The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-02-23

PietIO.
Russell Hyatt, eighty-six years old,
a resident of Sheboygan county since
1854, died at the home of his son at
Sheboygan.
Miss Gro Tufte, Lightweight years
old, who had resided on the same
homestead at Nashotah for seventy
three years, is dead.
F. M. Johnson, railroad employee
for forty-five years, dropped dead in
the North Western depot at Green
Bay of heart failure.
William R. Roellig, seventy-three, is
dead from blood poisoning, following
the application of carbolic acid to a
bunion at La Crosse.
Mrs. B. Regain, wife of the station
agent at Brodhead, fell on an icy side
walk and was so injured that she has
lost the power of speech.
An advance of fifty cents per bar
rel in the price of beer was announced
by Green Bay brewers. This brings
the cost per barrel up to S7.40.
Members and former members of
the Manitowoc county board must pay
back to the county $4,000 in fees which
the court holds as Illegally accepted.
Henry Layman, thirty-eight years
old, @ sawmill worker, died from loss
OF blood when he was crushed under
an engine in the railway yards at An
tigo.
The county board of supervisors of
La Crosse county voted to bond the
county for $4,000 for the erection of
a tuberculosis sanatorium at La
Crosse.
The amended moving picture bill
was passed by the senate. 1t empow-
ers boards and councils to legalize
Sunday entertainment under proper
restrictions.
Explosion of gas engine used to
operate a milking machine on the
farm of Edward Whiting, near Foot
vile, caused a fire which destroyed
the $4,000 barn.
William Golden, twenty-five years
old, was so severely gored by an in
furiated bull on his fathers farm, near
Brodhead, ten days ago that he died
from his injuries.
The Manitowoc Shipbui1ding and
Drydock company has announced a
bonus of ten per cent for all employees
who remain in the service of the con-
Germ for three months or more.
Plans for the establishment of state
owned markets in cities and villages
as a means to regulate the prices of
farm products is incorporated in bill
offered in the Wisconsin legislature
Mrs. Elizabeth Lathrop, aged sixty
nine, sister of Chief Justice J. B. Win
slow of the Wisconsin supreme court,
is dead at the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. William J. Fuller at Madison.
Stanley Bartkowiak, twenty-one,
former bookkeeper in south side
bank at Milwaukee, was sentenced to
the reformatory for two and one-half
years on charge of having stolen 3d.
DAT.
Peter Karsten, seventy-twO years
old, one of the earliest settlers in the
town of Brillion, died at Askeaton sud-
denly. He had been chairman of the
town for many years and member of
the county board
Thomas Burns, aged ninety-six
years, the oldest man in Kenosha
county, died at his home. He was an
employee of the Chicago and North
Western Railway company for more
than half century.
John Samuel Day, Of GAINESVILLE, hus-
band of the late Janet B. Day and
father of John Day, the former uni
versity athlete, who was drowned in
Lake Mendoza in 1894, died four
weeks after his wife's death.
At the Sunday service at Trinity
Episcopal church at Oshkosh the vest
ed choir in it's professional and recess.
sional was headed with the cross and
the American flag, side by side. 'Amer-
lea" was also sung with fervor.
A reorganization of the Clark Car
riage company, pioneer industry of
Oshkosh, has been carried out for the
purpose of entering actively into the
manufacture of automobile bodies and
other parts in which wood is used.
Milwaukee and Wisconsin are prac-
tically without COAL The supply in
some of the smaller cities is already
exhausted, while at Milwaukee the
dealers, large and small, are refusing
all orders The car shortage is blamed.
The farm house of Gunder Bjelland
at Clinton was burned to the ground
when an overheated stovepipe started
a blaze. Bjelland was i'll in bed, but
he rose and helped fight the flames.
He froze both feet and is in critical
condition.
The body of Charles Miller, fifty
four, of GAINESVILLE, was found hanging
from a rafter in the basement of his
billiard hall at GAINESVILLE. A loaded
revolver was found in one of Miller's
pockets. Business troubles are be-
Iieved to have caused the suicide.
Members of the Cadet band of Osh-
kosh have repudiated the letter writ