The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-02-16

destroyed by fire. The loss is eSti-
mated at $4,000.
What is described as the worst coal
famine in the history of Racine has
hit the city severe blow.
Door county will have five new
cheese factories within few months,
it is announced at Sturgeon Bay on
good authority.
Giving i'll health as the cause of his
action, Assemblyman Frank Schnettle,
Monrovi, rendered his resignation to
Speaker Lawrence Whittet.
Leo Sommers, for twenty-five years
editor and publisher of the Weekly
Madisonian, died at his home at Madi-
son, aged fifty-eight years.
The body of Joseph Jarvis, city
treasurer, was found frozen on his
rear porch at Menasha. He is believed
to have died suddenly of apoplexy. I
The Stanley house, Chippewa
Falls landmark, may be razed in few
months. The state hotel inspector has
declared that the hotel must be over
hauled.
The electrical plant of the P. & B.
Manufacturing company was totally
destroyed by fire following a mysteri-
Gus explosion at Milwaukee. Loss was
$4,000.
Beaver Dam was without mail or
passenger service two days and with
out freight service four days. AS a re-
suit there is shortage of coal and
other necessaries.
Mrs Barbara Van Hecke, ninety
years old, resident of Stevens Point
and vicinity for about f1fty-three years,
is dead. She had suffered since De-
cember with fractured hip.
Members of the Ashland Mannerchor
have met and declared their purpose
of standing by the American flag in
case of war with Germany. Several of
the members were born in Germany.
Messages received in Kenosha from
Los Angeles announce the death of
Mrs. Anna Flynn Corcoran, widow of
the late Captain Thomas A. Corcoran,
formerly prominent in the Chicago
fire department.
Governor Philip has announced the
appointment of Fred Pabst, Oconomo-
woo, as a member of the state high
way commission for the term ending
in February, 1928 Mr.. Pabst succeeds
J. H. Van Doren.
Plans to dedicate Wisconsin's ST.
100000 capitol with appropriate exer-
cises in which the people as a whole
should participate are being recon-
mended to Chambers of Commerce in
Wisconsin cities.
Richard F. Kaiser, for the past four
years secretary of the civic and COM
merce association at Eau Claire, has
been elected to succeed John Lind as
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce in KenOsha
M. Snyder, a Keuosha general store
keeper. turned the tables on a would
be holdup man when following an or
der of hands up he closed in with the
fellow and in the scuffle secured pos
session of the revolver.
Professor Harry Packman of La
Crosse, known all over the northwest
as an organist and teacher of note,
received word from England that six
of his near relatives have met death
fighting in the British army
municipal art gallery, the dream
of the Sheboygan Woman's club, is
about to be realized. A committee is
raising funds now to start collection.
The first pictures purchased are to
be the works of Sheboygan artists
The governor also announced the re-
appointment of C. w. Harvey, Beaver
Dam, G. N. Mihills, Fond du Lac, and
II. L. Griswold, West Salem, as mem
bers of the state fair advisory board
for the terms ending in February,
1921.
Eight children in one family have
been found to be suffering from diph-
iberia in a home at Stevens Point
which consists only of bedroom and
kitchen. The mother is showing symp-
toms of the disease. The family is en-
tirely destitute.
Assemblyman Carl Hansen of Mani
towoc, who is considered conservative
in most things, has introduced the
most radical bill at this session of the
legislature. Mr.. Hansen proposes to
regulate and limit during a political
campaign the advertising rates of
newspapers in Wisconsin.
Professor Gordan G. Gable, Mich
igan agricultural college, Lansing,
has been named to succeed Professor
E. L. Liddle, who resigned from the
faculty of the county agricultural col
lege at Onalaska, three miles from
La Crosse. He is an athlete and will
coach all the teams at the institution
Pottawatomie Indians in Menominee,
Marinette and Florence counties are
to receive $4,000 from the United
States government for the loss of
their lands, according to Denission
Wheelock of Depere who has just re-
turned from Washington, D. c., where
he put the claim before the commit
tee on Indian affairs.
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