The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-06

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
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Duny, sTecltlHS ne LlOu anu the
Mouse, was awarded second place and
Miss Barbara Bever of Oshkosh, re-
citing THE Boy Orator." third. Osh-
kosh, Fond du Lac and Appleton were
represented in the contest.
Governor Davidson will hear the
charges filed against Sheriff Walter
OF Iron county in the executive Office
May TO- Assistant Attorney General
Tucker, who has been sent up to Hur-
ley to take testimony in connection
with these charges, withdrew after OBJ
Jections had been raised to the juris-
diction of the commissioner.
Employees of the Island Paper COM
pany at Menasha, known as third
hands and stencil workers. went on a
strike, demanding an increase from
liz to 13 cents an hour. The de-
mand was not granted. A number OF
girls among the strikers reached an
agreement and were induced to return
to work.
According to his statement of cleo
ton expenses it cost Judge Michael
Kirwan of Manitowoc $50 to be re-
elected Judge of the Fourth judicial
circuit. He had no opposition. Judge
E. c. Higbee, who was opposed by
quarryman, spent 1925 to be reelected
judge in the Sixth circuit.
Charles P. Murray, aged sixty-eight,
a veteran of the civil war and leader
of Murray's orchestra is dead at Beloit.
Joseph Greisch of Onion River,
charged with killing pickerel in the
Onion river by hurting stones at them,
was found guilty and fined $25 and
costs.
Judge Higbee at Sparta sentenced
Harold Burroughs to two years in the
Green Bay reformatory for attempting
to hold up E. Genseline. Frank Foley
was given two years in Waupun for
robbing a freight car at Sparta and
William Mullen, an accomplice, one
year.
The will of Thomas B. Jeffrey. head
of the Thomas B. Jeffrey company,
was admitted to probate at Kenosha.
It disposes of an estate estimated at
100000 to $10,000,000. To Mrs.
Jeffrey is given the Kenosha residence
and half of the business of the firm.
A small landslide blocked traffic on
the Milwaukee, Northern line north Of
Port Washington While an interur-
ban car was passing the bluff on Jack
son street above the brewery the
ground gave way, effectively blocking
the car, but no one was injured.
A suit for $4,000 damages has been
brought at Wausau by the widow OF
Napoleon Henry Herman against the
Northwestern road for the loss of her
husbands life in an accident at Ash
land on Oct. 81, 1909, while in the COM
pany's employ as an engineer
GAINESVILLE high school won first
place at the annual contest of the Rock
County Oratorical and Declamatory
league held at GAINESVILLE. Beloit high
school captured second place. James,
vile, Beloit, Evansville and White
water were represented
The request of the Standard Oil
Company for permission to erect large
storage tanks within the city limits
of Superior was turned down for the
second time by the city council Dan
ger from fire is the reason for refus-
ing the request.
Miss Julia Lovejoy, a daughter of
the late A. p Lovejoy, in his days one
of the millionaire lumbermen of Wis
consin, has been elected president Of
the Students Self-Disciplined associ-
alton of Vassar college, where she is
a student
Discovering that his parents were
overcome with coal gas from stove
and he himself suffering and nearly
overcome, Harry Gruber of Sheboygan
Falls aged thirteen, summoned DR..
R. H. Nichols in time to save his par
ents.
Although no positive announcement
has as yet been made, it is probable
that Roy Reed of Ripon will be can
didate for the Republican nomination
for assemblyman from the Second dis
trict of Fond du Lac county.
The contest over the will of H. Du-
rand, which was to have been tried
in the circuit court at Fond du Lac,
has been postponed indefinitely. The
case involves a number of prominent
society people
In an effort to escape death beneath
the wheels of an oncoming train two
girls, Hilda Lemke and Amanda Leu,
aged nine years, leaped into the river
from bridge at Fond du Lac and both
were drowned
August Bach was brutally assaulted
by an unknown man at Appleton.
Gustave Zick Jr., aged sixteen, of Be
lott, has received SIS reward from the
Milwaukee road for ayerting a posi-
BILE wreck.
Following an investigation into tbs
death of Rose Lemberger, aged eight
cen, at Milwaukee, warrants were 10
sued for the arrest of Anna Kraatz,
midwife and Raw Gilmore a chauffeur.