The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-01-20
GENERAL NEWS.

hull of the battleship Maine lies have
been found great quantities of coal
and the bones of some of the crew
who met death when the explosion
came and the ship sank. Engineers
and officers now advance the theor,
| that the coal and the bodies of the
men were blown from the battleship
| by the explosion of one of the air
/ tight compartments in which We're
stored powder or other explosives.
! They do not believe the coal could
have been blown from the hull of the.
battleship by an outside explosion.
The Spanish authorities always have
contended that the sinking of the
Maine was the result of an internal
explosion.
Vice President of. the United States
Sherman and a party of his friends
were held up by Maryland officer
just beyond the District Of Columbia
lire because their automobile was not
provided with a Maryland license for
1911 The vice president informed
him that it was a government machine
in which the party was driving.
The officer who had stopped the par.
ty apparently was not inclined to rec.
ognize the plea as sufficient, A supe-
rior, however, quickly arrived and
recognized Mr.. Sherman. That was
enough. The party was allowed to
proceed
At st. Louis, Mo, with arms inter
twined and facing a mirror to watch
their dying expressions Mabel and Is
abella Boisseau, sisters, and members
of a prominent family, drank carbclic
acid in a confectionery store. Mabel
died at the city hospital, and her sis
ter. Isabella, is not expected to live.
Before taking the poison one of the
girls requested the proprietor to call
a policeman. Not until Mabel fell of
her chair writing in pain was any at
tention paid to the girls. The other
sister dropped to the floor a moment
after Mabel collapsed.
The plans for the immediate con-
solidation of the National Grocery
company and Western Grocery COM
! pany are under consideration. 1t is
said the capital of the combined COM
panies will be $10,000000 +. |. Letts,r
resident officer of both companies,
stated that their earnings in the last
year had been the largest in history.
The National Grocery company oper-
! ates fourteen or fifteen houses in the
principal cities of Michigan and Indi-
ana. It's capital is $1,500,0O0 of 6 per
cent preferred and $2,000,000 common,
which pays 2 per cent
Near Lexington, KY, wild train
of coal cars and an accommodation
passenger train collided on the Mil
lers' Creek branch of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, killing six men. The men
were riding on the pilot of the engine.
The train was turning a sharp curve
when it met the loose cars. The dead
are: William Akers, brakeman, Cat
tletsburg; John Worley. conductor,
Louisa; L. e. Vinson, F. u. Fugate,
! and Lemuel Mills, Van Lear, and L.
A. Shelter, Iron, 0.
There has been heavy fall of snow
and sleet and street railway traffic Is
interrupted in the south. The tele-
graph and telephone service is also
interrupted The first snow in sew
eral years is reported at Mobile.
Freezing temperature is reported from
northern Florida and great damage
will be done to truck in that section.
The truck growers of southern Geor-
gia and along the gluf coast will be
also suffering heavy loss.
Seven additional indictments have
been returned in New York city by the
grand jury against Joseph G. Robin,
the banker, charging him with steal
ing 100000 from the Washington
Savings bank, of which he was presi-
dent. These, added to the Indictment
found last week charging Robin with
the theft of $4,000 from the same in
stitution, bring the amount he is ac-
cused of taking from the Washington
up to $2S7, 900. !.
At Philadelphia, Pa, fines of $40,-
railway, Lehigh Valley railroad and
Bethlehem Steel company by Judge
Holland in the United States court.
These companys were convicted last
June, the railroads of giving and the
stel company of receiving allowances
on demurrage charges in violation of
the interstate commerce law. The COM
panies will appeal the cases.
With the Mexican rebels working
in small bands throughout western
Chihuahua and eastern Sonora, the
war is resolving itself into a sort OF
give-and-take game. Reports today
bring fresh information OF the capture
of Batopilas by the federals from the
rebels and the repulse at Casas
Grande of the rebels by the federals
who attacked the place. Both these
towns are in Chihuahua.
Atlee Pomerene, attorney at law and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was nomin-
ated for the United States senate to
succeed Charles Dick, by the joint