The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-27
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| Lisa hAuCISOH, Tie Onky oWCuA0aA
woman to hold an aviator's certificate,
was killed at Askersund
More than 100 Indian nationalists
were arrested while trying to march
In procession through Calcutta.
| Will Hall, negro packing house
worker, and his wife were burned to
death in their home at Oklahoma City.
Okla.
Typhus is spreading in Moscow, ac-
cording to the Novyput, official Boz
sheyist government organ at Riga,
| Latvia.
The Supreme court of the United
States at Washington announced re-
cess from Monday, January 80, to
February 81.
Lieut.. John Parsons, aviator at the
haywood flying field, near Chicago,
fell 5000 feet in his plane and lived to
tell the tale.
More than a hundred families were
driven from their homes at Chatta-
noOga, Tenn, by the Tennessee river
food waters.
Advices from Moscow report that
the White or anti-Bolstevik forces
have captured Blagovieshtchensk
Asiatic Russia.
Fire starting in the furnace room of
the Gladstone theater at Gladstone,
Mich, destroyed the building with a
loss of $4,000.
Karelian troops In their fight against
the soviet armies have reconquered the
town of Kimasjeryi, says dispatch
from Helsingfors.
Pope Benedict left his property at
Pigll, in Liguria, to his nephew, Mar
Quesse Giuseppi della Chiesa, says a
dispatch from Rome.
Ninety-six automobiles were de-
stroyed in a fire which swept through
a garage in Wilmette, Ill. The loss is
! estimated at $15O,OOO.
Arthur Nikisch, noted orchestral con-
ductor, died at Leipzig of influenza.
He was formerly conductor of the Bos-
ton Symphony orchestra.
Everett MCGOWAN, st. Paul profess
sional, won series of three skating
races from Norval Baptie, Bathgate,
n. D., at st. Paul, Mimi.
Viscount Bryce died suddenly at
Sidmouth, near London. He was born
May 10, 1888, and was ambassador to
Washington from 1907 to 1913.
United States destroyer Fox arrived
a sxcsIy oIy
port with party of American relief
administration workers aboard.
Jewelry valued at between 5000
and $4,000 was taken by four bandits
In holdup of the jewelry store of
Benjamin Wernikof at Chicago.
Searchers found the frozen body of
Rev. G. w. Chase in a snowdrift near
Old Mission, Mich, after his horse ar
rived home dragging an empty sleigh.
The number of influenza cases In
New York continues to increase. The
health department there announced
that 123 had been reported with 1O2
pneumonia cases.
Sam Beaman of Ironton, O., has
been appointed federal prohibition d.
rector for the state of New Mexico, it
was announced at the prohibition bu-
reau at Washington.
Delegates from Japan. China, Korea,
Mongolia and the Far Eastern repub-
lie Of Siberia are at Moscow for the
congress of oppressed Far Eastern
peoples, which opened there.
Vatican officials at Rome were sur
prised when the strong box containing
the personal fortune of Pope Benedict
XIV was opened 1t was found to con-
tain only 100000 lire (normally $780,
OOO).
The Republican national committee
still owes $708, 161. 32 for the campaign
Of 1920, which resulted in the election
of President Warren G. Harding, ac-
cording to figures made public at Chi
cago by Fred w. Upham, financial
treasurer.
Twelve ships, carrying total Of s.
100000 bushels of grain, have actually
been sent to Russia for the relief OF
her starving populace. 1t was an
nounced by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover at Washington. Eighteen other
vessels are now loading at Atlantic
and Gulf ports, and will carry another
100000 bushels as fast as they car
be filed and cleared.