The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-08-25
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

]. Wiley Reece, a planter at Fort
Payne, Ala. died 40 minutes after be
was bitten by rattlesnake.
Ernest Layisse, historian and MEM
Der Of the French Academy at Paris.
Is dead. He was born in 1892.
The official price Of the dollar at
Vienna, now is 10000 crowns. az
against $4,000 crowns last week.
w. 3. Robinson, an American, was
arrested at Mansanillo, Mex. He Is
accused of dynamiting trains for
rebels.
Frank Albert. fifty, died from burns
received when he fell into 1.-THE Dew
lis Kettle hot springs at Klamath,
Falls, Ore.
A record-breaking potato crop of
37,674,OO0 bushels is estimated for Wis
consin by the state crop reporting,
service at Madison.
Rev. Charles Lescault, pastor of the
French church at Earlham, Ia, was
instantly killed when his automobile
collided with that of a rural mail car
rier.
Fifty-four Chinese arrested in a raid
onsa shipping board steamer at Seat
tie, Wash, will be deported at the ex-
pense of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company.
The coal strike is ended in Illinois.
The operators and miners reached an
agreement at Chicago and orders
were issued putting 10000 bituminous
miners back to work.
A six-Weeks-old child, through her
father, brought suit at Jersey City,
N. j., against a taxicab company for
injuries alleged to have been received
before she was born.
Al Jolson. musical comedy star, an
nounced that he had been married
several days ago to Miss Alma Os-
borne. The bride is known on the
stage as Ethel Delmar.
King Boris Of Bulgaria, who is so.
Journfng in his seashore palace,
Euxinograde, received the crew of an
American torpedo boat destroyer on
duty III the Black sea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Z. Burlingame
were found dead at their summer
home at Chau4nont, near WATERFOWL,
N. T., both having died of bullet
wounds. A pistol was c1htched in the
hands of the woman. a
Engineer Edward Coy and Fireman
Frank Lubbs, killed in a wreck of
Michigan Central train near Gary.
Ind. came to their death "as result
OF plot to wreck the train" the cor
oner's jury decided
The Republican tariff bill, which
passed the senate, has already been
projected on the political screen as
an issue in the next campaign by
Chairman Cordell Hull Of the Demo-
cratic national committee at Washing
ton.
Clerks and freight handlers on the
Baltimore & Ohio and Union Pacific
railroads reached an agreement at
Baltimore, Md. Under the terms of
the agreement, freight handlers will
be Increased 2 cents an hour over the
old scale.
Officers Of the United Mine Work
ers, district No. 5, were asked in pc
tition filed in Common Pleas court at
Pittsburgh, Pa, to give an accounting
of some 100000 which, it is alleged,
has been collected from the miners of
the district since 1913.
Michael Collins, the most heroic fig
ure in the recent years of turbulent
guerillaism in Ireland, was shot dead
while riding in an automobile He was
fired upon from ambush at Bandon, a
town Of $500 people about twenty
miles southwest of Cork.
twenty-five thousand knights of the
Ku Klux Khan, banked tier on tier
in huge field southwest of Chicago, |
with the red flare from a great, blaz-
ing cross to light their mystic rites,
initiated the nations biggest class of |
new Klansmen.-74.650 candidates.