The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-29

worth.
Two hundred Norwegians at Eau
Claire attended the annual meeting of
Osterdalslaget.
The assembly voted $4,000 for the
building of an infrmary at tie Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
C. B. Willis. for thirty-five years
general secretary of the Milwaukee
Y. M. C. A., has resigned.
Governor Philip has signed the
bill for the creation of big prison.
farm on the forest reserves in North.
ern Wisconsin.
Efforts to legalize the Morris plan
banking system in Wisconsin failed
whe nthe state assembly by vote of
40 to % killed the Jennings bill.
State Senator A. j. Pullen, member
of the United States Medical Reserve
corps, has been notified he will be as
signed to base hospital in France.
The nine year old son Of Frank
Klatt, town of Kronenwetter, was run
Anterior, and died later at Wausau
Rudolph Kosnar, Lena blacksmith
was accidentally killed by a gunshot
wound through the chest while hunt
ing wolves. He was sixty years old.
Six men are being held in the
Marinette county Jail on charges Of
committing robberies in Marinette
county during the last few months.
Stanley Brown, Chicago white slav-
er, was sentenced to Fort Leaven-
worth prison in United States court
for a term of two and one-half years.
With an appropriation of $4,000 for
a postoffice, Ripon has asked the gov
eminent to use the money for the ma
toms defense instead of a federal
building.
Two hundred members of the Wis
consin Painters and Decorators as
ISOLATION will assemble at Fond du
Las on Aug. 1 and 2 for their annual
convention.
Henry Holmes, aged thirty-two, was
instantly killed by limited train
while driving an automobile across
the interurban tracks at the Rapids
crossing at Racine.
Agents of the federal government
connected with the office of the Uni
ted States marshall in Milwaukee
came to Kenosha and disciplined two
women who had been charged with
disloyalty.
The body of Oscar Dunn, who killed
his wife at their farm home near
Frederic, was found in a clump of
bushes not far from the house by
posse of armed men who had been
searching the woods for him.
A five day search ended in the dis
covery at Beloit of the body of Roy
Roberts, aged twenty, son of M. L..
which had lain in mill race since
the youths disappearance June Is.
With the launching of the steamer
Poitiers, constructed for French
railroad company, at the Superior
ship yards, the last vessel to be built
at the yards for private interests dur
ing the war went into the water.
Because he declares the police have
prosecuted the bluejackets, Captain
w. A. Moffet, commandant at the
Great Lakes naval training station,
has prohibited his men from visiting
Kenosha either on business or pleas
ure.
A load of cheese weighing AGO
pounds and worth more than $1,000
was hauled to Amigo from nearby
cheese factory. The consignment was
shipped to Texas. A recent shipment
of Langlade county cheese was sent
to England.
Winnebago county purchased liber
ty bonds to the amount of $1,121,700,
falling short of it's estimated allot-
ment by about s150,0OO. The City of
Oshkosh bought s635,OOO worth of
bonds and the remainder Of the coun-
ty took s486,200 worth.
After six years of litigation the con-
troversy between Thomas M. Lally,
until recently New York manager of
the Crane company, of Chicago, and
his divorced wife, Maria B. Lally, over
his estate, has been settled by the
transfer to her of $4,000.
Yvonne Darlington. an actress, filed
a petition in county court at La
Crosse to regain her ten year old
daughter, Beverly Yvonne Caring
ton, adopted by Miss Ella IngWerson,
matron of La Crosse hospital,
where the child was born.
The body of Charles Curry Chase,
vice president of Banderob-Cha
Furniture company at Oshkosh, was
found in the basement of his home. A
shotgun was securely fastened in
wise at which he had been accustom-
ed to clean the weapon. 1t is believed
he was killed by an accidental explo-
sion.
Kenosha is planning to hold big