The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-26

corporate as village.
Assemblyman w. A. Campbell, Mil
waukee, introduced bill to repeal the
law prohibiting duelling.
The Travellers Insurance club will
hold its annual convention in Green
Bay during the month of July
| The Wisconsin colonization, Eau
Claire, to develop northern Wisconsin,
was incorporated with the secretary of
state
Lieutenant Charles D. Wood mem
! Der of the Oshkosh fire department
for the last sixteen years, expired on
the street
! Joseph w. Damn, thirty five,
brakeman, was killed by 500 freight
have fallen from car.
The Wisconsin troops now at Fort
Sheridan will be mustered out on Jan.
10, according to the announcement of
Adjutant General Ho1way.
Governor E. l.. Philip has appoint
judge to succeed J. w. Soderburg,
elected district attorney at Barron.
The increased cost of labor and
raw materials has caused the Stevens
Point Brewing company to raise it's
rate for beer twenty cents barrel.
DR.. R. E. Minahan, of Green Bay.
was one of the speakers at the pro
hibition meeting William Jennings
Bryan addressed at Madison on
Jan. %.
A total income tax of $5,344,393.51
was assessed against corporations and
individuals Of the state, according to
the announcement of the state tax
commissioner
c.. E Reed of Thorpe was unani-
mously reelected president of the Wis
consin Cheese Makers association at
Fond du Lac. Milwaukee won the
1913 convention.
J. S. Adrian, widely known as Sec
rotary and house manager of the Elks'
clubhouse at Racine, has rendered his
resignation in order to take full
charge of Hotel Racine.
Professor William Porter, professor
emeritus of Latin, Beloit college, cele-
brated his ninety-seventh birthday on
Jan TO- Professor Porter is said to
be the oldest American college profess
sor.
The state bank commissioner has
issued a charter to the Farmers bank
of Viroqua The new bank has CAPT
tai stock of $4,000 Christian Elefson
is president and Thomas 0. Mork,
cashier
Frank Pillar, released from the
state penitentiary after serving a
term fol- burglary and who was taken
into custody at Oshkosh to be examin-
ed as to his sanity, committed suicide
by shooting himself
Two employees of the lime kiln at
Grimms were seriously and probably
fatally hurt in an explosion which oc-
Cured while they were placing a
blast. The injured are Michael Logan
and CLANCY De Bar.
A. c. Wolfe, La Crosse, will in all
probability, be named to succeed the
late William F. Wolfe, his brother, as
United States district attorney for the
western district of Wisconsin, accord
ing to Democratic leaders.
A warrant has been issued for Rex
Wunderlick, rich lumberman, owner
of general stores and summer re-
sorts in Langlade, charged with hav-
ing enticed 14-year-old Indian girl
to his home by giving her whisky.
The subscription list and good will
of the Wausau Deutscher PIONEER have
been purchased by the Wausau Woch
enblatt and the publications will be
merged as the Wochenblatt and
PIONEER with H. j. Heise as manager.
In grave on Lookout mountain, be-
side that into which Buffago Bill was
lowered, lies the body of White
Beaver CDR. B. Frank PowelD. former
mayor of La Crosse and comrade of
Colonel Cody in the early days Of the
plains
James Patron, twenty-one, was SEN
fenced to six months at hard labor
for clipping with Mrs. Pearl Voelkers
of Clinton, Ia. Mrs. Voelkers was re-
leased on promise to return to her
husband, who is now living at Rock
ford, Ill.
Patrick Fitzpatrick was found
guilty at Chicago in Judge Brothers
court and sentenced to year in the
bridewell for contributing to the de-
linuuency of Bernice Gleason, twelve
year old daughter of Oliver Gleason
of GAINESVILLE.
John Lover. arrested at Whitewater
in connection with the shooting of
Charles Disc, thirty, and Nick Ignit
vki, twenty-five, confessed to police
that he shot both men, according to
a statement given out by Private De-
tective Walter Diamond, Beloit.
William Elmer, seventy years old,
section boss for the Chicago and
North Western road between Ply
mouth and Glenbeulah for the last for
ty years, during which time he had
not missed days work, died from