The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-06-23
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The bill ratifying the Washington
conference treaties passed the house
of lords at London on second reading.
The administration is considering
the matter of decreasing second class
postal rates, it is said at the White
House at Washington.
Eight harvest hands, all between. the
ages of eighteen and twenty-five, were
killed near Wichita, Kan, .hen they
were run over by a train.
The death is announced at Bris-
bane, Queensland, OF Sir Robert
Philip, twice premier of Queensland
He was born in Glasgow in 1851.
Ken Williams, smuggling outfelder
of the st. Louis Browns, hit his
eighteenth home run OF the season in
a game with the Athletics at St.
Louis.
Capt. Thomas Shea of Kelly field,
San Antonio, was killed instantly at
Ellington field, near Houston, Tex,
when his airplane crashed to the
ground.
The admiralty at London announces
that the drifter Blue Sky, which left
Portsmouth June II for Invergordon,
Scotland, is presumed to be lost with
all hands.
Police chiefs numbering about 400
are at San Francisco for the opening
of the twenty-ninth annual conven-
ton of the International Association
of Police Chiefs.
A Portland (Me.) dispatch says
Senator Frederick Hale and Gov
Percical p. Baxter were renominate
by the Republicans by large plural
tiles in Mondays primary.
The railroads of the country on
June l had on hand rs days supply
OF bituminous coal, according to a
statement issued by the Commerce
department at Washington.
Production Of soft coal in the tenth
week of the strike was 5,O78,O00 net
tons. Production of anthracite remains
practically zero, according to the geo.
logical report at Washington.
Levees along the banks of the Rio
Grande, in the San Benito and the
Harlingen district are holding against
pressure of the highest flood on record,
says San Antonio dispatch.
A Paris dispatch says all of the al
lied troops in Upper Silesia will give
way by the end of this week to the
two control commissions set up by the
German-Polish treaty signed at
Geneva.
Congress was urged by action of
the American Federation OF Labor at
Cincinnati to hereafter deny admis-
sion as immigrants and permanent
residents to all aliens who are In
eligible to citizenship.
-Four men and one woman were shot
dead, two were wounded and two were
hurt in the vicinity of Bess Brook, ire
land, known as County Armagh's
model village. The houses of three
loyalists were burned.
Rev. Frederick I. Taylor, pastor for
the last 16 years of the First Baptist
church, indianapolis, evangelist and
progressive, was elected president for
the coming year of the Baptist north
ern convention in that city.
Troops will be used by the federal
government if necessary to preserve
public health and safety in the event
of rail strike, according to members
of congress who are close to the
White House at Washington.
Col Marcellus H. Thompson, vice
president and active head of the Auto
Ordnance company of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
jury at Trenton, N. j., on charge OF
conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws.
George Straub, confessed slayer of
Miss Alice Mallett, matron of the
Crittenden Home for Girls, pleaded
guilty to first-degree murder in the
Jackson county Circuit court at Jack
son, Mich. He was sentenced to s0li-
70 WV confinement for life