The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-07
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Briggs of Milwaukee.
The finding of a mans body in a
clump of bushes on the road leading to
Pike Lake, near Hartford, has aroused
the sheriff's office to a thorough in
vestigation.
Louise, nine months old, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley, J. Smith, liv-
? ing on farm, four miles from Desoto,
drowned in swill pail containing six
inches of liquid.
Philip Wolski and his ten year old
son of Chicago are under arrest at
Milwaukee for robbery. Wolski is al
legged to have forced his son to enter
house and rob them.
Disappearance of a group of ally
flags displayed in the village of Pc
waukee, has stirred up the villagers.
The rope to which the flags were at
tached was cut at both ends.
Mayor Daniel w. Hoan, Socialist,
sent a message to Louis P. Lochner,
secretary Of the Peoples council, at
Minneapolis, welcoming that organiza-
ton to hold it's meeting in Milwaukee.
Benjamin Hambli1, soldier in the
Canadian army, was sent to jail for
one year on a charge of family aban-
dOnment. He came to Beloit on fur
Tough and his wife caused his arrest.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Kunzelmann, As,
of Milwaukee was thrown to the
floor and bruised when the gas stove
about which she was working eXplOd-.
ed. Mrs. Kunzelmann was taken to her
home.
Margaret, the sixteen month old
daughter of August Purchatzke, of
BOnduel, was drowned in a water tank
on the home farm when she wander.
ed away after being left unmatched
by her mother for few minutes.
Men who are sent to the Battle
Creek cantonment camp by the local
boards must have Identification tags
attached to their coats and their hand
baggage, according to a ruling by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder
Whether Governor E. L. Philip will
permit the National Conference OF
Peace Councils to meet in Milwaukee
instead of Minneapolis, where they
were prohibited to hold a meeting will
depend much upon the purposes of the
meeting.
Col. BOwley, cOmmandant at Camp
Robinson, twenty-five miles from La
Crosse, where $4,000 United States
regular artillerymen are training, Is
sued an order prohibiting soldiers
from visiting La Crosse on Saturdays
and Sundays.
Hanging lifeless with a rope around
his neck, Otto Forsphand, 4 German,
fifty-nine years old, was found at his
home about a mile from Enterprise.
He had made an improvised gallows
by mailing up rafter and Sprung
the trap" by kicking a chair.
The worlds need of trained medical
officers, which must be supplied by
the United States at the earliest pos
sible moment, is emphasized by reso-
lutiOns adopted at meeting of the
medical section of the Wisconsin COM
mittee of the national council of de-
tense.
Theodore Roosevelt has been iu-
Vited to speak in Milwaukee the lat
ter part of September by the Milwau-
kee county council Of defense. He
intends to address the league of Wis
consin Municipalities in Racine on or
about Sept %, and the county council
would like to have him visit Milwau-
kee just before or after his talk in
Racine.
Mrs. Nell Mclaughlin, New London,
dropped off in KenOsha to stop an i'll
quest over herself. When Mrs. Nc
Laughlin left Kenosha week ago
she left an armful of parcels at the
Northwestern road station. When she
called for them she found that they
had been the means of identifying the
body of a woman found drowned at
Kenosha
Teacher may l so down into the
basement and get a CARROT" That
may become an ordinary request in
Fond du Lac schools if the plan of the
county defense council to use the
school Easements as storages for the
big surplus crop of vegetables raised
this year is adopted. The board of ed
ucation will consider the matter at its
meeting next week.
A Reliable metal pencil which ex-
ploded in the hands of Ludvina Roso-
ski, of Green Bay, tore three fingers
from her right hand. According to the
child's parents her grandfather,
street cleaner, found the pencil and
placed it in drawer at the Rosoki
home The girl asserts she found the.
pencil and while attempting to ex-
tract the lead it exploded.
A city wide search is being made by
police and firemen for Clarence Runte
twenty-one years old, an alleged Sire
bug" who escaped from the Hospital
for the Chronic Insane at Wauwatosa