The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
The Weeks Record.

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tains 1926 names.
MAN 20 years old, lately joined q
church in Sheboygan.
CHARLES DECORS H and Charles White
deer, indian horsethieves arrested at
Black River Falls. go up for two years
each.
An important Prairie du Chen mar
riage engagement was broken of IN that
city because the parties to the contract
had a quarrel upon the question as TO
which loved the other most.
| FRED ELLIS was sentenced by Judge
Marshall, at Barron, to the State Prison
| for the term of twenty five years. His
crime was criminal assault upon 12-
! year-old girl at Rice Lake in August last.
ALMOST the entire township of CISCO,
Trempealeau County, is stricken down
with typhoid fever and diphtheriS. Five
deaths were reported in one week. The
schools have been Closed. People are
making every effort possible to prevent
its spreading, but in vain.
| EDWARD PoPKE and his wife, of Sey-
mour, were each sentenced 10 one year
! in prison at Eau Claire for causing the
death of their baby by cruel treatment,
when it was scarcely three hours old.
They had pleaded guilty The wife is
only about 16 years old
A HIGHwAYMAN held up John Shafer
and Thomas Yelinck, at Prairie du
Chen, and at the point of q pistol made
them give up their money and take off
their clothes, shoes and stockings, and
then made them drive back TO the Arte-
sian Park. Here the robber jumped out
and said he would kill them if they at
tempted to follow or tried to see and
recognize him.
VIM HARRIMAN, the burglar shot down
at Eau Claire as he was going through
store there. may yet live Hartman has
been noted criminal in his day. He
was supposed to have been implicated in
the big Southern Pacific mail robbery in
1886 A handsome, stylish woman hall
ing from Chicago and introducing her.
self as his cousin, Mrs E. M. Smith, is
taking care of the unfortunate cracks
man. 1t is said that though he has been
all his life criminal Hartman never
went to Jail.
BERNHARD SEGLING. who lives On
Section Twelve, in the town of Freedom,
near Appleton, lately dug well forty
feet deep and five feet across. Finding
no water, he undertook to bore down
from the bottom with an augur. After
boring about eight feet, he struck water
which came in so fast as to fill the we'll
and run over the top in less than an
hour. The next day the stream running
from the we'll was large enough for a
good-sized trout stream and had reached
distance of nearly mile
BERT and Clint Kimball, OF Plover,
killed a couple of fine bears. Four of
them, consisting OF the mother and
three yearling cubs, had made their way
into the Kimball corn field, when they
were found by the boys, who shot and
killed two of the young ones. The
death of her offspring enraged the old
one, and she started for the boys, who
endeavored to escape, but one Of them
would certainly have been overtaken if
large bull dog had not come to the
rescue. Bruin then turned her atten-
tiOn to the dc for few moments, and
the boys got away.
FROM almost every section of tho
State come reports of terrible forest
fires. Reports at Ashland fl ON down
the line of the Omaha Road state that
the forest fires are rapidly advancing
and eating up everything before them.
Homesteaders surrounded by a wilder
ness of WOODS are being burned out and,
arriving in town tell miraculous es-
capes from being burned to death The
high winds have been effective in spread
ing the fires To add to the discontinue
Of excessive heat Ashland is filled with
smoke and navigation is seriously inn
paired on ChequamegOn Bay owing to it's
density. Weyauwega reports that the
fire along Wolf River is raging terribly,
and the standing timber is one mass of
flames, which is sweeping everything
before it. A number of farm houses are
threatened, and there is no possible
chance to save them. Fred and Herman
Middlestadt were at work on the marsh
with a team when the marsh burned,
and they have not been seen since p
Bozile and boy were at work near
them, and had very narrow escape,
running two horses at the top of their
speed to keep out of the fiery furnace
and it is thought the Middiestadts per-
ished in the fire. Messengers arriving
at Menasha state that Rat River marsh,
near Medina junction, and containing
hundreds of acres, was all af1ame. 9th
ers arriving from Waupaca state that
wide strips of fire prevail near that city
and along the Wolf River. The total
burning area is estimated at 800 acres,
and hay and grain are periShing in great
quantity. Trains are delayed by both
SMOKE anu HFe WINE bI0 natural ued6J
ranging from 90 to 95 degrees in the
shade, adds to the distress The fires
are supposed to have caught from sparks
thrown out by passing engines. Owing
to an excessive drought OF many weeks,
the grass was easily ignited.
SHELL LAKE reports forest fires in
that locality extingu shed by rain.
FULLY 500 delegates will attend the
Y P. S. G. E. meeting at Eau Claire,
Oct % to %.
LOUIS A. BRIGGs' residence at Apple
ton was burned at a loss of $4,000, with
So, GOO surance.
TIE Ashland Lime, Salt and Cement
Company has just completed new kiln
at cost of $4,000.
BURGLARS entered the house of An
ton Lorenz farmer living on the She
boygan Falls town road, and stole a
quantity of wearing apparel, gold watch
and chain, two 6 Id rings, and other