The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

GENERAL NEWS
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personnel of the department of ag-
riculture with a recommendation to
President Taft that he re permitted
to resign" from his Official position.
1t is charged that DR. Wiley permit
ted an arrangement to be made with
Dr. H. H. Rusby, recognized ph3rma-
cognocist of Columbia university, New
York, for compensation in excess Of
that allowed by the government It
is claimed that the arrangement was
to put DR.. Rusby on the payroll of the
department at $1,000 year as an en-
ploye of the bureau of chemistry. an
agreement being made with him that
he should be called upon to perform
only such service as this salary would
compensate for at the rate of $40 per
day for laboratory investigations and
$50 per day for attendance in court
The increases at Indianapolis, Ind.
of cents per hundred pounds
by ice dealers en- three consecutive
days and the charge by one dealer
that attempts We're made to force him
into the combination have caused the
prosecutor to present the case to the
grand jury under the state antitrust
law An investigation will be begun
The companies claim that the con
tinued hot weather has exhausted
their surplus stock and that they are
not able to supply the de~7and. The
price of ice earlier in the season was
80 cents per hundred pounds, but it is
now As. Patrons are being served
now with only half the amount they
order, the dealers saying they have
not enough ice to meet the demand
At Chicago strikes have been call
ed on nineteen apartment buildings
and one church where plumbers have
contracts. Carpenters, bricklayers,
fathers and building laborers were all
called out This is considered the
most serious blow the United Associa-
ton of Plumbers has received since
the beginning of the juriSdictlOnal
fight against the International Associa-
ton of Steamfitters. The Joint Arbi-
tration association called the strike.
This was done in accordance with a
resolution adopted recently by the
board to stop construction work on
buildings where steamfitters that are
affiliated with the plumbers organiza
ton have contracts.
Clarenre S. barrow of Chicago, for
many years one of the best known
lawyers and radical thinkers Of Chi
cagO, who is new in charge OF the de-
tense in the Los Angeles Times dyna-
hitting case, has given up his Chicago
apartment, dissolved his law partner
ship and has resolved on the compile
ton Of his present case to retire from
the practice Of law and abandon Chi
cago as a place of residence. The
firm of DarrCw, Masters &c Wilson was
dissolved a month ago it is learned
The dissolution was due to Darrows
i'll health, advancing years and a de-
sire to devote the rest of his life to
study and literary work rather than
to the drudgery Of the law.
Indications of the scope outlined for
the investigation of Senator Lorimers
election and the Illinois legislature
became known when it leaked out that
the senate committee proposes to go.
into the fish scandal and the furni-,
ture deal in which certain Illinois
soions were involved The latter will
take the United States senators fairly
into the activities of the legislature.
Until now it was not expected that the
inquiry would extend to any such
limits, even though it already has
gone more into detail tnan any prior
committee.
In New York city six persons are
under arrest AS the result of raid by
government agents on a series or
moonshine distilleries in New York and
Brooklyn Besides the prisoners the
raid yielded one large still found in
Brooklyn fiat, one large still found in
four-story Brooklyn loft building.
and 1000 gallons of moonshine BRAN
dy from the gangs wholesale distrib-
utine house on Pitt street, Manhattan.
Altogether the haul was the largest OF
its kind ever made in this district.
Saturday, at Denver, Colo, fourteen
striking coal miners of Lafayette and
Louisville, Col, members of the
United Mine Workers of America,
who have been on trial for the last
week before Judge Greeley Whitford
on charge of contempt in disregard
ing the courts injunction against vio
lence and intimidation, were found
guilty by Judge Whitford and received
sentences ranging from imprisonment
in the Jail for one year to fines OF
$3.50 and costs.
John Carson, special counsel for the
Alaska syndicate and author of the
letter to Captain d. H. Jarvis regard
ing the Morrisey account, which was
included in the charges made by Dele
gate Wickersham against Attorney
General Wickersham, says the alleged
"Dick to Dick letter which Miss Alb
bott asserts she discovered in the in
terror department record, is ''rankest
nonsense
At Fort Wayne, Ind, John NJ.
Nolan, aged fifty-one, night watch
man in the Pennsylvania railroad