The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-03-29
Tobacco Notes.

G. w. Spitzner of New York, is in the
state for a short stay.
Mr.. Louis Hitler, Chicago leaf dealer,
has been looking at samples of Wiscon-
sin packers this week.
Mr.. Geo. W. Hoeling, cigar leaf dealer
of Louisville, KY, is a visitor in this
market looking through samples of local
packers.
A. Ell. Clarke, agent for F. G. Linde,
Hamilton & Co., has just completed the
sampling of 1900 case for Suffer Bros. at
Viroqua, soldiers Grove, Madison, Sun
Prairie, Stoughton and Cambridge. He
has been sampling small lot in James
Vile this week.
+ A. L. McIntosh passed Sunday with
lirelatives in this city. The Marquissee
firm, which he represents in this state,
have leased the basement of their James
vile warehouse to Mr.. Culton for put
ting up packing, but says the firm has
not thereby withdrawn from the state
by any means
| F. G.. Borden is in the market for
| trash and other damaged tobacco for
| which he will pay one cent pound. To-
| bacco may be delivered at the ware
house of Whittet & Son, No. g. 52tf.
X. H. Teisberg received the final set
| Element for his 1900 crop of tobacco last
week from I'll. S McGiffin who bought it,
He speaks in very high terms of McGif-
fin and says the settlement was fair in
! every respect. Mr.. Teisberg had IA
acres in tobacco and the crop averaged
| him $134 per acre.-Deerfeld News.
Two Men Killed by the Explosion of Cas-
! oline Engine In GAINESVILLE.
| By the explosion of gasoline engine
at the GAINESVILLE Barb Wire Works
shortly before 7 o'clock Monday morn
ing Daniel Preller, of So North Franklin
| St., and James Horn, of So Park st. lost
| their lives.
| The motive power for the factory is
furnished by sixty horse power Fair
banks, Morse & Co. gasoline engine and
| it was in starting this engine that two
/ men lost their lives. Two men are
usually engaged in the morning in start
! ing the engine. One pumps up the gas
oline and the other starts the fame
i which makes the gas that furnishes the
| power. Monday morning Preller was at
/ the back of the engine pumping up the
! gasoline and Horn stood just at the
opening in the wire fence which sur
rounds the engine on the opposite side
from Preller They had made an at
tempt to start the engine which was
failure and had just started the fly
wheel for the second time when the &C
cident occurred. just exactly what &C.
Cured no one can tell as no other work.
men were IN the vicinity of the engine.
Some were near the rear of the shops
and some in the other rooms. They
heard the peculiar exhaust and thought
that something had happened.
Foreman G. G. Searles was one of the
first to arrive at the scene of the acct
dent. Horn was lying on the floor out
side of the fence with the blood oozing
out of several cuts in his face and was
dead. Preller was pinned in between
the immense cylinder of the engine and
the foundation of the engine. He was
bleeding from a dozen wounds but was
still alive 1t is thought that Horn was
killed by being struck by small electric
dynamo or sparker which was on the
side of the engine. His bruises were
fir m his mouth around the left side of
his face to the base of the brain. His
death was caused by conclusion of the
brain and was almost instantaneous.
The engine did not explode, but rather
seemed to split the frame from top to
bottom allowing the cylinder to drop
over on its end; it was this cylinder that
caught Preller. There was no bursting
of the castings and the pieces were not
scattered around the shop.