The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-07-25

| the city. In the country live stock
was killed and many rural telephone
lines put out Of commission. Rainfall
was 1S1 inches.
LACROSSE-Mrs. George Winters
of Sparta delivered a knockout
punch to the jaw of tramp named
| Kelley which knocked him out when
he turned upon her with a torrent Of
abusive language because she ordered
| him to release two little boys, both
crying historically, whom he had
| seized by the hands and was dragging
into an obscure part Of the town. Kel-
| ley was arrested.
MARINETTE - About eighteen
years ago Ernest and Michael Fervil-
ly, two young Menominee men, deter
! mined to go west and search until they
found gold in paying qualities. They
worked nearly fourteen years before
they got any reward for their labors
but now they have some of the rich
gold mine holdings in the west. The
tives in this section now.
WAUKESHA-An automobile driven
by William Murdoch of West Allis
crashed into a double seated rig
driven by Mrs. Mary Galemgeski Of
the town of Pewaukee, throwing her
to the ground with considerable force
Although bruised about the arms and
body, DR.. w. T. Murphy stated that
she was not seriously injured The
accident happened when two automo-
biles and two rigs met.
OSHKOSH - Winnepago county
fair dates have been announced
as Sept 1926 There will be pre-
miums for horses, cattle, swine, sheep,
poultry, farm products, dairy prod
ucts, fruit, flowers, pantry and wom-
ems and children's work. A new poul-
try house has been erected on the
grounds and the directors look for a
larger exhibition Of poultry than last
year.
SUPERIOR James II. Taylor,
fifty-one years of age, general super
intendent of the Superior division of
the Great Northern road, died at his
home here after an illness of a little
over week. For a number of years
he has been connected with the Hill
road, most of the time at Superior. He
served as general superintendent at
Great Falls, Mont, from 1908 to 1912
EAU CLAIRE = Hilemon Evenson.
seven years of age, was drowned
and two other boys rescued while
playing on a boom in Half Moon lake.
All three fell in. One boy seven years
old saved himself and another but
was unable to rescue Everson, al
though the latter came up seven
times. The body has not been recov-
cred.
RACINE - Jerry Cowen, colored,
twenty-eight years old, is dying
with a bullet through his breast, as
result of a chase by railway detec-
tives of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
ST. Paul road. it is believed. at Cor
liss. The shot entered the right
breast and passed through his body.
Police are looking for the detectives
who fired the shot.
LACROSSE - Because he caught
a severe cold as the result of miss
he had been a patient in a tubercu-
losis sanitarium, Henry Kindhammer
received a check for $500 from the
Minnesota and International, a branch
of the Northern Pacific
FOND DU LAC-The body of
the late Bishop G. c. Grafton will be
removed on Sept. from Rienzi GENE
terry to st. Paul's cathedral, where it
will be placed in a tomb, the base of
which will be completed this week.
On top Of the tomb will be a marble
figure of the late prelate.
ASHLAND - Ashland has shipped
175,000 tons of ore so far this
season in excess of last year. Up to
July / last year the Ashland ship
ments were 100000 tons, as COM
pared with 100000 this year This
| is an increase of more than II per
cent
SUPERIOR While out picking
wild strawberries in a field near her
| home, five-year-old Mildred Thorsten-
| son was electrocuted. One hand was