The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-29
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Floods in Colorado have done in
jury to the amount of 100000.
The village of Alfred, Mich, was
completely wiped out by forest fires.
William o. Bradley, United States
senator from Kentucky, is dead in
Washington.
One woman and her son were killed
and a number of others injured IN
a st. Louis, Mo-, fiat building fire.
Members of the house defeated
picked team from the senate at golf.
Not senator was able to win game.
Fire in a lumber yard at Cleveland
spread to the Central viaduct. 1t is
estimated s1,500,G00 loss was incurred.
Bitten in one toe by rat while she
slept, Mrs. Earl MOser, Of Evansville,
Ind, probably will die with blood pois'
oning.
Enrico Caruso, the tenor, was taken
500 feet into the air at London by
Claude Grahame-White in biplane.
The two made quarter of an. hours
flight.
The Denver, Col, Law and Order
league is trying to impeach Judge Den
3. Lindsey. They object to his atsi-
tude IN the strike situation in that
state.
A doctor on transatlantic liner
prescribed and cured an i'll ship mas
ter on a boat 100 miles away. The
feat was accomplished by aid of the
wireless.
A petition signed by thousands Of
citizens of Michigan was presented to
congress asking the recognition of
DR.. Cook as the discoverer of the
north pole.
A. |. Ward, aged fifty-three years,
secretary of the Winchester Repeating
Arms company, committed suicide at
his home in Mount Carmel, near New
Haven, Conn.
General" Coxey, with his family
and an army of nine, reached Wash
tngton. He asked permission to speak
from the capitol steps. 1t has not yet
been granted.
Henry SeigeI, the New York mer-
chant, who, it was feared would not
return to the United States to face
| the indictments against him, has sail
ed for New York
Cleveland, O., has grown tired Of
John D. RockeNaller's delay and. is to
put his Ohio property on the list at
| it's full value, unless the oil king acts
within few days.
Boies Penrose and DR.. Martin Brum-
baugh were the winners in the Penn
| sylvania primaries for the Republican
nomination for United States senator
and governor respectively.
Titanic survivors received a hard
| blow when courts declared the Ocean
ic Steamship company was held liah,e
| to the extent of only 900 in the
disaster that killed hundreds.
Count Tisza, Hungarian premier,
and Stephan Rakovsky, member Of
the lower house, fought a duel with
rapiers, both being injured. They left
| the field without settling their diff
| culties.
While driving a party of women
| in his automobile John D. Rockefeller
narrowly averted a serious accident
| uhen thee ar collided with another.
| None was injured, John DIS machine
carrying away smashed fender and
| radiator.
Complaints by Milwaukee girls that
| autoists take them far into the cOun-
| try and then compel them to walk
| back has spurred the district attorney
| there to action. Autos of the offenders
| may be conf1scated as a result of the
| campaign against them.
| Joseph Forbes, alias lssie Wood, for
| whom the government has been
| searching nearly a year has been ar
rested at Paterson, n. J., and started
| back 20 Roanoke, Va. The govern
ment declares he is the cleverest
money raiser of recent years,
j. Pierpont Morgan IL. in a state
ment in reference to the testimony of
| c. S. Mellen before the Interstate
| Commerce Commission denies that his
father juggled the New Haven road to
| the detriment of the stockholders. He
| declares his father had no time for
individual deals, such as the New Hav-
| en- matter. 49,