The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-08-04
!: WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

sin legislature and has returned
check for SO paid for delivering an in
vocation in the senate, accompanied
by a letter to State Treasurer Dahl
reading as follows: i received your
check for IS for delivering prayer in
the senate | thank you and the SEN
ate for the courtesy but return it, as to
keep it would be purely commercial
ism, in accepting So from the senate
for just asking the favor of the Lord
for the moment upon them. Really,
it seems as if the S672 paid for prayer
during the session just closed was lost
morey, as the legislature did such rot
ten business on all temperance meas
ures 1t Indicates that not a single
prayer reached the Lord for the pro-
motion of temperance, but that he ia
Yored the breweries and saloon keep
ers / have been sunk in debt for six
teen weeks and need money worse
than any of them, but not such mon
e."
MiLWAUKEE-A man. Howard
Minnona, alias Campbell, alias
charge of stealing a purse from
woman Howard is only fourteen
years Of age, and wears short trou1ers.
His innocence is an asset of one CT the
cleverest juvenile offenders the police
have had to deal with in great many
years. After arrest he was taken to
the Central police station, where he
gave several names He told the pO-
lice that his home was in Grand Rap
ids, Mich and that he has been in
Milwaukee one week, arriving here
last Saturday from Chicago.
RlNETTE-During the summer
66,OOO,00G feet of logs will float down
the Menominee river into the solting
gaps of the Menominee River Boom
company William Stephenson, sup
erintendelt of the boom company says
25,00O,000 feet of logs are now being
rushed down the river to MenCminee
and Marinette mills and he expects
that the drive will be completed with
in two weeks. Since spring 10000
900 feet of logs have been run into
the sorting gaps. About 40,000,O00
feet of logs were hung Up from last
year.
MILWAUKEE-There is strong pos
sibility which is almost certainty
that the winner of the Wolgast-M
land bout here on Sept. Is will be re-
warded with another battle with the
English lightweight, Matt Wells.
Mulkern is promoting the match,
and, although it is not generally
known, Wolgast is most anxious to
meet the British boxer, and should he
prove victorious over Mcfarland, the
Milwaukee promoter will, without
doubt, close with the Briton for ten
round engagement in Milwaukee.
MADISON-That Wisconsin manu-
facturers may become fully acquaint-
ed with state laws relating to the or
ganization of mutual employers liza
bility companies, the state industrial
board has prepared a compilation of
provisions of all these statutes. The
commission, in issuing the booklet. has
recognized what appears to be gen.
eral desire of manufacturers to organ
ize mutual companies to carry their
own insurance against accidents to
employees.
FOND DU LAC-Three people were
injured, one seriously, in a motor cy-
Gle race here Three thousand per-
sons were in attendance. Walter
Smick of Oshkosh, C. Wade of Milwau-
kee and William Keck of Oshkosh
were the unfortunates. Smick receiy-
ed a broken shoulder rand a bruised
face Internal injuries are also fear
ed The others suffered principally
from bruises.
LA cROsSE-The cooperative store
of the Wisconsin Consumers league
here, which was opened by the trades
and labor council after urging by local
socialists, will be closed. The stock
holders will make money, it is assert
ed, but the failure of union men to
buy at the store established to beat
the alleged local grocery trust" is re-
sponsible for the closing of the doors.
MADISON-James l.. Wilson was ar
rested in Lake Mills and brought to
Madison upon the complaint of W. M.
Brady, groceryman, who charges Will
son with forging check for $13 Will
son signed his wife's name to- the
check in her absence and the bank re
fused to honor it. He is said to have
forged other checks with his wife's
name for larger amounts
KENOSHA-Mrs. Ernestine Fredson
has begun suit for limited divorce
against her husband, Samuel c. Fred
son, of Pleasant Prairie. She wants
an understanding that the court shall
set a time for which the couple may
live apart Though Mrs. Fredson has
charged her husband with cruel and
inhuman treatment, she says she be-
lieves he still loves her
acknowledgements McGovern has
pardoned Thomas w. Ryan and John
f. Ryan, brothers, who were sentenced
on May Is last to term of six months