The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-01-28
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Hanging to a bedpost with strap
around his neck, Edward Kahny, four
teen years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Kahny, of Milwaukee, was
found dead by his mother, sister and
uncle when they returned home from
a motion picture theater.
Lumberjacks, who threatened to quit
when orders were issued at the camp
of the Park Falls Lumber company,
that all employees must take a steam
bath in the newly created steamroom,
at least once week, have acclimated
themselves to the new condition
]. Welch, ex-sheriff of Wood county,
and for number of years employed
as detective or the North Western
railroad, has been appointed United
States deputy marshal for the Western
district for term of four years and
will make his headquarters at Madi-
son.
The United States bureau of Indian
affairs has ruled that northern
Wisconsin will not have to go dry be-
cause of Indian treaties and in a let
ter to ReEr- 3ntative Lenroot gives a
detailed explanation of the bureau
view of a question which has been
agitating many lawyers and others in
the state.
The Beloit Federation of Mission
ary workers from numerous churches,
has appointed a committee to seek to
arrange for religious and missionary
instruction in connection with high
school and college courses the courses
to be arranged outside of the school
work for which credit shall be given
the pupil by the school authorities.
After protesting further diver
sion of water from Lake Michigan in
to the Chicago drainage canal and de-
handing the present amount be limit
ed to 4167 cubic feet per second, as al
lowed by federal law, mayors and
representatives of seven Wisconsin
and Michigan cities organized the
Lake Michigan-Green Bay Port Cities
association and elected Mayor Bading
or MILWAUKEE pTGSIuSuL.
Sheriff John Sleep, of Waukesha
county, placed Ii prisoners under
quarantine, in compliance with orders
from Health Officer G. &. Peterson,
after one of the prisoners contracted
scarlet fever.
The Wisconsin conservation commits
sion asks contributions from Badger
sportsmen to buy male elk to head
the herd of three female elk now in
the state game preserve at Trout
lake, Villas county.
Due to confidence its residents
have in their banks which pay per
cent on savings, Postmaster Wagner
has been ordered to discontinue the
postal savings department of the Stur-
geon Bay postoffice.
G. Federer, Sheboygan, is dead from
blood poisoning. Three months ago he
injured his right leg while at work
in the stone quarry at Sheboygan
Falls. The wound seemingly healed,
but last week blood poisoning set in.
Charles R. Carpenter, Racine bank
err and former cashier of the defunct
Commercial and Savings bank lost his
suit for S2o,254 against the bankrupt
estate of the Universal Manufacturing
company, which concern he finan-
ceered.
Green Bay NJ. E. hospital and sana-
forum, recently completed at cost of
S15O,OOO, was dedicated with officers
of the Deaconesses association, mem
bers of the Methodist clergy of the
state and other individuals assisting
in the ceremonies.
DR.. Ephraim L. Eaton, evangelist,
former elder in the Methodist church
Of Madison, has accepted the chal-
lenge to public debate on the subject
of the existence of God that was is
sued by Theodore Schroeder OF the
Free Speech league of New York.