The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-02-09

Five steamers, inbound, were held
in slush ice at the entrance to Mil
waukee harbor
Kate L. Rosenberg, aged forty-six,
wife of Justice M. B. Rosenberg, is
dead at Madison.
Federal officials have been notified
that counterfeit buffalo" nickels are in
circulation in Kenosha.
Civil service examination will be
held Feb. "a for postmaster at Clarne,
Curtis and Woodwork
Dodge county supervisors voted an
appropriation to purchase a $4,000 au-
to truck for use in highway construc.
ton.
For the first time in the history CT
the county court in Milwaukee, fin
gerprint has been offered in lieu of a
signature to a will.
J. L. Van Beck, sixty-nine years old,
a grocer in Green Bay for forty five
years, died after an illness covering
period of ten years.
At meeting of the principals of
the Waupaca county graded schools
it was decided to hold the next annual
contest at Royalton sometime in May
Several rooms in the Frat school in
Racine have been closed because of
the danger of a spread of scarlet fever
among the pupils, several cases hav-
ing been discovered
Senator George B. Skogmo, La Fol
lotto 10o6nT in fhn hoc
drafted and introduced bill for a
statewide referendum in November,
1913, on equal suffrage
Mike Cook, Kenosha man held in
court pending trial on minor charge,
jumped from the window in the court
house early in the morning and es-
capped. He was later recaptured.
By a vote of So to ~ the assembly
unseated Assemblyman Charles Lentz
of Mayville, as representative of the
First district of Dodge county, and
gave the seat to Edward Labuwi.
Walter Bowman, eight years old, Of
Menasha, lost three fingers by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite cap. The boy
placed the cap, which he had found, on
a stove and pressed it with his fin
gers.
A civil Improvement association has
been organized by Jefferson citizens
with the following officers E. Waite,
president; the Rev. Mr.. Moussa, vice
president; J. Smith, secretary and
treasurer
Thot Cor,p1oc of MILL produood froY,
dealers at Oshkosh show higher bac-
terra count than they should is the
claim of the civic department of the
Twentieth Century club after an in
vestigation. F
A modern roundhouse to cost $275,-
900 will be built at Madison by the
North Western railway company dur
ing the coming season. 1t is probable
that the Monona yards will be chosen
as the site.
Charles Prosser was injured when
he was struck by an eastbound limit
ed train near the Milwaukee road pas
senger station at Oconomowoc. He at
tempted to cross in front of the in.
coming train.
Miss Frances Bannach, for almost
six years county superintendent of
schools in Portage county, has decided
not to be candidate again. She con-
templates taking a course at Column
bia university,
Miss Clara 3. Larson at La Crosse
fell to the brick pavement because a
street car conductor started his car
too soon. 1t cost the Wisconsin Rail-
way, Light and Power company $3,8
037.50 in court.
Work of clearing the Hamilton
homestead of Fond du Lac to make
way for the park given to the city for
a playground site by the five sons of
Woodman c. and Mary T. Hamilton
will begin shortly.
Plans are announced for 100000
general hospital building of three
stories high, to be built at Ashland
this year. Forty thousand dollars was
raised by popular subscription two
weeks ago and the site has been pur-
chased
A remarkable number of cripples
has been discovered in the northern
part OF Portage county west of Ros.
holt and it is believed some epidemic
like infantile paralysis has been rag
ing there as few accidents have been
reported.
Attorney General Walter c. Owen
rendered an opinion to District Attor-
ney Grady of Port Washington in
which he ruled that desertion of
wife about to become mother could
be combined with charge of child
abandonment.
William Russell Bush, eighty-four
years old, one of the Oldest residents
of Wisconsin and grandson Of
Jacobus Bush, who was an officer in
the war of the revolution and the
war of 1872, died at his home in the
town of Somers in Kenosha.
J. P. Bower of Cavenovia, had a de-
sire to see city life so he drove his
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