The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-03-08


ken up. The defendants face charges
in connection with the famous battle
at Thornapple dam on July %, 1906,
when John Regich, member of Sher-
if Gyllard's posse, was killed.
LAKE MILLS-COlOnel f. E. Par
sons, who has been associate editor
of the Lake Mills Leader for the last
seventeen years, is dead at the age OF
eighty-One. He was a veteran Of the
civil war and served six years in the
regular army after the civil war. He
was a veteran campaigner for the Re-
publicans. He served the state in the
pension department under former
Governor Hoard and the United States
in the agricultural department under
Secretary Rusk. He is survived by a
wife, a daughter of Wisconsin's first
United States senator, Isaac P.
Walker.
NEW RICHMOND-The farmers Of
st Croix and other northern Wiscon-
sin counties are confronted by grave
situation as regards seed corn. OF
$40 ears of selected ST. Croix county
corn submitted and scientifically test
ed, 115 ears, or less than one-third,
were found to be strong" and fit for
use as seed. The remaining 225 ears
were pronounced unfit for seed pur-
poses. The backward season last
year and the excess of rainfall is Civ
en- as the chief cause of the poor aeed,
as we'll as the careless method. of
selecting and curing the grain.
TOMAH-The affirmative team Of
the Tomah high school in the debate
between Tomah, Sparta, La Crosse,
and Viroqua won unanimously from
Sparta. The negative team won from
Viroqua by a two to one decision,
thereby putting Tomah in the lead
and giving them the honors. Sparta's
affirmative defeated La Crosses neg
alive team also by a unanimous deci-
sion. This was one of the most i'm
portant debates of the state among
high schools, the question being Of
great interest, namely, the commission
form of government.
KENOSHA-The saloon of Mayor
NJ. J. Scholey was looted by robbers
and they managed to get away with
more than $3.50 in cash which aid
been left in the money drawer under
the bar. The thieves made no effort
to
listers which were in the place, and
it is declared by the police that the
robbery was committed by some one
who managed to conceal himself in
the saloon during the evening and
probably saw the bartender put the
money in the drawer
MADISON - Governor Francis e.
McGovern said that he had made no
decision regarding the filling of the
vacancy on the Milwaukee Civil bench
caused by the death of Judge John F.
Donovan. He was still considering
candidates presented. On the ques-
tion of a special session to assist
Black River Falls no decision was
reached. The water power case is
another that awaits. No time for
another conference with the attorneys
for the state had been fixed, says the
governor.
OCONOMOWCC - The Rev. Her.
man Luehring, pastor of the German
Lutheran Church at Ixonia, is dead at
his residence there, aged thirty-six
years. He leaves a wife and two
children. Prior to coming to this par
ish two years ago, the Rev. Mr.. Lueh-
ring was for several years pastor of
the Lutheran church at Lebanon.
MADISON - The Wisconsin state
board of health has issued an ultima
tum to the mayor of Kenosha demand
ing stricter enforcement of the laws,
failing in which the board asserts it
will send a special officer to Kenosha
to take charge of the situation.
Scarlet fever and diptheria are pre-
valent in kenCsha
GRAND RAPIDS-Benjamin Wake
ley of Nekoosa had a narrow escape
from drowning while engaged in cut
ting ice in the Wisconsin river near
the Nekoosa paper mill In attempt
ing to lift cake of ice he slipped and
fell into the water and had it not been
for the efforts of John Westover, who
came to his, assistance, would have
lost his life.
NEW RlCHMOND-Dr. Daniel J.
Donohue of Glendive, Mont, son OF
Mayor Donohue of this city, has been
elected president of the state board
Of health Of Montana.