The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-03-18
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Items Condensed from the
Happenings of the Week.

Dill soon to be promulgated by the
joint committee on industrial insur-
ance of the state legislature. The bill
now is in the last stages of alteration
before going to the printer, and next
week copies of it will be sent through
out the state from the committee's
headquarters in Madison.
The state civil service commission
has announced that r. H Hillyer, Mer-
rill; A. H. Nelson and c. G. Miquette,
Milwaukee, are the highest in the list
of eligibles of those who took exam
nation for the appointment of CORE
spondence clerk in the Office of State
Treasurer Dahl
To the tune of Mendelssohn's "Wed
ding March" w. H. McGrath and Miss
Hattie Baldwin were married on the
floor of the Riverside Roller rink in
Milwaukee while on roller skates, by a
justice of the peace on roller skates,
attended by bridesmaids and gro0ms
men on skates
Fire that completely destroyed the
Modern Steam Laundry at Lacrosse
business section. Working girls occr
plying rooms above Henry & Franks
restaurant were rescued by firemen
The loss will probably reach $4,000.
Mrs. Robert Schwanke. nineteen
year-Old bride died at Oak Valley, near
Cochrane, from being burned as re-
suit of lighting a match after rubbing
her breast with turpentine in an effort
to break up cold
Fourteen graduates, juniors and sen.
iors, in the course in journalism at the
University of Wisconsin have organ.
lied a professional fraternity to be
known as the Wisconsin chapter of
Delta Alpha
A petition will be presented to Gov
ernor Davidson to appoint E. G. Mar
riOtt of Baraboo as a member of the
fish commission. Mr.. Marriott has
been instrumental in stocking DEVILS
lake and many other bodies of water
Peter Siury, adiudged insane in Buff
falo county, jumped from carriage in
which he was being taken to the asy
lum and eluding pursuit plunged into
Lake Mallaleiu and was drowned
The Southern Wisconsin Power COM
pany is purchasing options on farms ly-
ing along the Wisconsin river south of
Portage preparatory to the construc-
ton of the Prairie Du Sac dam.
Carl Felland, a farmer in the town
of Burke, died in the hospital at Madi-
son from blood poison developed from
a scratch on his hand from horses
tooth.
The Democrats of Neenah have nom
mated J. NJ Stone editor of the Nee
nah Times and reputed to be the old
est newspaper man in the state, for
mayor
The Rev C. T. Edwards, for three
years pastor of the First Presbyterian
church at Beloit, has resigned to take
a place on the faculty of Beloit college
The police department started cru
SADIE on gambling in Madison and
Frank G. O'Neill pleaded guilty to con-
Quoting gaming house"
Fire destroyed the high school build
ing at Mellen. The loss is $4,000. The
city hall and churches will be used to
finish the school term.
The Northwest Wisconsin Butter
Makers convention at BlOOmer was at
tended by about sixty butter makers
and fully 200 farmers.
Jesse r. Rub1e of Platteville will
represent the University Of Wisconsin
in the northern oratorical contest at
Minneapolis in May
Pervine Atwood, aged eighty-four,
a resident of Green County since 1850,
died at Brodhead after an illness of
several months.
Without telling even their closest
friends Dr. W. T. Hardy and Miss Luz
cago and were married.
The state railroad commission has
ordered the Madison Gas and Electric
company to reduce it's rates from IA to
Is per cent.
Minnie Verber, employed in the rag
department of the paper mill at De-
pere, found $50 in the pocket of wo-
mans skirt
Christ FIecker was elected president
and F. A. Rhyme secretary of the Por
tage fair association at the annual
meeting.
Kenosha has four candidates for the
nomination for mayor with the closing
of the list uf candidates for the pri-
mary.
Rev. David Beaton of Chicago was
formally installed as pastor of the
First Congregational church of James,
vile.
At the spring election it will be
voted whether saloons in Depere shall
be closed or allowed to continue bust
ness.
Miss Lillian Murphy of Cato had
a narrow escape from death when she
used a liniment for supposed brandy.
The state board of control at Supe-
rior has condemned the county Jail
and ordered it vacated Immediately