The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-07-28
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Parliament at Belgrade by a vote of
163 TO ~ has ratified the loan of $780,
OOO,OoO contracted for in the United
States.
flnaI confirmation was given the
Palestine and Syrian mandates by the
council of the League of Nations at
London.
Fire destroyed Leman Brothers
dairy plant at Bloomington, ILL.,, one of
the finest in Illinois, causing an esti-
mated loss of $4,000.
resources OF the I,4O6 illinois state
banks We're $2,U43, 226,919 on June 80,
according to statement by Auditor
Andrew Russell 4, Springfield
William Dwight, negro, convicted
III Hamilton county OF uhemurder of a
Chattanooga merchant, was electro
cuted at the state prison at Nashville,
Tenn.
shipping board vessel operations in
June cost $2,7S3,216. in excess of
income, announced Chairman LaSker,
III statement made public at Wash
ingtOn.
A finish fight in the railroad strike
was seen at Chicago in the announce
ment that 40 big eastern roads had
met In New York to organize ''com-
pany unions"
Marketing of approximately 20,O0O,-
OOO bushels of wheat this year is ex-
pected, say officials of the North Da-
kota Wheat Growers association at
Grand Forks.
Delmar Richman, eighteen, of Union
Mills, was drowned in a pond near La
porte, Ind, when a boat in which he
and Leo Conitz of Chicago were row.
ing tipped over.
Free State troops have captured
Ballinlough and Ballyhunis. The Free
Staters now control 70-mile front be-
tween Waterford and Limerick, says a
Dublin dispatch.
Great Britain has ceased entirely to
manufacture poison gas except for ex-
detrimental purposes, Premier Lloyd
George announced in the house of COM
mons at London.
Premier Lloyd George at London
has given up his tentative plans to
visit the United States He considres
the European situation too serious for
him to leave his post.
A party Of men rushed the east
wing of the Chicago & Alton railroad
shops at Slater, Mo-, carried off Joe
Ward, strikebreaker,and applied
coat of tar and feathers.
A man partially identified as Ed
ward ]. Martin, steamer captain on
the Great Lakes, was found dead un-
der a viaduct at Milwaukee, There
was bruise across his forehead.
The allied PREPARATIONS commission
at Paris has ordered Bulgaria to pay
Immediately 4,00O,0O0,0OO levas (nor-
mally $7,720,0OO) due to the allies I'M
der the terms of the peace treaty.
Lieut.. Milton B. Mackall, who for
the last three years had lain in a
bathtub at the Fort McHenry hospital
wound received in the World war; is
dead.
The estimate made last month By
the state board of agriculture Of a
117,215,0O0 bushel wheat production
in Kansas this year still stands good,
says the July crop report issued by the
board at Topeka.
The British government at London
has received a note from the Washing
ton government asking cooperation in
the suppression of liquor running into
the United States through Bermuda
and the Bahamas.
The presidential election ordered
for January probably will be held up
through the action Of several parties
at Berlin which have passed resolu-
sions favoring the extension of Pres
ident Ebert's term for two years.
More than $1,000 stolen automo-
biles valued at over $2,50O,0OO have
been recovered by the bureau Of in
vestigation of the Department Of JUS
tice at Washington since the passage
of the Dyer anti-theft automobile law
in October, 1919.