The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-05-17

GENERAL NEWS.
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the bridge of the Carmania in mid
ocean, Mrs. ]. H. Loring of New York
and London scattered armfuls of flow
erS upon the waters of the Atlantic
in memory of her husband, who lost
his life in the Titanic When the Car
mania arrived in latitude 41.16 and
longitude 50.14, the nearest point to
where the Titanic sank, Mrs Loring
attired in deep mourning, was escort
ed to the bridge by Captain Dow.
Five hundred cabin passengers stood
tered the flowers upon the sea. Men
stood with heads bowed and, uncover
ed, while some of the women passen-
gers, touched by the wife's devotion,
wept.
LONDON, ENGLAND-Under new
scheme of defense instituted by Win
ston Spencer Churchill the destroyers
of the British fleet commenced this
month the continuous patrol of the
coasts of the United Kingdom.
The northeast coast, menaced as it
is by the powerful feet of the German
empire, necessarily is most closely
guarded, and there the most modern
and powerful vessels of the mosquito
fleet, supported by submarines, have
been stationed.
WASHlNGTON-With Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson holly denying
any i1ref, ularity in the federal meat
inspection service and Represen
alive John M. Nelson, of Wisconsin
insistently declaring conditions where
by packers have Influenced the admin
istration of the law, the house COM
mittee on expenditures in the agricul-
tural department, opened an investi-
cation which both sides promise to be
full of sensations.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. - Henry
Christ, an employe of the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph company, who
lost an eye while at work, won his case
before the California industrial board,
which ruled that Christ should receive
81, 900 for medical treatment, full pay
for hospital time, IS per cent of his
wages for the following eight weeks,
and s. per cent of his estimated loss
in his earning capacity for the follow
ing fifteen years.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.-Unless some
boats are hurried to remote sections of
the country in Pointe Coupee parish
it is feared hundreds of persons will
perish. Word was received in Morgan
"a that large numbers of people are
still marooned in the country south of
the levee breach at Torras. The lack
of boats is a distressing handicap.
Stories of terrible suffering among
flood refugees reached here.
POTTSVILLE, PA. In a pitch
ed battle between state police under
Major John c.. Groome and crowd
estimated at between 1000 and 5000
men at Minersville, four men are
known to have been shot and three
probably fatally wounded. 1t is be-
lfeved dozen or more others were
also struck by bullets but were not
seriously enough wounded to seek
medical attention.
WASHINGTON - An alleged big
@'1and grab" by the Union Pacific rail-
road in Nebraska, Colorado and Kan
sas, by which it claimed a right-of-
way 400 feet wide, including much
land occupied by farmers and business
houses, was struck at in the House
by passage of the bill OF Norris, Re-
publican, of Nebraska, to give title to
the first occupants of the land.
CLEVELAND, OHlO-John G. Jur-
gems, the Cleveland youth who spent
$4,000 a year for two years on sal
airy of a few hundreds, was sentenced
to an indeterminate term of not less
than fourteen months in the Mansfield
reformatory for confessed embeZzle-
ment from the Norcross company of
Cleveland and Worcester, Mass.
ANDERSON, IND.-The Kikthawee-
nund Chapter, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution of this city, has made
the first local contribution to fund
for the erection of monument to the
victims of the recent wreck of the
steamship Titanic. The sum Of SIS
was forwarded with a communication
to President Taft.
TERRE HAUTE, IND.-Ii is now
said by representative Of the opera
tors and miners that they will hold
another joint conference at an early
date in an effort to reach some. AGREE
ment. relative to returning to- work.
Phil Penna, secretary of the opera
tors association, says there is no cause
for alarm.
WASHINGTON - The house &C,
copied the senate substitute for the
Sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill,
with few changes made in confer
ence. The period of enlistment for