The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-02-24

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DELAvAN-The twenty-first annual
convention of the Southern Wisconsin
Teachers association ended very sue
cessfully. Resolution were reported
thanking the president and other OFF,
GERS of the association for the excel
lent program provided; favoring such
changes in the law relating to free
high schools as would allow such
schools to charge back to the proper
local unit an amount which shall equal
the pro rata cost of instruction, not to
exceed 81 a week, for the tuition CT
non-residents; recommendation OF the
bill providing for teachers retire
ment fund; favoring the bill providing
for county board of education and
indorsing the bill now pending before
the legislature providing for the enact
ment of minimum salary law.
MARINETTE-Green Bay has been
crossed by an automobile for the first
time in history. Robert Brott and Fred
Grlnnell, in a twenty horsepower car,
made the trip across to Sturgeon Bay,
twenty-five miles. In places where the
ice had heaved sheer drops of four
feet were encountered. The trip was
made in an hour and a half On the
return trip they struck crack twelve
feet wide. An attempt to leap 1t re-
suited in failure, and the front part OF
the car was submerged in four feet
of water. The autoists walked ten
miles to Menominee, procured team
and some fourteen-foot planks, bridged
the crack and completed the trip.
RAcINE-William Hartig, tea
merchant here, had remarkable es-
cape from death. He was driving
horse and wagon across the tracks OF
the Chicago and Northwestern railway
at Thirteenth street when hit by
fast southbound passenger train. He
was thrown $50 feet ahead and when
he came down was caught on the pilot
of the locomotive and carried block,
when the train was brought to stop.
He sustained cut across the fore
head and was bruised about the body,
| but was able to walk when taken off
the engine pilot. The wagon was on
the smokestack The horse escaped
uninjured.
NEW RICHMOND-Tip Clark, who
IN charged with a murderous assault
on his half-brother, Rocky Clark, in
this city on Jan. %, has been bound
over to the circuit court for trial. His
bonds were fixed at $4,000, but bail
was not furnished. Tip, the police
say, shot his brother four times at
close range, each bullet taking effect
He admits the shooting, but claims it
was done in self-defense. 1t is init
mated, TOO, that insanity may be set
up as a defense. The victim of the
shooting has entirely recovered and is
now at his home in Spooner. The
trial will take place in March.
ADISON-Magnus Swenson of
Madison, president of the state board
of university regents, sent his resig-
nation as a member of that body to
Governor McGOvern and then with his
wife started on a months trip through
the south for the benefit of his health,
His reason for resigning, according to
members of his family and President
Van Hise Of the university, was that
his work as a member of the state
capitol building commission and his
private business required all OF his
time.
BELOiT-High water flooded parts
of Beloit and threatened to do great
damage Patrick Crowley was nearly
drowned when his horses and carriage
were swept from under him as he
crossed Coon creek coming to Beloit.
Men were taken from two factories in
the southern part of the city by wa
CONS, the factories being surrounded
by water The Rockford, Beloit and
GAINESVILLE interurban tracks were COW
cred with two feet of water and pas
sengers were transferred in busses.
MISUNDERSTANDING a cut in
wages, employees of the Lake Superior
Iron and Chemical company at Ash
land walked out. The company paid
the men off and announced that it
would shut down indefinitely. The
shut down involves 255 men at Ash
land, $50 in the woods getting out
wood for charcoal, and will shut down
the Yale mine at Bessemer, where 200
men are employed
BANGOR-The plant of the Hussa
Brewing company was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of about 100000.
Insurance amounting to about $4,000
was carried. The pumps of the local
fire department were located in the
brewery and were destroyed by the
flames, leaving the village without fire
protection of any kind. Appeals for
aid were sent to La Crosse and Sparta
MINERAL POINT-One man was
seriously injured and three others re-
ceived bad scalds when a locomotive
of combination freight and passen-
ger train of the Mineral Point and
Northern road went through bridge
four miles north of this city. High