The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

clan, was found dead in his office in
the State Bank building at La Crosse.
Charles McEachron, resident OF
Union Grove, seventy years old, shot
and killed himself with shot gun al
his home.
The annual show of the Wisconsin
Poultry association was held at the
University Stock pavilion at Madison,
with more than 1000 birds entered
Orson Nelson, a newspaper man of
Beloit, while at Toronto, Canada, re-
ceiyed his appointment as vice consul
of the American consulate at Moscow,
Russia.
Jacob There, farmer residing on
the Shawano road in the town of
Maine near Green Bay, met instant
death when he fell from wagon load
ed with wood
Following an announcement that
the price of milk would be raised at
Green Bay from to 8 cents a quart,
distributors stated the price would re-
main at the first figure.
More than 20 per cent of all deaths
reported throughout Wisconsin in No
! ve,nber were of children under four
years of age, according to the report
of the bureau of vital statistics.
The Rev. James Gessl, formerly
chaplain of ST. Mary's hospital at Osh-
kosh, died at the age of eighty-one.
He was native of Germany, and was
ordained to the priesthood in 1859.
The thermometer registered thirty
degrees below zero at Brentwood sew
eral days during the last week of
1916. This is a record mark for this
section of Wisconsin in December.
Mrs Adella Thibaudeau, aged sew
enty-six years, resident of Brown
county for over half century, sue
cumbed at her home following an i'll
ness of long duration She was born in
Belgium
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Scott Clark,
residents of Green Bay for twenty
eight years, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. The couple was
married in southern Wisconsin and
later moved to Oconto.
An amendment to section 4O75 of
the Wisconsin statutes was recon-
mended by the committee Of rules
and procedure of the circuit judges of
Wisconsin in convention at Milwau-
kee, to be presented to the next leg
islature.
The contract for an addition which
will double the size of the Great
Northern Railroad car shops at SUI
perior has been let to New York con-
tractors. The construction and equip
ment will involve an outlay of nearly
100000.
Colonel Joseph E. Grain, formerly
of Logansport, Ind, has become gov
ernor of the Soldiers home at Mil.
waukee. Colonel Grain declined to
comment on the proposal of the ma
tional board of managers to abandon
the home.
The increase of $11,O0O,OO0 in the
net taxable incomes assessed in 1916,
in Milwaukee county, for which taxes
are now being collected, will be ex-
ceded in 1917, if information being re-
ceived daily by the assessor of in
comes is correct.
Chicagoans are planning on estab-
fishing a milk receiving station mid
way between Green Bay and Depere.
The milk will be shipped to compan-
les in Milwaukee and Chicago and
later, it is stated, a cheese and butter
factory will be erected.
Fred NerbOnn, twenty-siX years old,
express messenger on the Omaha
road, who had both legs cut off under
a train at Fairchild is dead. Nerbonn
slipped on an icy platform and fell
under a passing train. His waiting
wife witnessed the accident.
Arthur E. Oehrle, twenty-five, of
Milton Junction, and Otto Rohloff,
thirty, Lima, were killed, and William
Kidder, thirty, of Milton Junction was
badly injured when an automobile
driven by Rohloff turned over on the
road between Darien and Delavan.
That the gross budget recommends
tons to the joint finance committee of
the coming legislature will approx
mate s30,000,O00 was advance predic-
Ion of members of the state board Of
public affairs. This estimate was of
ficially set at a meeting of the board
with Governor Philip.
Alonzo A. Lopez, one of the foun-
ders of the Republican party and the
last of the notable group present at
the birth of that organization at
Ripon, Wis, in 1854, died suddenly,
aged eighty-seven years. Mr. Lopez
had been a resident of Fond du Lac
county for seventy years.
John Sweeny, chief of the Green
Bay fire department, has been made
defendant in an action instituted by
Bert ]. Bardwell in an attempt to re-
cover $4,000 for the death of his son,