The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-04-19

GENERAL NEWS.

| tie the quarrel between Great Britain
and Ireland, was introduced in the
| house of commons by Premier ASquith.
The bill provides for the establish
inert of an Irish parliament, consist
| ing Of a senate and a house of COM
| mons, with power to make laws for
| peace, order and good government in
ireland. 1t also provides that the mat
| tiers to be excluded from the control of
| the Irish parliament are the crown, the
| army and the navy, imperial affairs,
| the Irish land purchase, the old age
pensions and national insurance acts,
the Irish constabulary, the postofice
! savings bank and public loans, in adj
| ditiOn to those excluded by the home
| rule bill of 1892, which left the customs
under the control of the imperial gov
| eminent.
NEW YORK-Major General Fred
| terick Dent Grant, y. S. A., COM
| manding the eastern division of the
army, with headquarters on Governors
island, who has been absent on leave,
| will not return to Governors island to
| resume command of the division which
next to the position of chief of staff
| in Washington and that of division
| commander in the Philippines, is con-
ssidered the most responsible command
that an American army officer can
hold. That General Grant suffered an
almost complete breakdown in health
| is admitted by many of his army
| friends, but that he is suffering with
| throat cancer, the same disease that
killed General u. S. Grant, is father.
is denied by those close to him.
ROCHESTER, IN. Ns-The platforra
presented to the Republican state
| convention opposes the recall, favers
1.-The Republican principle of protec-
ton ito American men, American i'm
,dust tries, and the American farmer"
condemns the Democratic tariff policy;
declares for the amendment of the ma
tional banking law and the creation of
| a national reserve association; opposes
'Fas subversive to our form of govern
ment," THE initiative, the compulsory
| legislative referendum, and the recall
| either Of public servants or judicial
| decisions; and opposes the recall of
| judges or 'any system which will in
| troduce cowardice as an element in the
| administration of Justice
NGTON-ImpOrtant changes
among the high ranking officers have
| teen announced by the navy depart
| ment. Rear-Admiral Thomas B. How
| ard is relieved of command of the
| third division of the Atlantic feet by
| Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, who
! surrenders command of the fifth divi-
sion, which has been turned into
reserve division under a captains
command Rear-Admira1 Chauncey
! Thomas is given the usual advance no.
| tice of his retirement April 27. He
has already turned over the command
of the Pacific feet to Rear-Admiral
Sutherland.
NEW YORk-Miss Emma G. Cam
eron, for many years the ward of the
late Edwin Hawley, the railroad mag
nate, obtained legal possession of Mr..
Hawley's New York residence. A deed
conveying the property to her was filed
in the registers Office by third party
as the outcome of a trust agreement,
executed by trustees and heirs inter-
ested. Hawley town house is valued at
$4,000, and his country home at Baby
lon, L. l., of which Miss Cameron OBJ
tanned possession previously, is valued
at $125,000.
NASHVILLE, TENN.-Gowernor B.
Hooper has announced the appoint
ment of Newell Sanders of Chattanoo-
ga as United States senator to succeed
the late Senator Robert L. Taylor
MIR. Sanders is state chairman OF th'-
Republican executive committee and
a prominent manufacturer of Chatta
nooga. He is a native of Indiana, but
has lived in Chattanooga since 1878.
Mrs. Sanders was Miss Corinne Dodds
of Bloomington, ILL., Mr.. Sanders is
sixty-two years old.
WASHINGTON-The u. S. senate
passed two of the important general
appropriation bills. The army ap-
preparation bill was completed. AS bill
passed the senate it carried appropri-
atoms aggregating $95,314,710, as
against $S7,777,257 carried by the
house bill The diplomatic and con-
sular bill which also passed the SEN
ate carried appropriations aggregating
$3,427, 491, an increase of approximate
" $4,000 over the house bill.
SAN ANTONIA, TEXAS - David
'Trousdale, the Wells-Fargo express
messenger who killed two bandits that
held up Southern Pacific train near
Eldridge, Tex, March Is and attempt
ed to rob the express car, will be Civ
en- the best run in the Wells-Fargo ser
vice in this state. This announce |
ment was made here by E. A. Sted- |
man, of Chicago, vice president of the |