The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-21


mer living near Durand, attacked his
wife with a butcher knife, inficting
several wounds in her knock and head
from whisa it is said she will die.
Thinking he had killed her, Boigen-
zahn gave himself up to the sheriff.
A physician fastened to the farm and
found Mrs. Boigenzahn lying in
pool of blood, unconscious. The hus-
band is in the county Jail.
LWAUKEE - Bob Moha has
been suspended until Jan. 1 by the
state boxing commission for a tangle
in dates between two Milwaukee box
ing clubs. Moha signed to fight with
Christie before the Riverview club,
signing the articles himself. Later
the South Side club announced it had
previously secured contract with
Moha through his manager, Tom Lar
kin, for the same night.
EDGERTON - After she returned
home from the city lookup, where she
had signed bail bonds for her son,
who is being held as the result of
youthful scrape, Mrs. Albert Stanke
was stricken with apoplexy which
proved fatal two hours later. She
did not regain consciousness. Wor-
ry over her sons plight is said to
have brought on the attack which
caused her death.
MERRILL The town board of
the town of Merrill at a recent
meeting decided to build road from
the J. N. Johnson farm to the public
highWty, so that the Johnson chill
dren may attend the public schools.
The board did more than it had been
petitioned to do and extended the
road a mile or so farther, which i'm
proves the whole system of highways
in the town.
GAINESVILLE - Action will be in
stituted at once in the state supreme
court on the part of Rock county in
an effort to secure $4,000, the cost of
reassessing the city of GAINESVILLE by
the state tax commission in 1911, the
item being held out of funds due the
county from the state when the city
of GAINESVILLE refused payment in last
years tax levy.
OSHKOSH - The Wolf River I'M
provement company has quite a
large force of men at the head waters
of the Wolf river making surveys and
preparing to construct a series of res
ervoirs to regulate the flow of water
in the Wolf river, Lake Winnebago,
and Fox river in accordance with
grant made to the company by the
last legislature.
GRAND RAPIDS-While he was
engaged in cutting wood Burt Kao
roski accidentally came in contact
with the saw of the machine and al
most lost his left arm. Kadroski
attempted to pick up broken chain
while the machine was running and
his arm was caught by the saw. al
most severing it at the elbow.
WAUKEE - Compensation in
the samount of $4,000 is asked by
Mrs. Amelia Torney of the state for
the death of her husband, Principal
Julius Torney, of the Fifth street pub
lie school, who, she says, died as the
result of being struck on the head by
a basketball on the play grounds of
the school in June, 1912.
WAUkESHA-The handsome met
al tablet marking the Indian mound
in the city park, which was removed
some time ago, was ordered replaced
by G. E. Brown, chief of the museum
of the Wisconsin Archaeological So
ciety. For two years it has been in
the basement of the public library.
MARINETTE - Unsubdued grief
over the death of his wife, which oc-
Cured last March, is believed to have
caused the death of Samuel Greenlaw,
aged seventy-nine, for fifty years
resident of Marinette During all
that time he was an employee of the
Stephenson Lumber company here.
MARlNETTE - Twenty thousand
dollars for new county tuber-
culosis sanatorium and $4,000 for the
county fair was appropriated by the
Marinette county board. Senator
Stephenson offered grounds free. for
ten years for the fair. and his offer
will be accepted.
EAGLE RIVER - NJ. j. Stromberg,
'who is the proprietor of the Boot
lake summer resort, accidentally shot
himself through the elbow 1t was
done with an ounce ball from a shot
gun. His condition is serious. He
is former patrolman of Milwaukee.
ASHLAND - Frank W. Gard