The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON - Pending a most
full investigation of the clrcum-
stances surrounding the killing of
Former President Madero and For
mer Vice President Pine Suarez in
the streets OF Mexico City, Ambassa-
dor Wilson and the other foreign dip
lomatic representatives in Mexico
have declined to meet the officials of
the new government in that country.
Ambassador Wilson informed Secre-
tary of State Knox that he had re-
quested the Mexican minister for for
eign affairs, Mr. De La Barra, to post
pcne the reception to the diplomatic
corps, which was to have been held
today, until the death of the deposed
officers had been cleared up.
TRENTON, NJ. IA court hearing
upon a petition for the appointment
of a receiver for the Union Bag and
Paper company, New Jersey cor
poration. will be held here on March
8. The date was fixed by Chancel-
lor Walker in the court of chancery
on the applica ton of Sarah S. Aid
rich of Glens Falls, N. Y, and others.
The company has an authorized cap
ital stock of $270000O0 and is en-
gagged in the manufacture and sale of
paper bags, paper and wood pulp,
with branches in various sections of
this country and Canada.
LA PORTE, lND.-The annual re-
port of James B. Forgan, Chicago
banker and guardian of Catherine
Barker, only daughter of John H.
Barker, deceased multimillionaire,
was filed here 1t showed that in
1921 Miss Barker, "wealthiest young
woman liz America" made a gift Of
$4,000 to destitute crippled children
in Illinois and gift of 500 to Mayor
Harrison of Chicago for the benefit
of the family Of Patrolman Jones.
The income of Miss Barker for the
year was $4,000, of which she ex-
pend $4,000 personally.
WASHINGTON-Th U. S. supreme
court upheld tax levied by the state
of Illinois upon grain bought by E.
R. Bacon of Lake View, H., in west
ern states and put in his Illinois ele-
| vator on the day the tax was levied.
The decision, it is said, will be pre-
cedent for taxing much grain graded
at elevator points in the middle west
Justice Hughes laid down the prin-
ciple that states did not possess a
right to tax interstate shipments
merely because the owner was resi-
dent CT the state.
ALBANY, NJ. Y.-Governor William
| SulZer announced that DR.. John w.
Russell, superintendent of Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal in
sane, had told him that ''he thinks"
the man who offered him $4,000 if he
would aid in releasing Harry K. Thaw
'is named John Anhut" The
governor said his committee of in
quiry had issued subpoena for
John Nicholson Anhut," whose name
| appears in a New York directory, and
that gentleman has since disap-
| peared.
SYDNEY, NJ. S. W.-Two of the
members of the Mawson antarctic ex-
| pedition-Lieutenant MINIS, an Eng
| lishman, and DR.. Mertz, Swiss-have
| died. Dr. Mawson and six of his COM
/ panions have been left for the winter
on Adele Land, barren tract in the
antarctic, because they were unable
to reach the expeditions ship Aurora
before she was compelled to leave.
This news is received here by wire
/ less from Adele Land vie MacQuarie
island
NEW YORk-The president elect,
Woodrow Wilson, came here in a very
happy frame of mind. All day long
the muTmur of suffrage voices had
gone up and down the broad corridors
of the statehouse at Trenton. There
| is reason to believe that Mr.. Wilson
cast occasional chances of alarm to-
ward his waiting room as the tumult
of voices gave an occasional warning
of some one approaching. But he
escaped them.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-Cash bond
, of 100000 for the release of Eugene
Clancy from the federal prison at
| Leavenworth was sent east from
here. Realty bonds of S452, 900 for
the release of Olav Tveitmoe, who is
! held with Clancy on conviction of
participation in the alleged iron
workers dynamite conspiracy, were
sent east three days ago. The local
| unions raised the cash for Clancy.
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. J.-Being
pounded by heavy seas, hurled before
a steady blow, the big freighter
American was driven within three
hundred feet of the beach, half