The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-29


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j. w. Ruse, Kenosha resident and
production expert with the Nash Mo-
tors company, is dead.
Two sixteen-year-old girls from
Madison, Miss Gladys Brevard and
Olive Obegard, plunged to death in
an automobile near the city limits.
John Syst, Racine man and for
mer head of a local railway depart
ment, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a re-
volver.
j. A. Pitts, Kenosha, was married to
Miss Katherine Schend, daughter of
Theodore Schend, the ceremony being
performed at ST. George church an
hour before sunrise.
Five persons were injured at Green
Bay, one of them probably fatally,
when the automobile driven by Vim
cent PiasKowski hit the buggy driven
by Henry Bressers.
A total of 260 fires, with losse of
$685. in Wisconsin, were re-
in the office of commissioner of in
surance during August.
Harold Nordhoff, aged %, who gives
his home at Cincinnati, walked into
the police station and gave himself up
as one of the bandits who have ter
rorized Racine for week.
Mrs. Maggie Jones, aged 49, wife of
William M Jones, a prominent Guern-
sey stock breeder of the town of Wau-
kesha, died at Municipal hospital.
Death was due to gOiter.
Charles Sherburne, one of the best
known trappers and hunters in Wis
consin, is dead of typhoid fever. 1t
is believed he contracted the disease
during recent visit TO Oshkosh.
7. l.. Brown, Kenosha, charged with
bigamous marriage to Miss Julia Nor
rison, waived examination and was
held for trial at the next term of the
municipal court in bonds of $4,000.
Bread and roll prices at Green Bay
have been raised by bakers, the in
creased price of -FOUR being given Us
the reason. Rolls new cost II cents
a dozen and small 1oaves of bread G
cents.
Kenosha officials are considering
plans for the purchase of a large
amount of lake shore property with
view of giving Kenosha a lake shore
park with more than mile and half
frontage on the lake.
Nicholas Brakuley, New Richmond
man, pleaded guilty to a charge
of obtaining $35,75 at the local post.
office, where he represented himself
to be Frank Jaklovich, and was sen,
fenced to seven months in Waupun.
Attorney J. T. Wentworth, of Beloit
noted whist and chess player, died
from the result of wounds self-inflict-
ed week ago, when he attempted to
cut his throat and sever an artery in
his wrist, while Temporarily deranged
A divorce action was filed in the
circuit court of Kenosha county in
which Mrs. Catherine Donley seeks a
decree from her husband, William L.
Donley, rated as one of the wealthiest
men of Kenosha The wife charges
cruelty.
A body, believed to be that
of Jack Martin, former well know II
light opera star, who drowned in the
a government rock barge, has been
found in the Mississippi, few miles
south of La Crosse
A deal has been closed at Wau-
kesha whereby the Keewatin
academy of Prairie du CHEN will take
possession OF the Resthaven hotel of
Waukesha. The hotel was built at
cost of about 100000 and was recent
ly placed on the market for about $780,
600.
Kenosha took possession of Washing
ton island. 1t came as the gift of heirs
of Zalmon G. Simmons and with the
deeds to the property there was turn
ed over to the city check for $780,
600 for the Improvement of the pro.
perty.
Police seek Samuel Stone, a for.
mer Chicago man, who was the owner
of three shoe departments in depart
ment stores of Kenosha, and who is
alleged to have disappeared from Ken
osha His financial condition is declar
ed to be BADLY tangled" by the dis
trict attorney.
John Farrell, Green Bay
council number arrested an alleged
piekpocket as he was fleeing from a
victim The man, who gave the name
of John Ray, Racine, was turned over
to the police. John Murphy, Cincin
natl, who said he was baseball
scout, was held on suspicion.
The $4,000 suit at Jefferson in
which Mrs. Frank Everson was plain
tiff and William Strasburg of Lake
Mills, defendant, was decided in favor
of the defendant The suit originated
from an automobile accident last
fourth of July, when Mr.. Everson was
killed by being thrown from Mr.. Stras
burg's automobile.
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