The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-17

Olu, VINO recently was pardOn0d
through the efforts of Rockford people,
after serving a small portion of his
n1teen year term in prison meted out
TO him at Monroe by the late Judge
Dunwiddie, for horse stealing, is again
IN the tolls. He has been given a
I'VE year sentence at Waupun for horse
stealing in Wood county, but an effort
Will be made to have the sentence cut
down
w. D. Conner was chosen to head the
TAFT Republicans IN Wisconsin as the
chairman of the state campaign COM
mittee chosen at the convention in Mil
Waukee. The convention adopted a
platform indorsing President Taft and
his administration, Governor Davidson
and his administration, and elected a
state committee consisting of two men
from each congressional district.
Mrs. Charles W. Allen of Kenosna,
wife of wealthy man, appeared be-
fore Justice Holt in the United States
circuit court in New York and pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging her
with smuggling when she arrived in
New York OH the Lusitania jewelry
and wearing apparel worth $4,000.
She was fined $500.
The annual war dance of the Chip
pewas will be at Whitefish the first
week in July. A large number of Wis
iting Indians will be present. They
will come from Minnesota and Oklaho-
ma. The Kickapoos of Kansas, the
Pottawattomies and the Sacs also will
be represented, and possibly the Win
nebagoes
An ordinance has been introduced in
the Beloit council to charge saloon
keepers a local or surtax of $500 in adj
dition to the regular license fee of
$500 The attorney general will be
asked for an opinion on it's legality.
Another proposed ordinance prohibits
barbed wire fences within the city
limits.
Fire in the B. F. Hyland department
store the largest in Stoughton, caused
a loss of $4,000 to the stock and 81, 1000
to the building. The loss is fully COW
cred by insurance. The fire started
in the ceiling of the fourth floor and
was fought by the volunteer fire de-
partment. 1t was caused by crossed
wires.
Miss Magdalena Rice, of Hartland,
field captain of the Grafton hall ath-
letic team, was awarded the trophy
cup in the class day exercises. Her
team won sufficient points in a series
of athletic events in the hall during
the last year to give them first place
by a wide margin.
e. C. Ritscher, the lawyer who died
in Chicago recently, was Beloit boy,
the son of John Ritscher and an alum
nus of Beloit college. When in school
he won the interstate oratorical con-
test, as representative of Beloit col
lege His aid to the college has been
valuable.
James Borbor, deckhand on the
steamer A. III. Hawgood, fell off scat
fold at Superior while he was at work
painting the vessel. He tumbled into
the slip at the Great Northern ore
docks and drowned He came here
from Milwaukee.
b. H. Tusler, agent for the Wells
Fargo Express company in Beloit since
the company took over the United
States business on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul road, has been
promoted to the position of route agent
and auditor.
The largest number of breeders that
ever attended a meeting of the Wau-
kesha County Guernsey Breeders as
sociation gathered at the summer
meeting of the association at the stock
farms of F. e. and A. w. Fox east of
Waukesha.
In desperate revolver battle be-
tween a posse headed by Sheriff Lam
ming of Jackson county and band of
five suspected of footing the postofice
at Mcmillan. one of the robbers was
shot and captured.
Hiram Goddard, one of the most
prominent of Wisconsin lumbermen,
beginning with 1857 and until the in
dustry waned. and later a heavy in
weston in Pacific coast timber lands, is
dead at Lacrosse
Frank Jatinski. fourteen years old,
of Manitowcc, was sentenced to TWEEN
ty days in the county jail for stealing
grain. Younger boys who were asso-
ciated with him are held on probation
Two hundred and fifty union carpen-
tiers, who have been en- strike in Racine
for three weeks, returned to work, the
boss carpenters having raised the scale
of wages to so cents per hour.
The three-year-old daughter of Will
lam Coppens of Green Bay is dead as
the result of injuries received when
she was struck by a street car.
Clyde Hill committed suicide at Bar
aboo when arrested for theft at the
instigation of his cousin, Charles Dick