The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-12-31
Louis zahn of UnderlIill shot thre.

Grand Rapids saloon keepers or
gained and elected officers.
a. S. Saylor, Muffalo, Mimi, ac-
quires ownership of the Delavan En-.
terprise.
Mrs. Helen Besack, IS, of Racine,
who was burned two weeks ago, when
her clothes caught fire, is dead.
The junior class of the University of
Wisconsin to hold it's annual prom in
the new state capitol on Feb. II.
Felker Brothers Manufacturing com
pany OF Marshfield, recently de-
stroyed by fire, will be started to be
rebuilt Immediately.
U. S. reports show Mi1waukea
leads the state, by a wide margin, in
the per capita expenditures for the
conservation Of health and sanitation
G. H. C0bine had $4,000 volts of
electricity shot through his body when
he came iii contact with a high ten
sion wire, physicians at La Crosse be,
iieve he will recover.
John ]. Roberts, "A years old, for
mer warden of the state prison and
president of the State Bank of Wau-
pun, is dead. Mr.. Roberts was a mem
Der of the Masonic order.
When William Lory. in the vii
lage of Union Grove, arose in the
morning he found his wife dead in
bed, due to heart trouble. She was
sixty-nine years old
At Tomahawk Hall L.. Brook
was appointed secretary of trade and
commerce and sealer of weights and
measures by the city council, his term
to begin on Jan. 1.
James Bradley, Racine grocer
has been paying out considerable
sum by redeeming trading stamps
which he had previously dumped into
the waste pile and sold to junk deal
or.
Mary A. Cronk, 80 years, and one
of the oldest pioneers of Fond du Lac
county, is dead at the family home in
the town of EldOrado. Mrs. Cronk has
resided to this county sixty-seven
years.
The first Sunday lid attempt
in La Crosse in thirty-eight years met
failure when Frank J. McWilliams,
proprietor of the Strand and Casino
theaters was acquitted on the first bal
lot in one minute
After a vigorous search the body of
H. A. Grote of the Grote Ice and Cart
age company, one Of the wealthiest
residents of South Milwaukee, was
found under the ice in mill pond
near his home
Chief Justice John B. Winslow
of the Wisconsin supreme court was
elected president of the Wisconsin
University Alumni association of Mad
ison when it meets for permanent or
ganization on Dec. %.
At Waukesha it is reported chemical
tests of water flowing from a sprir,g
that gives 100000 gallons day at a
we'll known local resort have shown
it contains the same medicinal pro-
perties as the mud used at the baths
Patrick Conway Of GAINESVILLE, a
farmer, was asrhyXiated in the kitchen
of vacant house where he was pick
ing Christmas turkeys, when he turn
ed on two gas jets of gas stove with
out lighting them.
With unimpaired mind, Mrs. Jane p.
Williams known for her wonderful
memory and even of late years, it is
said, proving her boast that she knew
the bible by heart, is dead at Racine,
aged eighty-tWo years.
Mrs. w. Sutherland, mother of Presi-
dent w ]. Sutherland of the state nor
NAL school, was sent to Fairda1e, ILL.,,
for burial Apoplexy and the shock
caused by the death of her son a week
ago was the cause Of Mrs Sutherland's
death.
Near New London Mich Swetal-
la and his seventeen year old son of
the town of Lanark, Portage county.
shot large lynx with a 22-caliber
rifle The skin measured five feet in
length. The bounty is Sc and the skin
is valued at $25.
Manders of the west side fell into
tub of water while it's mother was
washing and drowned. About a year
ago the Manders lost another infant
when the mother accidentally smother
ed it while asleep in bed.
A Madison report says three states
Kansas, Utah, and Minnesota-of
the territory embraced in the regis
tration area, had lower death rate in
1914 than Wisconsin This is shown in
new census figures on mortality made
public by the department of COM
merce
A headon collision between two
trains on the Santa Fee railroad near
Stockton, Cal, in which William Wing
and his son, William Wing, Jr., the