The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-03-11
lRATE WIFE is OWN NEWseoY.
Distributes Copies Of Divorce Charges
Against Husband.

against FIusDdnu'
Milwaukee, March "a woman
newspaper vender invaded Milwaukee.
10 was Mrs. Clinton G. Price, wife of
the first assistant city attorney and
prominent in society. who appeared
on downtown corners to distribute in
person copies of an extra edition of
weekly newspaper which contained
the details of her suit against her hus-
band for divorce. The suit is started
at an inopportune moment for Mr..
Price, for he now is a candidate for
election as civil judge. His wife,
it is said, has declared she will spend
any money she has to defeat him for
election.
The weekly paper printed the text
OF her complaint, involving other Mil
waukee women, married and single,
with Mr.. Price, after the local dalies,
it is said had decided that they would
be inviting suits for libel If they print
ed the details of the suit. Mrs. Price
also charges that her husband attack
ed her on several occasions and called
her uncomplimentary names, which
treatment has ruined her health, she
alleges.
The complaint was filed Friday af
ternoon, but pending the filing of the
answer and an appearance in court
no mention was made in any paper in
the city of the suit. Under pc
culiar Wisconsin libel law no news
paper can print, without certain loss
in damages, any reference to a di-
have appeared in court. Under this
condition the outcome of the weekly
papers publication and Mrs. Prices
part in the affair is waited with no
little interest.
Mrs. Price, who is well known in
Milwaukee, created a sensation when
she appeared with the newspapers
under her arm. She was clad in ex-
pensive garments and was seen first
on downtown corner, where her at
torney has offices. At once she began
her distribution of free copies of the
weekly paper containing the story OF
her suit. A mob of curious persons
gathered at once. A few moments
later she called for the assistance of
ten messenger boys, and for two hours
she and her assistants distributed free
copies of the divorce story.
When Mrs. Price left to get her sup
per regular force of city newsboys
took up her task and began reaping
small fortunes by selling copies of
the paper which she had been distr-
buting free earlier in the day.
The first appearance of the extra
papers came just as the matinee goers
were leaving the theaters near by,
but Mrs. Price was too busy disuribut-
ing the papers, she said, to talk to
reporters for the papers which pre-
viously had suppressed the account of
the divorce suit because of friendship
for Mr.. Price"
Mr.. Price is planning TO fight the di-
vorce suit vigorously, saying that the
charges are false and intimating that
he believes his wife is insane. He
thinks that political enemies also may
have part in the affair." for he be-
lieves Mrs. Price would not have
known of the existence of the weekly
paper but for suggestions from per-
sons better acquainted with the city
than she. The paper which printed
the divorce complaint labeled the arti-
Gle, Extra" with a display head in
big type. The paper hitherto has
been known as a publication circulat- !
ing on the south side only, devoted to
personal and social news of that part
Of the city.