The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-07
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
INTE r Re STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.


What Our Neighbors Are Doing - Matters
of General and Local Interest Mar
riages and observation-disclosures and Crimes
Personal Pointers.
John B. Clark, of Thorp, an amateur
chicken fancier, has been experimenting
in crossing the long-legged Brahma and
short-legged bantam, and claims as re-
suit to have breed of chickens with one
long leg and one short leg.
About $3,Os6,O5O were expended in
Improvements in the city of Superior dur
ing 1880. Of this sum railroads are
credited with $500, 900; corporation i'm
provements, $545,O00; village $247 900.
The balance, 1904, $50, in hotels, bust.
ness houses, docks and residences
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Moore and daugh.
tiers, of Fond du Lac, have completed
plans for pleasure trip through the
South to New Mexico and Mexico, Cali
fornia and Alaska. The trip will occupy
seven months.
Afford Burton is in Jail at Black River
Falls under suspicion that he is the Dan
Began who murdered man in Texas,
and another in Indian Territory and for
whose capture there is standing reward
of $1,000.
Frank Mucha was run over by log
ging sleigh containing 1000 feet of logs,
four miles east of Mosinee The front
sled passed over his body, after which,
while trying to crawl out of the way, the
rear runner caught his left leg and broke
it between the knee and ankle.
The Board Of State University Re-
gents has secured the introduction in the
Legislature of bill to provide for me-
| chanics' institutes to be held under the
direction of the university in the larger
cities of the State. The plan contemplates
system of institutes for instruction in
mechanics, similar to the popular farmers
Institutes, now under the supervision of
the university. An institute conductor is
to be employed. The bill also provides
for course Of study in railroad and cleo
trical engineering, and for the further de-
velopment of the department of mechani-
cal arts in the university An appeopria-
ton of II per cent. of the funds derived
by the State from the license tax upon
railroad and other transportation compa-
MES, telegraph, telephone, and other cleo
trical companies is asked to carry out the
provisions of the act.
| The Secretary Of State, Ernst G.
Tlmme, has issued the following notice.
All publishers of weekly newspapers printed
| in whole or i'll part in printing Office the
| pace where such newspaper purports to be
| published, or if not SO printed tnat have been
established and regularly published for FIVE
| years prior to the Ola of the approval of this
| act, aVing bona ide circulation to actual
| subscribers of not less than three hundred
| copies each week and which shall have been
| regularly published for six months pr or to the
| opening Of each session of the Legislature, who
| shall publish i'll their respective newspapers all
| of the acts of general interest passed at any
| regular session of the Legislature, which shall
be designated by the Secretary of State, in the
official State paper, as copy laws" shall be al
| upon filing with the Secretary of State salts
| factory proof, by affidavit, that such laws have
been published as provided in this section,
! which amount shall he paid out of the general
fund of the State Treasury.
|
prepared report of their official opera
tons for the calendar years 1887 and 1885,
The Commissioners deem it no longer
necessary to dwell in much detail upon
the importance of the work committed to
their charge and the necessity for it's
continuance. That the artificial propa-
cation and distribution of fish by the
State is an undertaking of great eco
nomic Importance, there now remains no
doubt, say the Commissioners. The en-
terprise is no longer an experiment in
Wisconsin. Fish fry was distributed as
follows:
Brook trout: ............... :.935ooo 2,2s5ooo
California rainbow trout. 1,345,OOO 100000
+ 'ke neutrality-suspicious.. S,SJO,O00 4, $50 GOO
Cup .:.................... IL, 3, 437
! Wmtehsh OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81, 100000 18,C00C00
The Commissioners have concluded to
continue the whitefsh hatchery at Mil
waukee insteld of removing it to. Mari
nette, where the available water is not
suitable for the artificial propagation of
fish. The catch of food fishes in the great
lakes by Wisconsin fishermen in 1887 was
5,54l, IA pounds, and for 1888, s, $50, 7S0
pounds. In 1887 the fishermen obtained
$3.50, 1863 for their catch and in. 1888 $270,-
595. The number OF nets used In 1888
was 1907; value of property employed,
1887, 7O6; persons engaged, 628.
- The Supreme Court has awarded
Bentley & Nowlin, Milwaukee contractors,
$22, OBS against the State, that being the
amount claimed by the plaintiffs due them
for reconstructing the south wing of the
Capitol after it's disastrous collapse in
1883. They were original contractors, and
the State maintained that they were re-
sponsible for the di saster On the other
hand, the plaintiffs contended that the
plans furnished by tie State were faulty,
and the Supreme Court so held
= Constable Eldred, of Highbridge,
Ashland County. has been placed under
$4,000 bonds to appear before the Circuit
Court to anwer to the charge of assault
with intent to do GRE bodily harm on the