The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-20
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VIII the people attempted TO save all
they could the church doors were
thrown open and the mails and post
office fixtures were carried into the
left wing, where a temporary postof.
fee was arranged.
George Kuesta and Nicholas Nadol
ski, young men, were killed on the
tracks of the Northwestern road in
Kenosha. The wife and child of Kues-
ia are now on the ocean en- route to
this country, and the man was on the
way to rent a house for them when the
accident occurred.
Kenosha has followed the example
OF Chicago and has appointed woman
to head it's public school system, the
board of education selecting Mrs Mary
D. Bradford, now in charge of the
teachers training college of the state
normal school at Whitewater.
Severe forest fires are raging north
and northwest of Bayfield,. The coun--
field fire department succeeded in say.
ing several farm houses On the Red
Cliffe road, north of Bayfield,, by back
firing.
The finding of an upturned canoe
on the bay shore has led to the be-
lief that Delos Martin and Louis
Shatschel, two missing Ashland high
school boys, have been drowned. They
left Ashland in the canoe last week.
Milwaukee is to have a school of
civics and philanthropy for the pur-
pose of training workers in the diff
ferent lines of philanthropic activity.
This was decided on at a meeting at
the Plankinton house.
resenting Carroll college, Waukesha,
was awarded the $50 prize at the state
oratorical contest held under the aus
pices of the International Peace soci-
ETY. in Milwaukee.
The Indian population of Wisconsin
and in fact of the entire country will
show substantial increase in the CEN
sus just completed, according to H. A.
Larson, special Indian census agent
for Wis., onsin.
Seven employees of the Mound GEM
etery at Racine went on strike Most
Of them were cleaning up around the
graves They received $3.50 day and
demanded $175. A compromise was
made at $1.65.
Fred Schultz fell from the roof of
the gas works at Oshkosh, forty feet
to the ground. He was rendered IN
conscious, one leg was broken and it
is believed he suffered internal injur-
les besides.
Hans Meyer for a number Of years
connected with the Manitowoc Build
ing Supply company, has resigned to
accept a position as manager of the
Nelson Lumber company OF Two
Rivers
The farm home of A. F. Ofsdah1, at
French Creek, Trempealeau county,,
was destroyed by fire which start ted in
the kitchen. The home was one of the
finest residences in the county.
Louis Kupper, assessor of the town
of Emmett, was found dead in no
tel at Watertown. A bottle contain
ing a small amount of carbolic acid
was found by his side.
Charles Rogers, a former member of
the legislature, and father of Fred w.
and Charles G. Rogers of Milwaukee,
died at his home in South Milwaukee,
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Edward p Hackett, member of the
firm of Hackett & Hoff, real estate and
insurance, and one of Milwaukee's
best known business men, died sud
denly in Cotton, Cal
The new First Methodist Episcopal
church at Eau Claire will be equipped
with a pipe organ in memory of the
late Captain John T. Tinker and wife,
charter members.
Thomas r. Lloyd Jones, superin-
tendent of the public schools of Fond
du Lac, was elected principal of the
high school at Madison at a salary of
$4,000 a year.
The state civil service commission
will hold examinations in Madison dur
ing the week of June Is fer the posi-
ton of stenographer in various places
in the state.
Judge Neil Dimond, who recently re-
signed from the probate judgship of
Marquette county after serving TWEEN
ty-seven years, died at his home in
Monticello.
The Hon. Ernest Paulsen, judge of
Calumet county at Chiffon, died at
Elkhart. Lake after months illness
of heart trouble, aged forty-five years.
Because he neglected to send his
children to school, Charles Worzalla,
of Stevens Point, was obliged to pay
court costs amounting to $3.50.
Governor James O. Davidson, it is
authoritatively announcec, VIII not be
candidate for denomination for gov
ernor or for any other office.
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