The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-11
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INTE RE STING ITEMS GATHEREEs
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters
of General and Local Interest = Mar
riages and Observation-Disclosures and Crimes
Personal Pointers.
Mr.. 'Steinbach, of the town OF PoILss
Washington County, has an educated
blue-jay. 1t can sing, whistle, and talk
The bird was taken from it's nest when
only week old, and it is now two wears
old.
The Peshtigo Lumber Company has
secured about 81, 900, 600 feet of logs thE
past winter, which with the Il. O00, 600
On hand will give it good seasons buss-
ness.
There are now $50 prisoners at Wat
pun--434 men and sixteen women.
William KOCH of Ahnapee, has in his
possession half a dozen grains OF gold
that he took from the crop of beheade6z
chicken short time since.
The good ladies of shawano leased "a.
bui!-ling, furnished it with choice reading
matter, and threw it open to "the bows,
from the woods" There they can feel
perfectly at home, conduct themselves like,
harmless beverages, and eventually return.
to their homes with the earnings of hard
winters work in their pockets, instead os
dropping the bulk of their cash TO ear3
sharps, who ever lie in wait for them.
james E. York, who constructed the
blast furnace power in Ashland, which Is
the largest of its kind in the world, made
proposition to the Ashland Business
Mems Association lately for the rection
of mammoth structural steel plant, -.
employ 1900 men and to cost not less
than $l,OOO,0OO. This plant, he said,
would be of such proportions that dozens
Of important industries connected with Ii
and necessary to supply it with materials
OF various kinds would imm ediately be-
grouped in Ashland. Mr.. York's terms
are that a suitable sum and bonus oe
100000 be given to the projectors, WHO
are wealthy Eastern capitalists, after IA
plant such as is proposed shall be in sue-
cessful operation. The scheme of bonding
Ashland by popular vote to raise bonds
will probably be submitted under the new
charter. This can be done, the indebted
ness, tonded by tax-levy bonds, to Eg3z.
for twenty years. There is great enthns1-
asm over the matter, and the proposition.
will be accepted.
Edward P. Allis, the well-knowD
manufacturer, died at his residence IN
Milwaukee, after brief illness. Mr.. Al
lis was born in Cazenovia, n. Y, May
18th, 1924. He received an academic ed
ucation at Cazenovia and Geneva, and En-
tered Union College, from which he grad
uated with high honors in 1645. He de-
cided to study law, but after spending
some time at this, he dropped it and began.
business in 1916 as leather merchant
and was one Of the builders of the large,
tanner:es at Two Rivers, Wis. Later he
went into the banking business with john
?. McGregor, of Milwaukee. The bnsz-
ness was distasteful to him, and in 1850, III.
company with G. d. Nash and John P. Nc
Gregor, he purchased the Reliance Works
Mr.. Allis' history as a manufacturer dates
from the purchase of these works, ana Il
is more or less familiar to all the manB~
facturers of this country and of Europeans
countries. At the time of this purchase,
the business of the institution amounted
to about $4,000 per year, and this bust
ness has increased from year to year until
it has reached the extent OF fully S13,~
100000 per year. It is one of the largest
manufacturers of steam engines in this
country, and stands not lower than thzEG3
among the engine manufactures Of the
world. It employs 1900 men, and sends
it's machinery and engines to all parts os
the civilized world, from Alaska to Ans
tralia, and from Maine to Russia. Mg.
Allis, in politics, was Republican from.
the organization of that party until 1ST6,
when he accepted the nomination OF ihe
Greenback party il this State f0s
Governor. During the past five gm
six years. since the tariff IssgseN
became SO prominent, he had been,
an ardent Republican protectionist AMI,
during the Harrison campaign he did gzass&
service to his party in this State by his
writings on the side Of protection. In
l048 Mr.. Allis married Miss Margaret BE.
Watson, of Geneva, Ontario County, Negg-
York, who survives him. They have
eleven children, sons and daughters. Sey-
eral Of his sons are intere stedin the faith
ers business. AS a citizen Mr.. Allis was
highly esteemed. He had been for yearx-
recognized as one Of the foremost naaa afE
Milwaukee, and aside from his vast busa-
ness he was noted throughout the State ns
a liberal minded, broad, cultured ma.z2
His home is one of the most attractive III,
Milwaukee. From a physician IL 5a.
learned that Mr.. Allis trouble was ~ coxrr>-
plication of stomach and kidney diseases
Mr.. Allis is rated as worth about g, 00D,-
O00. He carried heavy life INSURANCE
aggregating 1926, 900.
Peter O'Rourke, q farmer residing teo
miles from Wausau, committed suicide III.