The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-08-22

MADlSON--Wiscon State I'm
migration Commissioner B. G.. Pack
er returned from the upper part of the
state, where he has been making ar
rangements for the agricultural dis
play that is to be made at the state
fairs in several neighboring states.
The display will be taken to Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas, Interstate Live
Stock, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois
state fairs. None of the exhibits will
be sent to Canada this year because
of the conflict in dates, but the states
exhibit will be placed in as many of
the fairs as Canada has an exhibit,
alongside that exhibit.
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN-This city
was almost in darkness during the
night Candles, lamps and lanterns
took the place of electric lights in
many of the homes and stores, while
along the streets there was no illum-
nation A fierce fire broke out in
the city electric lighting and power
plant and destroyed the interior wir-
ing, causing part of the walls to col
lapse and one of the floors to give
way. 1t is estimated that the dam
age to the building, which was erect
ed but few years ago, will amount
to more than $4,000.
EAU CLAIRE At least one man
whose name has not been ascertained,
lost his life when the Altoona hotel,
located three miles from Eau Claire,
was destroyed by fire. One hundred
guests fed for their lives, all making
their escape with the one exception.
The blaze started from an unknown
cause in a closet of the hotel. A call
for assistance was sent to Eau Claire,
but when the apparatus arrived the
hotel had been almost reduced to ash
es and efforts were confined to saving
surrounding property.
WEST BEND-F'rank Day found
unmistakable evidence, while scraplng
the Horseshoe" hill road, that the
meanest man in Wisconsin lives in
Washington county, and also why so
many automobile tires had been
punctured there recently. Some one
had buried a board forty-three inches
long in the roadway, with the points
of twenty-one wire nails protruding
. through the roads surface.
OSHKOSH-Dr. Adm Sherman, the
hospital superintendent, said John
Schrank, who tried to assassinate
Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee,
would not be removed from the state
hospital for the insane except on or
der of the court which committed
him. Schrank is involved in bank
ruptcy proceedings in New York city,
but will not be allowed to go east to
protect his interests.
MADISON A suit has just been
been begun by the Kar PiQuette Min
ing company of Platteville, Wis,
against the state to contest the in
come tax law as applied to income
: from the mines. The question at issue
is that of depreciation, the company
saying the value of the ore mined
should be figured as depreciation of
the mining property.
GREEN BAY - With a ringing
address at noon Mayor Abrams well
coined the officers of the Niagara
fleet and several thousand visitors,
and the city formally opened the
Perry centennial and the Green Bay
Homecoming celebration in Whitney
park. Thousands of visitors helped to
make the double celebration a great
success.
RACINE-Pretty little Alice Han
son, three years old, may die; Mrs.
Fred F. Hanson, her mother, is seri-
ously hurt, and three others, a WON
an and two children, suffered injury
when the Hanson auto driven by Mrs
Hanson, struck the studding of the
Main street bridge.
MADISON Authentic adyices
from Washington say the senate has
confirmed the nomination of Profess
scr Paul S. Reinsch of the University
of Wisconsin to be minister to China.