The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-11-10

miles farthGr, 20 PlDfam, mas Deen
started
w. E. Rockhili and family have
moved TO Waupun, where Mr. Rock
hill will have charge of the state pris-
on farm.
A week after Irving Rowan of
Sparta died, Frank Rowan, so years
old, prominent farmer living at Trout.
Falls, died Of cancer.
Because of heavy exports from
Green Bay of coal, paper, lumber and
sugar beets, serious car shortage
is being experienced.
During the month of October, the
Barron creamery paid s41,389 for
cream from which 108,919.8 pounds Of
butter fat were obtained.
H. levitt lost fifty pure bred Duroc
Jersey hogs by the epidemic Of hog
cholera which is being gotten under
control now at Rice Lake.
An egg institute will be held at Om-
70 Nov. and 10 IS part of the annual
show of the Winnebago County Poul-
try association, Nov. to II.
Plans for a st ,rehouse to cost $780,
900, exclusive of machinery and in
stallation, have been announced by
the Green Bay Cheese company.
Wisconsin pensions have been grant
ed as follows: Emma c. Beeman, Nee
nah, $40. Julia w. Kohn, Oshkosh,
$12, and Hannah Schelling, Racine,
$12.
Farmers of the county are organic
ing the Portage County Cow Testing
association which is expected to in
clude at least 500 COWS. Already Els
are pledged.
Ludwig Surina, twenty-siX years of
age, was fatally injured at Kenosha
when he was struck by an automobile
driven by David Cameron, well
known KenoSha man.
Because Beloit policemen knew him
when he was d patrolman at Belvi-
dere, ILL.,, C. E. McLaren was arrest
ed on a charge of forging and passing
two checks for $3.50 each.
Discontinuance of it's SOC acres of
pea winery at Marathon and cultiva
ton of the same acreage at Wausau,
next season, has been announced by
the Wausau Canning company.
Charged with desertion from Com
pany of Marinette, now doing patrol
duty on the Mexican border, Reuben
Dickie, twenty-four years old, married,
was taken to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Self-defense probably will form the
basis of the defense of Peter Stepan-
ovic, Mayville merchant, in jail for
the murder of Mike Madich, according
to B. J. Husting, Stepanovic's lawyer.
Owen L. Baldwin, sixty-seven years
old, prominent and long time resident
of GAINESVILLE and Rock county, was
killed by city street car while walk
ing on the trolley tracks in a narrow
road
Within twenty-tour hours three well
known women died at Manitowoc.
They were: Mrs. Emma Laura Fehrs,
aged 81; Mrs. Agnes Rathsack, aged
81, and Mrs. Louis Heyroth, ninety-six
years old.
Louis Leonard, fOrty-two years old,
one of the most widely known men in
Racine county, is dead as a result Of
collapse brought on by grief over the
accidental death of his mother, aged
eighty years.
A horse valued at $3.50 and a load
of hides belonging to TEX & Son are
at the bottom OF the river as a result
of the horse becoming unmanage-
able and backing off the Goodrich
dock at Manitowoc
August Ondrick, aged 16, Of MoQuah,
who accidentally killed his sister Fan
ME more than a week ago while clean
ing his shotgun, has not eaten nor
slept since she died. 1t is thought he
may become insane.
The state commission of banking is
sued a charter to the Conrath State
bank of COnrath, Rusk county. The
capital stock of the bank is $4,000.
The president is Ben F. Faast and the
cashier is E. G. Kuehl.
Conspiracy against him because he
was the only foreigner in lumber
camp at Lily, resulted in Morris No
walks being stabbed three times and
struck in the back of the head with a
large rock, according to the story he
told at Lily.
Twenty-four leaders of the Racine
Trades and Labor council petitioned
and con ferred with Mayor T. w THE
sen as result of smuggling alleged to
have developed in the strike at the
Racine Manufacturing company plant
They ask ''ample protection from such
outrageS."
1t was the lure of the movies" and
not dark man with black mustache
that caused the mysterious disappear
ance of Lauralda Ryan, fourteen years
old, the police found when they To-
Gated the missing girl at the home of
Otto Runner in she sonth end of La
Crosse.
Fearing that he could obtain no re-