The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-09-22
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The senate at Washington approved
the conference report OH the admins
tration coal distribution and price
bill, az to IL.
Three bandits held up the Bank of
Thompsonville, Ill, and, according to
reports, escaped with all the money
IN the bank.
The Royal Fusilier regiment left
Belfast for England, it was announced.
1t is believed the regiment is destined
for the Near East
In a typhoon the United States
steamship Pensacola went aground in
Apra harbor, near Guam. 1t is not
seriously damaged.
William E. Bernard, real estate
dealer of Springfield, H., was burned
to death in an automobile wreck six
miles north of Mason City.
A Berlin dispatch says Germany's
floating debt increased during the first
ten days Of September by 10,845,OOO
marks to 341.676,OOO,OOO marks.
The United States will reject the
proposal Of soviet Russia for negotia-
tons looking to resumption OF rela-
tons, 1t Is said at Washington.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Ameri-
can ace, was married at Sound Beach
Presbyterian church, Greenwich,
Conn, to Mrs. Adelaide r. Durant.
NJ. Gennaidos at Athens was APP
pointed head of missio. which will
go to the United States to attempt to
secure American assistance for Greece.
Former Premier Clemenceau has
engaged accommodations at Havre on
the French line steamer Paris, which
will sail on November IL for New
York.
Clayton Murdoch was drowned and
four companions rescued at Lake
Koshkoning, near GAINESVILLE, Wis.,,
capsized.
Figures published at Belfast Of the
fatalities since July q, 1920, show a
total Of 436 persons killed, Of whom
1t Is stated 189 were Protestants and
247 Catholics.
Three times the number of citizens
participated in military camps this
summer as in 1921, according to a
statement by Secretary of War Weeks
at Washington.
American imports and exports dur
ing the month of August showed sub
stantial increases over the figures for
July, the Commerce departent at
Washington announced.
A temperature of Ill degrees was
registered at San Bernardino, CAL,
Monday. Only on two days in 80 years
of weather records here have there
been higher temperatures.
A Berlin dispatch says that assert
ing that action for the protection of
its own population is imperative, the
Bavarian government has put up the
bars against all foreigners.
A request that the League of Ma
tions send neutral commission to in
vestigate the alleged atrocities by
Turkish nationalist in Asia Minor
was presented to the league assembly
at Geneva.
Henry M. Croker, Civil war vet
eran and believed to have been the
last living pallbearer of Abraham
Lincoln, died at his home at New
Haven, Conn, In his eighty-second
year. He was born in Vestel, N. Y.
At the request of the State depart
ment at Washington Acting Secretary
Roosevelt ordered Admiral Bristol
American high commissioner at Con-
stantinople, to dispatch a force of de-
stroyers to Smyrna ito protect lives
and property"
The retail cost of food to the aver
age family in the United states de-
creased 2 per cent in the month end
ing August Is, according to figures
made public by the bureau of labor
statistics of the Department of Labor
at Washington, based on reports from
81 cities.