The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-05-12
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

The Casino, one of the foremost
theaters in Paris, was swept by fire.
No one was injured.
John Tobias, twenty-three years old,
was killed when tornado struck Ger
res, Ia miles southwest of Ponca City,
Okla.
Jewelry valued at $4,000 was taken
from an exhibit maintained in the
lobby of the st. Francis hotel at San
Francisco
John G. Sparks, an actor for nearly
half century and for six years with
Harrigan and Hart, dieu i'll the Coney
Island hospital at the age of tifty-four
The pattern shop of the American
Sewer Pipe company at Akron, o., was
destroyed by fire, entailing loss
estimated at between $150,0OO and
| $250,00O
John Henry Patterson. founder OF
the National Cash Register company,
died on train near Atlantic City,
according to dispatch received at
Dayton. o.
Eleven additional mines were
brought into operation last week, q
report received by the West Virginia
Coal association at Charles Town, w.
Va, stated
Twenty inmates of the municipal
farm at Wichita, Kan, bound and
gagged three guards and escaped. Only
one inmate, cripple. refused to take
the chance for liberty.
DR.. George p. Gill died in Rock
ford Gill; hospital after brief ILL
ness. He served two years as major
In the British army and later In the
American medical corps.
Shippers are continuing their activity
in the York street district Of Belfast.
A woman was wounded and man on
his way to work also was struck by a
bullet, sustaining a slight wound.
-Four bandits in touring car en-
tered the Liberty theater at Sedalia,
Mo-, slugged and bound two watch
men. blew open the safe and escaped
with several hundred dollars in cash.
Referring to United States Senator
James A. Reed as .marplot,' former
President Wilson, in a letter to former
Gov. Lon v. Stephens at ST. Louis,
asked the defeat of Missouri's senior
senator.
Complete freedom of mercantile
business in Russia has been authorized
by the council of commissars at Mos
cow. The council has issued decree
which makes it possible to open shops
without permits.
Fire starting in the paper storage
room of the Des Moines (Ia) News,
wrecked the newspaper plant and de-
stroyed the entire News-Arcade build
ing. Loss to the News plant is esti-
mated at 100000.
Four children, ranging in age from
nine to two years old, and their IA
Their, August Bourkc, Jr., employed by
the Elgin & Belvidere railroad, were
killed in fire that destroyed their
home in the outskirts of Marengo Ill.
Five bandits, three negroes and two
white men, went up ten stories Of
large office building at Kansas City,
Mo-, and robbed cashier of the KEEL
" Dennis Construction company OF
$4,716.21 and escaped by the elevator.
The Standard Oil company of In
diana announced at Chicago a one
cent-a-gallon increase in the price Of
gasoline, making the average price %
to "a cents. This follows a similar In
prpa co made hv tho Ciuoloir OIL oox,n
pany.
Historic Trinity church, nesting
among the tall buildings at Broadway
and Wall street at New York, OBJ
served with special services the two
hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary
of the granting of the parish charter
by King William III of England.