The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-03-31
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

appointment OF Harry u. BTlSSS as
commissioner of public works, has had
Tar reaching effect. Special taxes
for 1910, aggregating $84S,S72.74 have
been invalidated; buyers of nearly all
OF the delinquent taxes refused to &C
cept the city certificates amounting to
almost $4,000; every assessment of
benefits and damages made by Mr..
Briggs is invalid, and half hundred
suits probably will be brought against
the city as a result of tie failure of
the council legally to adopt chapter
297 OF the laws of 1907, providing a
one-man board of public works.
Steps have been taken by the coun-
Gil to remedy the blunder committed
by the Socialist council on April 10,
1910, in ATTEMPTING to change the law
without referring it to committee as
required b, law.
kENOSHA-In the circuit court
Judge e. B. Belden handed down a
decision in regard to the sale of liquor
by druggists, which holds that drug
gists are not liable to prosecution for
selling liquor to minors on the same
basis as saloon men. Action was TAX
en- In the case of the state VS.. William
II. POmeroy, who had been arrested
charged with selling bottle of wine
to schoolboy. He pleaded that the
information did not state a cause for
action under the laws of the state
The court took this view Of the case
and quashed the information. The
court held that a druggist sold liquor
under special permit and that as the
liquor was sold not to be drank on the
premises, it was impossible to hold
him under the same law as a saloon
man would be held for selling to min
ors.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES returns from
the school board primary election
at which thousands of women voted
show that only two of the four Social
list candidates received enough votes
to have their names placed on the Of
fetal ballot for the election to be held
April 4. Eight nonpartisans, includ-
ing one woman, Mrs. S. M. Cantro-
vitz, most of whom were Endorsed by
the Voters league, were nominated
The primary indicates that the next
Milwaukee school board will be con-
trolled by nonpartisan members, the
their nominees, not having more than
five of the fifteen members.
GREEN BAY-The fastest trip on
record between Green Bay and Chi
cago was made when a special train,
consisting of steel coaches and Super
intendent Andrews special car arrived
in Chicago three hours and thirty min
utes after leaving the local station
Eighteen minutes were lost on &C
count of hot box between Green
Bay and Milwaukee, and also some
time in changing engines at Milwau
kee The trip was made for r. s
Fleming, who was endeavoring to
reach his sister, who was reported as
near death in Chicago.
ASHLAND-William Schaeffer, aged
twenty-seven, and his wife, residents
of Glidden, thirty miles south of here
are in a critical conditions as the re
suit of wounds alleged % have been
inflicted by Schaeffer. The bullet just
grazed Mrs Schaeffer's heart, and
her husband received his wound
in almost the same place. Following
an operation the woman declared that
Schaeffer had accidentally shot her
and then turned the weapon on him
self in a fit of remorse.
MADlSON--A freak measure to
tax every unmarried woman over
twenty-five years of age S. annually
and to favor a matrimonial commits
sion" consisting of the governor, SUI
perintendent Of public property and
chief clerk of the assembly, was intro
duced in the assembly by Assembly
man Hansen of Manitowoc Of 'trouser-
cite" fame The commission is
charged with the duty of bringing to-
gether kindred souls when application
is made by any woman.
FOND DU LAC-The second at
tempt at jail breaking here within
month was foiled by woman prison
er, Lucille Sherman, serving for lar
ceny. She heard sounds of a file in
the upper tier and aroused the desk
sergeant by shaking the door OF her
cell, and enabled the sheriff to break
in on Frank Deneseus, charged with
horse stealing, and John Scholzer,
charged with burglary, just as they
had cut their cell bars away.
RACINE-WhiIe delivering an i'm
pressive sermon at the First Method
ist Episcopal church in. the village of
Waterford, Racine county, Rev. F. W
Pratt, one Of the most prominent min
listers of this district, suddenly fell
over backwards and was caught in the
arms of Elmer Anderson, a member
of the choir Physicians were called
but Rev. Pratt was dead when they
arrived. Death was caused by heart
failure.
GREEN BAY-The forty-ffth annual
encampment of the Wisconsin G. A. R.
will be held in Green Bay on June s,
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