The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-31

| The "Bible and the Bullet" or Facts
and figures regarding the army work of the
Young Mems Christian Association at the
Front" from 81 to '65, at Association hall
Sunday, Nov. 3d. This meeting is not for
men only, but for the public
Gentle reader, have you ever walked
along Main street and met blonde and
shapely drug clerk with face longer than
the moral PHILOSOPHERS of Mohammed, gaz-
ing at the photograph Of man hanging
to the bough of tree and looking like a
premeditated suicide? If you have not met
the aforesaid blonde and shapely drug
clerk, and should chance to do so and he
should show you the said photograph and
describe the terrible snicide that occurred at
Pike creek, will you please be so kind as to
mop up the sidewalk with him and charge
| the damages to the local reporter of this
paper. We would do so ourselves were we
not inclined to believe that the editor of
the Union will "kill him off" with a
Shooting stick"
If there is any one who doubts the in
crease in the value of real estate in this
city, the following illustration will dispel
the illusion: Prof. Leach has just disposed
of one of his lots on Prairie avenue for
$1,000. Four years ago lot equally as
large as the one just disposed of and join
ing it on the east was sold for $500, and the
present owner paid balloon price for it at
that time. Not only is this true, but close
by are three large manufacturing establish
ments employing many men apparently
happy and prosperous, with the Watch
Case factory to hear from. A few months
ago prominent citizen of the north side
informed the reporter that these manufac-
turing establishments had raised the price
of his real estate ten per cent. Kenosha
may have lest her grip on agricultural
products, but she's bound to have corner
on novelties and brass ware
While it cannot be denied that news
paper booms do help town or city by in
forming people who live at distance of
advantages, natural or acquired, the fact
that man or any number of men are re-
building rotten sidewalks, repairing old
buildings or erecting new and elegant
structures in the place Of old ones is of far
greater importance as illustrating the prac-
| teal side of a boom than any amount of
inkv reams and 'million-eyed type" The
new concrete sidewalks lately placed in
front Of the residences of Messrs. Balm,
Newell, Martin, Allen and Reynolds is
solid and substantial argument on the prac-
teal side of the question. The replacing or
repairing of old and dilapidated sidewalks
in this city with the placing of Nicholson
pavement on Main street would be a notice
to all business men far more potent than
words.
Conrad Stroup, an aged tramp, was
found sick in the town of Somers last
7 Thursday afternoon and was brought into
this city by Sheriff Hannah and placed in
| jail. He was not committed as tramp
and was looked after by the County Agent.
DR.. Weiskopf attended the unfortunate
man and after careful examination pro-
nounced his case hopeless. The tramp had
evidently gone hungry and when an oppor-
tunity offered had overloaded his stomach
and brought on a disease that ended in
death He was native of Germany, about
seventy years of age and said that he had
worked five years on a farm near Waupun.
He died last Monday afternoon and was
buried in the Potter's field Tuesday. Dep
uty Sheriff Boyle endeavored to gather in
formation from him as to the residence of
friends and relatives, but he was SO sick and
his language so broken and incoherent that
nothing definite could be ascertained.
The seventh page of this paper con-
tains the report of the assessors of Kenosha
County, and although dry reading, will be
instructive to business men and those who
wish to inform themselves as to the wealth
of the county, both in real estate and per-
sonal properly, and is also valuable to
those who handle statistical reports at the
State Capital The report, among other
things shows that there are 400 watches in
Kenosha County valued at S5,971, with
Pleasant Prairie and Wheatland to hear
from. The total value of personal proper
ty as shown by this report is $1,529,869.
Total value of real estate, So, 9S7 1857.
Grand total, S6,497, 1876. Estimating the
Vanderbilts to be worth 100000, 900, they
would have money enough to buy fifteen
counties Of the size and wealth Of Kenosha
County with $2,544,960 left as pin money.
There must be screw loose in the fnan
cial machinery of this country when such
vast fortune can be accumulated in so short
a time.
The merchant who keeps his name and
business constantly before the public eye is