The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-01
The weeks News Epitomized.

burned with a loss of $1,000.
FRANK SCHoTCHE, boy of 10,
drowned off tba docks at Superior.
A PICNIC at Born's Park netted LOCO
for the St Nicholas Hospital, of She
boygan.
WILLIE MILLER, Sheboygan 5-year-
old, was run over by a care .esS driver
and badly hurt.
BURGLARS looted a dressmaking es-
adjustment at Oshkosh, taking $500
worth of silk dresses, etc.
CONGRESSMAN MILLER of Oshkosh is
laid up at his home from the effects of
an injury to his knee, sustained by jump
ing from his carriage.
THE State Veterinarian pronounced
the cattle disease near Arcadia to be an
thrax, sort of murrain, a malady not
so dangerous as was at first supposed.
GEO. UTNF. who was tried at Ashland
on the charge of having attempted to
murder Andrew Lund at Buskirk Sta
ton, escaped with fine for assault and
battery. +
GEORGE WELLS, Mondovi man. II
years old. in one day recently pitched
upon the wagon twenty-five large loads
of oats, and sighed because there was
no more to pitch.
A son of W. c. Hamilton, of Fond du
Lac, Tired gun off as horse was pass
ing. The animal ran away and Mrs A.
f. Collins, who was riding behind the
frightened beast, was badly injured.
THE Rev. Father A. P Rogers, of
Florence, narrowly escaped drowning
while fording the Brulc River He was
swept down the stream several rods,
and luckily, landed in a bit of shallow
water.
OLE LARSON, of Oshkosh, thinks that
the man found deal in the woods near
Marquette, Mich, was August ParsOn,
who disappeared from Oshkosh last
April. MIR. Larson says that Parson
was afflicted with fits of insanity, when
he would wander away by himself.
PETITIONS will be sent to Washington
by settlers near Iron River to have a
man detailed by the Interior Department
to investigate the matter of million
feet of white pine felled by Mondays
cyclone, and to arrange some way that
it can be utilized before it is destroyed
by worms
AT Ashland Judge Cate will open the
famous Hurley bank robbery case and
attempt to clear Baker, now serving q
term of five years at Waupun. Cate
says he knows who stole the $40, 600, and
that Baker is innocent; that a confession
| is soon expected which will clear up
matters and prove sensation.
| DIR. WILKIE, the humane officer at
| Oshkosh, has had his attention called to
a queer case at Neenah, in which girl
was dissatisfied with her build. Being
| tall like her father, she is claimed to
| have cursed her mother for marrying
him, until her presence became unbear-
| able. She has agreed to leave home.
BEARS have already commenced to
| put in their appearance at Black Creek,
near Appleton, and farm stock and corn
| fields are suffering in consequence. The
only ones killed thus far were entrapped
| by well-knOwn farmer who caught
| two in one night The larger one
weighed over 200 pounds. Several 9th
ers have been seen.
HUMANE AGENT WILKIE, of Oshkosh,
is investigating the case of the Vinland
farmer who, it il alleged, started ire
under balky horse and roasted the
animal to death DR.. Wilkie says that
as far as he can learn from witnesses Of
the affair, the horse refused to move,
| whereupon the man lighted some straw
under the nag. 1t was found necessary
to shoot the brute to stop it's agony.
ABOUT Aug 10 Mrs. Edward Fopke,
of the town of Seymour, Eau Claire
| County, gave birth to a child. The
| father was seen to bury it in the woods
by neighbor5. A jury of inquest re-
| turned a verdict Of death by willful neg
lect. After the decision the mother
created sensation by stating that she
| ~
hours old, and was willing TO suffer the
consequences. Mrs Popke is 16 years
old, and has been married four months.
She claimed her husband had nothing to
do with killing the child, but buried it
after she had done the deed Both
parties are lodged in jail
THE Lawrence University boys have
organized their cOrnet band
LA CROSSE will ask for an apprOpria-
tion of $3.50, 900 for her harbor.
APPLETON people are again talking Of
erecting big cotton mill in that city !
LAND within the city limits of Prairie
du Chen sold the other day for $50. so
per acre
IDA HANSEN, a 16-year-old Eau Claire
girl, was arrested at st Paul on
charge of larceny preferred by her father.
THOMAS JOHNSON, of Beaver Creek,
Trempealeau County, has the largest
family in the county, having nine sons
and four daughters under Fl years of
age.
CoMERFoRD Posi-, Chippewa Falls, has
decided to erect soldiers monument Of
handsome proportions Seven hundred
dollars have been subscribed toward the
work
SEVERAL Eau Claire lumbermen and
number of citizens, Mayor IRE among
them, have gone to Chicago to prosecute
the Interstate commerce case against the
St Paul Road. {
NINE miles of rails of the Kewaunee
and Green Bay Railroad are lad, and
President w. j. Abrams is of the opin-
ion that Kewaunec will be reached at
the time designated
THERE are no houses for rent in APP
p'eton, and when the Aniwa Manufac..
turing Company operatives shall comd
Il II EO iasf1 70 mil