The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23

!. Mr.. Elijah Cook, Of Somers, brother
of Capt. Cook, of this city, died suddenly
on Tuesday morning. He had been in
iDoor health for some time, but got IN
in the morning, cut kindling wood and
built the FIRE. Shortly after his wife
asked him what he wanted for breakfast.
but he did not answer. He had a fit of
coughing and laid down and died in a
short time. His funeral services will be
held this Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the house. Mr.. Cook was
about 85 years of age, and was one of
the Oldest residents of the town of Som
srs.
VIM. Tillotson was brought before
Justice Paddock on Wednesday, on COM
plant of Chief of Police Harkins.
charged with using abusive and obscene
language towards him after being lock-
ed up in the engine house. The evil
dence went to show that Tillotson OPEN
ed the window of the lookup and kept
up his abusive and obscene language
for considerable length of time. He
was fined 500 and costs or fifty days
in Jail. The case occupied the court
nearly the whole afternoon. Boys
should be excluded from the courtroom
when cases Of this kind are being tried.
A. 8. Maynard and G. C. Maynard
were brought before Justice Paddock on
Tuesday, the former on complaint of
Horace Blackman and the latter on
complaint of AlbeltT. Fox, charged with
selling them nursery stock on the rep
resentation that they were agents for
Storrs & Harrison, proprietors of the
gainesville, O., nursery. The cases were
adjourned until the Both inst. G. G.. |
Maynard claims that he bought out his
brother, and that he told the parties he
sold goods to that they did not come
from Storrs & Harrison's nursery, and |
that they could take them or not, as
they pleased.
On Thursday evening of last week a |
little girl, about five years of age,
daughter of VIM. Ramsthau, who is
employed in Allen & Sons tannery, at
tempted to cross the track under q
freight train which was standing on it
about halfa mile north ofthe depot. AS
she was in the act of doing so the train
started. Her father, who was standing
near by, attempted to rescue his daught-
er and got caught under the train. He
was dragged for some distance, and had
both OF his legs fearfully bruised, but,
strange as it may seem, no bones were
broken. The little girls arm was SO
mangled that Drs. A. Farr and |!
Rohr, who were summoned, found it
necessary to amputate it. Both father
and child are doing as well as can be
expected. Mr.. Ramsthau says that
when he first saw his daughter her head
rested on the track, and if he had been
, minute later the wheels would have
run over her head.
Railway mileage of the United States
IN 1880 was 90; but the growth of rail t,
roads being commensurate with ma
terial development of the country, in
1885, the mileage had increased 1
20 124, 1886, as shown by the Pocket
Atlas" The Pocket Atlas will be given
rec to every subscriber who pays one
years subscription to this paper in adj
vance.
a young man named Henry FeltZ
suicide by shooting himself
n the head, about three miles south Of
this city, on Sunday morning. He evil
1ently took care that no one would know
who he was or where he came from, for
nothing was found ON him by which he
,ould be identified. His brother saw a
notice of the sad affair in the Sentinel on
Tuesday and telegraphed to Chief of
Police Harkins for information. He
,ame here on Tuesday, and on being
Ihown photograph of the dead man,
recognized it as that of his
brother. He said the deceased left &
lome on Saturday morning, taking his
evolver with him. He kissed the young I
children, but said nothing as to where
le was going. He was a cigar-makerl
~ trade, and had been out of work for
Iome time. His father asked him few
evenings before he left home if he had
ound work, and, on his replying that he
lad not, he told him that he should try
md find employment, as winter was coma
ng on. His brother says that ifhe asked {
or money to go away he could have got
I, but he was quick tempered and too IN
dependent. His brother had the body
lisinterred and took it back to Milwau-
zee, where his parents reside, on Tues 1
lay evening. His was the first death in /
he family. He was about % years Of Z
ge, and unmarried. If