The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-11
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.

interesting Items Gathered rom
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.
Fire at Chester the other afternoon de-
stroyed the building of the Southern Hi
nois penitentiary, occupied by the Western
Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Company, at a
| loss of ST., 900 to the State on the building
and from So, 900 to $780, 900 to the contract
| ors on machinery and stock.
E. d. Wilburn, of Lincoln, who was
worth 600 three years ago, but ran
| through it all, was arrested recently for
forgery.
The Chicago & Alton depot at Lexington
was burned the other evening.
Charles Clark. farmer living near De-
catur, recently lost thirteen head of good
cattle which he had been feeding all winter
on wheat straw An examination found in
| the stomach of each a ball of Irvine the
size of a baseball and of the kind used on
his Irvine binder during harvest.
| George Hense was killed at Marshall a
few days ago by the accidental discharge
of pistol in the hands of James Sullivan.
Andrew Russell, ST., prominent busi-
ness man Of Jacksonville, was killed the
Peterbaugh & Heffer, dry goods dealers
ct Lanark, failed recently for $4,000, with
assets estimated at $4,000.
| At Alton few days ago the Right Rev.
James Ryan was consecrated Catholic
Bishop at Alton.
Near Hindsboro the other day Misses
Stokes and Williams, aged thirteen and
fourteen years, while wading in a pond
stepped in an old well and were drowned.
Mrs. S. N. Shoup, of Sangamon County,
was probably fatally injured by vicious
pigs few days ago.
Oliver Miselliohn, Rockford boy who
was frightened by another boy who threat
| ened to throw him into a printing press,
died the other day from the effects of his
| fright. As
Monticello camp, Sons Of Veterans, was
| mustered in at Monticello few days ago
| with twenty-five members.
| Charles 81. Newman, night switchman on
| the "Q' road at Abingdon, was killed the
other night in jumping off from the fast
mail train m
| Three Northern Illinois switches were
| opened at Syracuse a few days ago by
7 some unknown person, and freight train
| was wrecked.
| George Steiner, of Decatur, aged fifty
nine years, was found dead in an office
| stairway the other day, the coroner's YER
dict being accidental death.
| Recent reports regarding the imprisoned
| Chicago anarchists at Joliet were to the
effect that they were Woodworking, we'll
behaved and in good health.
l 3 TnJT
The Bowman brewery at Marshalltown
| has been converted into pickle factory,
| and the proprietors desire to contract with
| the neighboring farmers for five hundred
acres of cucumbers.
1 John Mcguire, a prosperous farmer liv
| ing near Holy Cross, Dubuque County,
committed suicide by poison recently.
Mrs. George JONES' wife of General
Jones, Of Dubuque, died suddenly the other
morning, aged seventy-six years. Her hus-
band, who survives her, was the first SEN
ator from Iowa on its admission, serving
from 1S48 to 1855, when he was appointed
Minister to Bogata General and Mrs.
Jones were married in January, 1929.
| The Iowa sportsmens' annual tourna-
ment will be held at Des Moines June 5, 6
| and 4
| IA little four year-old son of William AUX
run, of Union township, was playing around
team Of horses recently when, getting be-
tween the hind feet Of one of them, the
horses suddenly backed, stamping the life
| out of the boy.
The remains of Mrs. Anna Kaebrick,
who suddenly disappeared from her home
| in Charles City some time ago, were found
| few days since in the Cedar river, two
miles north of there. She leaves two chill
| dren, one babe but q few weeks old. 1t
| was case of suicide.
The twenty-sixth annual session of the
| Iowa State Dental Association was held re
Gently at Iowa City
| The sons Of Jacob Hum in Hardin County
| unearthed nest Of eight young wolves the
| other day and got a pocketful of silver for
their scalps
| A gasoline tank exploded in Cherokee re-
/ Gently and " shook up'' the natives in a
lively manner. No lives lost; one man is
minus his beard.
| Rome Woodworth, of Algona, recently
| killed trumpeter swan measuring seven
| feet from tip to tip.
1 The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
| Omaha Railroad Company has filed 103
suits of ejectment against squatters in
Woodbury. County on lands claimed by the
company under the old Sioux City and st.
Paul land grant.
4 Horse thieves were raiding Dubuque
/ County recently. Mr.. Keiter, living near
IsDyersville, had four valuable horses stolen
from his barn. The Anti-Horse-Th Thief Asso-
citation would take steps to secure and pun
@ish the thieves
II Constable Chapman raided the Monitor
House at Des Moines few days ago and
i took in twelve bottles of beer
| WISCONSIN.
| The hunters in Northern Wisconsin are
much provoked at the wholesale slaughter
of deer by wolves during the last winter,
and say that, as result, there will be no
| deer-hunting in season this year. The for
/ ests are Uttered with the bones of deers
that, owing to the extreme depth of snow,
| fell easy victims to the ravenous wolves.
Wisconsin lumber-drives have got along
SO well that the three heaviest concerns in
the Chippewa valley have begun saving
R. Dougherty's house, at Eagle Corners,
was struck by lightning the other after
noon, tearing up the inside of the house
and instantly killing his sister law, Jen-
ME Elliott.
The Indebtedness of Milwaukee is So, S44,
500, a reduction of $196, 500 since the last re-
port.
Mrs. Ann T. Mather, widow of Judge
III. F. Mather, who was one of the first set
tiers of Chicago, died at Beloit few days
ago.
s. Nathan Foote, of Rhinelander was given
a Judgment recently against the M4neapo-
lis & Sault Ste. Marie railway for S. 900 for
injuries.
George, Jr., and Robe, of Stoughton, have
paid IS 900 for a site in Madison, on which
to erect at once $4,000 steam flou r-mill
IS. Governor Rusk has reappointed DIR. 3. L.