The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

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Five were drowned when pleasure
craft upset in the Mississippi river,
near Minneapolis.
President Wilson has nominated B.
o. Sweeney of Seattle to be assistant
secretary of the interior.
Theodore Roosevelt has reached
3arbadoes, West Indies, and is report
ed much improved in health.
Alfred Ennis, former counsel for the
Pullman company, was married in New
York to Norma Schiller, rs years old.
Christian n. Hanson, Danish Col.-u.
COR Chicago from 1898 to 1908, is deaa
at his home there He was 73 years
cid.
Three women, all schooIteachers,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed the Hotel Imperial at Yuma,
Ariz.
Paris has formed an Anti-Collar
league, advocating that men do away
with all stiff apparel that tend to
create discomfort.
A Trenton, NJ. j., Judge gave Mrs.
John Skillman a divorce because her
husband objected to the way she was
singing to their baby.
A supposedly "stiII born" child was
made to breathe by means of a pull
motor at Washington, D. G. The
child will live, doctors say.
The village of Alfred, Mich, was
completely wiped out by forest fires.
Floods in Colorado have done in
jury to the amount of 100000.
w. J. Harris of Georgia, census d.
rector, has resigned. He will enter
til econtest for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor of Georgia.
When a dog which Thomas Hutch
inson, Chicago policeman, was trying
to shoot, wiggled the officer shot off
his finger, the dog being unhurt.
Mrs. Edward Kreger, of Nyack, NJ.
K, while temporarily insane strangled
her S-year-old daughter then fired the
home burning her son and self to
death.
The jury Investigating the EccIes,
Va, mine horror, in which ISL per-
sons were killed, exonerated the com
pany and put the blame for the acct
dent on shirt-circuiting of the air.
Miss Mary MacIane, famous as the
author of the devil book" was wit
ness in a sensational Mann act case
at Butte, Mont She testified of gay
times at road house, in which young
girls were prominent figures.
Governor Hodge, of Kansas granted
a parole of sixty days to w. F. Rich
ards, a prisoner of the state peniten-
Liary, to go home and harvest his
crops The mans family needed the
aid to keep them from poverty.
John M. Cannon( judge advocate on
Governor Blease's staff, South Caro-
Ina, was shot dead by oJseph G. Sui
liz an, political leader. The tragedy
arose out of a quarrel over the convic-
ton in court of Sullivan's brother.
The Milwaukee, Wis, Y. M. c. A. in
a new ruling has barred the institution
as a home for men who are confirmed
bachelors The secretary explains
that a man should make himself
home through marriage after a rea.
sonable length of time.
The war and navy departments of
the United States government are
planning to equip aeroplanes with
rapid fire guns in the event of war
with Mexico. A gun has been per-
fected which weighs but % pounds and
is capable of firing 500 shots per min
ute.
Mrs. HaveIock Ellis, wife of the Enc
fish writer on sex subjects, in an inter
view advocated salaries for wives as
one way of putting women and men
on an equal footing. The visitor to u.
S. also declared marriage would be
Unnecessary when ''the real law OF
love becomes in working ORDER