The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-27

! WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
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agent. has returned from Washington,
where he had urged the passage of a
bill looking to a settlement of the pub
lie land controversy of Wisconsin
against the government and bill for
the adjustment of the title to certain
lands Of the Wisconsin Indian reserva-
tons. These bills, if passed, will en-
able Wisconsin to collect about $780,
600 from the government
c. E. Human, veteran OF, the civil
war, former policeman and for years
engaged in the real estate and insur-
ance business at Fond du Lac, pleaded
guilty to statutory offence in the
circuit court and was sentenced by
Judge Turner of Milwaukee to six
months in the county jail. The COM
planning witness was under fourteen
years of age when the crime is al
legged to have been committed.
Charles Engel, well known meat
buyer of Oshkosh, was badly injured
when an automobile driven by man
named Webster, struck .Engel's wagon
and threw him out on the street car
track, where an electric car cut off
his right leg near the knee His left
leg was broken and his head was cut
and bruised He was taken to a hos
pital and will probably live
A chicken Matched at Beloit has
three legs and the tail of duck The
strange looking bird belongs to John
Lynch, who is taking special care to
raise it The chickens third leg is
located under it's tail, and does not
seem to interfere seriously with its
movements, and is used as a prop
when the little fellow stands still
A wedding took place at the Kenosha
county jail when Rev. Perry Mills mar
ried Maurice Kreider. serving six
months for extortion, to Mrs. Isabella
Mayer. Immediately after the cere-
mony Kreider returned to his cell and
the woman went to work to raise the
money needed to pay his fine.
Carroll college won in a debate
against the Lawrence college fresh
men in Waukesha. The question was,
Resolved, That it would be advisable
to have a federal income tax, const;-
tutlonally granted" Lawrence de-
baters took the affirmative and Car
roll the negative.
During a barroom brawl at Rubens'
saloon, twelve miles west of Algoma,
Louis Flemal shot and probably ia
tally wounded Louis Lardinios Both
boys were about eighteen years OF age,
were neighbors, and were attending
a dance when the trouble occurred.
An incendiary fire consumed $4,000
feet of hard maple logs at the sawmill
of David Goshaw and Peter Harms at
Drywood, twenty miles northeast of
Chippewa Falls. Every gallon of oil
was taken from the engine room to
start the fire. The loss is $4,000.
Louis Kurz, the seventeen-year-old
son of Frank Kurz, of Appleton, was
shot in the right eye and probably ia
tally injured while playing. The re-
volver was in the hands of Henry Eb-
erhardt. The bullet penetrated the
boys eye and lodged in the brain
AS the result of burns sustained
when her clothing caught fire from gas
oline, which became ignited while she
was cleaning clothes, Mrs. Nellie
Schultz, aged thirty-eight, of Milwau-
kee, died in the Milwaukee emergen-
cy hospital
According to Secretary G. A. Har-
per of the state board of health there
are only four cases of typhoid fever in
Madison. The patients are students
at the university, two of whom appear
to have contracted the disease outside
the city.
Assaulted in a riot following a base
ball game at Racine, Gordon Lewis,
son of Captain VIM Mitchell Lewis,
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor, lies in precarious
condition in a Racine hospital
The Christian scientists of Madison
have sent petition to Senator La
Toilette and Congressman Nelson at
Washington, urging the defeat of the
Owen bill for the establishment of
federal department of health.
Mary Kryzinski, four-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kryzinski
of Beaver Dam, is dead from burns
received while playing with matches.
Neighbors tried to rescue her but a
vicious dog drove them or
William H. Nichols and Abraham
B. Gambler have been appointed re
ceivers Of the Waukesha Pea Canning
company, a S1,O00,000 corporation, by
Judge J. V. Quarles. A bond of $751;
900 was given.
Unrequited affection for an Appleton
girl is said to have caused Martin
Schmitt, twenty-eight years old, to at
tempt to kill himself by swallowing a
large dose Of carbolic acid at Madison.
The monthly rerort Of the state
board of control shows a total of 4,057
inmates in the various institutions,
and total of 6,511 insane confined in