The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-13
There were five murders, thirty-three
suicides and forty violent deaths in Mil
wankee during 1887.
MICHIGAN.


waukee during 1887
MICHIGAN.
Governor Luce has designated Tuesday,
February Ia, as the date of the special cleo
ton in the Eleventh district to choose a
successor to Congressman Moffatt, de-
ceased
E. d. CoibaTth, dealer in agricultural
implements at Mason, committed suicide
the other day by cutting his throat
The State Board of Agriculture has ar
ranged for Institutes at South Haven, jan
uary 24-2o; Grand Rapids, January 1927;
Maple River, January 81 and February L;
Ithaca, February 2-3; Harrisville, February
SO; Cassopolis February 1914; Adrian,
February 14-16; Tecumseh, February
1917
A stabbing affray in which six Poles were
engaged occurred at Detroit few days ago,
three OF the men being fatally injured
The State Swamp-land Board appropri-
ated fifteen hundred acres recently to aid
in the improvement Of Grand river from
the Jackson city limits to the junction of
Portage river. abo ut four miles distant
at Vermontyille the Central Touring mills
were burned the other morning, together
with one thousand bushels of wheat Loss,
SIG, 600; partly insured
Rev J. I. Robe, of Kalamazoo, died few
days ago, aged eighty years He was the
pioneer Methodist minister of Kalamazoo
County, preaching the first sermon there in
| 1882, and he organized most of the early
Methodist churches in Southwestern Mich
| igan and Northern Indiana.
Ralph. Jones, eleven years old, of Jack
son, while coasting the other day was car
| ried under street car and fatally injured
Thefrst train crossed the international
bridge at Sault Ste. Marie the other after
noon. Many prominent people were on
board The train was given a grand send
| off on3the Canadian side and met with an
| immense reception on the American side.
Through trains are now running.
fire at Vandalia the other day destroyed
several buildings, entailing loss of $25,
900; insurance, $4,000.
The Executive Committee of the Grand
| Army Association of Michigan, in session at
Adrian recently, Endorsed the pension legs
| lation now before Congress, and voted to
pledge one thousand veterans to the Ma
tional Encampment at Columbus
Senator Palmer has 100000 worth of
Percheron horses on his farm near De-
troit and he has just sent an agent to Da-
| mascus to purchase some Arabian stock
for him Senator Palmer's farm consists of
657 acres and log cabin which cost
| $4,000. His specialties are Percheron
horses, Jersey COWS and Blenheim spaniels
MINNESOTA.
Major ]. T. Wallace, who organized the
prosecution of parties who sold liquor to
Indians in Minnesota, died in Washington a
few days ago.
A fire at Fergus Falls recently destroyed
| the high school building. Loss, $50, 900;
| insurance. $4,000
The Northwestern elevator at Ada was
| burned the othersafternoon, together with
| thirty thousand bushels of wheat Loss
$25, 600
| John Crosby, of Minneapolis, president OF
| the National Millers Association and senior
| member of the big flour milling firm OF
| Washburn, Crosby & Co., died the other
morning of paralysis of the heart
The Church Hotel at Owatonna, owned
| by Mr. Albro, was burned the other morn
ing. The fire was caused by the explosion
OF a gasoline stove. a
T. s. Mortimer, owner of the Mortimer
| Apartment House, burned at Minneapolis
recently, has assigned on account Of the at
| tachment of his insurance. Assets include
! 500, 000real estate, said to be heavily incum-
! bered, and insurance G47, 500; liabilities,
| $40, 175, due local creditors
| An investigation by the Adjutant- General
| shows that the State funds have not been
| tempered with
| Eugene Lucy, for tho murder of James
| Gates at dance at Henning, was sentenced
| by Judge Searle at Fergus Falls the iothe1
| day to imprisonment for life in the States
| prison.
General E. B. Alexander, of st. Paul, died
at the residence of his son-in-law, Colonel
| G. N, Lieber, in Washington, the other
| evening, eyed eighty-six years. General
| Alexander graduated at West Point in 1928.
| Timothy Barrett, whose brother testified
to seeing him kill Thomas Olafson, was
found guilty of murder in the first degree
| at Minneapolis few days ago.
| The saw and planing-mill of J. n Howes,
at ST Hillaire. was burned the other after
| noon. Loss, $4,000
| The Rum River Boom Company will put
| in sorting boom at st. Cloud to handle
| thirty million feet Of logs
Duluth wants crematory. A prominent
citizen has offered to donate the site.
While working on the ice palace at St
Paul few days ago Ernst Hoenspet fell
from the top OF the turret, distance of
| sixty-fve feet, and landed at the bottom in
| bed of chopped ice. He was fatally in
jured
Coffee John, the proprietor of Min
neapolis restaurant on a bet of $40, recent
| ~ ate 500 oysters in two hours He ate
125 raw, 125 stewed and $50 steamed, and
finished with thirteen minutes to spare.