The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

NO. spring, nominal.
At an early hour one morning recently a
freight train on the, Northwestern Road
ran off the track at Wrightstown, Brown
County, smashing several cars and block
aiding the main track for several hours.
The morning passenger train southwark
was delayed an hour in consequence.
At fire alarm in Fort Howard, Brown
County, recently, the Fort Howard engine
turned out, but tipped over and was
smashed considerably. The Green Bay
engine also turned out and broke spring.
The Sheriff of Waukesha County was re-
Gently mistaken for burglar, and the
mistake was not discovered till the arrival.
of lantern. eg a
In saw-milI at Milladore, Wood Couu-
! ty, a boiler exploded recently, one-half of
it being hurled three hundred feet, just
over the heads of twenty men, without in
juring anybody. oa5ae 5
Jim O'Hara, single, twenty eight years
old, was accidentally shot at Milwaukee
a few days ago with a revolver cartridges
by Frank Corwin, who was firing at a tar
| get. O'Hara would die. d-,5ss
G. L. Colby and other leading citizens of
Milwaukee have taken steps to establish in
that city a university which shall do credit
to the West. 1t is stated that endowment
funds to the amount of 100000 have all
ready been subscribed, and contributions
are being made in the surrounding cities.
Captain George Lawrence, who died re-
Gently at Waukesha, sailed round the globe
in 1885, in command of the Champion, and
had since been active in lake commerce.
A second fire horror has occurred to dis
tinguish the chronological record of Mil
waukee for the year 1888. At an early
hour the other morning blaze occurred in
a frame building occupied by the family
of David Selig, merchant tailor, by
which three daughters-Dora,a aged twelve;
Hermina, aged seven and Rosa, aged three
years-were overcome by the smoke and
persisted, the bodies of the two older girls
being badly charred by the flames. Mr..
Selig and his wife and four other children
succeeded in escaping from the building
The fire was supposed to be Of an incendi-
airy origin. 5 }as Hffs
James Reilly. Supervisor of the town of
Washington, Eau Claire County, was
killed by lightning the other day.
Mrs. G. Bulman, of Marshfield, Wood
County, purchased goods from a peddler
and gave, asishe thought, a five-dollar. bill
in payment. Later she discovered that
she had given fifty dollar note by mis-
take. Mr.. B. Immediately started after
the itinerant merchant, and his absence
from the mill, as head sawyer, next day
threw fifty men out of employment.
Moral: Patronize home merchants who
will not take advantage of mistakes. a5
Peter McGeoch's creditors have signed
the compromise paper, and $3.50, 900 cash
to settle has been sent to Chicago. The
lard refineries at Milwaukee were running
night and day, and yet were fifteen days
behind in filling orders. Shipments for
the past four weeks have been over $3,0O0.-
000
The will of the late Napoleon B. Cas-
well, of Milwaukee, covering an estate Of
100000, has been admitted to probate,
Judge Mann deciding that deceased was of
sound mind.
During fight at picnic near La Crosse,
the other day Ed Brinkman was knocked
down by man named. Mcleod and danced
upon with fatal results.
Grace CORTLAND, known as the "Witch
of Wall street," went from Chicago to Mil
waukee the other evening, and meeting
her daughter with William Jones on a
street corner gave him horsewhipping.
Burglars ransacked the residence of j.
G.. Rood, in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Coun-
ty, the other night, and got one thousand
dollars worth of property, including gold
certificate for five hundred dollars.
The Custer monument has been shipped
from the Montello (Marquette County,
quarries to the fatal battle field on the
Little Big Horn.
The Directors of the University of Mil
waukee, recently Incorporated, have
elected the following officers: President,
Charles L. Colby; Vice-Presidents, w. P.
Rev. F. A. Mason; Treasurer, J. i. Colby.
A man named Vickmeyer, an employee of
Panatz & Co., lumbermen, at Manitowoc,
was crushed to death the other morning
near the depot. A passing locomotive
frightened the team which he was driving,
and as they commenced to run Vickmeyer
was thrown under the heavily-loaded wag-
on, the wheels of which passed over his
body, killing him almost instantly.
A new bank is in store for Madison-the
Capital City Bank. DIR. William Jacobs is
President; NJ. R. Doyan, Vice-Presi-
dent; j. w. Hobbins, Cashier. The
principal stockholders are: Colonel Will
lam F. Villas, DIR. William Jacobs, NJ. r.
Doyan, j. w. Hobbins, James Hausinann,
Samuel Klauber, E. r. Curtis, James E.
Rhodes, E. P. Villas John Hudson and
Thomas Regain. The capital stock is $780,
000 The place of business will be in the
Villas House.
Morris Helwig, employed at the West
side Manufacturing Company's mill, at
Eau Claire, was shot in the left lung few
mornings ago, by the premature discharge
of twenty-two-caliber revolver in the
hands of another party. The victim lin
gered until two O'Clock in the afternoon,
when death ended his sufferings.
The following named gentlemen have
been elected officers of the Wisconsin
Council of the Catholic knights of Ameri.
ca: Spiritual Director, Rev. J. Schweback,
of La Crosse; President, J. Fl. M.Wigman,
of Green Bay; Vice-President, Edward
Gillen, of Racine; Secretary, Henry Mul.
holland, of Manitowoc; Treasurer, Pat
rick Tyrrell, of Milwaukee. -
James Griffith, clerk in the post-ofice at
Berlin, Green Lake County, was drowned
recently in the river near Berlin. He was
out in boat with another young man,
when the boat capsized. Griffith, although
good swimmer, was drowned, while his
companion, who could not swim, chung
fast to the boat and was rescued.
A young man named Adolph Berninger
was drowned at Fort Howard, Brown
County, a few evenings ago, while bathing
In Fox River. He was twenty-one years
Of age, machinist, and hailed from Mil
| Waukee.
Thomas Drummie, a resident of Mil.
1aukee, fell from train near that city the
other night and was instantly killed.
August Bueche, laborer employed in
shoveling coal at the dock in Milwaukee,
while walking along the dock at eight
O'Clock the other morning, lost his balance,
fell into the water and was drowned. He
leaves wife and six children in destitute
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