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

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not build into Milwaukee, according
to a statement by an official.
Only nine senators appeared for the
Monday session following the recess
and only short session was held
Walter Whippler was instantly kill
ed when he was caught by falling
log while unloading car at Wausau.
Mrs. Anna Brecheimer, Lightweight
years old, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. c. Gessert, at Elkhart
lake.
Charles S. Van Aucken was appoint
ed normal school regent by Governor
Philip to succeed the late William
F.. Wolfe.
Seven calves born to six cows with
in twenty-four hours is the record es-
tablished on the farm of Ed Klessig
near Manitowoc.
Automobile dealers Of Manitowoc
have organized an association They
will stage the first county auto show
on March 2, and 4.
The resources of Wisconsin state
banks have increased $44,141, $50 dur
ing the last year, according to the
state banking department.
Knocked out of tree by falling
branch, Joseph Kalina fell thirty-five
feet to the ground at Stevens Point
and suffered internal injuries.
Myrtle Malchow, five years old, died
at Oshkosh as the result of her cloth
ing catching fire, when she lighted
Christmas tree left up since the holt
days.
Government engineers arrived in
Green Bay to begin taking soundings
in the bay and Fox river channels pre-
paratory to the work of deepening
them.
Herbert Kreuger, fifteen years old,
was seriously burned about the face
and body when he tried to start fire
in a tank heater with gasoline at
Reedsville.
Stanislaus Lewandoski of Milwau-
kee was found guilty of practicing
medicine without license. He rwas
fined $500 and committed to the house
of correction for one year.
Bishop Paul P Rhode of the Green
Bay diocese, in a letter to the Fox
River Valley Efficiency league, states
his approval of the Evjue resolution,
which was introduced in the legisIa-
ture
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road company applied to the railroad
commission for permission to issue
$1O,000,0O0 worth of equipment bonds
The money is to be used for rolling
stock.
Mrs. Josephine Fisher Leeman, for
mer prominent Kenosha woman and
the wife of Paul J. Leeman, vice pres
ident of the First National Security
bank at Minneapolis, died at Mime
apolis.
The Kenosha county board, by a
vote of Is to /, passed resolutions
providing for the issuance of bonds of
$1,000 to complete the permanent
road building in the towns of Paris
and Bristol.
Former United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson has contracted for $15,-
900 soldiers monument to be erected
on Stephenson Isle, where the new
park to be presented to the city by
Mr.. Stephenson is to be located
Patrolman Lawrence Preisinger, on
duty to preserve order at the Audi
forum among the fight fans, worked
so hard in trying to keep the fans
from booing Fredie Welsh, that on his
way home he dropped dead of apo
plexy.
Sheriff Michael Hallen of Marinette
has petitioned the circuit court to de-
clara invalid the salary provision
made for his office by the last county
board His salary was fixed at $1,000,
with an allowance of $500 for the
board Of prisoners.
Tho Wisconsin Womans Suffrage
association reelected Mrs. H. M You
mans of Waukesha president. Mrs. A.
j. Rogers, Milwaukee, was elected
recording secretary and the Rev.
Olympia Brown of Racine was made
honorary president.
John D. Gillett, aged &c. one of
Superior's best known residents, sue
cumbed to pneumonia after a weeks
illness. He was auditor of the SUI
perior Telegram, which at various
times he served as managing editor
and business manager.
A bill by Assemblyman Campbell of
Milwaukee fixes the penalty for TAX
ing an automobile for joy riding in
prisonment for one to five years and
another to abolish fine penalty for
shooting birds from automobiles and
to fix a Jail penalty at from thirty
days to one year.
AS some of the Milwaukee surgeons
working at the military hospitals in
Vienna, who were sent by the Ger
| man-Austrian Aid society as a Wis
consin unit, are anxious to return
home, substitutes may be sent in the
near future to replace them, according
to an announcement.
A pedestrian has the right of way