The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-18
IN Grcen Bay, Is ueau.

Pere road, Brown county.
John Faga, ST., an aged clammer-
at Prairie Du Chen, found a large
pearl valued at 5000, it is reported
Ed Schafer, Kenosha son of Gott-
heb Schaefer, contractor, was drown.
ed in the st. Joseph river near st.
| Joe, Mich.
Burglars entered the home of En-
gineer T. J. Riley, at Brentwood,
and stole Mr.. and Mrs. Rileys watches,
money and jewelry.
r. G. Buerstate, aged IS, old time
druggist, civil war veteran, and one
of the best known business men o..
Manitowoc, is dead.
The annual and much looked to inter-
county picnic of the Beloit, GAINESVILLE
and Rockford posts of the G. A. r.
was held at Beloit.
Charles finland, of Racine, wa
killed when he attempted to cross the
RAPIDS road in front of passenger
train on the North Western road.
/ Kenosha beach on Lake Michigan
i claimed a second victim of the month
/ when Charles Wichman, thirty years
i old. Chicago, was drowned while in
! bathing.
! Mrs. Andrew Hibbard, of near De-
! pere, wife of one of the most proml'
! .ent men of Brown county, died after
q lingering illness She was slxty-fouI
| ears old.
Herman Hoehn, former assessor OF
! Kenosha and one of the best known
i of the German born residents OF Ken
osha county, died at the Kenosha hos
! pital following a long illness.
! Fred Woodland, tifty-six years OLD;
of Beloit, died from injuries re-
ceived six weeks ago when he fell
: from a street car and rolled beneath
the platform His back was broken
Twelve GAINESVILLE COWS which were
/ valued at $1,1O0 from herd OF TWEEN
ty-four, were killed by an engine When
the animals, owned by Herbert Smith,
wandered onto the railroad right OF
way.
! Falling on a pointed stick which
Denetrated the soft palate, is the Pc
euliar and painful injury sustained by
Hugh, the eight year old son of Mrs.
Maude Young, visiting in Menomlnee,
from Neenah.
Kenosha stands fifth among the
cities of Wisconsin, according to the
figures shown by the school census,
which has just been completed. This
/, census gives the city population in
! excess of 1880.
The William Rahr company, Man
itowoc concern, will pay about one
tenth of the tax levy in that city, its
assessment being about $l,2OO,0OO.
The total assessment for the city IS
fixed at $14000,O00.
The common council of Belolt
has taken final action in the pur-
chase of the Smith site for city hall
and the Graham field site for west
side park. The bond issue for the two
properties will be $4,000.
Captain Berlin M. Sniffin, of Mani.
owoc. SO years of age, and veteran
sailor on the lakes, is dead. During
the past fifteen years he sailed Good.
rich boats. and for the last seven
was in command of the Goodrich tug
Arctic
Henry Vanek and Clement Lidner,
venturesome Prairie Du Chen Boy
Scouts, have left on cross country
! hike to the Dells on the Wisconsin
river. distance of more than hun
dred miles They expect to be gone
'our weeks.
That the municipality owned water
and light and power plant OF
Minocqua has lost in three years more
than half of what it is worth is but
one of the disclosures of the audit OF
the towns finances, just completed by
the tax commission.
The body of William Heperman, a
Racine man, was washed up on
the shore north of the public bathing
beach. He disappeared two days be.
fore while swimming. None of the
5000 bathers heard him cry for help
or saw him go under.
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wife of an indianapolis jewelry sales
man. and James Helm, waiter, were
arrested at Racine at rooming house
where they have been living. The
couple may be prosecuted under the
Mann white slave law.
Helen Stewart, the twenty-five year
old Superior school teacher charged
with shooting and probably mortally
wounding Dr. john G. Barnsdale there
or August Sth, was secretly married
at Virginia, Mimi, in July, 1915, to
G.: Milward Smith, son of George M.
Smith, prominent Duluth railroad
man.
His lungs pierced, DR.. |. B0rns5all
one OF Superior's most prom ,n"nt phi.
sicians, is at a local hospital, prob
ably fatally wounded, and Miss Helel
Stewart a teacher, well known in so