The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
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smith, dleu or neat prOStrat1On.
Barron has completed plans to hold
a harvest festival on Aug. %, "a and
%.
Abbott Reed, a lad of Mosinee,
twelve years old, was seized with
cramps while bathing and drowned.
The contract for the new First Ma
tiOnal bank building at Barron was
let to A. Norman & Co., of ST. Paul.
Jacob Hill, former Oneida chief,
died on the reservation near Green
Bay. He was eighty-nine years old and
one of the oldest Indians of the tribe
New postmasters are: John NJ.
Schreibeis, Menasha; Daniel NJ Nc
Namara, Monticello; Andrew Kalten-
bach, Potosi.
Cyril Richardson twenty-five years
old, a GAINESVILLE farmer, was drown
ed south of the city in Rock river
while bathing.
The siX-mOnths old child of A. e..
Bruderli, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, is
dead of what is believed to have been
infantile paralysis.
Led by Robert F. Hall, the ILL
nois highway commission arrived in
Milwaukee and inspected the roads Of
Milwaukee county.
The once famous William New.
man, alias DR.. Ben Ridder, alias Big
Ben alias "the millionaire tramp" is
dying in Milwaukee.
The Rev. o. ]. H. Preus, of Los
Angeles, Cal, has been extended a
an church at BelOit.
julius Melletin, of Stevens Point
section hand on the 500
line, who was Frustrated by the heat,
died in local hospital
Mrs. Wilhelm Reinstatement eighty
five years old, Manitowoc pioneer
died on the way to the hospital after
being Frustrated by the heat at her
home.
Ronald, the seven year old son Of
G. L. Reynolds, of Beloit, was struck
on the head with a baseball bat by
playmate in a game and is in a critical
condition.
A Sheboygan child, Charles Kluger,
seven years old, was burned to death
by a fire which destroyed the home
The fire started from an explosion of
an oil stove.
Michael Holleran, "A, employed at
a GAINESVILLE factory, was found dead
in his room, overcome by heat. He
enlisted in the Wisconsin national
guard July 20.
Mathew Hasak, an Austrian, thirty,
one years old, the owner of a small
farm near GAINESVILLE, who had been
missing a number of days, was found
dead from the heat
Fishermen at Depere and Green Bay
are shipping hundreds of baskets of
fresh water crabs, or crawfish; to the
Chicago and Milwaukee markets, this
being the height of the crab season.
Mrs. Hattie Stepnack, who lives
near Junction City, was fined in court
for walking on the railroad tracks of
the 500 line and causing trains to
stop while the crews removed her
from the rails:
The body of Hugo A. Chaplin, whose
home was at Winfield, South Dakota,
university student student drowned in
Lake Mendoza three weeks ago, was
found by Ralph Anderson of Madison,
who will receive the reward of $50.
John Metune, twenty-one years old,
an employee of the Twin City
street car lines living at st. Paul.
drowned in Round lake, west of Glen.
wood City. He was taken with a
cramp while swimming across the
lake.
The white pine blister rust attacking
pine forests in the east has made its
appearance in Wisconsin, and has so
alarmed the state authorities that the
department of agriculture has placed
a strict quarantine on the importation
of any pine nursery stock.
A girl baby, two weeks old, was
left at Oshkosh on the doorstep
of L. o. Rumery, son of pioneer
Iumberman The child was well dress
ed and a temporary home has been
found for it by Humane Agent F. J.
Wilkie. The child's mother is said to
be a Neenah girl.
Professor E, Sherwood Bishop, for.
merly of Kenosha, son of former State
Senator Isaac T. Bishop of Somers
and recently elected dean of the de-
partment of science at Lake Forest
university, is dead in Chicago For
two years he was teacher in the
Milwaukee high schools.
Mrs. Mat Stengel of Lincoln, who
was injured in motor car accident
in July, died as the result of her in
juries. The car in which she and her
husband were riding went over an
embankment near Algoma, and Mrs.
Stengel was pinned under the steer
ing wheel Her spine was fractured.
H. Wood, Fond du Lac farmer, is
dying at st. Agnes hospital as the re-
c,,11t of broken neck While MILKING