The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-06-27

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ing her about her waist, threw her to
one side. At that moment the car
| struck him.
MADISON-Former Wisconsin State
| Senator John j. Blaine of Bos-
| cobel is said to be the La Toilette
| choice for nomination for governor of
Wisconsin on the Republican ticket.
| The significance of gossip regarding
Senator Blaine is the more readily
realized when his attitude toward
the Wilson candidacy and administra-
ton and the thousands of progressive
Democratic voters of the state is
taken into account. Mr.. Blaine was
leader in the movement to organize
progressive Republicans for Wilson
last fall.
PALMYRA-More than four thou
sand voices, some of which quavered
and broke as memories of the old
days crowded back, sang "Auld Lang
Syne" at the annual meeting of the
here. Association members from all
sections of the state were here. Dr.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago was
the principal speaker and Colonel E.
G. Townsend, ninety-five, the oldest
man at the picnic, read an original
poem.
RACINE - John B. Wagner. who
was fifty-five years of age, a we'll
known manufacturer, and Henry En-
gel, thirty-three years old, both of
Burlington, were instantly killed in a
gravel pit near that place. A brace
gave way, dropping the hosting ap-
paratus through the engine house
roof. Wagner was thrown against
the belt of the engine and carried in
to the 1yWheel. Engel was struck
by a timber.
GRANTSBURG - The largest land
deal which was ever made in this
section of the state has just been
closed, the Crex Carpet company of
New York having purchased 1900
acres of Irvine grass producing marsh
land from L. c. Erbes. The land lies
Immediately north of this place and
the price paid was $33 an acre or a
total of $4,000 for the tract.
RACINE - Miss Anna Kaiser,
resident of Racine and the Rev. Ern-
est Berterman, of Alberta, Canada,
were married in Racine. The we'd
ding is the elimination of a romance
which began twelve years ago when
the couple were still in grade school
in their early teens. The Rev. Ber-
terman is a graduate of Concordia
college, Milwaukee.
RACINE - Mayor Walter S. Good
land was forced to admit hav-
ing signed a check, the purpose of
which he knew nothing, at council
meeting. The check, for $3.50, was
used in the purchase of an auto for
the park board, and the mayor, after
| the purchase, demanded an investiga-
ton, declaring it had been bought IT.
| regularly.
MILWAUKEE - The u. S. revenue
cutter Tuscarora, bound from Mil
waukee to meet it's sisters ship, the
Morrill, struck the rocks off Vidal
shoals, Michigan, in Lake Huron. and
is reported in serious condition, ac-
| cording to dispatches received here
| The crew was taken off.
NEENAH - A concerted move
| ment is on foot to plant Lime Kiln
| point, this city's best shooting grounds
during the hunting season, with wild
rice. The carp has destroyed all of
| the natural growth, forcing game to go
| elsewhere to secure feeding grounds.
GREEN BAY - A cordial invi-
tation to hold it's 1914 convention in
| Green Bay will be extended to the
| State Bar association by the Brown
| County Bar association during the an
nuaI convention Of the organization,
| to be held in Wausau on June "a.
| FOND DU LAC - Five or six
| hundred persons were thrown into a
wild panic, number of children were
| trampled, one man was injured and
| fifteen horses were cremated in fire,
which attended a wedding celebration
| at Jericho, this county.
| TREMPEALEAU - big railroad
| handcar containing six Trempealeau
| men on the way to work. was struck
| by belate5 ':--:Ae5 .~o.z e2C Cr,es
| Perkins, one Of the crew, was killed