The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-03
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The postoffice at Beloit contributes
1000 letters annually to the national
dead letter office.
DR.. f. A. Soles has purchased the
Spencer Record and will conduct that
paper in the future.
Mrs. John Williams, of Dodgeville, is
dead at the age of eighty-one years.
She is survived by nine children.
Fred Stein, employed at Goodrich.
was seriously injured by the explo-
SIGN of steam pipe which scalded his
face
j. B. Fleming, serving Eau Claire
six years as mayor, has announced he
will not be a candidate for renomina-
ton.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Sanger, So, widow
Of William H. Hearding, is dead After
funeral services at Delafield burial
was in Detroit.
Twenty-Five of Rusk county banks
formed the first bankers organization
in that county, known as the Russ
County Bankers association.
Dan E. Mowry, who has been
assistant treasury agent, handed his
resignation to Governor Philip Lii
/ Liam Brown of Madison was named as
his successor.
Petition for a special election for
Ladysmith is being circulated by the
leaders of the wet faction to deter
mine whether or not the city shall
have license or no license.
The G. & N w. and 500 railroads
must establish fiagman's towers and
suitable enunciators operated by track
circuit to warn off approaching trains
at Scott street, Fond du Lac.
C. G. Wilcox, Depere business man,
resigned as president of the Brown
County Fair association. Elmer Hail.
county clerk of Green Bay, has been
elected to fill the position
J. Carbon, convicted of manslaugh
ter in the first degree for having
killed James Tyndal on Nov II, 1915,
near Coria, Wis. was sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Waupun.
Gideon King will not be tried at
the spring term of the Barron circuit
court for shooting Lawrence Penz-
kover He passed away at Chippewa
Falls from cancer of the stomach.
James Mcdonald, 46 years old, well
known town Of Brunswick farmer fell
between the ties of the Milwaukee
railroad bridge at Eau Claire and was
dashed to death on the ice below.
Word has been received by Wan
kesha from Minneapolis of the
death of DR. Hugo Philler, aged sew
enty-eight years, one of the leading
physicians of Waukesha for many
years
An effort is being made in this
state to locate relatives of former
Governor Edward Solomon of Wiscon-
son, word having been received from
New York that some property was
about to be divided.
A coroner's jury sitting at Medford
brought in a verdict that John Thorn
erskewsky's death was due to heart
road and his horse, becoming in
tangled in a fence, also froze and had
to be shot.
Jacob Hamus, aged IA, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Hamus of Auburn
dale, lost the greater part of his right
hand in a feed cutting machine. Ha-
mus was attempting to clean it out
without stopping it when the accident
| occurred.
Wisconsin farmers and bankers will
participate in an excursion to the agri-
cultural school Of the University of
Wisconsin On March 2S and 20. The
excursion has been arranged by the
| agricultural committee of the Wiscon-
sin Bankers association.
VIM. Larson, aged %, son of Fred
Larson, of Thomas, left the Home res
taurant at night to be gone but few
| moments. Not returning as soon as ex-
pected, search revealed his dead body
near the alley at the rear Of the build
ing with his throat cut and a razor
nearby.
! In ruling just made the Wisconsin
supreme court held in the case of the
State of Wisconsin in relation of
Judge A. E. Richter against Judge +.
w. Chadbourne, that the law passed
by the last legislature creating the SUI
/ perior court of Fond du Lac county
and abolishing the Fond du Lac coun-
ty court, was unconstitutional
The village of Bristol almost ran red
with blood" when more than 300 ice
workers, following an argument be-
tween nationalities, engaged in a
pitched battle. The men had started
to Kenosha by train and when Bristol
was reached they left the train ano
began the battle. Nobody was hur!
and they were finally forced to board
the train again.