The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-09-15
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

A heavy but not damaging frost oc-
CURED at Mason City, la.
A Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch says
10000 anthracite miners returned to
work when the whistle blew Monday
morning.
A rumor that King Constantine of
Greece had been slain by an assassin
flashed through the Greek colony in
Chicago.
The mills and kilns of the Hammond
Lumber company at Astoria, Ore,
were destroyed by fire, entailing loss
of about 100000
A Belfast dispatch says there is a
strike on all the Irish Free State tele-
graph, postal and telephone lines and
facilities have ceased.
Col, Michael j. Hendricks, United
States consul at Windsor, Ont, died,
after an illness of one week. He was
seventy-six years old
The Dali Eireann (Irish Free State
parliament) gave the new Irish cab
met vote of confidence, 81 to "a,
says a Dublin dispatch.
Tentative plans for adjournment
of both houses of congress over the
November election were agreed upon
by Republican leaders at Washington.
Organized labor is considering boom
ing Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
for President at the next general
election, it was learned at Atlantic
City, N. J.
John Richard Oughton, Jr., son OF
the millionaire head of the Kelley in
stitute, was shot under mysterious cir
cumstances in his apartment at
Dwight, Ill.
The per capita wealth of the United
States has decreased $3.06 in the past
year and 46 cents in the past month,
the Treasury department at Washing
ton announced.
A marked Improvement in coal sup
ply, permitting the resumption of more
blast furnaces and other units, was an
nounced by independent steel opera
tors at Youngstown, o.
An Atlantic City IN. J.) dispatch
says the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor has
called upon the organized workers of
the country to resist writs of injunc-
ton.
Lord Northcliffe's will, which was
sworn to at London for provisional
probate purposes, leaves a gross es-
tate valued at 100000 (about $10,-
OOOOOO) with net personality of the
same amount.
The 10000 men employed by the
Ford Motor company of Detroit, Mich,
are under orders from Henry Ford to
leave all forms of liquor, wine and
beer alone at all times, under penalty
of losing their jobs.
Despite the rail and coal strikes
and consequent fuel shortage, employ
ment conditions generally throughout
the country reflect sound business
condition, the Department f Labor
at Washington announces.
At the request Of the State depart
ment at Washington Acting Secretary
Roosevelt ordered Admiral Bristol
American high commissioner at Con-
stantinople, to dispatch force of de-.
stroyers to Smyrna 'to protect lives
and property"
London newspapers hail with de
light the agreement just signed be-
tween Leslie Urquhart and Leonid
Krassin, soviet agent, whereby the
British gain control Of 100000 acres
of land and hundreds of miles of rail-
ways in Russia.
The delivery by September 10 of
two semester treasury notes for co.
100000 gold marks each, and the de
post of 1O0,OO0,O00 gold marks in the
Belgian National bank as guarantee
was demanded in note from For
eign Minister Jaspart to the German
charge d'affairs at Brussels.
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