The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-02
MICHIGAN,


shorter and more pithy sermons
MICHIGAN.
The Frankfort Lumber Company suspend
ed recently and selected trustee to wind
up the business
O. Peterson. aged forty-five years, fell
upon saw at Cherry Grove recently, and
was cut in two diagonally across the chest
and abdomen He leaves widow and six
children
squaw was found frozen to death in
Manistee the other morning. She was drunk
when last seen alive
lire at Morley the other evening de-
stroyed the Grand Rapids & Indiana depot
Loss, $5, 900; partly insured
The warden of the State prison is to adopt
the Bertillion method of identifying Grim
mails This consists of the accurate meas
urement of the head, the length of the
middle and little fingers, length of the left
foot, left forearm and right ear, height of
the figure. measurement of the arms and
measurement of the trunk 1t is said to be
impossible for person to conceal his iden-
uty under this method
Counterfeit ten dollar silver certificates
got into the banks. A few days ago George
A. Aoross and Richard A Gardner were ar
rested while trying to pass bad bill, and
several thousand dollars of the stuff was
found on them
Bruce Mathews, aged twenty-eight years,
was instantly killed the other afternoon at
Haffey's lumber camp, east of Stanwood,
being caught and crushed between logs
Mr.. and Mrs H. Bartholomew, of Bass
River, are the parents of baby with seven
toes on each foot and six fingers on each
hand.
A bulletin has been issued by the State
Board of Health reciting the prevalence of
smallpox in many portions of the country,
and advising the people to protect them
selves by vaccination.
Charles E. Young, former secretary and
treasurer of the Michigan Carbon Company
at Detroit, who had been locked up since
January II for the alleged defalcation of
$4,000, was released recently, a compro-
mise being effected
Joseph FL. Whipple, who organized the
Pembroke knitting mills at Battle Creek
two years ago, and was president and gen.
eral manager of the company, disappeared
the other day, and investigation showed
that he was a defaulter to a large amount
The present senior class of Hillsdale
College has among it's members father
and his son, aged respectively fifty three
and twenty-five Next June the father,
Rev. G. Jackson, will graduate from the
course in theology, and his son, G. A. jack
son, from the classical course.
MINNESOTA.
The Mosquito mills, about twelve miles
from Winona, were burned a few nights
ago The property was one of the old land
marks. and was owned by William Duncan
SON Loss, 1857, 900; insurance, $40,
L S. Simon, prominent Hebrew citizen
of St Paul, was found early the other
morning lying in dying condition in the
hall of the Davidson Block, in which he had
rooms He lived but few hours and never
regained Consciousness. He had evidently
been murdered.
Willard F. Bagley, assistant freight agent
of the Omaha road, died at St Paul the
other morning.
During recent storm Mrs Helen Gustav
son, living in Framnas, was frozen to death.
In going from the house to the barn she
got lost and wandered two miles from
home
A Chicago detective recently identified
DR.. August Towsky, convict in the Mime
sofa State prison, sentenced from st. Paul
in 1855, as A. G. Zawtoski, who disap-
peared in Chicago six years ago, and was
claimed to have drowned himself His
wife sued for the So. 500 life insurance he
carried, but payment was delayed, and the
of no OF tbo oil
death was only an attempted swindle is at
last proved true
Two freight trains on the Northern Pacific
railroad collided recently while running at
full speed, near Motley, demolishing en-
gines and cars, but no one was injured.
Superintendent futile states that the
North American Telegraph Company will
build a line from Duluth to Winnipeg next
spring.
John Olenach, night-watchman at the
Owatonna packing-house, died the other
morning from injuries by an unknown as
sailant
A report is current that ST. Paul, Mime
apolis and Chicago capitalists will build
railroad connections with Alaska, China
and Russia.
Three prisoners, named Billy O'Conners,
the notorious Minneapolis post-office rob-
Der; Frank St Clair and William Thomas,
both awaiting trial for highway robbery,
escaped from the Ramsey County jail early
the other evening.
A steel steamboat to run on the Upper
Mississippi river is being built at Dubuque,
Ia 1t is expected that it will make the trip
between St Louis and St Paul in half the
time now taken up by the wooden vessels
This will be the first steel steamboat in the
passenger and freight business on the
Upper Mississippi, and 1t will cost about
$4,000 49,, ~.sa
DAKOTA.
The Chase County farmer who essayed the
blowing act on grounding day had both
arms and one leg amputated to get the
frost out of him.
:. In 1873 there were about seventy-fve
Sunday-schools in the Territory, with 2, 500
members, Now there. are 1000, with
membership of 10000 During that time
Dakota's population increased 80 per cent,