The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-07
GENERAL NEWS.

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SAVANNAH, GA. - Practically q
half-mile of the most valuable por-
ton of Savannahs water front was
raked by fire that. did probably a mil
lion and half dollars worth of dam
age, and for several hours threatened
the city with the most serious con-
fiagration it has experienced in many
years. The magnificent wharves of
the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation company's warehouses,
filled with freight just brought into
port by steamers from Baltimore and
Philadelphia, were quickly turned
into a ruined mass by the flames.
Large storage warehouses filled with
mary articles of value were wiped
out by the fire in short time.
LONDON, ENG.-Undismaye by
the Jail sentences handed out in the
Bow street police court number of
suffragettes followed Premier AS
quith to Leven in Fifeshire, and con-
tinued their militant tactics outside
of a hall in which the. premier was
addressing his constituents. A
strong Gordon of constables was
drawn around the hall, and against
this the "Bashibazoukesses, as the
militant suffragettes have come to be
called. dashed wildly but in vain.
OF the thirty suffragettes who have
been sentenced Twenty-Five continue
to declare that they will put the pris-
on officials through the drill Of
handinlg a hunger strike"
WASHINGTON - BY vote of
Al to 23-one more than the neces-
sary two-thirds-the senate adopted
the resolution for an amendment to
the constitution providing for single
six-year presidential term. Follow
ing is the text of the resolution:
The executive power shall be vest
ed in a president of the United States
of America The term of office of
president shall be six years, and no
person who has held the office by
election or discharged it's powers or
duties or acted as president under
the constitution and laws made in
pursuance thereof, shall be eligible to
again hold the office by election.
NEW YcRK-Very DESTROYS of adj
vancing the cause of the associations
of Christian young men and women
of New York, George w. Perkins, for
merly associate with J. Pierpont Nor
gan, has consented to lead cam
paign to raise 100000, which is to
be expended for new buildings and
equipment 1t is said that Mr.. Per
kins will donate at least 100000 to
the fund and he is determined to
raise the required amount before the
close of the current year
ST. PAUL, MIMI. - By vote
of 33 to 3d. the Minnesota senate re-
jected the bill of Senator O. o. Sag
eng, proposing constitutional amend
ment giving women the right to vote.
IL
ney against the measure there was
Kissing from women in the gallery,
but this was discontinued when Sena-
tor Sullivan made a motion that the
galleries be cleared if the disturbance
occurred again.
NEW YORk-The city police I'M
der Inspector Lahey made twenty
seven arrests in the disturbances
growing out of the garment workers
strike One of the prisoners was
Elizabeth Freeman, of 269 West
Twelfth street, a suffragist orator,
who spent thirty days in an English
jail year or so ago because OF her
activities in connection with the
militant suffrage propaganda in Lon
don
JACKSON, MlSS.-The news OF
the plight of 1870 families marooned
by the flood from the Beulah crevasse
in the Mississippi levee was received
in a letter appealing for help written
.
woman, declared many of the families
were without shelter, while others
were imprisoned in the lofts of their
homes without food. Lack of boats
has retarded rescue work.
Observation-Disclosures federal gov
ernment's prosecution of the Unit
ed Shoe Machinery company as a
combination in violation of the Sher-
man antitrust law received setback
at the hands of the United States SUI
preme court The highest court af-
firmed the action of the lower court
in dismissing the indictments against
the officers of the shoe machinery
company.
CHlCAGO-Frank M. Ryan, the
president of the International Iron
Workers union, and convicted dyna-
inter, has been released from the fed