The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-15
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Thomas Burns, of Dubuque, in attempt.
ing few days ago to lift large stone on
wager sustained rupture from which he
died q few hours later.
Mrs. William Hammersbach and her
daughter May were drowned the other
night by the giving way of bridge over a
a gulch about mile from Panama.
The County Superintendent convention
for thirty five counties of Northern lowe
will be held at Cedar Lake Park June 81,
% and 90.
Manager Miller, of the ST. Paul road, re
Gently issued an order reducing the work.
ing hours in the car-shops in Dubuque to
nine hours a day.
The contract will soon be let for the
building of the Sioux City & Northern
railroad from Sioux City to connect with
the Manitoba system at Wilman, Mimi
The enterprise is purely local, and Sioux
City township alone voted $25O,00O in aid
Barbara Witt, German woman, threw
herself into the Mississippi at Dubuque a
few days ago ard was drowned. She was
addicted to the use of liquor and quarreled
with her husband shortly before drowning
herself.
Hitchcock, Sons & Co.'s Safe in Detroit
was cracked by burglars the other night
and two hundred dollars in cash taken.
Mrs P. O'Malley, wife of wealthy
farmer living six miles north of Red Oak,
was found dead the other night She had
become deranged from grief over the death
of son, and committed suicide.
Recent advices from many points on the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
chn hot fhn -, i
condition. Small grain was excellent
everywhere and corn was doing well. The
hay crop would be immense
A. G. Mershon, Jr., of Newton, was ar
rested the other night and bound over on
the charge of forging the name of Levi
Roberts, his brothers father-in-law, to a
note for g. 100.
At Des Moines a,few days ago Constable
Frank Pierce. sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary for attempting to extort
money from druggists by threats of prose-
cution, appealed to the Supreme Court and
was released on 1,500 bail.
Philip Huffman, of Lyons, while tempo
rarily insane the other evening shot him
self in the breast with both barrels of a
shot gun. inficting fatal wounds.
At Mason City recently the coroner's
jury in the Brown poisoning case returned
a verdict that H. /. Brown came to his
death by taking arsenic Intentionally
placed IN his coffee by some person I'M
known. The report says that "the said
jury are led to suspect from the evidence
before them that Fl. E Brown is guilty of
the deed.'' FL. E. Brown is the son of the
murdered man.
Elwell & Babcock's fiour-mill at Laporte
was burned the other morning Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 81, 00O
WISCONSIN,.
The twenty fifth annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railr3ad was held at Milwaukee a
few days ago, and Roswell Miller was
elected president; Frank S. Bond, vice
president, and Roswell Miller, manager.
Albert NJ Kenneth was found guilty a
few days ago of the murder of Annie Dan
iels in Lacrosse. 49,
John Quinn, sixty years of age, was SEN
fenced at GAINESVILLE. recently to one year in
the States prison at Waupunfor forgery of
note for $3.50.
The sheriff of Eau Claire County recently
arrested George Ackley. at Portland, Ore.
ance companies at Eau Claire, and embez-
zled &, 900 and fed.
Burglars at Green Bay the other night
robbed NJ F. Merrick's house of three
watches and jewelry valued at 800.
The mysterious disappearance of Frank
l>1owran, of Ashland. was recently cleared
up by the finding of the young mans body
in Chequamegon bay, where he had sui
cided
x-Judge c. E. Dyer, gave banquet at
the Milwaukee Club the other night on the
occasion of his retiring from the bench.
About fifty guests were present
William Thompson, aged twenty-five
years, died in Chippewa Falls a few nights
ago from a dose of poison given him by
mistake by drug clerk
Jacob Truax, who accompanied Robert
Fulton on the second trip of his steamboat
the, ssClermont on the Hudson in 1907,
reached the age of one hundred years a
few days ago. Mr.. Truax was born in
Steuben County, n Y. He has lived with
his son in Eau Claire for twelve years.
The .Sheboygan Manufacturing Company
has been bought by Sheboygan parties
holding mortgages and will continue to
run with a full force, starting up about
July 1.
Prof. Henry, of the Wisconsin Exper
mental Station, received word from
Washington recently that the seventeen
year locusts are due to appear in the coun-
ties of Walworth, Waukesha, Dane, Iowa,
Grant. Rock, Sank, Jefferson, Riehland;
Crawford and Green this year. They APP
peared there before in 1854 and 1871.
The logging camp of j. G. Kennedy at
Burberry Station Douglas County, was
entirely destroyed by fire few days ago.
Agatha Paterson, aged thirteen years,
met mysterious death by drowning re-
Gently at Wausau. Her bfother-in-law
accused her sfep-father of having made
way with her.