The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-02-03
GENERAL NEWS,


lett the union station at Pueblo. Colo.
lone bandit who gave his name as
Al Buckley when captured, held up the
passengers Of two rear coaches. He
secured over 500, some watches and
as the train slowed down leaped off,
Special Agent William McCafferty
of the Rio Grande road, was in for
ward car when he heard there was
robber aboard and rushed back. He
saw Buckley jump and followed. open
ing fire. A bullet shattered Buckley's
wrist and, as his revolver dropped,
he threw up his left hand and sur
rendered
At the session of the state legisla-
ture at Charleston, W. Va, Delegate
Moore, Republican, offered a resolu-
ton asking for the postponement of
the election of senators for fifteen
days until charges of bribery could be
investigated. The resolution also
stated it was rumored that Delegate
Shock had been given $1,000 and was
promised 81 800 more, and that Shock
had shown the money he had received
to William G. Bennett and John W. Da
Wis. He asked immediate considera
ton, but this was voted down. A
motion was then made to compel all
of the members present to vote, where
upon the Republicans left the hall in
body
Three years after his original indict-
ment, and nearly two years after his
conviction and sentence to fourteen
years in San Quentin for bribery, Abe
Ruef, once the all powerful political
boss of Frisco, secured a rehearing OF
his case from the supreme court.
The effect of the ruling is to place
Ruef in the same position he occupied
when he appealed two years ago from
the sentence of the superior court and
gives him an indefinite extension of
the liberty he has enjoyed on bail.
The action of the appellate court Nov.
% in denying Ruef's appeal is set
aside by the highest court, and the
whole case is reopened.
Considerable anxiety is already be-
ing felt at Punta Arenas, Chile, the
southernmost city in the world, over
the possible effects of the opening Of
the Panama canal on traffic through
the Straits of Magellen, according to a
United States commercial agent, John
NJ Turner, who has been in Chile.
All vessels passing between the east
and west have been accustomed to
stop at Punta Arenas to coal. The
town, which has population of $4,000,
paved streets, large stores and many
public improvements, has thrived par
ticularly as result of the ocean
traffic. which may be diverted to the
canal.
Paralyzed so that she is unable to
lift her arm, with the paralysis ap-
parently spreading all over her left
side, Mrs Jane Dowie, the widow of
the late John Alexander Dowie, is in
a critical condition at her home, Ben
MasDhul, near Whitehall, Mich.
Mrs. Dowie was taken Ill three
weeks ago and has suffered severe
relapse, and her condition seems to
be growing steadily worse. Her son.
d.
hurriedly from the southern part of
the state, to be at her bedside.
At Chicago five burly men were
severely injured in fight with Daniel
Mahoney, thirty years old, conductor
employed by the Chicago City Railway
company, on an eastbound Forty third
street car, between state street and
Wentworth avenue. Two escaped and
the police are searching for them. The
other three were given medical atten-
ton at st. Demands hospital and then
locked up at the Fiftieth street sta
ton on charges of disorderly conduct.
The row started over refusal of the
men to pay their fares.
Lawrence C. Phipps, the steel mag
nate, now leader in business and So
cial circles here, gave Denver sur
prise by marrying Miss Margaret
Rogers, daughter of Plat Rogers,
wealthy attorney. Miss Rogers is a
vocalist of rare ability and has
travelled abroad for the last five years.
Mr.. Phipps was divorced from
Genevieve Chandler Phipps, Sept. Is,
1904, after many stormy months of
threats of divorce, reconciliations and
an exciting kidnapping of his two lit
tie daughters.
Rex, st. Bernard puppy owned by
David Wilson, farmer of Bogota, N.
j.. saved the lives of Wilson's two chill
dren. Harry Wilson, IL years old, and
Grace, years old, fell through the ice
on a small pond back of the Wilson
barn. Rex jumped in and pulled first
the boy and then the girl ashore.
Both children had swallowed guam
tity of water and were helpless for a
time. AS soon as he had them ashore,
the dog ran to the farmhouse and
brought their father.
Curtiss, Eugene Ely and other avi-
ators who have been making flights
on the coast, are much interested in
the feat of Roger Sommer in France,
who flew with five passengers from
Douzy to Romily and return, dis
lance of thirteen miles. Sommer used