The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-03-14

. WISCONSIN PARAGRAPHS

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BELOIT 80 A committee of Be
lott, Wis.,, college alumni. consist.
| ing Of George Burton Adams, 10 pro.
fessor of history at Yale; Henry R.
| Mussey, 90, professor of economics,
| Columbia, and Robert G. Chaplin, S5.
| professor of economics, Beloit, is this
| week, under the instructions of the
| last annual alumni meeting, sending
out letters to over 400 students and
| alumni who were in college between
| 1871 and 1899, asking for contribu-
lions to a fund of $4,000 which the
alumni are endeavoring to raise as a
memorial to the late Professor Henry
NJ Whitney, during the period quot
ed above professor in the college of
rhetoric and English literature.
1t is planned to use the money for
the purchase CT a Whitney addition to
the English library, and for black
and white portrait of the man, to be
hung in the English lecture room.
MISUNDERSTANDING is the Wis
consin delegation in the new congress
which will be sworn in at the opening
of the special session April 1:
First district-Henry A. Cooper,
Racine, Republican, reelected. Second
Michael e. Burke, Beaver Dam,
Democrat, reelected. Third-John M.
Nelson, Madison, Republican, reflect
ed. Fourth-William J. Cory, Mil
waukee, Republican, reelected. Fifth
William H. Stafford, Milwaukee, Re-
publican. Sixth--Michael K. Reilly,
Fond du Lac, Democrat. seventh
John J. Esch, La Crosse, Republican,
reelected. Eighth-Edward E. Browne,
Waupaca, Republican. Ninth Thomas
F. Konop, Kewaunee, Democrat, re-
elected. Tenth-James A. Frear,
Hudson, Republican. Eleventh-Irvine
A. Lenroot, Superior, Republican, re-
elected.
LWAUKEE - Pal Brown, the
Hibbing lightweight pugilist, shaded
Steve Ketchel in their fast ten
round contest here, but the defeat
anything it strengthened him in the
eyes of the fans who witnessed the
mill and today the general belief is
that over the distance Ketchel can
lick mnay of the topnOtchers.
True, Brown had the advantage in
his man, but for Ketchel it can be
said he never backed away, never
lodged punishment and at the close
finished much stronger than his op-
ponent Had it been a twenty-round
affair instead of ten, Steve would have
put his man away.
MIEWAUKEE-Mrs. Emma Weber,
the Administrative of the estate of
her husband, William, received $4,000
in circuit court before Judge Williams
in settlement of the case. The
plaintiff had brought suit against
Leslie w. Davis, of the Windsor Manu-
featuring company, for 100000 for in
juries alleged to have been sustained
by her husband, Nov. 4, 1911, from
which he died, when he was struck,
it is claimed, by an automobile of the
defendant while walking on viaduct.
Davis had a liability insurance for
$4,000, and the case was settled when
the insurance company agreed to pay
81 800 and the defendant $1,000.
kENOSHA - Chicago, Milwaukee
and other sports to the number
of more than 200 were given great
disappointment when Sheriff F. w. B.
Achen and James Karnes, humane Of
ficer of Kenosha county, put stop to
a big cooking main which had been
planned to take place in Central park.
The sheriff and the humane officer
reached the park just about the time
the festivities were ready to begin.
Some one had gone before him and
had tipped off the proposed raid, and
while the officers heard the Growing
of cocks they failed to get near the
pit.
OcoNOMOWoC-Arnold W. Lupp-
now, farmer, had an exciting expert
ence with a bull at his farm IN Con-
cord He was attending to the chores
in the barn when the bull suddenly
came at him, driving him into cor
ner and was already trampling or
him. Luppnow called his dog. which
began biting and barking at the BULL
The furious animals attention was
taken from the man, who escaped. Mr.
Loppnow was not seriously injured
MANAWA-After describing as
wild rumor not founded on fact the
report from Stevens Point to the eff
feet that Mrs. Albert PatZer, charged
with killing her husband on farm
near this city. would plead guilty at
the coming trial, William n. Martin,
attorney for Mrs. Patzer, declared
that the statement must have eman-