The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-19
WISCONSIN. BRIEFLETS.
NTE r e STING TIE MS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

ana DeatnS-AccfuentS and CrlmeS-Per-
sonal Pointers.
Farmer Kinney, of Kenosha, had a
bloody encounter with two tramps, whom
he found hiding in his barn. When Or
dered out they refused to GO, and he at
tempted to forcibly eject them. Grab
bling one of the men by the collar he at
tempted to drag him from the building,
when the tramp dew long bladed knife,
and turned on the farmer. Mr.. Kinney
was unarmed, but endeav ored to fight the
man off with his fists. The tramp used
his knife freely, slashing Kinney across
the face and inflicting two bad cuts in
the farmers arm. The two men broke
away and fed. Kinney seized a pitch
fork and pursued them, overtaking the
man who used the knife. Another strug-
gle occurred, during which Kinney thrust
the tines of the fork through his an
tagonist. The tramp fell and Kinney then
plunged the bloody fork-t tines into him
again and again, inficting fatal wounds.
The Wisconsin Grand Lodge Knights
Of Honor, In session at Milwaukee last
week, chose the following officers: Grand
Dictator, Louis SLIDER, Milwaukee; Grand
Vice Dictator, Frank Challoner, Omro;
Grand Assistant Dictator, Samuel j.
Shafer, Colby; Grand Reporter, c. D.
Howard, Milwaukee; Grand Treasurer,
E. S. Sherman, Manitowoc; Grand Chap
lain, G.. w. Carter, Waupun; Grand
Guide, Fred Peterson, Appleton; Grand
Guardian, Charles Smith, LaCrosse:.
Grand Sentinel, Joseph Hammel, Neills-
vile.
-Baraboo people have raised 81, 500
for the erection of a Young Mems Chris
tian Association building
john Weber, of Milwaukee, is the
champion butcher of the world.
-Diphtheria has just carried off six OF
ten children of a Milwaukee man named
Zindaft
-Horsethieves are active around Su--
perior.
About 200 of the Iron Belt miners at
Hurley have been discharged, because of
a slack metal market.
Large parties of duck hunters start
out from Ashland daily. They find the
head of Chequamegon Bay fine field for
the sport.
Wonderful has been the prospective
of the twin cities of Menominee, Mich,
and Marinette, Wis. recent letter from
Menominee thus refers to the subject:
The big mills here, which, in connection with
those across the river, cut more lumber annu--
ally than the mills at any other place in the,
world are giving up their Chicago lumber YARDS
as fast as their leases expire, and pile their
lumber here, shipping direct from Menominee.
This necessitates the dressing OF the lumber,
and this work, in connection with sash. doog
and blind factories already in operation and to-
be built, will double the number of workmen
employed within the next two years. Menomi-
nee has 1000 people at present, and Mari
nette has 1850. An increase Of 100 per cent.
in the number OF workmen should double the
population of the two towns, and Menominee-
and Marinette, which had Ii 900 people alto
gether in 1885, will probably have a combined
population of 40, 600 in 1892 Pine logs and saw
mills have built the two cities, as they have
built the Saginaws and the two Bay Cities in
Lower Michigan. Like the cities named it viii
be necessary for the twin cities at the mouth OF
the Menominee River to obtain manufacturing,
the tinbers will be exhausted some time. Ii.
takes the stumpage from great many acres to,
afford the 5OO,0000O0 feet of logs annually sawed
here.
The Iron Belt iron mine, near Hur--
ley, owned by the Standard Oil Compa-
ny, was closed last week, throwing over
two hundred men out of employment.
The ore mined this season rema aims unsold
on the docks at Cleveland.
Peter Pearsons, passenger condnc--
tor on the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Road, while attempting to board a
train at Rhinelander, fell under the
wheels and was instantly killed.
"A dispatch from Hudson says: Sen
ator John c.. Spooner, who, with his.
family, has been several weeks at his old
home in this city, is quite i'll of low
malarial fever. Since Friday of last week
he has been confined to his bed, and
though he is now better, and slowly
mending, it is likely to be several weeks,
before he regains his usual rugged.
health"
The city of La Crosse is completing:
an abattoir.
Mason D. Sampson, the new ConsuE
at St. Johns, N. B., is son of Rev. W.
Ell. Sampson, pioneer Methodist prea CHI
er of Wisconsin, and one of the founders,
of Lawrence University.
La Crosse fremen have lost their
dog-"Old Dexter" He never failed to-
attend fire, running with the cart" at
every alarm. Locked in building when.
the alarm came in, window was no bar,
to him. He was II years old.
lightning struck telephone pole at
Sturgeon Bay and burned 200 feet of wire
so completely that no trace of it could
be found. About twenty telephone con-
nections were burned out
Another saw mill will be build at Ash
land during the winter It will be- the
largest yet built in that city.
Joseph Marx, of the town of Harri-
son, Calumet County, was kicked in the