The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
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The largest income tax charged to
any Oshkosh resident was paid by
George F. Gilkey. He turned over the
sum of $4,000 to the city treasurer.
Frank r. Weeks, of San Francisco,
former Green Bay baseball magnate,
was married in ST. Patrick's cathedral
to Miss Rose Burkhardt at Green Bay.
The diphtheria danger at the state
school for the deaf is over. All have
been released from quarantine. There
were two cases, neither of them seri-
Gus.
Henry Clay Arbuttle, known as the
dye wizard" who was sentenced to
the reformatory for three years, has
been assigned to bench in the over
all factory
woe makes the rate $26.32 per thou
sand this year, an increase of twenty
six cents over last year. The total tax
is $83,566.9O.
1t cost the state about twenty-seven
e cents each to obtain the vote of the
militiamen on the border, according
to an estimate by the secretary of
states office.
Joseph M. Connors, manager of the
GAINESVILLE Clothing company, arrest
ed two clothing thieves cowing them
in a corner with a Ratchet until the
police arrived.
Two years in the state prison at
Waupun was the sentence gwen in
municipal court to the young man
who robbed the Becker drug store at
Omro recently.
The annual conference of Rotary
clubs in the Observation-Disclosures dis
trict has been formally voted to SUI
perior January % by the ten organiza-
tons in the two states.
James e. Welch, aged fifty-one,
known personally by nearly every
travelling man in the northwest who
has made Oshkosh during the last
thirty years, died suddenly.
Mystery surrounds the death at Mil
waukee of nineteen year old Annie
Whitmeyer of Marinette, who was
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girl died en- route to hospital.
A terrific explosion shook buildings
at ShebOygan when tank of benzine
in the finishing room of the Sheboy-
gan Couch company was ignited. Con
rad Keindecker, foreman, was en-
veloped in flames and may die
Mrs. Dora Mills, aged thirty-eight,
of Fort Atkinson, who had been with
her husband, Lieutenant Delbert D.
Mills, Company B, First infantry, Wis
consin brigade, on the Texas border,
died at sanatorium at San Antonio.
The Allen-Bradley company of Mil
waukee, manufacturers of mechanical
devices, filed an amendment to it's
articles of incorporation in the office
of the secretary of state, increasing
it's capital stock from $4,000 to $136,
600.
Mayor Clarence Dennis of Ashland
has been asked to assist in the search
of August KuetZ, who is wanted at
Tacoma, Wash, in connection with
the settling of an estate. Kuetz is
said to be an heir to large sum OF
money
James Johnson, seventy-one years
old, former assemblyman from the
Second district, Waukesha county
and pioneer of the town of Waukesha
where he was born March z, 1S45
died at his home in the village of Muk-
wOnago.
Mashed against hot boiler when
the freight engine of which he was
pilot collided with a 500 line switch
engine and was thrown over steep
embankment, Henry PATTI, forty-five
years old, was instantly killed at Ste
vens Point
In the contest for member Of the as
sembly at a special election held for
the district comprising the counties OF
Burnett and Washburn, J. H. Jensen
of Grantsburg won out over Frank
Hanmel of Spooner by forty-five votes
Both are Republicans.
Approximately $4,000, nearly the
entire estate of Ira Hardy, an aged
widower and former railroad man
WIZ LNCu Ill OSCluOIOu DIT OSuhOSu lOt
number of years, was left by him
to the foreign mission board of the
Methodist Episcopal church
The Allis Chalmers company an
nounced a bonus to the employees who
are regular in their working hours for
the next year, the ten per cent in
crease to apply through the entire
coming year. The bonus applies tc
5000 men and viii total nearly $3.50,
000
The National Brake and Electric
company, the Wisconsin Motor Manu-
featuring company and the Kemp
smith Manufa curing company, Mil
waukee concerns, have announced IL
per cent increase in pay to all mer
who are in the employ of these com
panies Jan. /.
That he could have avoided indict
ment in Chicago by paying $4,000
hush money, but that he refused tC
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