The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-26
WORLD NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

The nomination of cambridge Colby
as secretary of state was confirmed by
the senate at Washington.
Thomas w. Steele, former congress
man from the Eleventh Iowa district,
dropped dead at Sioux City, La.
At a meeting of the railway men at
Madrid it was unanimously decided to
declare a strike on all the railways in
Spain.
A member of the French diplomatic
mission was among those wounded in
the shooting ARRAY in front of the Ad-
Ion at Berlin.
Seven mOtortruck loads CT whisky,
valued at 100000, were seized by pro-
hibitiOn agents on their arrival at New
York from ROslyn, Md.
A Berlin dispatch says 5000 persons
have been killed since the start OF
the revolt on March Ii. Of this num-
Der $50 were killed in Berlin.
Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, has
York;. 1t was said that Mr.. Gibson had
paid 100000 for the property.
Col. S. w. BrOOkhart of Washington,
Ia, announced his candidacy before
the Republican primaries for Albert
B. Cummins' seat in the senate.
An appraisal of the estate of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox has been filed in the
probate court at Branford, Conn. Ii
places the total value at ST., 223.
Fire starting in a leaking ''tar line"
swept over the plant OF the Constan-
tin Refining company at Tulsa, Okla,
causing damage estimated at 100000.
Forty owners of Chicago moving
picture theaters are facing arrest for
having defrauded the government out
Of money received as 10 per cent
war tax.
ArmOred cars, police with drawn
swords and an infantry guard wear
ing helmets, escorted judges of the
Assizes court at Galway, Ireland, to
the courthouse.
The Supreme court at Washington
announced it would recess after con-
cluSion of hearings on the liquor case,
set for next Monday, March %, until
Monday, April II.
One nun was burned to DEATH. nine
others were burned or injured and the
WilkeSbarre (Pa.) convent of the Or
der of Mercy was practically destroyed
by fire of unknown origin.
Permission has been granted the
Pullman company by the interstate
commerce commission at Washington
to file special tariffs increasing rates
approximately 20 per cent.
Roberto CejudO, leader of the Felix
Diaz rebel forces in the state Of Vera
Cruz, has surrendered Internationally
to the Mexican government, according
to advices to the Mexican embassy at
Washington.
The British and French governments
have notified Prince FeisaI, son of the
Hedj9Z, that they cannot recognize the
validity of the decision of the Damas-
Gus congress which proclaimed him
king of Syria.
The Ebert-Bauer government at
Berlin definitely rejected the demand
of the trades unions and the two so
ciaIist parties Independents and mod
erates) for a centralized working
mems government
Preferring death to duty in the radio
school, Great Lakes, Arthur Hugh I'm
Ter, eighteea, jumped over a 75-fOot
cliff at the station overlooking Lake
Michigan. The leap resulted only in
stunning and 'bruising him.
Corporation Counse. Burr of New
York instructed the transit construc-
ton commissioner to notify the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit company that
IL it did not at once improve it's serv-
ice the city would on 80 days notice
take over and operate it's subway and
limos