The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-12-13
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MANITOWoc - After over twen-
ty-fve years, one of the many
bodies of the Vernon disalter off
Two Rivers, which were baried as
unknown has been identified. Mrs
Edmund Longyear, Minneapolis, who
visited Two Rivers, is convinced that
her brother, John Patten, who was on
the i'll fated boat, is buried in grave
No. 6. Mrs. EongyeaF recognized
some of the effects taken from the
body which have been preserved.
The Vernon was wrecked twenty
five years ago and nearly thirty lives
were lost. A monument now marks
the unknown"
LA cROSSE-Alonzo Cakes. who
is the general freight and passenger
agent of the Green Bay and Western
railway, was held up by two masked
men, beaten into insensibility and
robbed of $780, Walter Niggli and
Charles Bishop, both living here,
were arrested. Niggli confessed, the
police say, and produced $50 of the
stolen money. Bishop denies any
knowledge of the holdup. Cakes was
taken to local hospital. Physicians
said his skull was fractured and he
might not recover.
RACINE-The first move has been
made in the attempt to prevent the
city from purchasing the Racine Wa
ter companys plant when David G..
James, real estate broker, made appli-
cation for court order to restrain
the city officials from further action
relative to the purchase and prohibit
ing them from paying attorneys for
service.
KENOSHA-SiIas e. Walden of
Elyria, o., a former well known
KenOsha man, who came here to at
tend the funeral of his brother, was
arrested on a charge Of embeZzlement
just as he was leaving the city at an
early hour. The charges were made
by Charles H. Curtiss, a well known
Kenosha merchant.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN - Joseph
Schwartz, a farmer and member of
the county board from Wauzeka, was
crushed to death between a traction
engine and clover huller when lever
slipped while going up steep grade
and allowing the machine to run
backward A son died from an acct
dent six weeks ago.
LA CROSSE-A double funeral as
the result of diabetes was held from
the home of Mrs Elizabeth Kommer-
stad when her son, Oscar, aged thir-
teen, and a daughter, aged eleven,
were buried, their deaths occurring
one day apart The father of the
children died from the same disease,
also another child.
MANITOWOC-Mrs. M. r. Heiser,
former superintendent of the River
Pines sanitarium at Stevens Point,
has been elected head of the new
tuberculosis sanitarium in this coun-
ty, which will be opened about JAN
uary 1. The local sanitarium will be
known as Maple Crest. 1t cost the
county $4,000.
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN-The Rev.
Stephen Trant, for twenty-seven years
pastor of ST. Patrick's church at Ra-
cine, died at the home of his sister,
Mrs G.. Garvey, where he had made
his home since last May, when his
health began to fail He was a
priest in Wisconsin for more than
forty-five years.
MARINETTE-Ho Horace VandooZen,
who was eighty years old, the old
est police chief in the country, died
at Menominee, Mich. Vandoozen was
police chief at Sturgeon Bay until five
years ago when he retired and made
his home since with a son, Charles,
a member of the Menominee police
force.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS desperate by
separation from her husband, whom
she divorced last spring for cruelty,
and three small children at home
with her parents, Mrs. Harry Bishop
drank the contents of bottle of car
bolic acid and was found dead by her
landlady several hours afterward
BEAVER DAM-Emma Schmutzler,
thirty-siX years old, was instantly
killed. her brother, Clarence, twenty
two years old, badly injured and the
horse they were driving killed, as the
result of a railroad crossing accident
a mile and half east of this city
APPLETON-The recent sale of
forty-eight acres of land in Grand
Chute for $4,000, an average of $166
an acre, made when Christian Nelson