The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-17
observation-disclosures
WISCONSIN PARTICIPANTS.
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mas Just been filed with Professor q.
F. LOOMS, head of the city schools,
/ on the results Of the vacation shop
conducted by high school boys during
the summer. A number of pupils took
manual training under S. L. Sch1ff and
! formed corporation and conducted
repair shop in the old Y. M. C. A
building. The object Of the boys was
to do repair work and odd jobs
| The boys made on an average S.
! week each. Repair work on the school
buildings in the city was done by
them. One citizen suggested that when
the shop is reopened next year the
! boys build a workingman's cottage.
The cottage could be built on leased
land and when sold the boys would re-
ceive a profit and also have the ex-
perience gained in building it.
WINTER - A newspaper dispatch
from Flint, Mich, says: { romance
which centers about the making Of
a motion picture of the battle of Cam
eron DAM Wis, developed When Is
| Eugene Newman, of Chicago, an
nounced his engagement to Miss Myra
M. Dietz, heroine of the siege, which
resulted in injury to herself and the
conviction and sentencing to life i'm
prisonment of her father, John Dietz,
for fatally shooting a deputy sheriff.
Newman met Miss Dietz while she
| was in an Ashland, Wis, hospital, suf-
fering from the bullet wound. After
her recovery he suggested making a
photo play dealing with the famous
siege. While the picture was being
made at Cameron Dam he proposed
MAJ riage and Miss Dietz accepted.
BELOlT - The cyclOnic storm
which ragged over the northwest Gull
minated near Beloit in a cyclone
which destroyed houses and barns,
Ieveled trees and injured number of
persons few miles north of the city.
Wires were down in every direction.
At Alton, seven miles from here,
Mrs Arthur Jackson and three chill
dren were injured when their house
fell about them and took fire. They
Mrs. Jackson's condition is serious.
In the same neighborhood Mrs.
Leonard McCrea was seriously hurt
when her house was blown down. Mr..
McCrea was buried under the fall
ing barn, but dug himself free and res
cued his wife.
NY
alias Bauer, who was arrested by two
detectives for vagrancy, appeared in
district court and was remanded back
to the county jail Deputies Mitten
and Gentleman, while walking through
one of the tiers of the jail, saw Kern.
They recognized him as George
Bauer, a deserter from the United
States navy, and living at 100 Holton
street. Kern confessed his identity
and said he had deserted on Aug. %,
fifteen days after his enlistment in
Minneapolis. The deputies will split
the $50 reward offered by the govern
ment.
COMMANDMENTS Nettie Wright,
a resident of Merrill, and Ralph
Clark Shead of Chicago were married
here at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
NJ Pride of this city by the Rev. J. S.
Wilson, pastor of Presbyterian church
Miss Wright is a daughter of the
late H. w. Wright of Merrill, one of
the we'll known lumbermen of Wiscon-
sin, and a sister of the late Senator
James A. Wright Mr. Shead is en-
gagged in the lumber business at Chi
cago. The bride was attended by
Miss Carolyn McNutt of Merrill. How
ard A Shead of Chicago was best
man.
MILWAUKEE-A mistake made in
handling loaded shell, which it was
believed was empty of powder, result
ed in an explosion on board the Unit
ed States revenue cutter Tuscarora,
which seriously injured two seamen.
The injured men are F. Diebold, sea-
man, Muskegon, Mich, left arm LAGER
ated, necessitating amputation below
the elbow, wounded in thigh and feet
burned; Olaf Foss, gunner, right leg
badly mangled, wound in neck, hands
and chest badly cut. Physicians found
it necessary to amputate the leg be-
low the knee.
MADISON - President Charles III.
Van Hise Of the university has an
nounced that as a result of the tactics
employed by the sophomore class in
the annual rush and as a result of the
numerous cases of hazzing reported it
is probable that the faculty will pro-
hibit the holding of another of the
historic rushes. The affair was
awarded to the freshmen.
MADESON-The Wisconsin state
highway commission has received an
plication from counties for $1,5OO.OOO
in state aid for the construction of
public roads next year, but inasmuch
as it will have only s1,20O,000 to ap-