The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-09-02
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: WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
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Well-developed lockjaw The patient is
little Dora Hagedorn, daughter of
". F. Hagedorn of Fond du Lac, Wis.
she stepped on a dead chicken and
one of the bones penetrated the foot.
Nine days after the child experienced
excruciating pain. Her legs were rigid
and her jaw was rapidly becoming so.
The physician decided upon an ex-
cesslve use of tetanus antltox;n, and
$4,000 units, costing $61 were admin
stored. The child is now pronounced
entirely cured
While digging in corn field near
Trempeleau for pocketbook contain
ing S105, stolen Monday from the
Northwestern depot there, James
BROOK, claiming to be a machinist,
was captured by posse after fierce
fight in which he was dubbed almost
into insensibilty by Cyril E. Holmes,
son of Game Warden Arthur Holmes.
Holmes had tracked the robber to the
corn field and had located the booty
AS he returned for the money he was
bounced upon
In leading editorial in his mag
azine Senator Robert NJ LaFollette
brands as false a supposedly inspired
dispatch few days ago from Beverly,
Mass in which it was said that Pres
ident Taft was taking no part in the
fractional state fights within the Re
publican party He asserts that in case
of Wisconsin the President has taken
personal interest in the campaign
to the extent of directing the fight on
LaFollette and the insurgent con-
gressmen.
The body of Mrs Fredricka Ham
nler, of Racine, So year old wife Of
Capt. Charles Hammer, we'll known
commander of river tugs at lake ports,
was found floating in Root river Mrs.
Hammer has been ill and respondent
and has been in a hospital for a long
time. She disappeared from her home
early in the evening and either wan
dered to the river and leaped in or
accidently walked off the dock near
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Smoke said by the government
weather burea officials to have been
driven east from the great forest fires
of Idaho and Montana, overhung SUI
perior and the entire vicinity, shutting
out the light of the sun and making
necessary teh use of artificial light in
buildings According to statements of
old inhabitants the smoke was even
thicker than that which enveloped the
city at the time OF the great Hinckley
fires
Albert Longmore, SO years old, a
young farmer Of Racine and Kenosha
counties, committed suicide by hang
ing himself from a bedpost with
towel, at his home in the village of
Union Grove He and his wife had
been visiting with her parents when
he arose early and went home, She
followed and found the body. His
health had been poor since he sold his
farm and moved to the village year
ago.
Suspected of being the author Of six
teen burg1aries, Robert Sommers, a
16 year cid boy, was arrested in Mil
waukee by Detective Eugene O'Gor-
and Wells streets. When searched, a
gold watch and jewelry, which was lat
er identified by Peter Brown, 1877
Fourth street, as belonging to him,
was found on the boy, according to
the police.
When the Wisconsin school for the
deaf opens it's next term on Sept. IA
the capacity will be greatly enlarged
and it is expected that the enrolment
will exceed teh 200 mark. Further
additional room will be provided by
June 1, at which time the new school
house, now under construction at a
cost of $4,000, will be ready for use.
Farmers report heavy damage to
by the severe storm which passed over
this vicinity Thursday morning.
Practically all tobacco and corn was
beaten down. Many tobacco sheds
were blown down and horses, cattle
and sheep were killed by lightning.
The Rev Herbert G. Noonan Of
Oconto, who was in his student days
a leader in Marquette athletics, being
prominent in both football and base
ball, has returned from four years
abroad a full fiedged priest having
been ordained in June by Bishop Egg
ger Of Brixen in Tyrol.
The estate of Leander Choate at
Oshkosh has been settled on the
widow, Mrs Adeline P Choate. 1t
comprises $350,000. 1t is believed that
the estate outside Of Wisconsin
amounts to more. Mr. Choate was
wealty lumberman and banker.
Mrs. F. Zurheide, one of Sheboy-
CAMS oldest settlers. died at the age
of IS. She had made that city her
home for sixty-five years and is sur
vived by four children, twenty-four
grand children and two great grand
children.
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