The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
GENERAL NEWS.

EAST WALPOLE, MASS, - Rob
ert Perkins Bass, governor Of New
Hampshire, was married to Miss Edith
Harlan Bird, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles S. Bird, at "Erde2n,' the
residence of the Bird family.
Eight years ago, when Miss Faith
Bird was a girl Of fifteen years, she
was at Hot Springs With her parents.
Among the guests there was Robert
Perkins Bass of Peterboro, n H.
Harvard graduate, lawyer, rich, and
brilliant Young Mr. Bass was intro
duced to the girl from East Walpole.
The girl and the young man found in
tereStS in common.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-When
the loss is due to the negligence of
the railroad, is was said, the company
cannot avoid payment of actual value
for lost baggage because the railway
ticket signed by the owner carries
clause limiting the valuation to 500.
Such was the decision in the district
court here in the case of Mrs. Thomas
Homer VS.. the Oregon Short Line.
Mrs Homer got judgment for $500.
A trunk thief, the evidence showed,
transposed checks at the Short Line
station in this city and obtained Mrs.
Homer's baggage.
TRINIDAD, COLO.-A very careful
ly planned attempt to hold up ColOra-
do Southern passenger train No. 2 at
Garcia, sixteen miles south Of here,
was only frustrated by the fact that
a freight was tagged by the bandits
by mistake. The passenger train,
which also carries the Denver and Fort
Worth mails, was an hour late in
leaving Trinidad A freight train left
on the passenger trains regular time
and near Garcia it was tagged. The
trainmen saw eight armed men run
away a moment after the train had
stopped.
NEW YORk-When Cardinal Far
ley, the newly crowned prince of the
Catholic church, walked down the
gangplank from the steamer Berlin,
he received a greeting that in its elab
orateness has been eclipsed only twice
in the history of the nation-once
when cheering multitudes acclaimed
the return of Admiral Dewey and again
when the safe homecoming of Theo-
dore Roosevelt brought out hundreds
of thousands of his fellow-citizens
NEW YORK-The large seven story
warehouse of the Terminal Storage
company, occupying full city square
near the North river water front, be-
tween Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth streets, and containing nter-
chandise valued at more than $4,000
600, was swept by fire. The fire was
discovered a few minutes after mid
night. The loss is estimated at ST.
100000.
BALTIMORE, MD.-Urging boy
colt of butter and eggs as the most
effective means of forcing decreased
price of these necessities, DR.. Guy L.
Hummer in a letter to the public, de-
clares his belief that the skyrocketing
of prices has been due to manipula-
ton by concerns which are holding
vast quantities of butter and eggs in
cold storage.
WASHINGTON - Great reductions
of 80 to so per cent on all items in the
iron and steel tariff and the placing on
the tariff free list of iron ore, sewing
machines, printing machinery, cash
registers, nails, and many other arti-
cles against which tariff is now lev
led, are proposed in the Democratic
steel revision tariff bill, just made
public.
NEW YORK.-If all of the house.
wives of Greater New York. including
the 165, 900 members of womens clubs,
harken to the entreaties Of Mrs. Ju-
liam Heath, president and founder Of
the two-months-old Housewives
League, butter boycott will be on in
all the homes of the greater city, be-
cause it costs too much.
% PONTIAC, MICH.--Very liberal en-
couragement of courtship between the
pupils of grade school was advocated
by Woodbridge N. Ferris of Big Rap"
ids, before the teachers of Oakland
county, at the annual institute Mr.;
Ferris once ran for governor of Mich"
igan on the Democratic ticket
CHICAGO-About two hundred wo'
men and girls fed in a panic when
fire attacked the plant of the Palace
laundry, West Fifty-ninth streets and
Lowe avenue The flames spread rap.
idly and soon the laundry plant and
the factory of the Englewood Sash and
Door company were doomed.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA--A confu
sion of signals between the bridge and