The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17

Thomas Warland is under arrest a

Oscar E. Lee has been appointed as
the head of the state institution for
boys at Waupun.
Mrs. Andrew W. Nelson, sixty years
old, who was born in the town of
Oconomoowoc, where she had resided
all her life, is dead.
George Pubanic, laborer, was SEN
fenced to five years in the state pri-
son for assaulting and robbing Mrs.
Agnes Lentz at Madison.
The five exemption appeal boards
of Wisconsin have held a meeting
in the executive office to perfect and
make uniform their rules
w. H. Burhop, Madison, was ap-
pointed by Governor Philip as the
third member Of the workmen's COM
pensation insurance board.
The secretary of state has issued
certificate of authority to the Cen
eral Steel company of Wilmington,
Del, to do business in Wisconsin.
DR.. w. A. Garfield, President of Gen.
ter college, Kentucky, has been offer
ed the presidency of Carroll college,
to succeed DR.. w. o. Carrier, resign
ed.
Hearings were started last week
by the legislative committee on the
federal highway and law for the To-
cation of trunk.line highways in the
state.
John H. Gardner, postmaster at
McCord, is in jail at Madison follow
ing an investigation, which is said to
have shown a shortage in his &C.
counts.
Colonel Roosevelt will address the
Wisconsin League of Municipalities.
which convenes at Racine Sept. %
Dates were held up pending the colo.
neTs acceptance.
Miss Anita Pleuss, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. D. Pleuss of Madison, was
married to Byron Nelson, son of Con-
gresham John M. Nelson, some
where in Canada"
C. M. Cole, for many years deputy
warden of the penitentiary at Wau-
pun, was appointed by the state board
of control as head Of the state reform
atory at Green Bay.
Philip o. Belknap, twenty-four, who
says his father at South Royalton,
VT, is member of the state legisla-
ture was convicted at Racine of lar
ceny and sentenced to one year in
state prison.
Four important questions are to
come before the special session Of the
Wisconsin legislature, to be held in
November. Among these are the
question Of closing all saloons on Sun
days and revision of the fish and
game laws.
Henry Lampman, aged ninety-three
wears. one of Oconomowoc's pioneer
settlers, died at the home of a daugh-
ter, Mrs. S. J. Hubbard. Mr. Lamp
man had resided at Oconomowoc for
more than sixty years.
The theft of a valuable horse and
buggy from Arthur Pfeifer, a farmer,
living near Vandyne, is believed by
the police to be part of an organized
campaign of horse thieves to secure
animals and dispose of them for use
in the American army.
Rolfe Vnuck, held at Madison, by
federal authorities since attempt to
burn the armory at Neillsville several
months ago, was taken to Fort Sheri-
dan under orders from Attorney Gen.
eral Gregory and interned.
John W. Laabs, farmer, mill opera
tor lumberman and horseman, is dead
at Oshkosh at the age of II. He came
to Oshkosh in 1865 and operated one
of the first -four mills. He also start
ed one of the early sawmills and log
ged for years on the Wolf River near
Shawano.
Governor Philip appointed former
Assemb1yman George A. Buckstaff OF
Oshkosh as a member of the Wiscon-
sin council of defense to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF
Assemblyman George Carpenter OF
Baraboo, who resigned because of
private business.
Thomas L. Vought, who, while a
resident of Madelia, Mimi, was leader
of the posse which captured Bob,
Frank and Cole Younger, members OF
the Jesse James gang of bandits, after
the famous Mortified, Mimi. bank
robbery in 1875, died at La Crosse at
the age of eighty-four years.
Mysterious disappearance of George
,Benediction, farmer, and his auto at
Eau Claire, was made more mysterious
with the discovery of his machine ly-
Ing bottom side up in the Chippewa
river off High bank in the rear of the
home of State Senator Roy P. Will
cox. but no trace of the owner. Two
DAYS later Benediction's body was
found in the river bottom not far
from the machine.
Army commissions announced by
adjutant generals Office in Washing
ton. At Fort Benjamin Harrison-Eu-