The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-06-16

GENERAL NEWS.


HaWley of the Clay circuit court, Sus-
tanned demurrer to the complaint of
DOM Roberts, city engineer, against
Louis Gerhardt, mayor of Terre Haute,
asking for a permanent injunction to
prevent the removal from office of Rob-
erts by Gerhardt Leave was given
Roberts to amend the complaint
Roberts obtained a temporary re-
straining order from Judge Fortune on
preferred against him and no notice
of his removal for cause sent to the
city council by Gerhardt. The mayor
took change of venue and Judge
Rawley was sitting as special judge.
At Chicago Tuesday motion to quash
the indictment charging Frank B.
Hartman, Joseph E. Buker, Charles
Ewing and John M Taylor with con-
spiracy to defraud and confidence
game in connection with the alleged
Illinois Central graft exposure was
filed before Judge Scanlan in the cir
cult court. Basing their contention
upon fifty-nine separate grounds, coun-
sci for the defendants attack the
legality OF the Indictment, the jurisdic-
ton of the Cook county criminal court
and the validity of the acts of the jury
commissioners in drawing the grand
Jurors by whom the indictment was
returned.
International Revenue Commission
er Cabell stated at Washington that
he had been unable to understand why
the Chicago Telephone company, in
its 1910 statement to the treasury de-
partment of the United States, report
ed it's depreciation as $2,347, 06S, as
against only $1,05O,197 in 1910
Consequently an examination has
been ordered to determine the cause
of the big increase in this item Al
though the company in 1910 had a
gross fincome of nearly $1,300,000 more
than it did in 1909, it will pay sS,251
less taxes than on the previous year if
it's sworn statement is allowed to
stand.
A dispatch from Juarez, Mex, says
A widespread anti-Madero plot, with
ramifications in San Antonio, Ell Pa ),
New York and Mexico City, has been
discovered, according to the Mexican
government officials. The first pur-
pose of the plotters is said to be the
establishment in the cities named of
iuntas similar to those of the revolu-
tionary party and then to carry on
systematic effort to hamper Madero
and to restore to power certain
political element which was ousted
when President Diaz resigned.
]. D. Bren, accountant and treasurer
at the University of Minnesota, was
arraigned in municipal court and
charged with the theft of $13,600,
which he held in trust for university
students He asserts the money was
stolen from him early last Friday by
robbers who held him up in secluded
campus spot, Bren was released on
band of $1,000. He reiterated his state
ment that he is absolutely innocent of
the crime and that his accounts are in
good condition.
Consequently an examination has
President Taft granted a pardon
to Lorenzo D. Barnes, an inmate of the
government HOSPITAL for the insane,
who recently prevented wholesale
delivery of insane convicts from the
institution by overhearing their plans
and notifying the hospital guards.
Barnes was convicted of killing a
man who had DETAINED his wife. While
serving a life sentence he became in
sane, but has since regained his rea
son.
Charges Of vice graft made in Chi
cago against Lieutenant John Bonfield
of the Harrison street police station,
in which Inspector John Wheeler was
also involved, by Isaac Foster and
John Haley, resort keepers, brought
forth allegations that other command
ing officers of the police department
had levied tribute for vice. Chief Nc
Weeney will lay the whole case before
the trial board
News from Chihuahua is that the
situation is still strained and that the
insurrectos are likely to attack the
city at any time if the federals are
not removed at once. Governor
Abram Gonzales has wired Madero at
Mexico City asking that the federals
be ordered to leave SO that the insur-
recto army can move into barracks
while it is being mustered out
The Asahi of Toxic, Japan, prints
a circumstantial report to the effect
that Japan is about to establish a
naval base at Bonins, in Futami Bay,
which would afford a sheltered an
chorage for ten battleships TIE
denies this report and says
it is the idea of the government that
dreadnaughts should have no bases.
Informal conferences will be held
in Washington shortly by sena-
tors who want to SO amend the pure
food and drug act of 1906 as to make it |
apply to 1nisstatements about the cur
alive effect of medicines as well as
about the ingredients.
Seven persons were hurt and TWEEN |
ty-seven automobiles destroyed in a |