The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-01-07

Paul Wenzel, 20, is under arrest, &C
cused OF robbery Joseph Rady of
Green Bay, at the point of gun.
Mrs. E. Q. Baker was granted a di-
vorce from Charles o. Baker, lawyer
and real estate man of Hawkins on
ground OF desertion.
Wausau board is planning to erect
a new school building there because
the high school and one of the grade
schools is overcrowded.
Harold Young, aged Is, son of Mr..
! and Mrs. Ed Young, was accidentally
shot while hunting rabbits four miles
north of Chippewa Falls.
The owners may reopen the Rock
County Sugar company's plant which
has been closed for the past two sea-
SONS for the 1916 beet crop.
Mabel Henderson, II, is the hero
inc of the hour in Bolen settlement,
because of her prowess in killing big
timber wolf with mop handle.
The county it is decided, will
be made the unit in the apportionment
of delegates at the Republican state
convention to be held in Madison.
Jan. 81.
VIM. T. Lewis, of the Michell-Lewis
vice president of the Mitchell-Lewis
Motor company and former state SEN
ator, died suddenly of apoplexy, aged
seventy-five.
Mrs. Martha E. Merriam, president
of the Ladies of the G. A. R., is seri-
ously ill with an attack of bronchitis
and unable to attend the departmental
work at this time.
New Richmond item says Owen Hig
gins, northern Wisconsin resident
since 1856, is dead. He was totally deaf
for years. Two days before he died,
he heard perfectly.
Aria Lund, La Crosse society girl
here, was slugged in the head by an
unknown assailant while walking to
the home of friend. She was found
with an ugly wound in her scalp.
1t is announced former Congress
man Morse has returned to practicing
law at Amigo after being interested in
numbering operations and other bust
ness since his retirement from con-
gress.
At a La Crosse fire as a result of
burns she received while trying to pro-
tect her infant babe, Mrs. William
Weed, aged twenty years, died at her
home after lying unconscious two
weeks.
For the year 1916 F. NJ White of the
department of agricultural engineer
ing, University of Wisconsin, was
elected president of the American AS
ISOLATION of Agricultural Engineers in
session at Chicago
Reports show that there are 5000
cheese factory operators in the state
and practically the same number of
makers. The former are required to
pay 50 for licenses and the latter 81
under the new law.
/ In Milwaukee hospital Rev. John He
mann, S. j., for many years director
of music at Marquette unive: 5ity, and
dean Of the Marquette Conservatory Of
Music, died of typhoid pneumonia, fol-
lowing short illness.
Austrian agents are in Kenosha
stirring up the patriotic Austrians Of
Kenosha to the colors and serve in
the Austrian army 1t is declared that
a large party of recruits will leave
Kenosha for the front the first part
of the new year.
At Madison Henry M. Lewis, aged
eighty-five, referee in bankruptcy in
federal court there for twenty-five
advanced age. He practiced law in
Madison since 1855 and was one of the
Oldest lawyers in Wisconsin. He is
survived by one daughter.
The wife of Percy Adams, chief
architect for the ]. |. Case company
Of Racine, said she gave Anton Ander
son SIS and a diamond pin last Sep
TENDER when he threatened to tell her
husband about some things in her
past, at the preliminary hearing of An
derson by Judge Page on the charge
of extortion.
The wife of G. HI. Hartley, general
manager of the Wisconsin and North
ern railway, died at the age of fifty
five years. Mrs. Hartley was well
known throughout the Fox river val
ley. She was active in social, benevo-
lent and religious organizations. Sur
viving are her husband, two sons
and daughter.
At Kenosha, Wis, Raymond More
house, who recently inherited for
tune of $4,000 by the death Of an
uncle in California, resigned as mail
carrier Morehouse on resigning sub
mitted some statistics. He showed that
he had walked $4,000 miles and that
he had carried more than 100000
pounds of mail.
At Eau Claire when the Kais-