The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-10-25
PlTTsEuReH, PA.-Peter w. Me

PITTSBURGH, PA.-Peter w. Mes
sing, a carpenter, dynamited the
homes Of William Jackson and Will
liam Bigger at Pleasant Valley, near
here, cut and seriously injured three
persons and attempted suicide. The
arrival Of county detectives saved
Messing from rough treatment at the
hands of a mob. Mrs. Molly Scott.
Mrs Sarah Jackson and James Mar
tin. the wounded, were taken to the
hospital with Messing, who was said
to be seriously hurt. The outbreak
was the result of a feud that has
ragged for years, with Messing on one
side and the Jackson and Bigger
families on the other.
LONDON, ENG.-The Bulgars are
pushing along steadily in their adj
vance on Adrianople, where the Turks
have massed one division Of their
army Encouraged by their victory
at Mustapha Pasha, the door to Adri-
anople On northern frontier, one di-
vision of the army Of Bulgaria is
pushing along both banks of the
MeritZa. The right wing is moving
across the heights commanding the
valley of Arda, and the advancing
guard is capturing and blowing up
bridges on the roads to Adrianople.
PITTSBURGH, Pain an inspired
statement the Pittsburg Dispatch,
for many years the organ of Secre-
tary Knox, announces his determine
ton to retire from public life on
March next, no matter what the re-
suit of the pending election.
The statement is made in. tele-
gram from Washington over the
name of L. w. Strayer, Washington
correspondent who has been intrusted
with a number of Secretary Knox's
announcements.
NEW YORK-The suit which was
brought by Nine. Lillian Nordica, the
singer, to recover $4,000 from the
Southern Railroad company for in
juries received. in wreck while
travelling on the company's road,
which has been dragging through the
supreme court and the higher courts
of this state for the past ten years,
was dismissed by Justice Ford on a
stipulation signed by counsel for the
singer and the railroad company.
CHICAGO-All gambling at the
new Mineral Springs race track, near
Porter, Ind, was ordered stopped by
Governor Marshall. The track has
been open for four days, and in that
time the betting has been carried on
practically without trouble AS the
attendance at the races has Teen
small, it is not believed that he
track will survive if betting is
stopped absolutely.
LITTLE FALLS, N. " Mayor
Lunn of Schenectady and six fellow
Socialists are in jail at Herkimer.
They were arrested after a distur-
bance which followed attempts by the
mayor and his wife and others 70 ad-
dress strikers meetings in the streets
and Sheriff Moon had the riot act
officer to the police station.
INSTITUTIONAL. S. Ambassador
Wilson, who has returned from Mex
leo to Washington, is said to have
been recalled to confer with state de-
partment officials concerning the
new situation created by Felix Diaz's
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the department considers this latest
uprising as decidedly serious.
WASHINGTON-Th u. S. navy
department will recommend to con-
gress in December the construction
of a thousand-foot naval dry dock on
the Atlantic coast, probably at New
York. A dock of similar size, now
building at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is
about one-third completed and will
cost nearly $3,500,OO0.
NEW YORk-The great Atlantic |
fleet steamed out to sea. From the |
superdreadnoughts Arkansas and |
Wyoming to the tiniest submarine, the |
fore President Taft The column |
was fifteen miles long and was near
~ two hours in passing.
BEVERLY, MASS.-In long state |
men, based upon reports from Sec |
rotary of Agriculture James Wilson |
President Taft declares that the wave |
of high prices for food throughout the |
world has begun to subside in this |
country.
MEXICO CITY, MEx.-The army, |
the police and the marine corps sta |
toned at Vera Cruz, have enlisted un-
der the rebellious banner raised by |
General Felix Diaz, NEPHEW of Ex- |
President Porfirio Diaz.