The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-21
GENERAL NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

the White House inauguration day In
which all the close relatives OF the
new president will participate. Plans
for 1t are announced by Mrs. Wood
row Wilson. Colonel Thomas H.
Birch, personal aid to Governor Will
son, went to Washington to arrange
details for the family party. 1t will
probably be grouped in the presiden-
tial reviewing stand for the inaugural
parade. Thirty-fye persons will COM
pose the party, about twenty Of whom
are relatives. Members of the new
cabinet and their wives probably will
be added later. All will be present
at the White House at luncheon, Just
after the inauguration ceremonies.
CHiCAGO-John Joseph Brennan,
who was alderman of the Eighteenth
ward and for twenty-five consecutive
years a member Of the Chicago city
council, is dead, victim CT pneu--
monia. Aid. Brennan was about the
last of the cd type OF the saloonkeep-
ing ward bosses who once practically
ruled Chicago. In some ways he was
the ablest of them An uneducated
man, he had a certain mental, as in
his younger days he possessed physi-
thorough knowledge of the peculiar
wants of his peculiar constituency,
carried him through all political
storms and difficulties.
LEAvENWoRTH, KAN. - John
H. Barry of st. Louis and G. e. Ray
and Edward Smythe of Peoria, Ill,
union labor men found guilty at In
dianapolis of conspiracy to transport
explosives illegally, were released
from the federal prison on receipt of
an order from the United States cir
cult court of appeals in Chicago say
ing their bonds had been approved.
Barry's sentence was four years and
his bond $4,000. Smythe was given
a three-year sentence and his bond
was fixed at $4,000. Rays bond was
$4,000 on one-year sentence.
CHICAGO - Frederick w. Buck.
minister, treasurer of the Northwest
ern Can company, wanted as a princi
pal figure in the larson trust" prose-
cutions, was arrested in Windsor,
Ont, as he was preparing to leave
for London, England. Detectives
Thomas Sheehan of Chicago, w. D.
Delehanty of Toledo, o., and Investi-
gator Charles Furthmann of States
Attorney Hoyne's office hustled Buck
minister across the international Dor
der and left at once for Chicago They
arrived with their prisoner over the
Michigan Central railroad.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.-The legisla-
tive machinery to initiate constitu-
toinal convention for Illinois will be
in full operation during the present
week. Senator Edward C. Curtis Of
Kankakee is prepared to push joint
resolution already introduced by him
providing for the submission to the
people of the necessary proposition to
assemble a constitutional convention.
Senator Curtis said he has assurance
from majority of the senators that
no obstacles will be placed in the way
of immediate consideration of the
resolution.
WASHINGTON-The perfectly per-
R1xv, o1o III M
task of declaring Woodrow Wilson
and Thomas r. Marshall elected pres
ident and vice president, respectively,
of the United States, was performed
here at a joint session of the senate
and house. Officially Wilson and
Marshall hadn't been elected until
after this session. The joint session
counted the electoral votes and held
that Wilson had received 435, Roose-
welt SO and Taft 8.
NEW YORk-James Purcell, the
veteran New York gambler who testsi-
fed before the aldermanic committee
last week that he had paid police
graft over period of seventeen
years, quarreled early in the day with
his wife in their apartment and began
shooting. Mrs. Purcell tainted. but !
wild bullets struck their thirteen-year-
old daughter Agnes, who lay covering !
in bed, and killed her almost instant |
ly.
LONDON, ENG.-Miss Zelie Emer- |
son, the militant suffragette of Jack |
son, Mich, who is carrying on a |
campaign Of window smashing in the |
east end of London in company with |
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, was again |
arrested. She was Immediately taken !
before the police magistrate and SEN |
fenced to a term of two months at |
hard labor.
WESTINGHOUSE u. S. Sen |
ator Eugene Hale of Maine is report |
ed to be in critical condition from |
paralysis, with which he was stricken |