The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-24

A steer broke its neck BY getting
tangled in field of alfalfa near Ash,
land
Miss Anna Giddings and Captain
Clarence w. Zachow were married be.
meath an American dag at the brides
home in Fond du Lac.
Quincy A. Matthews, sixty-nine
| years old, well known in furniture
manufacturing circles throughout the
| northwest, died at Milwaukee.
| Hobart King Of Woodstock, Ill.,, en-
ployed in tire factory at Racine, had
lis left arm crushed to a pulp be-
| .ween the rollers of colander.
John Latimer. formerly employed as
| an engineer at the school OF
| the Blind at GAINESVILLE, has been or
| dered interned He was arrested last
April on the charge of being an alien
| enemy.
| The nineteenth annual convention
| Of the League of Wisconsin Municipal.
| tiles, which was to have been held
at Racine Aug. 1917, was postponed
until the last week in September.
| After many hours search by scores
| Of farmers the two children of Alfred
Yardy, a Rock county farmer, were
found, one dead, locked in a cupboard
| in a deserted house near their home.
Lena Letteau, fourteen years old, of
Marblehead, left home several days
ago to walk to North Fond du Lac.
She has not been seen since, and the
| sheriff has been unable to find any
trace of her.
Guy D. Golf, Milwaukee, has been
called to report at once in the Office
| of General Crowder, judge advocate.
| general of the United States army, at
Washington The appointment is for
| a special duty"
The city of Racine has presented to
| The Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light company a claim for $4,000, the
| cost of repairing the motorized fire
truck which was wrecked July Is in
collision with street car.
Caught with a heavy grip contain
ng paris green, poison sprayer and
| dynamite sticks near Almond by sew
raj farmers, a stranger was taken to
| Stevens Point for arraignment on
/ charge of attempting to poison cows.
That an attempt has been made to
have Governor Philip include in the
| call for the special session Of the leg
| islature a modification of the anti
trust law passed by the last legisia-
ture is one of the discoveries made.
Insulting remarks against the Amer
lean flag at Kaukauna resulted in
John Collins and Leo Madigan being
led to CONSPICUOUS place in front Of
the public library by crowd where
they were forced to kneel and kiss the
flag ten times.
Twenty-six thousand dollars for
public purposes, in addition to the
sums distributed to employees, was
left by the late Andrew Week, head
of the John Week Lumber company
of Stevens Point, who lied while Wis
| iting in California.
A state convention of delegates
/ elected by authorized county organiza-
tions, for the purpose of meeting and
defeating an alleged pro-German con-
spiracy in Wisconsin, will be held in
Milwaukee, probably in state fair
week, September Ills.
One hundred and fifty prominent
business and professional men, who
conducted successful Red Cross fund
drive in June at Oshkosh, nave effect
/ ed a permanent organization to act
If the state and county council Of de
tense.
Charges have been filed with the
Amigo fire and police commission
against Chief of Police William Cob
lentz and Patrolmah Warren Hill, al
legged to have received money unlaw
fully in the form Of fines which were
not reported to the judge of the
municipal court.
| Resolutions pledging loyalty and
pleading that President Wilson be
given divine strength that his efforts
with regard to the war may be con-
ducive of service to humanity were
adopted at the convention of the IN
ternational Women's Catholic Order
of Foresters at Milwaukee.
The Kenosha exemption board GER
titled to the district board and the de-
partment of justice in Milwaukee the
names of twenty-four Strikers who
failed to appear for examination fol-
lowing the draft call. The men are
mostly foreign born, and only two Of
them are we'll known in Kenosha
Two men were killed and three
others were injured in an automobile
accident on the Calumet road between
Manitowoc and Silver Lake, when the
car going at high speed, skidded and
| overturned The dead are Melvin