The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-06-16
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE


Twenty barrels of wine, wholesale
value $4,000, and the truck On which
they We're loaded were stolen at Chi
cagO.
A crowd Of more than 200 persons
Witnessed the drowning at Lee street
beach, Evanston, H., OF Harriet Raft.
ten years old.
DR.. Herman Tuholske, a nationally
known surgeon died at st. Louis, Mo-,
Of kidney trouble after an illness OF
several weeks.
Lightning wrecked i've farm build
ings on the Ralph Broder farm near
Stockton, Iowa, and caused damage
estimated at $4,000
Records for the season were broken
for single day when more than 49,
600 passengers sailed for Europe on
ships leaving New York.
William Howard Taft, chief justice
OF the Supreme court Of the United
States, arrived in Montreal and sailed
for six weeks stay in England.
Recognition of the Lithuanian gov
eminent by Greece and Venezuela
was announced by the Lithuanian in
formation bureau at Washington.
Rival mobs FLASHED in the York
street area at Belfast, using stones as
missiles. A bomb was also thrown,
the explosion wounding a woman.
Thomas A. Edison, now in his sew
enty-fifth year, received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Science from Rut-
gers college at New Brunswick, N. j.
William Foster Mackay, well-known
editor and writer, is dead and two
other men were injured as the result
of an airplane accident at Los An
geles, Cal.
Harold Bernice Miller, twenty-five,
son of Grant Miller and graduate in
engineering at Iowa State university
last week, drowned In Cedar river at
Waterloo, la.
Mrs. Branson Millikin shot and in
stantly killed William McGhee, negro,
when he attempted to attack her at
the Millikin home, four miles from
Hamlet, N. @.
Grant I. Stephenson, son of the late
Senator Isaac Stephenson, was di-
vOrced at Milwaukee from his wife,
formerly Miss Irene Adler, on the
grounds of desertion. 4a
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's cross
the-continent tour is not completed.
His all-metal monoplane crashed to
earth at Omaha, Neb. and is total
wreck. No one was hurt.
President Harding at Washington
signed the Wadsworth-McK bill,
returning the navy, army, marine
corps and coast guard service to
peace-time pay standards
A Belfast dispatch says London
derry is facing famine through the
cutting off of the usual lines of food
supplies for the city. Supplies being
sent from Glasgow are insufficient
Herbert Hoover's wartime relief
work in Belgium soon is to be further
recognized by the award to him of
special medal by the Belgian govern
ment, it is announced at Washington.
Three persons are known to be
dead, thirteen seriously injured, 9th
ers are believed drowned in the wa
ters of Buckeye lake, summer re-
sort near Newark, o., during a storm.
Three men are known to be dead,
one missing, fifth in a hospital and
six firemen were overcome by am
monia gas in an explosion and fire in
the Parker-Webb Packing plant at De
troit, Mich.
Fifteen houses were blown from
their foundations. $50, 600 damage was
done to Deyereaux mine, and two men
were injured while in bed, when
violent wind and rainstorm struck
Springfield, Ill.
The open shop, unemployment, wage
reductions, recognition of soviet Rus
STA, the one big union, court decisions
and injunctions affecting labor and
other subjects formed the major is
sues that confronted the American
Federation of Labor, when it opened
its two-Weeks convention at Cincin-
natl.