The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-20

would have been destroyed by fire
but for an alarm given by the Har
ley house dog.
Geo. Miller, GAINESVILLE, well known
man around town, committed suicide
by shooting himself in a hotel No
cause for the act is known.
Michael Higgins, prominent citizen,
four times mayor of Racine and pres
ident of the Higgins Spring and Axle
company, is dead at the age of go.
! The 65th convention of the Wiscon-
sin synod Of the Presbyterian chruch
closed after selecting Beloit as the
place for holding the next convention.
Although it is difficult to separate
research and instruction costs, the
cost to the state per student at ,he-
Wisconsin university last year did not
exceed $135.
} Ferdinand Gauerke, SO years old, and
a resident of the town of IxOnia near
ly seventy years, is dead of stroke
of apoplexy Mr.. Gauerke is survived
by five children.
G.. w Lamoreaux, lawyer and
county judge of Dodge county, is dead
following a long illness. He was
brother-in-law of United States Sen
ator Paul o. Husting.
After being near recovery, Mrs.
M J. Grendron of Wausaukee, who
suffered six weeks ago from an at
tack of tentanus, suddenly took turn
for the worse and died within an hour.
The Royal Ladies of America, al
auxiliary order to the Royal
Arcanum, held session at Green Bay.
| About thirty-five delegates from vari-
Gus councils in the United States at
tended.
j John Jacquinta, aged %, is in the
! Kenosha hospital with knife wound
eighteen inches long in his back, and
may die. James Oliviero, another Ital
murder.
Peshtigo has just observed the 45th'
anniversary of the fire which de-
stroyed the village and resulted in
many deaths In some of the churches
! the tragedy was referred to in Sun
days sermons.
Troop A, w, N. G., of Mil
waukee, which has been returned
! from the border to Camp Douglas,
will be mustered out inside of ten
days, according to the statement of
Adjutant General Holway.
John Strange, Neenah manufacturer,
has bid in the property of the de-
funct Wisconsin Graphite company for
| $28,500 and will soon begin erecting
| a new pulp and paper mill at McDill
to manufacture kraft papers.
Notice is given that a civil service
| examination will be held on Nov. II
| for rural letter carrier at Gratiot and
Prescott. A postoffice has been es-
tablished at White Lake, Langlade
county, with William H. Gamble, post
| master.
The annual session of the grand en-
campment of the Independent Order
!! of Oddfellows in Wisconsin came to a
close with the selection of GAINESVILLE
| as the 1917 grand encampment and
George Gerlach, of Viola, as grand
| patriarch.
| The attorney general of Wisconsin
| has advised District Attorney C. J.
| TIE Selle of Amigo that a member of
county board was not eligible to
! election to the Office Of q county high
way commissioner while member of
| the county board.
Within one week following the
acquittal OF c. J. Capman for shoot
ing Charles Shimmeal of Shopiere, the
/ feud broke out again and Shimmeal
was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by Mrs. Capman, who charges Shin
meal with having threatened her life
with a revolver.
At the synod of the German Ameri-
| lean Reformed church it was voted to
keep Mission House college at Frank
lin, Wis, and to spend 100000 for
new buildings. More than 100 min
listers, representing siXty-four mission
fields in thirteen northwest states, at
tended the SYNOD
The hearing of the application of
the village of Barkesan for authority
| to increase the rates of it's public
owned gas plant brought out the fact
that the high price of gasoline may
cause a decided increase in the rates
of utilities that use this liquid in any
considerable quantity.
Col. Green, son of Hetty Green, has
returned to Milwaukee to close deal
of the utmost Importance to Milwau-
kee maritime interests. 1t is believed
here that the deal is the taking over
| of the Crosby Transportation COM
pany, with its fleet of steamers now
in the cross lake traffic.
| Governor Philip at Madison has
pardoned Edward Eckhard, who on
April IS, 1878. was sentenced to the
state prison at Waupun for life for
shooting ard killing Charles Peterson.
near Jefferson Junction, over an al
legged robbery when they wore dia-
mond partners in South Africa