The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-11-22

GENERAL NEWS.

aTy session not later than April 10 OF
next year to revise the tariff.
In MS statement, made public on
the eve of his departure for four
weeks vacation in Bermuda, he says
that he has determined upon this
course not only because he was elect
ed on platform which declared for
an Immediate downward revision of
the tariff schedules, but also because
ne Teels it is due to the business in
terests of the country that they
should be relieved of all uncertainty
as to what the general purpose of the
incoming administration at Washing
ton is.
GOSHEN, NJ. Y.-Burton w. Glib
son, lawyer of New York city,
was placed on trial here, charged
with numbering Mrs. Rosa Menschik
SZabo, a woman who was his client,
by strangling her while in the waters
OF Greenwood Lake on July &c.
The state will seek tc prove that Glib
son killed the woman in order to gain
possession of her estate, amounting to
about $4,000. Gibson has contended
that the woman was accidently drown
ed when a rowboat overturned, throw
ing them both into the water.
CHARLESTON, w. VA.-Governor
Glasscock has declared martial law
in the Cabin and Paint Creeks hection
OF the Kanawha coal field, following
an attack IT, miners on a passenger
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, in the Cabin Greek district.
After threatening to shoot up" the
train, the miners plan to prevent
transportation of new workers to the
mine succeeded. The cars bearing
the nonunion men were taken from
the regular train. They will be |
brought here. !
CINCINNATI, OHIO-It was Of
f1cially announced here that the cir
cult court of Cuyahoga county, by a |
unanimous decision, has rendered a
verdict Of guilty in the cases of State |
Senators Isaac E. Huffman of Oxford |
and LaForrest R. Andrews of Iron |
ton, charged with accepting brides at !
the last session of the Ohio legisla- |
ture Senator Huffman had been |
previously sentenced to three years |
in the penitentiary and Senator An
dreWs to nine months.
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the United States, the French am
bassador, a body Of noted scientists |
and the students and faculty of the |
College of the City of New York |
gathered in the great hall of the in
stitution in celebration Of the honor
accorded this country in the recer-
award of the Nobel prize for mes.l
cine to DR.. Alexis Carrel of this city. |
in recognition OF his work in the |
institute for medical re-
search.
NEW YORK-The immense John ].
Aston estate, estimated at about |
was formally turned |
over to the keeping Of William Vim
cent Astor. The young head Of the
Aston family became of age and !
the millions which have been held in
trust for him since the death Of his
father, John Jacob Astor, in the Tt
tanic disaster, became his in fact, and
there is 10 one to tell him how they |
shall be used.
ST: LOUIS, MO-The dead body
n Bellefontaine cemetary was identi- |
led by his family as that of Joseph /
3. Widen, president of the Barr e
Widen Commercial Agency company
md Of the Barr & Widen Mercantile |
4gency, against both of which con-
,erns number of suits have been
lied recently charging the obtaining
# money under false pretenses.
WASHINGTON - President Taft
most earnestly desires the Illinois |
enatorial vacancy filled by regular
by the time congress con-
enes next month Governor Deneen
will be urged by the administration in
he strongest terms to appoint Re-
ublican who will fill the vacancy
reated by the expulsion of William
.orimer until the legislature elects
duly qualified incumbent.
WATERFOWL, MAsS.-Wi1d riot .
lg marked an attempt of operatives
the Hood Rubber company TO pre-
ent workers going into the factories.
he works were closed for extensive
spairs, officials say. Some of the
peratives contended that the shut
own was a move to forestall threat
ned activity on the part of Industrial
7orkers of the World.
LITTLE FALLS. NJ. Y.-George
Lunn, the Socialist mayor of
was found guilty of yio-
ting the city ordinance recently in
fusing to move when the police in
rry1pfnd cnoooh he uaC hing tn