The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-09-30

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.



Nicholas Piriona, who holds a respon-
sible position in one of the factories
here, had been arrested en- criminal
warrant charging him with violating
the game law When the case was
called PirioIa. who had been released
on bonds, was not in court and the
manager of the factory suggested to
the court that he take the testimony
of the defendant by telephone. The
court did SO, swore the defendant,
heard his plea of guilty and fined him
S. and cost.
proprietors in Madison declared for
the "closed shop" to freshmen? That
is the question that the incoming mem
bers of the class of 1914 at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin are asking each
other these days. Few of the pros
pective first year students have been
able to secure rooms and many are
still walking the streets in search of
some kindly housewife who is not in
the alleged agreement
JANESVILLE-Am mysterious shoot
ing occurred here when Mrs. John
Myers, aged thirty-five, wealthy widow
of hotel proprietor and real estate
owner of this place, was shot as she
stepped out of the back door Of Ter
home. The bullet entered her right
arm, severing an artery, Whether the
shooting was accidental or Intentional,
or where the bullet came from, the
police have been unable to determine.
ILWAUkEE-Acco to Lon
don dispatches, four Milwaukeeans
will share with five other relatives in
the division of the estate of Miss En-
lily Knowles of Epson, England said
to be valued at $2,5OO,00O. The four
members of the Knowles family men
tion in the will who now reside in Mil
wapuee are George Knowles j., Fran
els Knowles, Charles Knowles and
Rishard Henry Knowles.
MADlSON-Kilbourn at a special
election on the question of raising the
saloon license from 5000 to $500 voted
in favor of the low license by a major
ity of 46. Tomah voted for $500 IL
cense in place of $780, Soldiers Grove
voted in favor of saloon license of
$500 instead of $780, Jefferson, by a
vote of 400 to 1863, decided that the IL
cense fee for the next three years
shall be 5000
SHEBOYGAN-The high sea was
the means of washing portions of the
wrecked car ferry Pere Marquette No.
Is ashore, and all along the beach
wreckage can be found. The life saw
ers are pat.olling the beach, feeling
assured that bodies will be washed to
shore. Among some of the wreckage
floating into the harbor was a large
portion of the vessels cabin.
COUDERAY-John F. Deitz wanted
for murder, and his two sons were in
Winter again. They drove newspa-
per reporter who had been out to in
terview the Dietz family into town.
They were not mclested, but were
watching everybody closely and re-
turned home early.
Observation-Disclosures Conkey, of
Combined Locks, Republican nominee
for clerk of the court of Outgamie
county, is not a citizen of the United
States, according to the ruling of Judge
John Goodland. because he had not
lived continuously in the United States
for five years.
RACINE-In boarding house fight
at Racine and Nineteenth streets Joe
Zemick and Mike Slocko were danger
ously cut with knives, and John Kos
orek and John Arocke are in jail
charged with the cutting. The fight
was over so cents, and eight boarders
participated.
MANiTOWOC-The fire and police
commission of Manitowoc has ordered
that two more patrolmen be added to
the city force. Several robberies have
been committed in the city during the
last few weeks and the commission de
cided that a larger police force was
necessary.
APPLETON-One year at hard Ia
Dor in the Green Bay reformatory was
the sentence melted out to George
harp mere IOTt Ills attempt, several
weeks ago, to kill Daniel Wing by put
ting carbolic acid in the coffee in Mr..
Wings dinner pail Harp pleaded
guilty
RHINELANDER-R. F. Tompkins,
local agent of the 500 line, has re-
ceived word from the Minneapolis Of
fees that the chief engineer has been
instructed to begin grading for a new
depot building in Rhinelander.
SHEBOYGAN-The sum of $1,700
in a sack sewed up in the mattress of
a bed was found in the home of the
late Mrs. Charles Hensel, who, during
her life supported herself and hus-
band, who is ill, by scrubbing
APPLETON-The mammoth cheese
to be on exhibition at the national
dairy show in Chicago was shipped
from Appleton. 1t weighed 4,028
pounds without the hoop and 1900
pounds with the hoop.
BELOIT--While the family was at