The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

OF Wisconsin to engage in the annuity
and life insurance business after next
year. The business is to be carried
on under the management CT the state
insurance commissioner, and is to be
conducted on the same lines as a mu
tual insurance corporation, but at a
minimum expense of not to exceed 81
per 81 900 insurance. Premiums are
t, ne calculated according to the Amer.
lean mortality table. Annuities are
to range from 500 to $500. and life in
surance policies from $500 to $4,000.
Employing 70 paid agents, but con.
Quoting the business through the ma
chinery of tn einsurance commission.
er's Off e. expenses will be kept down
to minimum, the aim being to fur
nish insurance at the closest possible
approximation to net cost.
EAGLE RIVER-At least two
hundred men armed with rifles are
securing Villas county for Joe Imperio
and Phillip Roberts, the murderers Of
Sheriff Radcliff, while resisting arrest
The men are accused of white slavery
by hundreds of young women OF this
section. Sheriff Radcliffe died at night
Deputy Sheriff John Hanson, who was
shot three times during the fight with
the white slaverS. is in critical con-
dition. BloCdhounds We're put on the
trail of the men and it is believed that
they have been located near the state
line between Michigan and Wisconsin
north of CoLover, Wis The members
of the pcs Sc are all heavily armed,
as are the fugitives Rewards aggre.
eating $500 for the capture of the men
dead or alive have been offered
RACINE-William Kellar, twenty.
seven years old, is in an unconscious
condition suffering from conclusion CT
the brain and perhaps a fractured
skull, as the result Of being hit on the
head with {; sprinkling can welded, it
is said, by an Infatuated woman neigh
Dor She was instrumental in the ar.
rest of two boys for overcelebration OF
the Fourth it is alleged, and Kellar
helped to take up a collection to pay
their fines He showed the money to
her and was on her lawn when the
blow is said to have been struck.
BLACK RIVER FALLS-A wind
storm split, leaving the center of the
town without doing hardly any dam
age except wasting gardens west OF
the fair grounds, unrOOfing the grand.
stand and doing damage to other build.
ings. On the east the awnings were
completely stripped and torn in shreds.
The battlement of the Beuveran sa.
loon. weighing 800 pounds, was blown
to the sidewalk, though luckily no pc.
destrians were near. j. Greenfield
narrowly escaped being crushed by
the fall of the battlement
NEW RIcHMOND-The new con
gressional approtionment has been
followed by a boom by the New Rich.
mond News and Republican Voice OF
Secretary of State James A Frear for
the republican nomination for con
gress in the Tenth district. The aD
portionment takes ST. CriOx county
out of the Eleventh and p" ces it in
the Tenth district The late Jere.
miah NJ. Rusk, former governor and
secretary of agriculture, at one time
represented ST. Croix county in Con.
gress.
MARINETTE-A pretty romance
had an uucongenial setting in the pc
lice court, when William Zippie sued
his boarder, Otto Barnowski, for $35.
which he alleged was due on tour.
lists ticket. Zippie went to Germany
for his sister on the understanding
that Barnowski would pay for the tick.
ct and marry the girl. The ticket
cost S1OO Barnowski paid $50 on &C.
count and was sued for the balance
S35 A judgment for the amount was
entered against him.
mADlSON-The state board of con.
troll elected Dr. j. F. Brown, for sew.
eral years superintendent of the State
School for the Blind at GAINESVILLE, as
Superintendent of the state public
school for dependent children at Spar
ia. to succeed Charles NJ Bright. Pro
fessor John T. Hooper, superintendent
of the public schools of Ashland, was
elected superintendent of the school
for blind at GAINESVILLE to succeed Dr.
Brown. The salary was fixed at $4,000
per year.
RACINE-George Nelson, thirty
years old, craftsman of Corliss, lost
his life at Eagle lake. While spend
ing the day at the island resort with
friends he went in bathing and sank
before the eyes of ten persons. His
body was recovered in few moments
and physicians worked over the body
in vain for half an hour. The body
was brought to Racine. Nelson was
a craftsman at the Wisconsin Engine
company and member of the Mason.
ic lodge,
MiLWAUKEE-Mayor Emil Seidel
was badly burned by the explosion OF
a gas heater in his bath room. He
had returned from the east after a
lecturing tour and was about to battle
Touching a match to the heater to
prepare water, there was a binding