crowded city, once they take the
scent
PEKIN. CHlNA-The struggle for
ascendancy between the monarchistG
and republicans still prevents progress
in the settlement of the war. Yuan
Shih Kai continues undated his adj
vocacy of monarchy and seems to be
drifting towards a conflict with the ma
tional assembly. He is carrying out
plans to repress the Yangtse 1ebel5
and is sending Manchu soldiery to the
south, Notwithstanding the opposition
of the assembly to a continuance of
the fighting.
El- PASO, TEX. - The news from
Mexico City is that General Pascual
Orozco, the best fighting man Of the
Madero rebellion, has been dispatched
to the northern frontier and that 25,-
900 men are to be modified in the
zone paralleling the Rio Grande boun-
Diary line They will be used to crush
the Reyes uprising
SHANGHAI - The rebel attack on
Nankin has not yet begun. The de-
lay is attributed to the unexpected
loyalty of Chang Hsun, the commander
of the imperial forces there, who has
put UP a strong defense. Rebel troops
are now on the way from Chin Kiang
to Nankin.
INDIANAPOLIS, tND.-The balloon
Duesseldorfer, which arose here, land
ed safely at Monroeville, Ind, 40
miles northeast of this city G. L.
Bumgaugh, pilot, and Walter Motif,
aid, had sailed in an effort to lift the
Iahm cup for long distance flight
NEW YORK-At least forty detec.
tives in Harlem have been sent to
catch a burglar who has been chloro,
forming fiat dwellers in their sleep
and robbing them of money and jew,
elry