The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-11-10
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had been a resident of Wausau for
thirty-fve years.
Rose Morgan, La Crosse, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Morgan, died of
exposure within sight of a neighbours
house.
Work on the first unit of twenty
five of the 400 homes to be built for
workmen by Bcloit business men is
under way.
Mother M. Alphonsa Cory, aged IA,
directress of the Holy Rosary acad-
envy, COrliss, Wis, died at that insti-
tuition after a prolonged illness.
Police throughout the state have been
asked by Sheriff William Horst to look
for Joseph Mueller, thirteen years old,
who disappeared from home on Oct.
81.
Dr. H. d. Porter, Beloit graduate,
class of 1867, for nearly forty years a
leading missionary in China until the
strain OF a Boxer rebellion broke his
health, is dead at La Mesa, Cal.
The entire family of Hans P. Han
son was thrown out, but none was in
jured, when his automobile was struck
by a Milwaukee road switch engine
on the Main street crossing in Cole
man.
While Mr. and Mrs. William Cess
Ter OF Bruce were in an adjoining
room, their infant daughter, playing
around the stove, fired her clothes.
She was badly burned but will re-
cover.
A Beaver Dam farmer, H. E. Krue-
ger, has received from Wichita, Kan,
notice that each of six grain samples
which he sent to the international
wheat show at the Wichita fair and
exposition were prize winners.
Sheriff Pat Dormady has organized
a search for what is believed to be a
gang of robbers. 1t is known that they
used a railroad "speeder" to effect
their getaways. They have robbed San
born, Ashland and Mason stores
Because she divorced him, Hugh
McVey entered the home of his for
mer wife's father and shot her three
times, seriously wounding her. He was
arrested and is being held pending
the result of Mrs. McVey's wounds.
Secrecy has been demanded of ali
officers of the United States revenue
cutter Tuscarora and of citizens and
others who testified as witnesses in
the court martial trial of Surfman
LOnergan of the KenCsha coast guard.
But one true railroad scale among
the ten scales in Ashland was found
in a test just completed by the fed
eral bureau of standards. The others
erred by from 200 to LOO pounds
both in favor of and against the rail
roads.
Fred E. Miller, a switch engineer,
pleaded guilty 20 bigamy and was
sentenced to the house of correction
for two years. Miller it was charged,
married Margaret Streber of Milwau-
kee in 1904 and Miss Iva Dennis Of
Freeport, ILL.,, last May.
The Rev. Harvey Dee Brown, for
merly of Kenosha and pastor of the
First Baptist church and one time So
ciaIist candidate for governor of Wis
consin, has been installed as assistant
pastor Of the Church of the Messiah
CUnitarian) in New York City
The state bank commissioner has
issued a charter to the Cleghorn
State bank of CleghOrn, Eau Claire
county Capital stock of the new bank
is $4,000. Ircorporators are A. d.
Stones, H: W. Pierce, H. l.. Lowe,
Frank Hartman and Fred WeIke.
Snatcning a child from railroad
track where it had toddled in the face
of danger, earned for Ole Olson, To-
connective fireman of Green Bay, Off
cial recognition by the Green Bay and
Western railroad An effort to secure
Carnegie medal for him will be
made.
Donald Scoops, one armed student
of Beloit college has just re-
ceived notice that he had been award
ed a Carnegie medal and $4,000 for
saving two girls from drowning in
Wakasee lake, Indiana, in 1913. The
girls are Pauline Holmes and Beatrice
Dosell.
Police of Kenosha and in South
Milwaukee are looking for the clever
est horsethief, who has operated in
that region for years. He stole horse
of John Pirsch, manufacturer of Ken
osha, and drove it toward South Mil
waukee until it was exhausted. Then
he stole a $500 animal from a farmer
and continued his trip.
Frank Wilmarth, a young lad
of Sun Prairie, is the 1915 champion
boy farmer of Wisconsin, and Miss
Helen Hatch, of Lake Geneva, is the
1916 champion girl farmer of Wiscon-
sin. By attaining these honors each
wins 500 in gold given by Frederick
D. Underwood, president of the Erie
railroad, and owner of the Fewacres
Farm, WauwatOsa
The new Racine Young Mems Chris
tian association building at Fifth and
Wisconsin streets has been put in