The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-06-23
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Fred Offield, the Wausau man who
shot and seriously wounded his wife.
has been taken into custody
The 61st commencement of Way
laid academy began ON Sunday. The
school has had successful year.
Miss Christine M. vanderwall,
school miss of Phillips, finished her
four-year high school course in two
years.
Hundreds of letters from many quar-
ters are pouring into the executive
Office asking for the pardon of John
+. Dietz.
The English Evangelical Lutheran
synod embracing several states of the
northwest meets at Oshkosh June 20
to %.
Elmer Holden, aged q, and Minnie
Dohe, thirty-nine years old, both OF
Strum, Wis, were licensed to marry
concert by the University of
Wisconsin band will be the first
number of the program for the Amigo
Chautauqua to be held July to Is.
The Kenosha Yacht club will build a
clubhouse on the Kenosha water front.
The city granted the club a lease on
dock property for term of ten years
charter has been issued to the
Peoples bank of Wrightstown, capital
lied at $4,000. Thomas Pagan is
president and N. B. Remmel cashier.
Sheboygan citizens are planning
to have an exact reproduction of the
Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia as
feature of its main business street
George ]. Myers, as, keeper of the
Kenosha city poor farm for the last
five years, died at st. Joseph's hospi-
tai in Milwaukee from cancer of the
stomach
In crossing Baird's creek near Green
Bay, while driving the COWS
home, Bernard Krischer, five years
old, was carried down stream one
mile and drowned
Mrs. Mary E. Bingham, aged 70, wi
dow Of Colonel w. H. Bingham, who
served with disticntion in the confed-
crate army in the civil war, is dead at
her home in KenOsha.
Not to be outdone at Amigo, Wis.
by any of the other cities in the state,
Nlans are being laid for prepared
ness for peace demonstration that will
take place on the fourth of July
VIM Cooley, aged 81, who says he
is widower from Marinette, was ar
rested at GAINESVILLE, charged with at
tempted assault on Stella Reidy, aged
nine years and Lillian Tyrolt, aged
ten.
The plant and real estate of the
Winter company, Sheboygan concern,
manufacturers of bank and Office fix
lures, which recently failed, was sold
to the Northern Furniture company for
$4,000
Harry Marines, aged 8, drowned in a
raceway below the mill of the Heine-
mann Lumber Co. at-Wausau The body
was recovered but efforts at resusci-
tation failed The boy fell from an
embankment
IL,
who left Emerald youth about
twenty years ago to make his fortune
in the gold fields of Alaska, confirm
the newspaper dispatches that he has
struck it rich there.
A. ]. Plowman, Wausau politician
former assemblyman and democratic
candidate for congress, was found not
guilty of the charge of unlawfully pro-
curing John Rasmussen, minor, to vote
at the April town election.
Four hours after she had commenc-
ed an action for divorce at Wausau
Mrs. Fred Offield was shot three times
and dangerously wounded by her hus-
band, at the home of the Rev. e. c.
Grauer. where the woman had gone
John c. Hartzell, believed to be con-
nected with the famous burglary Of
the Chicago Art institute, who was
released by a jury at Kenosha or
charges of burglary, was taken back
to the Illinois state prison, from which
he had been paroled
Twice within twelve hours E. B.
Carton, sober Sheboygan man. 10
years old, president of the toy COM
pany bearing his name, was the prin-
cipai in automobile accidents on the
streets of Sheboygan. In neither case
did he receive more than minor in
juries.
Mrs. Annie Lukasavicz, Polish
woman, and her five daughters,
Mrs. Josie Reynolds, Milwaukee;
Mrs. Pauline Elbrant. Hatley. and
Mrs. Peter Helbach, Mrs. Joseph
Bambenek and Mrs. Michael PolluD,
of Sharon, were found insane at the
Bambenek home near Stevens Point.
after a weeks religious orgy in the
locked house in which Mrs. Elbrant' s
eyes had been souged out and her
tongue split by one Of the others.
Some of the women paraded outdoors