The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-05

Mrs. &. II. Tegen, wife of c. III.
| Tegen, architect, died suddenly at
Manitowoc.
Circuit judges from throughout
Wisconsin met in Milwaukee for an
annual session.
William J. Bryan has decided to
come to Wisconsin to open the cam
paign to make Wisconsin dry
! Former Asssemblyman Peter J.
Murphy of Cato is dead following an
illness of several weeks of pneumonia
| John Kusiak, twenty-eight years
old, of the town of Eaton, died from
self-inflicted wound while being
taken to hospital.
The Manitowoc council of Knights
| of Columbus is considering the pur-
chase of a site for the purpose of
building a clubhouse.
Cash gifts amounting to $4,000
were distributed to employees Of the
William Rahr Sons company for
Christmas at Manitowoc.
Mrs. Christoff KralovitZ. well
known resident of Stangelvilie, was
found dead in bed by her daughter
who went to awaken her.
A farmers school, conducted by the
agricultural department of the uni
versity of Wisconsin, will be held in
the West High school in Green Bay.
1t mas cost $17,347 to operate the
state power plant since the first of
, the year, according to M. F. Blumen-
field, superintendent of public pro-
perry.
The annual report of the state high
way commission is a determined pro-
/ test against the methods of road build
| ing which have been in vogue in Wis
consin for years
James Richardson, for the last sew
enteen years a guard at a North
Western railroad crossing at Beloit,
was instantly killed when struck by
passenger train.
Coroner Louis Sellie brought back
to Ashland from Cedar, the body of
Hugh Dundesky, thirty years old, who
/ was frozen to death while on his way
to lumber camp.
Thomas Kearney, late steward at
the Elgin, Illinois, Riverside country
club, was killed when thrown out of
a saloon in Milwaukee Christmas
night, after a bar room row.
Pere Marquette Ferry No. -, which
started for Ludington with a cargo
of freight, returned to Milwaukee on
account of the heavy storm prevail
ing over Lake Michigan
Mrs. Fanny Clough of Minneapolis
died from cerebral hemorrhage
while spending the holidays with her
daughter, Mrs. J. w. Alberts. at Osh-
kosh. She was 80 years of age.
Nearly every day is adding to the
flame of clerical anger against the lax
marriage laws of Illinois in the form of
divorces following the runaway mar
riages to Waukegan from Wisconsin
points.
AS a result of a campaign waged by
Mayor Jacob Wittig against the al
legged violation of saloon laws, six
Marinette proprietors were tried by
Police Judge c. c. Daily and all found
guilty of selling liquor to minors
1t is reported that the lid is to be
clamped on tightly at Menasha after
Jan. Is. Slot machines, punch boards,
all games of chance, including dice
and dice sheets are to go and the
II o'clock closing law will be strictly
enforced.
AS the result of an accident during
which he was injured when the auto
truck which he was driving collided
with a telephone pole at Marinette,
Arthur Burns recovered the use of his
knee joint which he had, for years,
been unable to move.
Archbishop S. C. Messmer being
awakened from slumber to find the
rays of burglars searchlignt illum-
mating his private chamber, tried to
grapple with the intruder whose
flight through a window was all that
avoided an encounter.
The police are holding Frank Teich,
saloon-keeper, in connection with the
death of Thomas Kearney, formerly
stewart of the Riverside club, Elgin,
Ill, who died at Milwaukee of a
fractured skull sustained after being
elected from TECHS saloon.
Beet growers near Marinette have
been presented with an unexpected
Christmas gift amounting to $4,000
1t came in the form of bonus from
the sugar company at the rae of so
cents per ton on all beets produced
for the factory during the last sea-
son.
For a year Miss Ida Darrell kept a
Christmas savings account at a Green
Bay bank. Last week she received a
heck for $12.65, representing her saw
ings for the season On her way home
from the bank she lost the check.
Later the paper was cashed at meat
market.
Life insurance policies as Christ
mas gifts to the employees of the ash
land National bank are for amounts