The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-08
. WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

commissioner, mas S0lZ0Q IOTly Samples
of cream and milk from dairymen at
Racine which has been forwarded to
Madison for examination by the state
chemist Two Of the dairymen were
hailed into court the other day for
having unsanitary milk cans and were
each fined s25 and costs.
Judge S. D. Hastings, in the paving
test case at Green Bay. decided in IA
vor of the property owners and against
the city, the defendant in the action.
Papers are being prepared to appeal
to the supreme court. The decision IS
that the lot owners are entitled to a
rebate of the cost of the old cedar
block pavements.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of F. j. Priueaue, the brake
man who has been missing for about
two weeks, disappearing from roman,
was cleared when his mutilated body
was found in boxcar at Grand Rap
ids. The supposition is that he was
murdered by tramps.
With feeling of absolute depend,
ence on his wife. who had cared for
him many years while he was help
less. Robert King, died the day after
his wife was buried She was seven
ty-seven and he was eighty-six. They
had been residents of Richland Center
forysixty years.
The big twenty-eight rooms icehouse
owned by the Jefferson Ice company
of Chicago at Twin Lakes, Wis, the
largest icehouse in Wisconsin, togeth.
er with the power plant connected
with it, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of 100000.
The freshmen and sophomores in
the course of journalism at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin formed Cubs
club with charter membership OF
thirty, for the purpose of bringing to-
gether the under classmen preparing
for newspaper work.
A movement is on foot to incorpor-
ate the village of Warrens in order to
keep out saloons The town of Lin
coin, in which the village is located
has been dry for the last year, but a
petition has been presented to vote on
the question again.
Peter Snyder, aged twenty-seven
years, while working at the Bresnla
sawmill, six miles north of Chippawa
Falls, stumbled and fell into big cir
cular saw and his left arm was severed
at the shoulder He died about three
hours later.
The Walworth County Holstein-Fre-
sian Breeders association was organ
lied at Elkhorn by Professor G. G.
Humphrey of the animal husbandry
department of the college of agricul.
ture of the University of Wisconsin.
Deputy Game Warden Hubert Sc
cured six convictions in Barron coun-
ty and two in Dunn county of farmers
for catching trout and spearing pick
erel Fines and costs amounted to
$116 Three took Jail sentences.
David Doyle. formerly lineman en-
ployed by the street railway Of La
Crosse, demands 100000 damages for
injuries alleged to have been received
Sept. Is, 1909, in fall from the cross
arm of twenty-five foot pole.
John Anker, of Hortonville, was
found guilty of selling liquor without
a license and was fined SIS and costs,
the latter amounting to 1920, or four
months in the work house. The case
will be appealed.
Frank Raef. while assisting in tear
ing down the coal sheds of the c..
Reiss company at Sheboygan fell dis
lance of thirty feet, sustaining four
his body
Governor Davidson again refused 10
commute the sentence of Al Schissler,
sent up to Waupun from Milwaukee
for the killing of William F. Reul, a
young bank clerk of Watertown.
Mary Boyd one of the old residents
of Portage county, says she has lived
in Stevens Point for sixty years and
has never before seen robins or heard
frogs in March until this year.
Samuel A. Cook, of Neenah. former
from the Sixth Wiscon-
sin district, announces himself can
didate for the United States senate to
succeed Robert M. LaFollette
Charles Voese, former resident of
Portage, who attempted to commit sui
eide at Wyocena hospital by gasning
his throat with razor, died from the
effects of his wounds.
A daughter born to Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Laabs at Amberg breaks all rec
ords in that part of the country, for
the little tot had two teeth when she
came into the world.
John Ward, of Kenosha, who has
served as an engineer for the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway company
for forty-six years, has retired on
pension
A passenger train struck wagon
driven by Charles L. Bayrhoffer, of
Monroe, killing the horses instantly
and injuring Bayrhoffer so that he
died.
A mild epidemic of scarlet fever has
broken out at the Mendoza insane asy.