The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-11
WISCONSIN NEWS
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ers Of Badger State.
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
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to All Glasses of Readers.

| again upheld the state law prohibiting
/ the sale of liquor to Indians.
| p Hanson, 55, resident of Wash.
burn, Wis, was hurled fifty feet tc
! his death when struck by train one
| mile out of that town.
| James Gaynor, well known cranberry
| man of the state, sustained an attack
| Of paralysis and is in critical condi-
| ton at Grand Rapids.
VIM. Hawkins, Roberts resident, 80
| years, and a pioneer creamery man in
Wisconsin, died at his home there after
a brief illness from heart trouble.
Logging contractors say that they
| are having the best season in years in
Northern Wisconsin, and a larger cut
| is being made than for some time.
Art Kellogg, Oshkosh ex-mayor, died
aged eighty-years. He had been i'll
about one year. Mr.. Kellogg came to
Oshkosh in 1854 from New York state.
The Wisconsin road school under
direction Of the Wisconsin highway
commission was attended by repre-.
sentatives from every county in the
state.
Five hundred dollars was the dam.
age to Miss Nellie Dummer's affec~
tons by DR.. C. W. Watterson's refusal
to marry her, said a circuit court jury
at La Crosse
Frank Hops, slayer of his brother in
quarrel in the presence of his par
ents, was bound over. He will claim
self defense. The Hops live southwest
Of Neillsville
The attorney general advises that
agricultural societies are moi entitled
to state aid or premiums paid by them
on exhibits produced or grown outside
the state, except live stock.
Miss Jessie Widin, the Burnett
woman county superintendent of
schools, has resigned to take effect
Feb. 1. She will go to Columbia univer-
sity to complete her education
The largest haul of fish ever
caught in this state was made at Win.
neconne, last week, 10000 pounds
being hauled out of Lake Poygan The
fish we're shipped to Philadelphia.
Charles w. Weise, a Green Bay
crockery salesman, who had been Wis.
iting Stevens Point for twenty years,
collapsed and died later in his room
He leaves a wife and two daughters.
Old residents, who are familiar with
the city's early history, assert that
To % fret h inf h Of
waukee on which a president of the
United States honored it with his
presence.
Miss NJ J. Felch, Racine pioneer,
died suddenly, aged seventy-one years
She was born in the town of Mount
Pleasant while Wisconsin was a ter
ritory and moved to Racine thirty
years ago.
Hundreds Of men were brought out
to Kenosha to cut ice and with the
coming of the warm weather the ice
harvest was abandoned and most Of
the men had not money enough to
get back 20 Chicago.
Badger road builders to the number
the fifth annual road school of the
Wisconsin highway commission, which
convened in the assembly chamber OF
the capitol at Madison.
Frank Weix, of Antigo heard
loud commotion in his chicken coop.
He noticed that the wind had blown
the door open and a large black fox
had entered. The animal was captured
alive. 1t is worth $4,000.
Employees of the Paine Lumber Co.,
numbering about 1000, struck. The
strikers claim that the company did
not take back 1913 employees when they
resumed operations after the annual
inventory on Jan. II at Oshkosh
Defying the worst storm of the win
ter, Edward Ellingson, a Birch Lake
farmer, and his fourteen year old SOB,
the latter strapped to a horses back,
reached Ashland after midnight where
the boy was Immediately operated on
for acute appendicitis.
E. j. Worth, lawyer arrested Oh
a charge of abandoning his family at
Kimball, s. D., and held at Madison.
tried to escape BY saving the iron
bars of window in the Jail, but be
fore he could get out fellow prison
er notified the turnkey.
B. H. Paul, address, the Globe
hotel, Racine, who is scientifically in.
clined, is open for openings" Any
surgeon who would like to see the
mechanism in Mr.. Paul and who in.
cidentally wishes to make a name for
himself that will ring down the. ages
for medical discovery, has an invita-
ton to operate on Mr.. Paul and OBJ
serve the inner workings of his anato
N.Y.
Cigarmen of Oshkosh have PRE-
scented resolutions against the Sunday
closing, which petition was filed by
the Mems Christian Workers league