The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-05-03
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Csn'.E2kL NEWS.


LOUISVILLE, kY.-General health
conditions in the flooded sections
along the Mississippi river, which
have given the authorities great con-
Germ, were found to be surprisingly
good in the Hickman district by DR..
J. N Mccormick, state health officer,
DR.. Mccormick reports that the mum.
Der of refugees being fed in the Hick'
man district, which was 1900 April Is,
is rapidly diminishing, and that the
concentration camp will be broken ur
by Saturday, when the refugees will
be sent home with a weeks rations
by the government. Stagnant water
all over the district has been oiled,
barrels of disinfectant have been used,
and as fast as the water recedes car
cases of dead animals are being buried,
TANGIER, MCROCcO-The latest
details of the mutiny of native troops
at Fee, received here, show the out
break developed into massacre OF
Jews Hundreds of men. women and
children were tortured and many burn.
ed to death. At least 100 were be.
headed and the heads carried on poles.
The total French loss was sixty
eight, including officers and men kill
ed in suspressing the uprising. Nine
were massacred in cold blood. -Four
of the wireless operators maintained
four hours fight against overwhelm-
ing numbers until they were overpow-
cred and killed Their bodies were
mutilated and burned.
KANSAS CITY, kAN.-Theodore
Roosevelt made a clean sweep of the
Kansas primaries, swinging into CON
troll of three districts. In the Fourth
district convention he will have
eighty out CT n1nety-five delegates, in
the Fifth, sixty out of 100 and in the
Eighth, sixty-seven out of seventy
seven. Both the Fourth and Fifth
will have an additional county pri
mary, but the result will not be
changed. Returns from Sumner and
Harvey counties indicate that Roose-
welt is leading Taft in the preferential
presidential primaries in the Eighth
district by almost eight to one.
NEW YORK-Several natives OF
Michigan living in this city gathered
in numbers for the annual dinner of
the Michigan Society of New York.
The diners were entertained in cabaret
style, many features novel to state so
ciety dinners here being introduced
William Carleton, named as mich
igan's own poet" was the good-natured
object of one of the politics. Mr..
Carleton. General Daniel E. Sickles,
now eighty-seven years old, and in
troduced as the "hero of Gettysburg"
and lev. G. Lee Patterson of Ann Ar
Dor, were speakers.
WASH1NGTON-Se allegations
that Judge Robert w. Archibald OF
the United States commerce court in
directly entered into negotiations for
the purchase of culm banks from a
subsidiary company of the Erie rail-
road at price of about $500 and la.
ter arranged to sell the banks for $780,.
600 to an electric railroad in Pennsyl-
vania have been filed with the presi-
dent and department of justice and
the judges impeachment asked.
TERRE HAUTE, IND.-The sec
ond annual convention of the State
Building Trades Council opened with
s'xty-four delegates present, repre-.
senting councils throughout the state.
Edgar A. Perkins, president of the
State Federation of Labor, pointed out
q way to get state charter for the
council, praised the work of the Build
ing Trades Council of Indiana for the
rapid strides it has made since it's or
ganization in December, 1910
WASHiNGTON-A joint conference
report was made to the senate an
nouncing the failure of agreement on
the resolution looking to a conStitu-
tional amendment to provide for pop
ular election of senators. 1t declared
that the house proposed to take away
from congress all supervisory power
over senatorial elections.
PARIS, FRANCE-Bonnot, notori-
Gus bandit, and supposed leader OF
the gang that has been going around
in automobiles killing and robbing in
various places, and Dubois, one of the
business accomplices, were caught in
an automobile garage by the police
and, after a five hours seige, both
were killed
WASHlNGTON-A joint resolution
authorizing the president to issue
medals of honor to the captain, officers
and crew of the steamer Carpathia.
''for their gallant service in II ; res
cuing of the survivors Of the steamer
Titanic" was introduced by Repre-.