The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-07-29
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nominated state ticket headed by
ID. b. Van Keuran for governor, In
convention at Madison. The platform
adopted contains clauses denouncing
local option and county option as not
being settlement of the liquor qIes-
ton, declaring that the only way to
procure effective prohibition is to elect
Prohibition party men to Office, and
that it is the duty Of every Prohibi-
zionist to use all his energy to pro-
cure national as well as state prohibi.
ton
After separation of forty-two years
Mrs. Hattie Newman Of Clinton, and
three of her former pupils enjoyed 3
reunion in the home of W. G. Squier
of Rockford Her former pupils are
Mrs. Squier and Mrs. C. H. Cocrft, of
Rockford, and Mrs. " K. Stillwell, of
Alexandria, S. D. Mrs. Newman short
ly after the civil war taught district
school near Rochester, this state, at
which time the other ladies, then quite
young girls, went to school to her.
President Edmund Pennington of the
500 line announced that the company
has purchased fifty acres of land adj
jacent to it's terminals at Stevens
Point, and will begin at once the con-
struction of storage yards with ca
pacity for 5000 cars. The old round
house will be torn down and replaced
with a modern structure, and Stevens
Point will be made the great central
division point on the system for both
freight and passenger service.
1t is thought that the mystery of the
disappearance of Jorgen Fredsen, a
wealthy Kenosha county farmer, from
Kenosha in January, has been solved.
The decomposed body of man was
washed up by the lake at Waukegan,
ILL.,, and it's general appearance leads
the officials to believe it is that OF
Fredson. They believe Fredsen was
robbed of $500, murdered, and his
body thrown into the lake.
Plans are being made to build rail
road from Viroqua to West Prairie, a
distance of fourteen miles. 1t is be-
lieved the townships through which
the proposed road will go will give
financial aid. The project would cost
$250,000 1t is expected that the town
ships of Franklin, Sterling and Wheat
land in Vernon county and Freeman
in Crawford county will pledge $685.
600.
One of the biggest aquatic meets
ever held in Milwaukee is scheduled
to take place at Riverside park on
Aug in conjunction with the Pythian
encampment Technically it will be
a dual meet between the Milwaukee
Rowing club and the Chicago Rowing
club, but beside the rowing events
there will be canoe and swimming
races and fancy diving contests.
A. S. O'Gorman, afflicted with lep-
rosy for five years at the National
Soldiers home in Milwaukee, is dead.
Ever since it became known that
O'Gorman was suffering from the
dreaded disease he lived alone in a
shack in one corner of the grounds
and prepared most of his meals At
noon each day, however, an orderly
brought him his dinner
The lands in the Stockbridge Indian
reservation, Of which patents have
been granted to the Indians, were as
sessed this year for the first time in
the history Of the county. The Indi-
ans on the reservation are in favor Of
creating new town thereof instead of
forming part Of the town of Herman.
as at present.
In rush to escape from street car
which caught fire in Milwaukee in
front of the Plankinton house when the
controller blew out, Fred Lorenz. 485
Jefferson street, fell to the pavement
and fractured his leg. The fire was ex-
tlnguished when some one pulled the
trolley from the feed wire.
Reinald Timm, r. F. D. carrier No.
Z from the Grand Rapids postoffice,
who has route twenty-five miles long,
has been making an experimental trial
the last month of the delivery of his
mail with the use of motorcycle. AT
ter months trial he feels well salts
fed with the experiment.
Frank A. Schneider, salesman OF
Milwaukee, ended his life by jumping
from Folsom place bridge into the Mil
waukee river at place where it is
only two feet deep. Friends believe
he committed the act while in a fit
of temporary insanity, as there is no
other reason apparent
Coving B. Birmingham, aged eighty
five, father of Thomas E. Birmingham,
wealthy lumberman and chairman OF
the Wisconsin state park board, died
at the residence of his son in Madison
from infirmities due to old age. He
came to Madison from Hannibal, Mo.
While cleaning out a cistern at Ap-
pleton Henry Carl John Knaack. aged
sixty-five, was stricken with heart dis
ease and fell into the cistern. While
there was not water enough to cause
drowning he died fifteen minutes after
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