The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-04-26
! WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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ASHLAND-Has a man a right
to kill a man who has insulted his
wife? This question was answered
afirmatively by an Ashland jury in the
acquittal of Alvin Davis for the MUIR
der of Thomas Pruss. Davis and his
wife arrived in Ashland on an evening
train last December He left his wife
standing outside hotel when he went
inside to inquire for room. Pruss.
a drunken lumberjack, came out of a
saloon and grossly insulted the wo-
man. Davis, coming out of the hotel,
flew at the insulter like tiger, knock
ed him down twice and killed him with
his bare hands. Davis had been held
without bonds since Dec. Is. The state
charged second degree murder. Davis
was formerly brakeman at Niles,
Mich. He worked at West Allis and
Tomahawk last year.
| LA CROSSE-William Hatka, a
| lad fifteen years old, armed with
shotgun, rifle, revolver and sun
dry other weapons and supplied with
| two rings of bologna and loaf of
rye bread, appropriated handy hunt
| ing skiff and is hurry1ng to join Sidna
Allen, the famous Virginia outlaw, be-
| lieve some relatives, but other rela-
tives think he has drowned. He had
| fifty cents in money when he left.
The lad was started to school by his
mother last Wednesday, but did not
appear Various clews, followed by
| the police, led to the discovery of his
| intentions and probable whereabouts.
| He is said to have Dragged to school
chums that he was about to start to
join Allen and help the outlaw foil the
officers of the law.
BABCOCk Police and relatives
could not locate Mrs Sam Mier. no
disappeared while returning from o
visit with her husband near SAL ~.
! In changing cars at Portage Mr.. Mier
seated his wife by the side of woman
passenger and then went into the
smoking car where he remained until
| reaching New Lisbon, where they
were again to change cars. Meir
stepped from one train to the other,
expecting his wife to make the same
change, but on reaching Babcock he
discovered that she was not on the
train. No trace Of the missing woman
could be secured at the time.
SPARTA-For the purpose of thor
oughly testing out the new military
equipment, the new organization and
the new infantry drill regulations,
| companies of three regiments of the
| United States army are about to be
brought together at Sparta, Wis. soon.
Next month provisional regiment
of war strength is to be organized
from companies of the Fourth, Tween
ty-seventh and Twenty-eighth regi-
ments, United States infantry. The
troops will assemble at Dubuque, Ia,
and march to Sparta. They will be
accompanied by automobile trucks to
test their suitability.
ADiSON-Attorney General L. H.
Bancroft ruled in answer to a query
from Secretary of State J. A. Frear
that the automobile registration law
requires all automobile number plates
for any one year to be of the same
color, which is to be determined by
the secretary of state. Many automo-
bile owners wanted to paint the num-
Der plate the color of their cars and
wrote the secretary of state to find
if it would be unlawful to do SO. The
color of the number plate this year is
bright red
MANITOWOC - Miss Marguerite
Christensen of this city, campaign
manager of the Wisconsin Woman Suf-
frage association, and Clarence Prim
of Chicago, were married i'll New York.
The couple were students together at