The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-04-01
. Observation-Disclosures
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS. !;

candidates on either of these tickets
before the primary having received
the required number of votes to per-
NIT having their names placed in the
party columns. All must go on the
tickets as Independent candidates.
Unless a stock company can be or
ganized with a capital CT $4,000 there
will be no fair held in the village of
West Salem The directors of the La
Crosse County Agricultural society are
agreed that to attempt to hold fair
another year with the association
heavily in debt would be unwise.
The big twenty-eight rooms icehouse
owned by the Jefferson Ice company
of Chicago at Twin Lakes, Wis, the
largest icehouse in Wisconsin. togeth-
err with the power plant connected
with it, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of 100000.
A meeting of the farmers, who have
subscribed stock for a new. telephone
line, held at the court house, at Wau-
toma, resulted in the initiative step
being taken toward the organization
of new company to operate in Wau-
toma and vicinity.
Judge Grimm at GAINESVILLE decided
in favor of Captain Phil Norcross in
brought against the present owners by
the state and other plaintiffs The
dam was built in 1916, and the state
wants it removed.
The mo license" campaign commit
tee in Kenosha filed it's petition with
the city clerk. 1t contains the names
of 626 voters in the city, per cent
more than is necessary to decide the
question at the polls at the spring cleo
ton.
The Marathon County Fish and
Game Protective association will re-
ceive $4,000 brook trout from Madi-
son, which will be planted in the Big
Sandy. Plover and Little Rib rivers.
Black and Crane creeks and Mobrook.
Frank Hall, aged forty-two, was CIV
en- a sentence of eight years at hard
labor at Waupun by Judge Wicknam
at Eau Claire. Hall was convicted of
committing criminal assault on his
niece, Julia Johnson, aged eleven.
John Jacklin of Pine Grove. who
held the Office of assessor of the town
of Depere for the last two years, was
killed while at work on a windmill
that was out of order. His clothing
was caught in the mechanism
With his four-year-old brother. Wal
ter, as the only witness to tie tragedy,
George Klein. the twoyear-old son of
J. P. Klein, police commissioner of
North Milwaukee, drowned in a small
pond back of his home
Otto w. Becker, charged at Neills-
vile with selling cheese curd of quail.
ity under test. paid $25 fine and
costs. The case was started at the
instigation of members Of the state
pure food commission.
The state supreme court finished its
sitting and adjourned to April 5, when
a decision of the Van Alstine case. in
volving the constitutionality of the
the primary election law, is expected
to be announced.
Adrian Tollemann. aged seventy, has
commenced suit against the Sheboy
gan Light, Power and Railway com
pany, asking damages in the sum Of
$4,000 for injuries alleged to have
been sustained.
John j. Esch formally announced his
oil Ia Wi
make his campaign, as heretofore, as
a straight Republican, without taking
part in the fractional disputes within
the party.
Papers have been filed which formal
~ transferred the property of the late
George Anderson to the Oshkosh lodge
of Elks. The property will be used as
a site for a club house to cost nearly
100000
In attempting to board a moving
freight at Eland Junction near Wau-
sau Henry Rollenhagen, thirty-four
years old, fell under the wheels and
both legs were cut Off
Mrs. John Bartlein, former we'll
known resident of Milwaukee, is dead
at Neenah. She and her husband re-
Gently celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary.
Stewart Sweeney, of the town of An
son, near Chippewa Falls, was arrested
and fined S2o and costs in Judge Jen-
kins' court on the charge OF beating
horse numerically.
Henry Clifford, convicted at Eau
Claire of assault on Goldie Woods, a
girl under fourteen years of age. was
sentenced to twenty years in Waupun
penitentiary.
The Elroy Advancement association
offers prize to the person living in
the vicinity who will submit the best
slogan to be used in advertising the
city.
Action was started in circuit court
at Depere by Henry L. Thompson to re-
cover SIS 200 from the American Writ.
ing Paper company for loss of an arm.
Grieving over the loss of $4,000 de-
i