The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-07
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In attempting to save his brother,
Ralph. Harvey Worley OF Frederick.
Ia, was also drowned.
John Lee, a farmer aged seventy
residing west of Arcola, Ill, was kill
ed by bull on his farm.
The Swift Packing Company's car
repair shop in Lake Shore yards at
Elkhart, Ind, burned. Loss $4,000.
The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
Lauraguais was killed in an automo-
bile accident while returning to Paris
from Loudres.
Captain William Fitzhugh Randolph,
who was with Stonewall Jackson when
he received his death wound, died at
Warrenton, Va.
Lieutenant B. VTensi, French naval
aviator, was killed by fall with his
hydro-aerop:ane which capsized at a
heig tn of 500 feet.
Ten thousand rifles for the nation
shannon, County Donegal, and are be-
ing brought to Dublin.
Driving monopIane, an italian aVi-
ator, Signor Landini, accompanied by
DR.. Lampugnani, flew across Monte
Rosa, 1927 feet high.
The British steamer Missouri coIIided
with the Red Star line steamer Zee
land in midocean. Both vessels ar
eli nI1& 10
An extra dividend of per cent was
declared by the Standard Oil company
of Indiana, in addition to the regular
quarterly dividend of per cent.
Herbert Diggs and Earl Murphy,
members of a thrashing crew
killed by Burlington passenger train
une-half mile east of Glendale, Ia
A P0tsdam banker, Eugen Biber, and
his wife committed suicide nj Berlin
| hotel because they had lost more than
$4,000 since the beginning of the war
| crisis.
Sir Thomas Upton has decided not
| TO race the Shamrock TX. for the
American cup next September if Eng
| land becomes involved in the general
EurOpeon war.
Joe Pent, a coal miner, shot and
killed B. Frank Walker, James Walker,
son of B. Frank Walker, and James
O'Nei1I, coal miner, at Farmersville,
| HI, and escaped.
Nicholas M. Ellis and Mary G. Ellis
| filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy
at Chicago. The scheduled liabilities
ci $155,775 and assets of $500 They
were engaged in real estate business
The Pennsylvania railroad, in q re-
port issued makes public figures show
ing that the road transported $1,000
600 passengers during the first six
! month of this year without killing one
of them
Fire did $4,000 damage to the ForNt
of Arden, Barlow n. Higinbotham's
eighty acres of choice trees, and for
time endangered campers on the tract.
The forest is located a short distance
from Joliet city limits.
Fire which started in the sheep pens
OF the Bourbon stock yards, destroyed
third of the plant, forty railroad
cars, cremated 1000 sheep and dam
| aged more than a score of cottages.
Loss is about S25O,000.
Mrs. Robert Griffith, and Mrs. Clara
| Greuner of Chicago were drowned in
| the north branch of the Chicago river
| hear Lawrence avenue when they
were thrown into the water from a
motor boat which collided with some
| piling. The bodies were recovered.
o. A. Rosenberg, head of the firm
bearing his name and one of the lead
| ing powers of the European stock
market, has made s4,4o0,000 during
| the last ten days by his possession of
| advance knowledge that there would
be war between Austria and Servia.
The large Iumber-laden steamer Van
| Velck was lowed into the Duluth har-
Dor with fire raging in it's cargo hold
| forward. The Van Week had reached
Outer island, $50 miles northeast,
when the fire started. The ore steam
ar II. G. t~-o- picked it up and tow
! d to Duluth.