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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27
An Elastic Annette,
change

The American black bear has an ap-
petite that may be appropriately term
ed elastic. He will kill thousand
pound steer and capture the tiny field
mouse for a meal with equal indiffer-
ence. If a pig or sheep is not handy to
his reach he will dine on a colony of
ants or a nest of wood grubs. He will
feast on dainty birds eggs or sweet
stores of wild honey and on the fOulest
carriOn with like gusto. He will fish
for the savory trout. but at the same
time snap any warty toad or Shiny
lizard that may happen along that
way. He will seek the luscious wild
plum when it has ripened or the wild
grape among the branches where the
vine chambers and bears its fruit, but
will not miss the opportunity to make
food Of any snake that may lie III
ambush there for birds that come to
peck at the plums or grapes The bear
has a comprehensive palate. There is
scarcely a thing in the animal or vege-
table kingdom that will not tickle 1t.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27
D eeeoesssesseo
: WISCONSIN STATE NEWS. ;

MISUNDERSTANDING Hines, the
Chicago lumberman, testifying before
the Stephenson investigating body, de-
MED he had helped to ''put over" Sen
ator Stephenson's election. He de-
clared he never had any dealing what
ever relative to the senator's election,
and he had never received any benefit
because of Stephenson's election. He
never had assisted Senator Stephenson
through Robert j. Shields or any one
else. J. Domachowski, Democratic as
semblyman, who in former testimony
was quoted as having said he was Of
fered $1,000 to vote for Stephenson,
testified he did make such a remark,
but there was no foundation for it. He
declared he never had been offered a
bride, but had mace the remark iol-
ingly.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27
. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GENERAL NEWS.
. eseseeeeesesse . eseess

KANSAS CITY, MO.-Dr. Benjamin
Clarke Hyde was placed on trial for
second time, charged with numbering
Colonel Thomas H Swope with poison.
The verdict of the first jury, which
May Is, 1910, found DR.. Hyde guilty
and fixed his punishment at life i'm
prisonment, was reversed and the case
was remanded for retrial by the Mis-
souri, supreme court April II last.
A special effort is being made by all
attorneys concerned in this trial to
make speed A force Of deputy mar
shals worked serving the last of the
200 special veniremen from whom the
jury will be selected. 1t was thought
the jury would be filled by the end OF
this week The entire trial will last
not more than three weeks, it is be-
lieved.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.-The health
officers of this city confessed that
they could not say when the diph-
iberia epidemic is to be crushed out.
Cultures taken from the threats of
teachers and children in the public
and parochial schools show that the
disease is far from abating and the
health authorities ordered parents to
keep at home children unedr sixteen.
Orders have been issued for the
closing of all theaters, picture shows
and other places of amusement to
children.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

MILAN, ITALY-Both the British
and German ambassadors had long
interview with the minister of foreign
affairs, with the view of concluding
the conflict between Italy and Turkey.
1t is said in official quarters that Tur-
key must abandon the idea of even a
threatening demonstration with her
squadron, as that would oblige the
Italian feet tic keep it under observa-
ton If Turkey desires peace she
must definitely renounce what she al
ready lost If that be done now Italy
is prepared, considering Turkeys posi-
ton. to give indemnity. Later Italy
would not only refuse to pay indemni-
ty, but would demand it herself
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

PEORIA, ILL.--About two thousand
school teachers from nineteen counties,
composing the Military Tract Educa-
tional association, attended the fourth
annual contention of the association.
The principal addresses were given
by j. N. Hurry, M. D., secretary Of the
state board of health OF Indiana, and
William H. Allen, director of the
bureau of municipal research, of New
York city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

LONDON - All of the press dis
patches from Tripoli must now be
mailed to Malta, as the cable is being
monopolized by the naval and mill
tary authorities of Italy Practically
no news is being received direct.
Word comes that more bloodshed
was witnessed at Tripoli. The cor
respondent of the Telegraph says that
a native woman was challenged by a
sentry for entering a section of the
city to which she was forbidden. She
ran away and Immediately the sentry
fired, killing one person and wounding
four others.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

NEWBERG, N. Y.-Governor John
A. Dix paid an transformations visit to
Matteawan state hospital for the GRIM
inal insane, where Harry Thaw is con-
fined. His visit was without knowI-
edge of anyone at the hospital, it be-
ing his request that formalities be
abandoned. He was taken through
several of the wards and had Harry
Thaw pointed out to him in one of the
corridors. The governor paused and
looked at Thaw for several minutes,
and then passed on without making
any comment.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

CINCINNATI, OHIO-The Farm
ers' and Merchants bank of Vandalia,
H., has filed its appeal in the circuit
court of appeals against the verdict
given against it in the federal court of
Michigan 1t brought suit in that
court against former Sheriff Harrison
W. Mains of Port Huron, seeking to
recover $11 ,431 from him as damages.
1t was the banks claim that the
sheriff, in making an execution levy
for the bank, had failed through
negligence to attach enough property
when he might have done so, with the
result that the bank was loser to the
amount sued for The Michigan court
and jury decided in favor of Mains.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

WASHINGTON-A tribute to the
government employe is written in the
annual report of Charles H. Whipple,
paymaster general of the army, in a
plea for an increase Of salary and q
system of retirement when the en-
ploye reaches the age of incapacity.
Referring to the $50 per cent in
crease in the cost of living during the
last fifteen years. without cores
ponding advance in pay, General
Whipple says the add :7nal pay is
asked not as a reward for services,
''but as a necessity"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

LONDON-The Wesleyan mission
airy society of London, England, has
received a dispatch from Hankow stat
inc that the British consul has ordered
all missionaries to leave WI Chang,
Han Yang, Hankow and Kweng-tse.
The dispatch adds: ''The missionar-
les in the confessions and at outside
stations are safe, so far as we know"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

MEXICO CITY, MEX.-Oficial no.
tees from the state of Tabasco minim-
ize the danger from the revolution
which started there when eco armed
men proclaimed Reyes as president
and captured two small towns in the
mountains Nevertheless the govern
or asked Mexico City to send REIN
forcements.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

MARINETTE - Reuben DeFrene,
fifteen, was almost instantly killed as
he was playing crack the whip in
school yard at Niagara, this county.
While being swung around young
DeFrene tripped and fell, striking on
his head and breaking his neck He
gasped only once or twice and then
died in the presence of large num-
Der of his Mortified schoolmates.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

ENOSHA-Kenosha will be the
meeting place of more than 100 Luth-
eran school teachers on Nov. 9 and 10,
at the yearly conference in charge Of
the schools of the Lutheran congrega-
tons of the synod of Wisconsin
Among the visitors will be Professor
A. Ackermann, director of the teach
ers' seminary at New Ulm, Mimi, and
Professor Fir Reuter-, professor of mus
ic at the same institution
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

NEW RIcHMoND-At a special
meeting of the common council $500
was appropriated for the Black River
Falls food sufferers. 1t is expected
that $500 additional will be raised by
private subscription
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

MARINETTE-After seriously shat
tering the bone Of his leg with a load
of buckshot, through the accidental
discharge of his gun while hunting,
John Cleary, homesteader living near
Hates, Mich, remained three days and
night in the woods without any food.
The wounded man was found almost
dead by other hunters and carried five
miles to a railway. He was then taken
to a hospital at Escanaba, Mich. 1t is
believed he will recover, but his leg
may have to be amputated.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

MlLWAUkEE-The amputation Of
the right arm of Captain Joseph Ro-
bier. an employe of the Milwaukee
Sand and Gravel company, was found
necessary at hospital in South Mil
waukee about an hour after Captain
Robier had his arm caught in a pulley
while at work on the steam sand barge
Ellen, opposite South Milwaukee
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-10-27

kENOSHA-Mayer Scholey, at the
head of the committee on arrange
ments for President Taft's visit to
Kenosha, declared that the automobile
speed laws would be lifted for the
presidents visit and that in fifteen
minutes he would 60 further than he
ever went in fifteen minutes in his
life
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
PROGRESS OF SEWER WORK
Big Project on Virginia Avenue In
Nearing Completion

Assistant City Engineer Keeean, In
charge OF the Virginia Avenue sewer.
the great drain which will serve the
larger part of Clay Ward, reported
Yesterday that the tunnel through
solid granite had now run $500 of
the total of 1920 feet Two of the
shafts have been connected. the calcu-
iatl0ns having been 50 perfect that.
working from one shaft to the other
out iS'i
Only the section leading out 70 the
canal at Haxall Station remains TO
loe completed. and Mr.. Keegan thinks
the entire granite hill will have been
pierced in forty-flve moro working
days. The whole is then to be lined
with concrete and connections made,
he thinks the contractors, Stamper,
Rasland & Co. Will finish the JOB com
l. J. Smith & Co. has the contract
Tor the three main branches on Hamp-
ton Street, Colorado Avenue and
through Shieldss Woods. While this
part OF the work is somewhat he
mind schedule, the engineers believe
they Will be in a position to put in the
lateral sewers, house connections and
street basins in the early spring.
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tht other hand. be permitted under
the law to carry on their business.
Now the public. and especially the
saina public; ought to rid them
unction is practicable or can be in
troduced into the statute. Certainly
under the present antitrust law no
such distinction exists. 1t has been
proposed; however; that the word
OF the statute. and then that it should
be left to the court to say what Is a
reasonable restraint Of trade, what Is
a reasonable suppression Of cempe-
tltion what Is reasonable monopoly.
! venture to think that this Is to put
into the hands of the court a power
impossible to exercise on any con-
sistent principle which will insure the
uniformity of decision essential TO
Just Judgment. 1t is to thrust upon
no presidents to enable them to car.
ry. and to give them a power an
preaching the arbitrary, the abuse of
which might involve our whole Judi
cial system in disaster.
This paragraph has been quoted and
spread on the record of the Senate
on the motion Of a Senator who con-
sidered this to be at variance with the
decisions of the Supreme Court. In
stead OF being at variance. II is in
exact accord with those decisions
Issue Met by Court.
Again. from those who have given
up free competition as an economic
force that ought to be encouraged or
enforced and who are utterly opposed
to the spirit of the antitrust law 'S W.
have frequently heard the question.
We'll. suppose you convict those large
combinations under the statute. Whist
arc yat goang ts-ae about TT You
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
SHREWD FORGERY
SCHEME REVEALED
Signatures of Leading Citizens
Secured by Man Writing
From Lynchburg.
Especial to Tho rimes-pispatch.l

lSpeClal TO Inc llIneS-DlSpatCh.l
Petersburg, Va, September lS.-One
OF the shrewdest forgery schemes ever
known In Petersburg and successful
as far as heard from. came to light to-
day. Under date OF Lyncnburs. Sep
TENDER 6. man addressed letter to
the pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church. Petersburg, stating that hei
expected to be married In Petersburg
on Saturday evening, September 16. ex-
pressing the desire to have him, IL
possible, to perform the ceremony. and
asking him IL he were at liberty to do
SO. The Rev. Charles R. Striking, is
the pastor OF the First Presbyterian
Church. and the letter was delivered
to and promptly answered by him. No
person. however, came to be married.
On the 18th OF September. In ex-
actly the same handwriting, dated at
Lynchburg, another letter was ad-
dressed to the superintendent of public
schools and was In course of the mails
delivered to R Randolph Jones, the
superintendent. In this letter the writ
err stated that he was about to move
his family to Petersburg. He had
three children OF school ages, but had
heard that the schools here We're some-
what overcrowded. eff this be true
he writes, land II you will be in any
way embarrassed by the addition OF
my flock. kindly advise me, and will
leave one or two of them here with
their grandparents for the present."
Mr.. Jones answered the letter stating
there was room for the children
Check Is Presented.
On the 18th OF September q check for
SO. drawn by "E. r. Chambers to the or
der OF II. c. Christie,' on the Clifton Forge
National Bank Snd bearing ehe indorse-
ment Of II. C. Christie and the forged in
dorsement OF r. Randolph Jones. was
eashed at one OF tho Petersburg banks aud
forwarded for collection to the Clifton
Forge bank. II was returned as mo good
and tho name OF r. Randolph Jones as in
oorser was here pronounced to be forg-
cry
In the same handwriting as appeared in
these letters and in the names on the
fraudulent check. but with different
hand signed to II. letter from Lynchburr
and addressed to "A Methodist Minister
Petersburg" was placed in the hands OF
The Rev. j, T. Bosnian. pastor of Market
street Church. It was OF the same tenor
as that received By the Rev. Mr.. Strib-
ing. asking him II he could marry tho
writer. Mr.. Bosnian answered the letter
The object of this sw!ndler was evidently
10 get the hangs and signatures OF respon-
sible citizens Of Petersburg that he might
as IN the case OF r. Randolph Jones' use
them to his benefit on forged and traudu-
lent checks. The chief of police, in whose
hands tho case has been placed is expect-
ing other checks OF tho kind to turn un
with the name. OF the ministers and prob
aoly others. whose signatures he has so
shrewdIy seclred. forced on them
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could be held to be only reasonable
and not within the statute or pun
ishable by law. In my message Of
January I. 1910. on the interstate com
merce and antitrust laws and Federal
Incorporation. l used this language
Good and Bad Trusts.
Many people conducting great busi.
nesses have cherished a hope and a
belief that in some way or other a
line may be drawn between good
trusts" and bad trusts" and that it
Is possible by amendment to the anti
trust law to make distinction under
which good combinations may be per-
mitted to organize. suppress compe-
tition, control prices. and do 1t all
legally II only they do not abuse the
power by taking too great profit out
of the business. They point with force
to certain notorious trusts as having
grown into power through criminal
methods by the use of illegal rebates
and plain cheating. and by various
acts utterly violative Of business hon
esty or morality, and urge the estab-
lishment of some legal line OF separa-
tion by which criminal trusts" of this
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
AMBULANCE PURCHASED
Fast Motor Vehicle Coming From I,o-
connective Works.

Following an all-afternoon dlscus-
sion by subcommittee and an almost
full Committee on Relief of the Poor
last night. the committee entered into
contract with the American Locomo-
tive Company for purchase of an Alec
type. with 55-horsepower motor, can
able OF running sixty miles an hour.
the body to be built according to CITY
specifications. The present motor
ambulance Is an Alec 45-horscpowor
car. The contract price OF the new
car is s4.450.
For, some time the committee dis.
cussed changing the color to n steel
Unit but decided that inasmuch as the
present yellow had been used for CITY
ambulances IN Richmond for a gener-
alton and was readily recognized at a
Instance the present color would be
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
New tuberculosis Remedy
Based on Medicine

say that specific exists for the
SIM, OF corsump..'n - perh3oe ;"1
;tltefatiVe we have 4 .ncJIcinn ths, h., .
oech the means OF saving many a ia
70 yc@Fs o! usefulness, ami In n.r,,.
49, ny: curing large number cf ron
Certainly, person afflicted with a
wasting disease should be we'll fed
VAIN wholesome, nour!sh!ng food. Lut
ileduent!y raw eggs in quantities
no go ils@s .e bfea kdo'.'., and intn
no 1909 noac shes. rs fol mix. a very
good food for mai, out d ,,roiuccr
OF b'liousness for some.
Any diet that keeps a constructive
well nourishcd is nc right one but
what is going to cure the patient
curing many a case OF consumption.
Let those speak who know. Here is
a specimen:
80 Savannah St. Rochester. y. Y.
operated upon for tubercular peritoni-
It's at st. Mary's Hospital. Rochester,
n Y. After the operation my physician
gave me up IS hopeless J was then
urged by priest to take Eckman's Al
terative. which did. My weight q.
prove, and steadily gained in health
and strength. now weigh l25 lbs.
and am absolutely cured. Believing
owe 1t TO myself and others. make
this statement. EDNA FINER
lS:gn.d aitidavitD
Eckmans Alternative is effective in
bronchitis, asthma. hay fev-r, throat
and lung troubles and IN upbuilding
the system Does not contain pots [ n.
opiates or habit-formins drugs. For
sale by Owens & Minor Drug Co and
other leading druggists. ASK foc book
man Laboratory, Philadelphia. Pa, for
additional evidence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
Opposed to Amending Inv.

Under these conditions. I am en-
tirely opposed to an amendment of
able government asset and instrument,
Tested and brought into practical and
beneficial use by twenty years of It'll
cation and construction by the high
est court why should we imperil its
usefulness by experiments? The out
cry sought to be raised In some quar-
ters followed by proposals of amend
ments prepared without real gu
derstanding of the law or the courts
decisions. may serve the purpose Of
promoting unreasonable and unreason-
ing discomfort. but certainly ought
not to be considered seriously
When an amendment is proposed. let
statute the amendment is to rom dy,
and how II will effect II.
II the .avowed purpose is to mako
1t Impossible TO use reason in the con-
preme Court did, let the mover OF the
amendment formulate case OF re-
straint of interstate trade not con-
demned under the Supreme Courts
construction of the statute. which
ought to be condemned Let us avoid
general expressions. Let us avoid
charges of Improper motives. Let us
come down to concrete cases and facts
and make a showiir for an amend
ment that n lawyer and n legislator
can understand and weigh. and not be
content with mere rhetoric and lam
guage useful only for defamation.
In my message of January T. 1910
I advocated the passage of a statute
which shall permit the incarceration
of companies engaged in Interstate
commerce by the Federal government
believe that statute might he
would induce companies engaged
"hiefiv in interstate trad> to take on
Federal incorporation, and that by
the supervision which might be main
q IN ad hU q n aNHANutfvN ,h1tp AA
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the Impression that the opera tien OF
inc law would be most restricted be-
Sause OF the limits Of Federal juris-
uictioh. Indeed. some law officers of
the government did not hesitate to
say tnat under this decision there was
little hope OF Reaching the evil aimed
ut through Federal action II has
required twenty years or litigation 20
make the statute clear. BUT now il
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19


Let me renew again the invitation
70 any OF the vociferous critics of the
decision of the Supreme Court TO use
tneir legal ina sinations and state the
!acts or d case not condemned within
the rule of construction put upon the
statute by the Supreme Court. hut in.
ciuded within their construction of it..
winch reasonable men would think II
wise or proper to make criminal
Now. desire to call attention to
very broad distinction that many
persons have failed to draw on per.
ceive between a reasonable constr,,c.
tlon OF the statute which the SUI
preme Court has insisted upon and the
introduction of the word reasonable"
In the statute so as to lead to a re-
SUIT by which combinations for the
purpose of restraining trade with a
view to controlling prices and main.
tanning a monopoly could be held to
ne reasonable and thus lawful I'm
III the decision of the Supreme Court
in these last two cases there was a
clearly. defined hope in the minds of
many business men who had reached
the conclusion that 1t was lmpossi-
BILE to conduct business on a free com
petitive basis and that 1t was neces-
sary 10 secure monopolistic control OF
prices and competition in order to
make business reasonably profitable.
that in some way or other the sta
tute could be construed SO as to make
II apply only to unreasonable monopo-
lies and unreasonable exclusion of
competition and control of prices.
They had in their minds the thought
that In some way or other standard
could be set by which II those who
straint of competition and the control
OF prices did not abuse their power to
the point of seeking from the public
sxosRtant pEoAts,, thetr arraueernenta
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
Marriages In wn.b,neton

DR.: Joshua F. Speed. of 10 South
Third street. this city. and Miss Louise
Lyle. also of Richmond, secured a
terday
Licenses were also issued to EIon A.
knapp, OF Harrisonburg. Va, and Mar
NJ. Auerbach. OF Hampton, va, and
Edythe Handler. Of Baltimore
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19

government over their transactions IL
would be possible to prevent future
violations OF the antitrust law by
those companies on the one hand and
to secure to them freedom from con-
slant fear of prosecution on the other
But this statute would in no way be
an amendment of the antitrust law,
which has now reached a period in its
history when II is really accomplish
ing the purpose of it's trainers and is
enforcing reform In the business
methods OF this country which will be
as useful as 1t is widespread