The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30

ZION, resented suggestion that he ought
to pay for liquor that he had refused to set
tie for at Mrs Mtller's saloon by shooting
Mike Freshman fatally.
IOWA.
The strike mania got hold of the high
school pupils at Pella recently The disease
began spreading when it was announced
that the usual weeks vacation, the custom
for the last fifteen years, would not be
granted this year, and sixty pupils from
seven to sixteen years OF age babe defiance
to the powers that be, and marched out of
the building in body, with banners and
Stars and Stripes Haunting over the truant
heads. The strike continued all day. In
the evening the parents got wind of the
matter and informed the youthful rikers
that they guessed they would join in the
strike, too" The did, and the sounds of
weeping, and wailing, and splitting of
shingles that arose from those sixty "young
Americans" have perhaps never been
equaled in the history of any other town in
the country.
The Farmers Alliance of Marcus is about
to build an elevator with a capacity of
twenty thousand bushels
The mayor of Keokuk has issued procla-
nation for the closing of all the saloons of
the place by May l. The move is in the in
terest of testing the Prohbitory law.
M. J. Hurlburt, cooper and an old and
respected citizen of Cedar Falls. commit
ted suicide the other day by hanging.
Sioux City is to have an elevated rail-
road, company, with a capital put at
1,000,O 900, having prepared articles of
incorporation.
W. G. Storz, wealthy farmer residing
near Carroll fell deal a few days ago.
1t is understood that the will of the late
T. ]. Potter, of Burlington, bequeaths all
his property, estimated at 5000, 900, to his
wife and children.
Two white swans were noticed to alight
in the river in front of Fort Madison the
other day. An old hunter said that 1t had
been more than twenty years since a swan
was killed in that vicinity.
Pete Ringo, who was elected member of
the City Council of Monte1uma, is the first
negro ever elected to a position in Powe-
shiek County.
Arbor Day in Iowa is set for April 81, the
anniversary of General Grants birthday.
The Commercial National Bank of Du-
buque closed its doors to the public few
& Graves Manufacturing Company. of Min
neapolis, developed the fact that the bank
held the paper of that firm to the amount
of over 100000 Pres dent Graves was
not interested in the Mime polls firm, but
had favored his brother, j. X Graves who
was interested, and the sequel was heavy
loss to the bank The loss will be about
$50O.OOO.
A fire in Iowa Falls few days ago
burned fuckers elevator, Office and corn
cribs. Loss $13, 200.
WISCONSIN.
The great Mosier estate, consisting of
$50, 600. 600, In the Bank of England, and
to which there wert originally some years
ago five hundred claimants, is, it is said by
one of the number living at Ashland, soon
to be divided among eighty, who have
proved their lineage.
A fire at Milwaukee the other morning,
starting in Atkins & Co. IS shoe mandatory
ex ended through an entire block, causing an
aggregate loss to large number of firms of
1925. 900; insured for about 1875, 600 4
side wall fell, burying dozen firemen in the
debris. Herman Lecher and R CHI nd L tngton
were killed and three others fatally injured.
Constantine Oscer, agent for the John
Gund Brewing Company, of La Crosse, was
arrested at Eau Claire the other evening
charged with embezzljng 1925 belonging
to the firm.
George W. Peck, the Milwaukee humor-
list. has presented a public drinking fount-
ain to the town of La Crosse, which was
his home for many years.
W. II. Lusley, railway mail-service
clerk, was arrested at Milwaukee a few
lays ago for robbing the mails, his pecula-
lions amounting to about $4,000 He was
caught by decov letters
The Wisconsin Central Railway Company
has purchased the right-of-way between
Rib Lake and Tomahawk The route was
surveyed last fall
Brother Adolphus, of the Sacred Heart
College at Watsrtown, died recently, aged
seventy-three years
Estimates OF the seasons logging on the
Black river and its tributaries in this State
place the amount banked to date at one
hundred and forty million feet
Recently while R c. Jopp, the teacher in
the Ironwood school distric5, Barron Coun-
ty, was walking to Rice Lake from Clear
Lake he was chased by wolves and il his
light was obliged to throw away his Over
shoes and overcoat in order to escape
Silas Cummings, a farmer living near
Trempealeau. was drowned in the Missis-
sippi river recently by breaking through
the ice His body was found six miles from
the scene of the accident
Charles Tesch, carpenter of Appleton,
has in his possession a snuff-box which is
hundred and fifty years old Mr. Tesch's
father-in-1aw carried the box for the
greater part of the ninety~two years of his
life, and he in turn had received it from his
fathaE to Whom 1t had lcng heea GEM
raptsn.