The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-09-01
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Aircraft is being employed extern
sively by bootleggers in bringing liquor
into New York city.
John Drysdale, a farmer, 12e years
old, according to family records, died
| at Clarksburg. w. Va.
Flames swept the upper floors Of
the history Cosden building at Tulsa,
Okla, causing an estimated damage
| of 100000.
Mrs. Finley j. Shepard, formerly
Helen Gould, is a patient in the Wom-
ans hospital at New York. II is
| said that her illness is not serious.
The Chilean steamship Italia, 200
tons, sank off the Chilean coast near
| Coquimbo. All the passengers, num-
bering 100, and the crew OF Y, were
| lost
| The acid house of the Federal
Chemical company at Nashville, Tenn,
burned, along with 100000 pounds
OF sulphuric acid, entailing loss OF
| $1,500000.
| Three men were killed and a fourth
was badly injured in an explosion of
dynamite in the mixing house of the
| Atlas Powder company, near Car
| thage, Mo.
| The estate of the late John Il.
Dodge, automobile manufacturer, was
valued at $36,S92, 48S.41 in an inven-
| tory filed with the Probate court at
Detroit, Mich.
The ''drys" lost the day in the
| Swedish prohibition plebiscite, accord
| ing to the returns The figures issued
| at Stockholm, are 772,747 for and
| S46,536 against.
| The French dreadnaught France
capsized and sank in ten fathoms Of
| water in Quiberon bay at Brest after
| striking a rock. Three members of
| the crew were lost.
| Dr. Stephen Smith, ninety-nine,
| founder of the American Public Health
| association, died at the home of his
daughter Mrs. Walter G. Mason, at
| Montour Falls. n. Y.
Funds totaling 100000 have been
| authorized by President Harding at
| Washington to enable army engineers
to begin construction work on the
| Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals.
William A. Dunning, professor Of
history and political philosophy at Co
lumbia university since 1904, died in
his sleep at New York after along ill
| ness. He was sixty-four years old.
| William Morrell, a farmer, near
| Saginaw, Mich, was killed by John
| Bauer, a farm hand, because Bauer
is alleged to have said, Morrell re-
| fused to provide him with shoes.
| The United States naval transport
| Henderson sailed from Honolulu for
San Francisco, carrying Secretary
| DENLY of the Navy department and
| members of the Annapolis class of
| 1884, who are returning from Japan.
By a vote Of 6 to l the United
| States railroad labor board at Chica-
| go rejected the plea of 100000 track
| men that their demand for increased
! wages be heard on the grounds that
| they are not receiving a ''living
wage"
| The Monomac, Katama and Acadia
1
| gates to employees on schedule which
restored the wages in effect before
| the 20 per cent reduction which re-
/ suited n the textile strike in that
city last March.
George Tchitcherin, peoples COM
missar for foreign affairs in the Rus
sian soviet government, is seeking a
/ passport to go to the United States
in an endeavor to secure a ioan for
Russia, according to a report re-
ceived at Riga.
Former Governor Ferguson at
Temple, Tex, conceded the election
| of his opponent, Earle b Mayfield, in
the ''runoff' primary for tho United
States senate. Mr.. Ferguson said that
he would continue his campaign
against the Ku-Klux Khan.