The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-24
WISCONSIN,
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A steer broke its neck By getting
tangled in a field of alfalfa near Ash


Miss Anna Giddings and Captain
Clarence w. Zachow were married be-
meath an American flag 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, H., EN-.
ployed in tire factory at Racine, had
lis left arm crushed to a pulp be-
.ween the rollers of a 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 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
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
a 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
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 ny the last legisla-
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 a conspicuous place in front of
the public library by a 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-
lions, 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
fhn frna
IF the state and county council of de.
tense.
Charges have been fled with the
Amigo fire and police commission
against Chief of Police William Coo
lentz and Patrolman 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 boards GER
titled to the district board and the de-
partment of justice in Milwaukee the
names of twenty-four "shirkers,'' who
failed to appear for examination fol,
lowing the draft call The men are
mostly foreign born, and only two OF
them are well 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
Krause, thirty-three years old, and
Herman Kumerow, fifty, of Two Riv.
ers.
Provision for a permanent organiza