The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-06


The home rule amendment to the
constitution was killed in the assem-
bly, after short debate.
The Racine Business Women's So
cial club has been organized with a
| membership of thirty-fve.
Fire started in the attic of the Lake
View hotel, at Shell Lake, by light
ming, destroying the structure.
The fifty-frst annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
was held June 1921 at Kenosha.
Lieutenant C. F. Ellefson, cavalry,
Third regiment, U. S. A., died at the
military hospital at Fort Bayard, NJ
M.
The Bay View lot was the scene of
another victory for Oconto on SUM-
day when Two Rivers was downed 5
to l.
Mean McAllister, nineteen, who had
just returned from ST. Johns Military
academy, Delafield, Wis.,, was killed
by train in Menominee.
Free lunches are under the ban at
Fond du Lac. They disappeared in
all saloons on July L. High cost Of
living" is the saloonmen's explanation.
Herman Zischke, who was gradu-
ated from the University of Wiscon-
sin, has gone to Port Royal, S. c.,
where he will join the marine corps.
Fred Martin, charged with the muir
der at Beloit last spring of Fl. A.
Krause, whose body was found in
Rock River, has been arrested at La
coma, N. Y.
Andrew Jensen, a banker of Edger-
ton, and active in Democratic state
politics, serving six terms as mayor of
Edgerton, is dead at the age of sew
entyfour.
Charles Martin of Oxford, was ar
rested at Fond du Lac for a statutory
offense. Bail was fixed at $500 His
attorney objected, so the bond was re-
duced to $685.
All meetings of the National Ger
man-American alliance and of the
Wisconsin and Milwaukee branches
have been indefinitely suspended be-
cause of the war with Germany.
Gocernor Philip has announced
Green Bay, former member of con-
gress, as a member of the state in
dustrial commission for six years.
Army trucks are being used to
transport student officers as well as
government supplies from Fort Smell
ing to Sparta, where those selected
for the artillery will continue their
studies.
The Grand Temple of Wisconsin,
holding its state meeting in Marinette,
concluded it's session when Green Bay
was chosen as the next meeting place.
J. NJ Fransense of Green Bay was
elected grand templar
The Wisconsin Valley Electric COM
pany has given the Wisconsin Valley
Trust company trust deed on all the
property it now owns or may hereaf-
ter acquire in Marathon, Portage and
Lincoln counties for $15,000,O00.
Word was received at Madison Of
the death of Mrs. o. G. Munson, wife
of Colonel o. G.. Munson, chief clerk
of the senate. Mrs. Munson died at
Viroqua from heart disease, from
which she had been suffering for two
years
An explosion in the power house Of
the state reformatory at Green Bay
resulted in the death of Willes Miles
of Milwaukee, an inmate assigned as
an oiler. Harry Keyes of Green Bay,
an engineer, is in critical condition
from scalds.
The body of Frank Niedbalski, aged
twenty-five, member of Company B,
Third Wisconsin infantry, of La
Crosse, was found near the railroad
tracks about mile from Trevino,
Wis.,, badly mangled. There is.
suspicion of foul play.
The homes of Milwaukees military
registrars have become recruiting sta
tions. Seventy-ive of the men who
served in the booths on duty day. June
5, have announced that they have given
June Is to 80, to the work.
Going to the door of her home to in
vestigate a strange sound, Mrs. P. J.
O'Mara of Eau Claire saw a snake
within two feet of where her four
year old daughter was sitting on the
grass. She grabbed small rifle and
sent a bullet through the reptiles
head. Then she tainted.
The heaviest rain in the history Of
the Wisconsin caused damage in Mil
waukee county estimated at 100000,
caused hundreds of families to fee
from their homes, demoralized steam
and electric railway traffic and
wrought heavy damage to crops. The
rainfall measured $50 inches.
Fred Wilson, an aged recluse liv-
ing on the Saint Croix river, ia Polk
county, was found guilty in the Uni
ted States court before Judge Lands