The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-09-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

kENoSHA-With wierd incanta.
tons, lasting for nearly twenty-four
hours, and ending with the slaughter
OF a lamb and the pouring of it's blood
over the members of the warning fac
lions, two tribes of gypsies settled
their differences on a farm west of
kenosha. Five members of the tribe
OF Bimble who We're to have been tried
for assaultirg and robbing Teda Cough
Ian, member of a rival tribe, were re
leased from custody by the tribal court.
More than 300 gyPsies, many OF whom
had Travelled hundreds of miles, attend
ed the powwow, which was to bring
peace, and the heads of four tribes sat
in Judgment on the alleged wrongs of
Coughlan. They decreed that the
members of the Bimble family should
pay him $1,000 and pay all costs which
might have arisen out of the arrest
and prosecution of the members of the
tribe. Coughlan and the venerable
Steve Bimble, leader of the tribe, en-
braced each other and then drank from
the cup of lambs blood, in token that
all differences had been eradicated
MADlSON-The blue book of 1911,
the thirty-sixth volume of this state of
fetal publication, will be out about
Nov. 1, according to w. o. Pietzsch,
chief clerk in the office of the Wiscon-
sin industrial commission, who COM
piled the book 1t was intended to
have the book out by this time, but
unavoidable delays prevented it. The
book this year will consist Of 500 pag
es, just tWo-thirds of the number of
the last volume The reduction in size
is due to the fact that much industrial
statistical matter hitherto included in
the publication has been omitted. The
number Of copies of the book will be
$4,000, of which $4,000 will go to the
members Of the legislature.
NEENAH-The police of Neenah
have taken into custody stranger
who says he is one Of the three train
robbers who held up the Northern Pa
cifio fast passenger train at Buffalo, n
D., several weeks ago. He goes by
the names of Pat Grove and John
Young, he says. The sum of $4,000
was stolen from the express car at
the time of the robbery and the en-
gineer was shot A reward of $4,000
was offered for the arrest of the men.
When as! cd if he did not break Jail
Jail at Chippewa Falls two years ago
he said he had and when asked if he
had served time in the Illinois state
prison at Joliet for robbery he replied
in the affirmative
BAYFIELD-The Misses Mary Hen
derson, Rose Fearten and Emma Lum-
berg, between the ages of sixteen and
nineteen, we're drowned at Houghton,
Wis, three miles form this place.
The fourth, Annie Henderson, was
the only one of the party to escape.
The girls were out in small canoe,
which was overturned about 200 feet
from shore All were fair swimmers,
but the distance was too great for all
Of the three were found twelve feet
from shore.
MARINETTE-After F. E. Harrison
of Menominee had cranked his auto
until he was weary, he stood aside
prepared to give Up the job in despair.
Suddenly the machine started with a
jolt that threw on the big speed
clutch, shot forward like a skyrocket
through the main streets, demolished
hydrant, which sent up stream of
water as high as the house tops, and
finally wound up, total wreck, at
a telegraph pole,
LA CROSSE-In attempting an aero
plane flight at the Vernon county fair
at VirOQua one of the planes of the
aeroplane failed to work after the avi-
ator had risen, and dragged along a
row of buggies, striking the horses,
and causing forty runaways into the
crowd of hundreds of excited people.
The aeroplane finally came down on
the top of buggy and was wrecked.
The aviator was slightly injured.
RACINE-Clarence Elsner, seven
years old, was tortured while playing
Indian" with two companions, aged
twelve and thirteen, who stripped him,
tied him to a stake, and danced about
him while they belabored him with
switches until he was black and blue.
linen they smoked the pipe of peace
and sent him home. Arrests will be
made, it is said.
OSHKOSH-When President Taft
arrives in Oshkosh on Oct. rs he will
be met at the station by nineteen auto
mobiles, given trip about the city,
and will then make a speech at the
opera house at u: 80. At o'clock he
will speak from a stand in the center
of town and will be the guest at a
luncheon afterward.
OSlHkOSH--John Harrington, resi-
dent normal school regent, stated that
$4,000 has been appropriated by the
board for an addition to the Oshkosh
school, which will be ready within
year The addition will contain an
auditorium kindergarten, domestic