Jacobs worked for the Milwaukee Journal from 1931 until 1962.
The Milwaukee Journal said the cause of death was a heart attack.
When he died in 1899 the news was carried on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal.
He retired in May 1922 and was for a time associated with the Milwaukee Journal.
At age 10, he won a cartoon contest from his local paper the Milwaukee Journal.
The Milwaukee Journal reported this week that the cost to taxpayers for 11 such trips on military planes was more than $370,000.
The Milwaukee Journal became the paper's primary competition for the next eleven decades.
Some contemporary reviews were relatively positive, including one from the Milwaukee Journal.
From 1968 to 1981 he worked at the Milwaukee Journal, where he was made sports editor in 1975.
The Milwaukee Journal did not say how it obtained the results of the audit.