The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-12-06

WISCONSIN PARAGRAPHS

u0uC6 LudL jail u0llV0Ty Was plduuSU
by prisoners while John Schrank,
would-be assassin of Theodore Roose-
welt, was held there, was revealed
when twelve steel saws were found
under a mattress in cell recently
vacated by James Wood, alias '.Toron-
to Jimmy" notorious safe blower
Wood and Charles Mason were
brought to the county jail from West
Bend, Wis.,, two months ago, for safe
keeping. They were charged with
having dynamited and robbed a bank
The men were taken back for trial
Monday. They were convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary in Wau-
pun.
J PRAIRIE DU CHEN - Over 700
pounds of dynamite exploded from an
unknown ause in the Bridgeport
stone quarry, six miles east of this
city. The conclusion was felt for
twenty miles. In the village of
Bridgeport, half mile away, many
window lights were broken. The stor-
age house in which the explosive
was stored was blown to atoms and
a hole four feet deep in solid rock
marks the spot where it stood.
FOND DU LAC-Confronted with
an array of nine candidates, Mayor
Wolff refused to appoint successor
to Detelef Flick, city treasurer, resign
ed, as required by law and asked the
common council to help him out of
his dilema. After many ballots the
council selected Otto R. Muenter, a
prominent business man, who was
then formally appointed by the ma
yor, following which the appointment
was confirmed by the council.
MARlNETTE-The body of the
man at first supposed to have been
Neil Tillman of Green Bay, who
thought to have drowned in the
wreck of the schooner Three Sisters
was identified as that of Soren Tor
genson, forty nine years old, who
moved to Marinette with his mother
and sisters just before sailing on the
Three Sisters Tillman is at work in
a lumber camp in Marinette county.
NEENAH-Tlat 70 per cent of the
fish in Lake Winnebago and tributary
waters are rough fish has been deter
! mined ~ experimental hauls by the
state fish end game warden depart
g cFeO nj 70 Io4o o;nO -h.ath
er tn waters are infested by rough
rather than game fish. In Cce haul
out OF two tons of fish there were but
fifteen pike. The remainder were
rough fish.
MILWAUKEE-Hiram G. McGill,
fifty-three years of age, superin-
tendent of the second division of the
! Postal Telegraph Gable company, with
headquarters in Chicago, died at "a
Milwaukee hospital following a short
illness, the result of stomach trouble.
An effort was made to save Mr.. Nc
Gills life by the TRANSMISSION of a pint
of blood from the veins of his son.
FOND DU LAC-Mrs. Thomas Nc.
Donald gave a dinner in honor of
her mother, Mrs. Frederick Yockey,
who was eighty-three years old. A
feature of the celebration was the al.
tendance to the celebration of four
generations of the Yockey family.
Mrs. Yockey is one of the Oldest set
tiers of Fond du Lac county, COM
ing here when thirteen years old.
MADISON--C. E. Shaffer of this
city has stated that he has no expec-
tation of becoming assistant Sec
rotary of state under the new Sec
rotary, John S. Donald, as reported,
but that he is an active candidate for
reelection as chief clerk of the as
sembly. He has received numerous
pledges of support from assembly.
men-elect.
MARINETTE-Mrs. A. E. Schwit-
tay, wife of the Marinette county sher-
Tiff. held at Detroit on a subornation
of perjury charge, left here with ST.
900 cash to secure her husbands re-
lease on bail. The money was raised
: by mortgaging the farm of E. Lipin-
ski. of Beaver, a brother-in-law of
Schwittay.
NEENAH-In a twenty foot fall
with a 600 pound barrel of whisky,
Walter Hart, dray man, narrowly es-
capped death under the heavy object.
The downfall caused by the whisky,
occurred on a cellar steps in sa-