The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-03-24
!: WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

person is missing and is said to be
buried in the ruins, eleven are in the
Emergency hospital, several probably
fatally injured and a dozen others
were treated by doctors at their homes.
The financial loss is 100000. As
this is the second fire the company
has had in a few weeks and as the
company maintains a non-union plant
1t is believed that the fire may have
been due to recent labor troubles.
The fire started so suddenly that
three men were blown out of win
doWs, but the company officials deny
that the explosion was of sufficient
violence to have been caused by dy
Mantle, saying it was probably the eX-
plosion of sawdust. Bernard A. Mimi,
president of the company, says he
thinks the fire started from a spark
from ripsaw. A large automobile,
which contained two girls, ap-
parently from rich families, was pass
ing as the people leaped from the
windows and the girls instantly turned
their machine into an ambulance and
gave the injured first aid while rush
ing them to the Emergency hospital.
They refused to give their names. This
machine made five trips to the hos
pital
RAClNE-Whitelaw Reid, United
States ambassador to England, and
his family were in Racine to at
tend the wedding of his son, o.
den Mills Reid to Miss Helen Miles
Rogers, which took place at the Ra-
cine College chapel. Rev t. Rogers
officiated at the wedding ceremony.
A prenuptial reception was given at
the Racine Country club by Ogden
Mills Reid, at which about fifteen
were present. The bride is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Benjamin Rogers of Fond
Du Lac and is a graduate of Barnard
college. Racine was selected as the
scene of the wedding because the
brides brother. G. Vernon Rogers, re-
sides here
MILWAUkEE-A great municipal
mausoleum, large enough to hold 1000
bodies, which are to be seated in vac
uum crypts and preserved by a new
method, is planned for erection in Mil
waukee as the Socialist administra
tons method of undermining the
treatment of those who have departed.
''There may be many who do not
believe in cremation Our method is
a step between it and burial said w.
S. Halliday, secretary of the Wiscon-
sin Mausoleum company, organized by
the Socialists to erect the building.
Our method is just as sanitary as
cremation Id more sanitary than bur-
ial in the earth"
misunderstanding to an official
of the Du Pont Powder company. the
claims for damages as a result of the
recent Pleasant Prairie explosion ap-
pear to be endless, but the company is
planning on paying all just claims,
which, it is said, will amount to $780,
600. Broken windows appear to be the
chief item. The national government,
as a result of the windows broken at
the Lake Bluff naval training station,
has entered claim for $4,000. 1t has
just been discovered, it is alleged.
that the Laf1in-Rand company, thought
to be the >wners of the plant, with
drew from he state on Feb. IL, 1911.
ENOMONlE-James r. Stout
aged twenty, oldest son of the late
Senator Stout, died at his home here
from the effects of bullet wound. The
youth, who was a senior in the local
high school, had been in poor health
for some time, but during the last few
months seemed to have regained his
health in a measure. According to
his friends he had gone to his room
and, while cleaning a revolver, the
weapon was discharged. He lived
half an hour after the accident.
APPLETON-It is possible that the
Wisconsin and Northwestern railroad
may enter Kaukauna from the north
and then come to Appleton. The sur
vey crew is now running line from
Black Creek to Kaukauna and has COM
pleted one through Stammer's Cor
ner near the boundary of the northern
part of Center and Freedom, south of
Five Corners.
kENOSHA-Most of the citizens
of Kenosha are up in arms against
the rebuilding of the Pleasant Prairie
powder mills Scores of accidents, it
is declared, have occurred in the plant
during the last twelve years. Many
of them were fatal, and hundreds of
residents maintain that the plant was
a constant menace to the community.
PORTAGE-A jury returned YER
dict finding Edward Lennon guilty of
murder in the first degree. Lennon
was charged with shooting County
Highway Supervisor Timothy McMa-
hon from ambush while the official
was returning home on the roadway
on the night of July 81.
MADlSON-The assembly commit
tee on constitutional amendments de-
cided to recommend for adoption the
Lentz joint resolution to submit to a
vote of the people the question OF
whether a constitutional convention
shall be called to revise the constitu-