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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
VICTIMS OF REVOLVER
ARE BOTH RECOVERING
MIlWaukeGan and Wife Who Shot
Him Exchange Love Messages.

MILWAUKEE, WIS. - Recovering
from their wounds, in different rooms
separated only by a thin partition
and with nurse hurrying to and fro
attending to their wants and carrying
messages of sympathy from one to the
other, Archie j. Jones and his wife,
Clare, who were said to be near death
as the result of the attempted murder
suicide at ILL Maryland avenue, re.
peatedly declared undying affection
fol- each other.
Glare will be all right after she re-
covers, aud We will live in happiness
hereafter" said Mr.. Jones, and as he
spoke his eys shone with the thought
of the future.
from the other room came the same
messages of love from Mrs Jones,
who, because of her confessed jealousy
over her husband, fired the bullet into
his body which almost resulted in his
death and then attempted to end he9
own life.
l didn't mean to kill Archie" she
sobed. Il only meant to scare him.
but somehow the bullet with which
thought | could bring back his love
almost ended his life. o, am sc
happy that he is still living and still
wants to have me-"
That both would recover was the
opinion of DR.. George H. Dickins OF,
who is in attendance.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
BLACKMAILER SEEKS SELF
Man Sought by Posse Is Found to Be
Member of Posse.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS. A posse
in the vicinity of Strum was unable 20
locate the man they were looking for
because the man was member of
tho posse This was the allegation ct
police, following the arrest of Jesse
HCgue, charged with having sent a
note to NJ. c. Stogstad, cashier of the
First State bank of Strum, demanding
$5GC on penalty of death.
A dummy package was placed in the
designated place and posse watched
the package. When Hogue was arrest
ed police identified him as a member
Of the posse Police claim Hogue con-
fessed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
GET BIG PRICES FOR TOBACCO
Northern Wisconsin Acreage Rapidly
Increasing and Good Prices Prevail.

BARRON, WIS. = Northern Wis
ccnsin acreage devoted to tobac-
co culture is rapidly increasing, and
the results are being seen in growing
shipments of the weed to the various
markets. One Chippewa Falls firm
alone will pay out 100000 for tobacco
grown in northern Wisconsin,
Barron growers have been able to
secure good prices for their crops.
For one car just shipped to Chip.
rewa Falls the growers received
$4,000. It contained 41,00 pounds. The
highest price paid was to T. Custer
hous, who received IA cents pound.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29

LONDON. ENG. The attitude
which the British government will
ADOPT toward the cargo of the Ameri-
car steamship Wilhelmina, which
sailed from New York for Hamburg
last Friday with food stuffs for Ger
many, has not yet been decided. The
Will elmina, originally the British
steamer Marlborough, is the first food
laden vessel to leave an American
ptri for Germany since the opening
of the war and the question of food
stIffs as conditional cOntraband will
come up for the first time.
Food Question in New Angle.
The United States and Great Brit
ain are agreed on the principles Of
contraband They also admit the
contention that food stuffs placed on
TIE conditional cOntraband list may
be shipped without condition of seiz-
ure provided they are not designed 1or
a belligerent government or the use
OF the enemy's armed force. But it
Is this question of destination that
is causing study in the case of the
Wilhelmina and for this reason is
there sufficient guarantee that the car
go will not be used by the German
government for it's armed forces, par
ticularly in view of the various Ger
man proclamation that food stuffs are
primarily the property of the gove"n-
meEt? The question revolves itself
int IN 1f0
ccIsignees Of the Wilhelmina's cargo
offer that it will not be used for
German forces?
The case will be thoroughly inves-
tigated yet in a spirit of the utmost
fryendliness, and while the burden Of
ct oof of the bOnafdes of the cargo is
OF the shippers. still there is every
disposition to meet the situation i'll
the. most amicable manner without
insisting too much on the technical
rights or aspects of the case.
Bryan's Letter Clears Atmosphere.
The letter of Secretary BRYAN to
Senator Stone on Americas view Of
the duties of neutrality is regarded in
official circles as eminently satisfar-
tory and frankly it may h" said that
the letter helped to clear the atmos-
phere. The speech by Senator Lodge
is welcomed also. as he is believed
to be pointing out real danger to
the good relations between the United
States and the belligerent countries
as he drew attention to the fact that
in the case of he Dacia. if she had
been a government owned ship en-
gaged in trade with an enemy's coun-
try the situation might have devel
oIeC awkwardly.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
RADICALS in ITALY VOTE WAR
Milan Congress Also Demands Inter
vention and Denunciation of Alliance

ROME The committee Of
the radical party has unanimously
adopted a motion declaring Italy's
participation in the European confiic;
her aspirations and the protection of
her interests. This vote emphatically
GisProves the rumor that several ra6i-
Gals desire to support SignOr Giollitti
i'll a strictly neutral policy.
The radicals of Padua and the revo-
lutionary associations of many cities
represented in a congress at Milan
have voted for Intervention and an i'm
mediate denunciatiOn of the triple al
liarce
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
MUST IMPROVE SANITATION
Condition at kenosha Ice Houses Are
Held Still every Bad"

KENOSHA, WIS. = The ice com
panies owning houses on the lakes
OF KenOsha county have failed to
meet the demands of the state board
of health to clean up" Efforts have
been made to better conditions sur
rounding the housing of the thousands
of men, but DR.. Hoyt of Milwaukee,
who made an investigation for the
state department., declared that con
ditions in these places were still very
bad"
He asserted that the entire equip
ment of the companies would have to
be changed to meet the demands Of
the state board, and insisted that the
companies would be required to make
these changes during the coming sum-
mer if the houses are to be opened
fer the next season.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
TALKS ACROSS CONTINENI
President Wilson's Voice Is Heard
From Ocean to Ocean.

WASHINGTON = President Will
son inaugurated the first transconti-
mental telephone system by speaking
directly to President Moore of the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San Fran
cisco.
With Mr.. Moore, Alexander Graham
Fell, the inventor of the telephone and
President Vail of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company on the
wire at different points, the President
extended congratulations on the
achievement The circuit of phones
used in all the conversations was
1900 miles.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
CANNOT FORCE VACCINATION
Attorney General Rules on Power of
Boards of Education in State.

MADISON, WIS. = There is no
authority in the statutes which makes
it possible for board of education to
require that every student be vac
cinated for smallpox before attending
school. This is one opinion given by
Attorney General Walter c. Owen to
District Attorney E. E. Brindley of
Richland Center.
In another the attorney general de-
clares it is unlawful for the treasurer
of school district to deposit money
in his hands belonging to the district
In bank in which he is a stakeholder.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
Sweden to Mobilize

PARIS = a Petrograd dispatch
to the Temps says Sweden has re-
called its officer instructors who have
been serving in the Persian gendar-
merle. The correspondent says
standardization feature can be seen
II: this movement.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
Anti-War Riots in Croatia.

LONDON Anti-war riots APP
pros ching g revolution have occurred
in Agram, capital of Austrian Croatia,
according to mail advices from Wen
ma. For three days the palace was
beseiged by rioters who succeeded in
burning one wing of the building. Ban
WAR Skerlecz. head of the Croatian
government, was badly wounded.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
Austria Defies Italy and Roumanis

VIENNA - The Wiener Tage-
bIatt, which is the mouthpiece of the
foreign office, credits TO Foreign Min
lister Burian a statement that he will
refuse territorial concessions to italy
and Roumania. even if such course
makes inevitable the intervention of
these states on the side of Great Brit
ain France and Russia.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
Prussia Calls on Aged Citizens.

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND A
telegram received here from Berlin
sets forth that in the province Of
BIandenburg, in which Berlin is To-
Gated, there have been called up for
medical examination the fifty year old
unframed men OF the landstrum of
the 1886, 1887 and 1888 classes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
ICELAND ON WATER WAGON
Parliament of Arctic Country Forpids
Sale of Alcoholic Drinks.

COPENHAGEN The parlia-
ment of Iceland, thirty-four of whose
forty members are elected by popular
suffrage, has passed a measure for
bidding the sale of alcoholic liquors.
Al, the remaining stock in the Dan
sh dependency has been exported.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
WANT QUARANTINE RAISED
Dodge County Fair Men to Prevent
Resolution 20 Senator Barwic.

BEAVER DAM, WIS. The
Dodge County Fair association at its
annual meeting here appointedea com
mittee to present a resolution to Sen
ator Husting at Washington and Sen
ator Barwig at Madison, asking them
to use their influepce u raise the
quarantine against the foot and
mouth disease in Dodge county west
of the Rock river.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29

Austrian Dreadnaueht Lost, Rumor.
VENICE - 1t is rumored here
that an Austrian dreadnaught has
struck mine off Pola and sunk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
GERMANY GIVES
TANGLE To FOOD
Grave Point Is Raised by Gov
eminent Order.
ALL SUPPLIES NATIONALIzED

Attitude of British Government
Toward WiIheImina Not Decided
Query Raised as to How Food Can
Be for Non-Combatants When Gov
eminent Assumes Ownership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Confederate Memorial Day

April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida and is legal holiday in these states. May 10 is observed as Memorial Day in North and South , Carolina, and the Second Friday in May is observed in Tennessee. Vir- ginia observes May 30, which is the day set apart in the northern states as Decoration Day.
 In Birmingham and in other cities of Alabama, memorial exercises will be held this afternoon. Camp Wilcox, United Confederate Veterans, will meet in their hall today at 3 p. m. in honor of the occasion and ad- dresses will be delivered there by Dr. R. M. Cunningham, Capt. John G. Smith and others. After the exer- cises committees will proceed to Wood lawn cemetery and to Elmwood ceme- tery and lay flowers upon the graves of the dead who fought for principles they felt to be right.
 | Most of those soldiers who sleep beneath the sod in this city wore the gray, but some wore the blue. The last resting place of all alike will be decorated with wreaths at this Con- federate memorial time. It is beau tiful custom.
 The war between the states ended fifty years ago. Sectional bitterness continued for awhile, but it is en- tirely gone now. Never was this country so thoroughly united as it is today; but so long as sons and daugh- ters of the Confederacy survive the valiant dead will be remembered and their graves will be kept green.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
The Pan-American Conference

Much has been done within the past 20 years to create a strong Pan- American sentiment, and both politi- cally and commercially the South American republics and our own country are very close together.
 But the good work of cultivating Latin-America from business point of view must continue without ceas- ing. Therefore, it is important that every state and every important city should be represented by delegates at the Pan-American Financial con- ference to be held in Washington the latter part of May as provided in a bill passed by the last Congress which reads as follows:
 The President Is hereby authorized to extend to the governments of Central and South America an invitation to be represented by their ministers of finance and leading bankers, not ex- ceedng three in number in each case. to attend conference with the Secre- tary of the Treasury in the city of Washington at such date as shall be determined by the President. with a view of establishing closer and more satisfactory financial relations between their countries and the United States of America, and authority is hereby given to the Secretary of the Treasury to invite, in his discretion, representa- tive bankers of the United States to participate in the said conference, and for the purpose of meeting such actual and necessary expenses as may be incidental to the meeting of said conference and for the entertainment of tho conferees the sum of $50.00O is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Cotton Reduction This ye.r

"The way I figure it the south's 1915 cotton crop will scarcely total 10000, COG bales," said J. o. Thompson, who oper- ates large farms in Lowndes and other counties.
 T am reducing my cotton acreage and my neighbors are reducing theirs. I am raising more alfalfa than usual have fine stand of alfalfa on 400 acres on which I grew cotton last year.
 But speaking of figures here are a few statistical estimates upon which a short crop forecast is based: Reduction in acreage in the cotton states % per cent; reduction in cotton acreage out side of the United States, 50 per cent; reduction in fertilizer sales, 47 per cent; blow animals shipped out of the cotton states for war purposes, S0,00O; decrease in sales of farm animals to cotton states, 100000 In a great many localities faulty seed has been planted and that means indifferent stands
 There are many other things that will contribute to a tremendous shortage of the production in 19l5 In 1910 only one thing contributed to the short crop-the weather. Production that year was a little upwards of 10000, 000o bales. Every thinking man will draw but enc conclu- sion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Fruits Palatable and Wholesome

In a recent bulletin the United States department of agriculture calls attention to palatable fruits that are little known in this country and might be eaten with wholesome eff feet. 4s
 Mulberries are used little, also the medlar, which resembles the apple and could be readily grown in the United States. This fruit is common in all parts of Europe, but is almost is becoming more popular every year. The fruit is green or purple in color and resembles the eggplant. The pulp surrounding the single seed is the part eaten. It has a delicate flavor much like a nut and can be served in a variety of ways.
 Varieties of cactus are eaten in Mexico. Cactus cheese" is form of sweetmeat in that country. The guava in the tropics is used in almost as many ways as the apple in temperate eli mates. While the fresh fruit is seldom exported, guava jelly and guava paste are popular products of commerce.
 The roselle of Jamaica resembles okra in form but has an acid flavor like that of the cranberry. The sapo- dilla can be grown in parts of Florida and is like large russet apple in ap- pearance. The loquat, small plum like fruit, and surinam cherries are other varieties of fruits that have an agreeable taste, but are compara- lively unknown in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Worthy of Serious Study

The Age-Herald publishes today ar Illuminating map showing the water navigation possibilities of the Bir- mingham district worthy of study by every man interested in the districts future.
 The completion of Lock IF on the Warrior brings navigation to the mineral deposits. The expenditure of less than $4,OO0,OOO by the govern ment will make Valley creek naviga- ble to the network of railroads at Bessemer. Water rates on freight from Birmingham would then be vir- tually realized.
 The Valley creek work appears tc be the next great project in which Birmingham should seriously interest itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25

hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- priated, to be expended under the di-
 rection of the Secretary of the Treas
 ury.
 Director General John Barrett of the Pan-American union, with head quarters in Washington, is arranging the details, and in recent bulletin setting forth interesting facts in con nection with the conference ex- pressed the belief that the attendance would be large and notable. In fact, it bids fair to be the most repre- sentative gathering of American if nanciers which has ever assembled on the western hemisphere" and it has possibilities of being the most inn portant international conference that has met in the United States since the first great international meeting of American republics held in Washing lOn III bHS WiIleI Ol IOoJ-JO cilu pl sided over by James G. Blaine, then Secretary of State.
 The delegates from the Latin coun- tries will be the guests of our gov ernment. The conference will con- tinue through the last week of May and into the first week of June. The inaugural exercises on May 24 will be exceptionally interesting. There will be addresses of welcome by Presi- dent Wilson, Secretary Bryan and Secretary McAdoo. The sessions will be held in the hall of the Americas of the Pan-American union, the official international organization devoted to the development of commerce, friend ship and peace among them"
 Practical good will unquestionably result from the forthcoming confer ence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
sunday Dinner at Cafeteria

"A feature of the recent record treaking membership campaign con- ducted by the Birmingham Young Mems Christian association was the midday luncheon served from the cafe teria to the 366 campaigners each day" said Emmett Williams, an enthusiastic association man.
 These men gathered as luncheon guests at the central Y. M C. A. builc,- ing daily during the progress of the campaign and turned in excellent re- ports. In fact, the membership was more than doubled and all southern records were surpassed. In this man Her many of these enthusiastic asso- ciation boosters formed the pleasant custom of taking lunch in the build ing; and each day leaders of the cam paign, including the president Of the board of directors, MT. w. M. Costly, on chancing to meet in the cafeteria fell to discussing the good work of the past and make plans for future progress. The patronage of the cafe teria has incidentally been largely in creased and the excellent and efficient service rendered by Mrs. Shaw con- tinLes to attract even larger crowds.
 "The Sunday dinner by the way. which Is now being served at the cafe teria, is one of the most popular meals of the week and some men, including myself, now take their wives there for lunch on Sundays"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Inquirer. A high school princess may not be able to get 35 in her other lessons, but she
 never fails to get 100 in her dancing les. sons.
 Some men seem to have married SC they could have someone around or
 whom they can lay the blame when any thing happens.
 | The most conceited people are those who know that they are not Liberty is a grand thing, and it is fine to live in a free country. That is the
 reason you hear the enthusiastic cheer. 1 ing of the people who live in states where it is a felony to desire a drink oi
 anything stronger than water and where l it is crime to read a beer or whisky advertisement.
 | If the reformers really want to her
 the country why don't they see to it thai
 laws are enacted in each state compell- ing man to wash his feet at least once | per week.
 | Friends are nice things to have. But
 one enemy in good working order will 1 give you more free advertising than 1DN
 friends.
 | A woman is so contrary that when she
 gets her own way she doesn't want it. A woman's idea of the simple life would be to live in a s10,000 bungalow with 8
 garage in the rear and to have foui maids to do the work, and to have 8
 liyeried flunky at the front door to take cards from callers. 1 Every woman knows that if she bought noisy hat her husband would get mad And she also knows that when her hus band sees another woman wearing a noisy hat he thinks she looks fine in it. Some of the biggest lies in circulation are the ones that are backed up with
 affidaVifs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
DR. ABBoTTs VIEWS.

DIR. ABBOTT'S VIEWS.
 While his late colaborer on The Out look was hammering Mr. Barnes at Syr- acuse, N. T., Dr. Lyman Abbott deliv- cred an address in Chicago that may result in his being called 'barbarian'' by feminine pacificators. pr. Abbott holds that the worlds progress has come because men thought that what was just was worth fighting for" He cites the achievements of Cromwell in England William of Orange in The Netherlands and the Union army in the American civil war to show that with out these powerful influences the world would have been a much worse place to live in than it Is now. "The fact that men have been ready to strike marks the advance, not the decadence of Christianity he declares. Perhaps the eminent doctor is right. But why do without ones bath, ones meals, and ones shave and live away from one-s family for months in rain soaked trench, and maybe freeze in winter or get shot in the spring, when the diff ferences that caused all the bother might be settled by arbitration? Therein the pacifists make a strong bid for popu- larity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
Demand for Real Estatc

'The real estate situation in my sec tion has greatly improved within the past month or SOL said Maj. John NJ. Berri- man, who represents the Jemison com pany in Fairfield.
 "In fact. I believe things are loosen ing up throughout the district. But from information now in hand I judge that the most noticeable change for the bet ter recently has been in Fairfield and Ensley. Construction work has already begun on the $75o.0OO benzol plant to be erected by the Tennessee company This, of course, lends attraction to our Fair field subdivision, which is naturally most adyantageously situated. Aside from this improvement, however, conditions in the Birmingham district as whole are on the upward swing and with each suc- ceeding week people with money are be- coming more favorably disposed toward profitable investment"