The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-16
GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON-The evidence at
lacking James Wilson, secretary OF az
riculture, was offered in the investi-
gation into the Florida everglades
scandal by the house committee on ex-
penditures in Mr.. Wilson'S department
Representative Clark, of Florida,
whose charges against Secretary VIII
son precipitated the investigation,
made public a letter from Arthur T.
Morgan of Memphis, Tenn, president
of the Morgan Engineering company,
formerly supervising engineer of Unit
ed States drainage investigations, but
now a special drainage engineer In the
department of agriculture, charging
that the dismissals of c. G. Elliott and
A. ID. Morehouse were due directly to
the everglades controversy and that
the men we're being sacrificed to
shield Secretary Wilson"
ST. LOUIS, MO.-The cross-exaclna-
ton of John B. Swinney was COM
pleted in the Kimmel case in the Unit
ed States court, in which the identity
who says he is George A. Kimmel, and
Kimmel's life insurance are involved.
His redirect examination followed.
Meantime, r. M. Snyder, Jr, of Kan
sas City, son of the deceased capital
list. whose name was connected with
the Kimmel mystery by Swinney's
testimony, arrived to be witness for
the defense The insurance company
expects to prove by him that r. M.
Snyder was in New York at the time
Swinney testified Snyder was in Ore
gon on a gold-hunting expedition, In
which Kimmel was killed.
LISBON, PORTUGAL-Most serious
floods are reported from all parts of
Portugal and the loss Of life is large.
Many rivers and smaller streams have
overfiowe6 their banks, inundating en-
tire Villages. All communication by
rail, water or highway is Interrupt ed
and this fact is preventing the dis
patch of help to the stricken towns.
The number of victims of the floods
in Portugal is not yet known, but 1t
will be large. Large numbers OF In
jured are being cared for in hospitals
in the flooded districts.
Observation-Disclosures M. Schwab,
the wealthy steel magnate of Bethle-
hem, Pa, testified before the senate
committee in protest against the house
Democratic steel bill He said the
Underwood rates on larger steel prod
ucts would be of most serious con-
sequence to the industry; without pro-
lection he would want no financial in
terest in TIE steel business, and would
regard as wasted the S35, 100000 which
recently had been invested in his BUSH
ness.
Observation-Disclosures that the
United States Steel corporation
has destroyed important books and pa
pers wanted as evidence by the gov
eminent in it's suit under the Sherman
law to dissolve the trust, and that It
was about to destroy more, representa-
tives of the department of justice Sc
cured an injunction restraining the
company from. continuing it's course.
The Injunction which is temporary
was granted by Judge Gray.
NGTON-Rresident Samuel
Gompers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, testified in the supreme
court of the District of Columbia in the
contempt of court proceedings growing
out vi the Bucks Stove and Range
boycott case, against himself, John
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison.
The burden of his testimony was in
tended to show that he had not VIC
lated the restraining order of Justice
Gould at a certain time.
BELFAST, lRE.-Winston Churchill
has come and gone, with every bone in
his body intact after making his ad-
vertised home rule speech in a tent
on the football field to an enthusiastic
crowd There were no hostile ele-
ments in this assemblaze except few
sutfragettes, whose Interruptions, on
account of their personal dislike to Mr..
Churchill, were suppressed by the po-
lice.
MINNEAPOLIS, MlNN.-Victims Of
poisoned candy plot, three-year-old
Bonnie Reedy and Simon O'Malley,
fifty years old, a hackman, are dead
from eating arsenic sweets placed at
the door at the O'Malley home. Louis
Spencer, who also ate the candy, is al
deaths door at the city hospital, while
Clara Crates, who also tasted the
sweets, is unframed.
LINCOLN, NEB. - Deputy War
den Davis of the state penitentiary is
dying as the result of a murderous at