The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-04-21
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Fire Chief Brauer just celebrated
his twenty-eight anniversary in the
Oshkosh department
An epidemic of measles is reported
III the state line neighborlood, six
miles south of Kencsha.
III. G. Kress, for IL years postmas-
ter at Oconomowoc, purchased an in
terest in business college at Canton,
Ill, and will locate there.
William F. Pf1ueger, Manitow oc
drummer" known Throughout. Wis
consin as travelling man, has start
ed his thirty-fifth year On the road.
w. H. Towsley, residing at Beloit,
chief linotype operator at the Daily
News office for ten years, died at the
age of SO. He was born at Jefferson,
Wis.
George Bathias, of Arcadia, took
election fight to succeed himself as
village clerk after eighteen years SER
vice.
Fred Manthy. about thirty years of
age, was killed by a Milwaukee
train near Grand Rapids. He was
stealing ride from Wausau. He was
resident Of Minneapolis.
Miss Barbara Tilkins and William
Shackel residing at Green Bay were
seriously injured in an auto smashup
when their machine was struck by a
heavy touring car and hurled into a
ditch.
Mrs. j.. Law, best Informed y ian
on the Keshena reservation, is dead.
She started the Indian school at Kesh-
ena and was instrumental in securing
the first appropriation from the gov
eminent.
Whitewater, which was announced
wet, is shown by a recount to have
voted dry by one vote, and the cleo
ton board has certified the result as
dry. Charges and countercharges are
numerous.
Mrs. Elizabeth Renzelnann, living
at Sheboygan, mother OF the Renzel-
mann brothers, we'll known musicians,
was instantly killed by a train while
on her way to Holy Name church to
attend early mass.
c. P. Gross, who lives at Grand Rap
ids and has been connected with
the Wisconsin rate commission, has
been appointed superintendent of the
Grand Rapids Electric company, the
plant being a municipal one.
Dorothy Hoffman, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Hoffman, has lost the
power of speech. Some time ago she
got up in the morning apparently as
we'll as usual, but when she attempt
ed to greet her parents she could not
speak.
Michael Leininger, Depere, went to
lonely spot on the bank of the river
where he cut his throat and then
plunged into the water. He changed
his mind when he struck the water
and called for help and he was drag
ged from the river.
w. H. Mccormack of the Madison po-
lice force was shot at twice by Or.
vile Foster of Missouri, whom he was
taking to the police station, but Meth
er shot took effect. Foster was cap
tured Mccormack had picked up
Foster as a suspicious character.
Property not in Wisconsin is sub
ject to the state inheritance tax law,
the United States Supreme court de-
cided in suit of heirs of George Bull
len, OconOmowoc, to avoid paying a
$4,000 tax on an estate held by a
Chicago Trust company in trust for
Bullen.
The often expressed ambition
of Miss Viola M. Kiekhoefer of Fond
du Lac, a senior at the University of
Wisconsin who died a few weeks ago
of pneumonia, to earn a Phi Beta
Kappa election has been rewarded.
The honor was conferred upon the
6esd girl in last weeks elections
Bound over to the circuit court
at Stevens Point on charge of
practicing dentistry without a license
was the result of the hearing of the
Misses Lucy Pliska and Martha Mol
ski, assistants in the Offices of DR.. ]
M. Bischoff, before Justice Park. The
young ladies each furnished $1O0 bail.
While on the way to Winona, Mimi.
from Galesville, Wis, an auto CON
tanning Ben Grogen, Mrs. Hattie Gro
gen and three-year-old daughter was
driven off the side of the road leading
to the high wagon bridge across the
Mississippi and the occupants of the
machine were drowned in the flood
water.
There was great excitement at Stew.
ems Point caused when the little five
year-old Felix Bikowski was deliber-
ately given away by his mother, Mrs.
James sherwood, and his stepfather,
and taken by Agent Ira d. banks of
the Children's Home Finding Society
of Wisconsin to be placed in the
Milwaukee home.
In an effort to bring the landless
man to the manless land, federal of
ficials in charge of distribution work in
Chicago and Minneapolis have thrown
their departments open to the state OF