The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-28


| taken by the sheriff's force on COM
| plant that he was wild man." For
| the last week the neighbors in the vi
| cinity of the howell have been watch
| ing his antics and becoming convinc-
| ed that the man was demented, made
| complaint to the sheriffs office.
| Just at dark deputy sheriffs went to
| the scene, eight miles from this city,
| and Janson was captured. The court
| has ordered an investigation into his
| sanity.
| LA CROSSE The new moth
! ers' pension law is dead so far as it
refers to La Crosse county, for anoth-
| er year at least. At the end of pro-
propriate $4,000 to comply with the
| law for the ensuing year. Final &C
ton was unanimous and it was said
| there was no hope of reconsideration.
| Objection to the law, which was
! voiced by Supervisor l.. B. Cox of On
alaska, who led the opposition, was
| not so much on the ground of expense
| as because of the alleged completely
| of the law and the wide variance in
| the estimates of the amount needed.
| KENOSHA - Ancient customs of
| the far east were invoked at the mar
riage in Balguam, India, Oct Is, of
| Miss Eva Thelien of Kenosha, Wis,
to Wendell Kumlier of Appleton, Wis,
according to announcement just re-
ceived by friends of the couple in
Kenosha. She travelled more than
three-fourths the distance around the
world to meet her fiance in Bombay,
whence they travelled on the back Of
an elephant overland to Balguam, on
| the frontier.
EAU CLAIRE - Greatly enraged
with jealousy, Jake BOigenZahn, far
mer living near Durand, attacked his
wife with butcher knife, inficting
| several wounds in her knock and head
Thinking he had killed her, Boigen-
zahn gave himself up to the sheriff.
| A physician fastened to the farm and
found Mrs. Boigenzahn lying in a
| pool of blood, unconscious. The hus-
band is in the county Jail.
| OSHKOSH - The Wolf River I'M
! provement company has quite a
| large force of men at the head waters
| of the Wolf river making surveys and
| preparing to construct a series of res
ervoirs to regulate the flow of water
| in the Wolf river, Lake Winnebago,
and Fox river in accordance with a
| grant made to the company by the
/ last legislature.
| LWAUKEE - Compensation in
| the amount of $4,000 iss asked by
| Mrs. Amelia Torney of the state for
the death of her husband, Principal
julius Torney, of the Fifth street pub,
lie school, who, she says, died as the
result of being struck on the head by
basketball on the play grounds of
| the school in June, 1912.
GRAND RAPIDS-While he was
engaged in cutting wood Burt Kad
roski accidentally came in contact
with the saw of the machine. and al
most lost his left arm. Kadroski
| attempted to pick up a broken chain
while the machine was running and
his arm was caught by the saw, al
most severing it at the elbow
MADISON - The Wisconsin state
| supreme court refused to grant petit
ton of the attorney general to annul
the Northern Pacific railroad charter
in Wisconsin. The petition demanded
that the company be forced out of the
state because it refused to pay $780,
| 600 corporation taxes when its capital
stock was increased recently.
RIO-When suddenly stepping from
a track to avoid being hit by freight
train, Frank Connery, fifty years old,
was struck by a passenger train on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
| road approaching on another track.
| Connery was hurled to the side of the
track and instantly killed A wife and
four children survive him.
MARINETTE - Twenty thousand
dollars fer new county tuber-
culosis sanatorium and $4,000 for the
county fair was appropriated by the
Marinette county board. Senator
Stephenson offered grounds free for
ten years for the fair and his offer
will be accepted.
MADISON Twelfe or fifteen OF
the members of the New York legis-
lature, headed by Assembly Leader
Aaron j. Levy, will come here the
first week il December to investigate
the workings of the mothers pension
act, which has been in force for six
months.