The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-09
GENERAL. NEWS.

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CINCINNATI, O.-Some humane So
ciety officers witnessed private per-
! Torrance given by three-year-old
boy whose wrists and ankles had been
broken when he was ten days old in
order to make him an acrobat and
wrestler The youngster is the sou of
r. G. Neof, Greek, who claims that
he was a student of physical culture
Neof told the officers that he had
broken the wrists and ankles of his
son when ten days old and month
later began training the baby for an
athletic career. In his performance
the Neof child dislocated his ankles
and wrists at will and caused them to
assume many unnatural positions.
The humane officers decided not to
interfere with Neofs plan of develop
ing the child, but exacted promise
that no public exhibition would be
given by the boy for at least five years.
Observation-Disclosures VIM. Lori
fore the senate committee investi-
eating his election, after the Illinois
senator had testified that his elections
to congress sometimes cost him as
much as $4,000 Or $4,000. Campaign
expenses ranged all the way from So
900 to $4,000, he told the committee.
Senator Lorimer told Of several in
0sT hfOb bn CT NH
dence of hostility toward him on the
part of the Chicago Tribune and the
Mccormick family.
WASHINGTON-A sudden collapse
of Robert M. LaFollette, whose health
has given way beneath the strain Of
his campaign for the presidential NOM
nation, appears to be complete. AL
though It is strenuously denied at pro-
gressive headquarters, the statement
is made that the senator will not be
able for some time to resume the &C
tive mart he has taken in Republican
politics. His campaign managers in
sist, however that he will have recov-
cred in two weeks.
WASHTNGTON-G w H. Blk
by, chief of engineers of the army,
brings from Havana the report, that
unless unforeseen difficulties are ex-
perienced, all that is left of the old
battleship Maine will be foated out
of Havana harbor by March l and sunk
in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mex
off hn IF
Cuba. Such disposition Of the remains
of the Inflated ship is in accordance
with orders of the war department.
SUTSiEN, CHINA-The Republicans
lost sixty men killed in an outpost en-
gagement with the imperialists fifteen
miles to the north of this city. Re-
Inducements consisting of 5000 men
Of all arms are leaving here for the
front and a battle is expected soon
Chang Hsun, who is in command of
the imperial forces at Suchow, has
made an offer to join the revolution
airy army with his followers if his per-
sonal losses are reimbursed.
WIN INEHinI ~. Js-buI1HS Oil GIl-
dress in Unity church John Mitchell,
vice president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, declared that if he be-
lieved the success of the trade union
movement depended in any degree up
on the commission of illegal acts, he
would not hesitate for moment to
sever his connection with it. Mr..
Mitchell made this declaration in a
discussion of ''Labor's Program for In
dustrial Justice.
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NEW YORk-The officials of the
Hamburg American line said they had
received a wireless dispatch through
the marine department of a telegraph
company that the steamship Allegheny,
which was struck by the British
steamer Pomeran, had sunk seventy
eight miles northeast of Cape Henry,
after the two passengers and the crew
of the Allegheny had been taken on
board the Pomeran.
NEW YO7k-In urgent response to
a general alarm, 10000 New York po-
IICCm0u are Oh IuS lOOhOuL IOl w dI-
lace Robinson, prominent illustrator
and designer of magazine covers. He
left his home Monday night to mail
letter, telling his bride of few months
that he would return in five minutes.
Every effort to find him since has
proved futile.
Ell PASO, TEXAS-Eight persons
were killed in Juarez during the night
in a rebellion" begun by former Ma
dero men, according to careful count.
One was Ciapriona Torres, an insur-
recto. The others have not been iden-
titled. The mutineers burned all the
papers in the Jail and the court ad-
joining, after freeing the prisoners.
ITHACA, NJ. Y.-Stuck in by large
snowbank, thirty persons on train on
the New York, Auburn and Lansing
railroad passed the night between this