The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
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Mrs. S. Waller, Waukesha, rs years
old, a pioneer resident of Waukesha
died at her home as the result Of a
fall down stairs.
Private G. Hayes, aged 81, of Com
pany l., First infantry, of Beloit, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
near San Antonio.
Miss M. ]. Wilson, aged 80, of Med
iapolis, Ia, jumped to her death over
the rail of the packet Quincy, three
miles south of La Crosse.
When Raymond w. Labajeski,
clerk he took out a license to hunt
and another emitting him to wed
Miss Myrtle B. Annis.
Otto E. King, aged 81, said to be
the son of one of the wealthiest gro
GERS in Chicago, is thought to have
been drowned in Camp lake near
Kenosha
Caroline r. Brown, of prominent
Avico, Ga, family, widow Of Frank A.
Brown, an Ashland Indian, will come
into possession of the entire estate of
$4,000 when the estate is settled.
E. N. NeWhouse and a woman COM
panion, escaped injury when New
houses roadster turned turtle off
steep bluff road and rolled $50 feet
down the rocky hillside at La Crosse.
1t is thought by many Delavan res
idents that firebug is at work in the
city. During the past weeks there
have been many fires of unknown
origin, as many as three fires in enc
night.
Bert H. Drew, the Waupaca farmer
who murdered his sweetheart, Miss
Elizabeth Luft, and her mother, Mrs.
Anna Luft, and then shot himself
week ago, leaves an estate of at least
$4,000.
Fire at Green Bay destroyed the
Cargill grain elevator containing ap-
proximately 100000 bushels of oats
and $4,000 bushels of rye. The total
loss is estimated at $345,000, covered
by insurance.
By the death of Mrs Mary Leman-
ski, just announced, Beaver Dam
Lemanski was 105 years, months and
1 day old, being born in Germany on
May &c, 1911.
Mrs. A. Downing, So, depressed OF
account of the illness of young SOL
in Beloit hospital, debts, and poor
crops on her farm, killed herself By
strangling herself with a napkin at
her home at Rockton, Ill.
Ida Gunderson of Greenwood, Wis.
injured when an automobile driven
by R. H. Keith, Evanston, was struck
by a street car at Sheridan road and
Irving Park boulevard, died in the
Lake View hospital at Chicago.
The live newspaper, the Beloit Daily
News, is now being printed in it's new
building from a new tubular press. The
plant is one of the finest in the coun-
trv for city of this class. ID. B.
Worthing is president and owner.
R. Mccoy, inspector of small arms
OF the Wisconsin national guard for
several years, received a commission
and departed for San Antonio, Tex,
where he will be detailed as assistant
chief of staff to General Richardson.
Nicholas Brakuley, representing
himself at the local postoffice to be-
Frank Jaklovich, another Austrian
cashed a money order drawn in favor
of Jaklovich, was arrested and is now
in the county jail in Hudson awaiting
a hearing.
A posse is threading the water
ways of a great marsh covering twen-
ty square miles north of La Crosse in
search of Roy Carroll, twenty-eight
years old, who wandered away from
a camping party on the bank of the
Mississippi
At Norway, Margaret, the little
five year old daughter of Theodore
Mahoe, while stepping out of the way
for an automobile stepped in the path
of another car and was run over He
neck was broken and she died fifteoi
minutes later.
The village board of Baldwin
has awarded a contract to R
Johnson of that place to lay two
blocks of concrete pavement this sea.
son on the principal business street
of the village. Baldwin is the first
village or city in ST. Croix county te
pave its streets
If Fond du Lac people knew in the
past what they do today, they would
have had no cause to complain about
the size of their fuel bills. Unknown
to them a peat bed. the dimensions O.
which are still uncertain, has existe
almost in their front yards.
Halbert Hoard and Frank Baker,
Fort Atkinson young men, motored
down Rock river in fifteen foot row
boat on their way to Rock Island and
the Mississippi. The trip will cove
over 500 miles. Their boat is covered
prairie schooner fashion, with ca,s
vas.
Bailing their yawl for three hours
as they were buffeted and tossed
about in a gale forty miles out or
Lake Michigan. the crew Of the steam