The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-02-09

held on February "a for rural letter
carriers at Dancey, Wausau and Iron
River
Henry Ferguson, fifty-six years old,
former president of Plainfield and of
the village of Marshall, died from
pneumonia
The daughter of George Bell was
burned to death when his home near
Rolling Stone Lake caught fire. Mrs.
Bell was severely burned.
Governor Philip has announced
that he would reappoint G. N. Mills
of Fond du Lac as a member of the
state fair advisory board
Ernest Magee was held up in his
confectionery store by robber who
fired one shot and then fled with
package CT cigarettes at Racine.
Aiz0 F. Pierce, aged eighty years,
and probably the Oldest living pioneer
Of Kencsha county, dropped dead at
mis- home in the township Of Bristol
In q sweeping freight rate decision
the Wisconsin railroad commission or
dGred reductions which statisticians
state are upward of 100000 annually.
There are total of 1888 inmates
in state institutions, and county
asylums, according to the census just
completed by the state board of con
troll.
A holdup man entered a saloon at
Racine and shot Martin Monk, the
bartender, in the thigh when the lat
ter offered resistance. The robber OBJ
tanned $50 and escaped.
Fire destroyed the Beer Block at
Manitowoc, causing a loss estimated
at between $4,000 and $4,000 A
plumbers torch in the basement is he
lieved to have started the fire.
After two years of security, during
which he has established fourishing
tailor shop at Austin, Mimi, Wenzel
e. Kabat, 'lifer" escaped from Wau-
pun, was brought back to his cell.
Governor Philip has announced the
appointment of A. L. 'Kreutzer, Wau-
sau, and Judge Emil Baensch, Mani
towOc, as members of the free library
commission for the terms expiring on
June 1, 1881.
Health Commissioner Rutland has
prepared a warning to the public con-
corning the scarlet fever epidemic at
Milwaukee. With 352 cases reported,
every effort is to be made to check
the cOntagiOn.
Creditors of the Castle Engineering
company, a La Crosse firm with for.
mer extensive South American bust
ress, will receive five cents on the
dollar, it was estimated after a bank
ruptcy hearing.
The Algoma Street Methodist
church of Oshkosh will be enriched to
the extent of $1,000 as the result of
The bequest in the will of Mrs. Alice
A. McMillen, widow of Robert McMil-
len, wealthy lumberman.
The Rev. P. S. Dagnault, formerly
one of the most prominent members
of the clergy in the Green Bay Cath
Ollie archdiocese, is dead after fifty
years of service in the priesthood. He
was eighty-four years old
Claiming that the shooting was an
accident, William Bum pleaded not
guilty at Madison to having killed
his divorced wife, Myrtle Bum.
Bunn's attorney entered plea of in
sanity and the case was continued.
Mrs Frank Ewaldt, forty-fve years
old, probably was fatally burned and
her two years old daughter is dead as
the result of an explosion of an infla1n-
mable fluid with which Mrs. Ekaldt
was cleaning wearing apparel at Mar
inette.
John Bohn, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Racine county, died at his
home at the age of eighty-four years.
Within a few hours of Mr.. Bohn's
death another of the county's oldest
citizens, Johann GoetZ, eighty-one
years old, passed away.
Cut off by flames which were de-
Mimi, near La Crosse Mrs Steiner
Rierson risked her life to save her
three year old son, sleeping on the
second floor. She sustained severe
burns but saved the child.
Thomas r. M. Hefferman of Chicago,
a junior in the department of journal
ism, has been accepted as one of the
FIVE so far chosen to go to European
battlefelds as a member of the am
bulance squad to represent the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in the field.
Approved plans were received from
the state highway commission for the
completion of the Sheridan road in
Wisconsin. They provide for a fifteen
foot concrete road from the limits of
the city to the state line. Three and a
half miles of the road remain to be
built
Boxing in Wisconsin is due for
correction, according to bill asking
for revision of the present law call
ing for an amendment which provides
for the refusal of guarantees and the
naming of winner of all bouts by
three persons to be selected by the
state.
What is hailed as one of the inn