The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-02-17
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Cotton mills in New Hampshire and
at Lowell, Mass, employing $4,000 OPP
eratiyes, are affected by strikes.
Italian forces fighting rebels at Mis-
crata, Tripoli, have lost % killed and
about 100 wounded, says a dispatch
from Rome.
The Agricultural department at
Washington approved the Ford offer
to develop the governments properties
at Muscle Shoals, Ala.
The state of Ohio celebrated st. Val
entine day by mailing from Columbus
Grams of the World war.
Clarence ]. CURLY, thirty-eight, pres
ident of the st. Louis Automobile
club, accidentally shot and killed him.
self while cleaning a revolver in his
home there.
Joseph G. Cannon, oldest member OF
the house, announced at Washington
that he would not be candidate for
reelection from the Eighteenth Illi-
nOis district.
William Mead, aged forty-five years,
state prohibition officer, was shot
and killed at Wells Branch, two miles
from Dunlow, w. Va. The shots came
from a thicket.
A mass meeting Of representative
Chicago citizens passed resolutions in
augurating a legislative campaign to
curb the indiscriminate manufacture
and sale Of pistols.
Approximately $50 aliens from vari-
Gus parts of the United States are be-
ing gathered at Ellis island for depOr-
tatiOn as undesirable citizens, says a
Washington dispatch.
A bill extending the life of the 3
per cent restrictive immigration law
until June 80, 1928. was. ordered re-
ported by the house immigration COM
mittee at Washington.
NJ. Ritavuori, Finnish minister of the
interior, was shot as he was alighting
from his mOtOrcar outside his resi-
dence at Helsingfors. He died while
being taken to a hospital.
London's woman police are mot a
necessity and are too costly to main
tain as a luxury" Sir William HOr-
wood, commissioner of the metrOpOli-
tan police at London, has found.
It is virtually certain that Pope Plus
will hold his first consistory next
month, says dispatch from Rome,
when two French and possibly two
American cardinals will be created.
Gen. Antonio Pruneda, former com,
mander of federal troops in the state
of Chihuahua, was shot by a firing
squad at Mexico City following trial
by court martial on charges of rebel
lion.
Sheriff Frank Kennedy at Dubuque,
Ia, reports that 100 cars, believed to
be stolen, are being held in garages in
Dubuque and Cedar Rapids. An or
ganized Middle West gang is in oper-
alton.
The British steamship LOWlands,
bound for Murmansk with a cargo OF
food for Russia's famine sufferers, has
been destroyed by fire Oft the Thurman
coast, says a dispatch from Tromso,
Norway
Reports of starvation among miners
in the New River coal fields of West
Virginia are largely imaginary" ac-
cording to a report prepared by the
Department of Labor and made public
at Washington.
Edward E. Esch Of Chicago is suing
David G. Joyce, brother of Stanley
Joyce of Peggy" Joyce fame, for
$5OO,0OO He charges Joyce stole his
wife and is now trying to ALLEVIATE his
daughters affections.
George L. ('"Tex'') Richard was held
in $4,000 bail for the grand jury by
Magistrate George w. Simpson in the
West Side court at New York as a re-
suit of the charges made by Alice
Ruck, fifteen years OLD.
The United States army transport
Cantigny arrived at New York from
Antwerp with 1,056 troops from the
area of occupation in Germany and
the bodies Of 27O soldiers brought here
from cemeteries in France for reburial.
New York Brokerage Firm Fails.
New York, Feb. 15.-Failure of
Crawford, Patton 4 Cannon. members
of the New York Stock exchange, was
announced at the opening of business.
Henry B. Cannon is the board men,
Der OF the firm. which was organized
In November, 1911.