The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-11-05
NEWS OF WISCONSIN,
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Crawford County Farmers Bite at Ras-
calls Bait and Are Now acknowledgements
in the Country-A Warning to Sporssmen.
Wisconsin Hardwoods.

LUIS JAChSON, 1nuuSJrlal COmmlS-
sioner for the st, Paul Road, has been
investigating the hardwood resourc of
Wisconsin, and for that purpose he cor
responded with lumber dealers or manu-
ia turars at seventy stations. The tenor
of the replies, Mr.. jackson says, shows
that maple and elm can be obtained in
| Wisconsin in almost unlimited quanti-
ties, but that white ash and hickory are
| rather scarce. He found that Wisconsin
| hardwoods include the following, named
| in the order of abundance: Red oak,
maple, Eastwood, birch, elm, black ash,
betch, white oak, white ash, hickory,
cherry and walnut. White ash, which
is extensively used in the manufacture
of agricultural implements, is becoming
scarce all over the United States, and
Mr. jackson thinks that this tree might
profitably be planted in Wisconsin. He
quotes David 2. Evans, Jr, as saying
that a growth of white ash has be
known to realize for the planter profit
OF from 5000 to $500 per acre, on trees
only II years old.
AT Neilsville, Frank Ferguson. aged
years, fell into pail of boiling water
and was fatally scalded.
AT Sheboygal A. G. Hiborn, an en-
ploye of the NATION Manufacturing
Company, dropped dead while at work.
w. j. SHIvERs pleaded guilty at La
Crosse to the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses, and was sem
fenced to two years in Waupun
GEORGE McMULKINs, an Almond far
mer, near Stevens Point, was held up by
Two highwaymen and robbed of IS, 900
while on his way home from Plover.
THE schools and churches of Mineral
Point and Barneveld are closed by order
from the State Board of Health, on &C
count OF the prevalence of diphtheria
AT Eau Claire, Mrs. Harrison Ma
sell. an old resident, dropped dead in d
carriage as she was leaving home to call
on neighbor. Heart disease was the
| cause.
FARMERS in some of the northern
counties are selling their cattle as low
as Sc per head, owing to the recent
severe drouth, which has madc feed
very scarce.
| DEPUTY COLLECTOR BIBINGER dis
covered an illicit distillery at Two Riv-
| ers. 1t was on the premises of B. Kauff-
mann, who has served two sentences for
| similar offenSeS.
AT Durand the jury in the case Of
| Stella Barton VS.. the Pepln County Agri-
cultural Society, brought in verdict
for plaintiff for $4,000. The society
will appeal the case to the Supreme
| Court.
IN communication to Milwaukee
sportsman, State Game Warden Fernan-
DEE holds that persons using the "turtle-
back" boats in hunting ducks are liable
to prosecution under chapter 351, laws
| OF 1891.
THE jury in the suit of David Drum
mond against the city of Eau Claire.
| for damages in the sum of 81 500 claimed
to have been incurred to plaintiffs
property by change of grade, rendered
a verdict for the defendant
A BRIDGE connecting La Crosse and
Trempealeau Counties, across the Black
River is being constructed by the Chi
cago Bridge Company. The expense is
borne principal by La Crosse County
and merchants of the city of La Crosse
A BODY was recovered on the beach
at Pres3ue Isle 1t was badly decom-
posed, and the bones hung together by
threads of clothes. 1t is supposed to be
the body of George Downs, of Detroit,
who was drowned near DEVILS Island
about two months ago
THE Mayor of Ashland intends to pre-
side over moral town, if the issuance
of official orders can effect that desirable
result He is opposed to tight men and
loose women, and has decreed that all
improper characters shall leave Ashland
on pain of arrest. 1t will be interesting
to watch the outcome of his laudabe en-
deavOr.
THE 4-year-old daughter of Albert
Schwahn, of Eau Claire, complained for
two years of a severe pain in the left
nostril, which was attended by slight
swelling. Physicians at home and
abroad were consulted, and agreed it
was g. case of polypus. A physician who
was called on found lady's shoe button
in the child's nostril, which had been
there for two years
A MAN claiming to be president of a
medical institute in Nebraska worked d
sharp scheme on some farmers near
Prairie du Chen. He agreed to cure
Brght's kidney disease within q year,
cure or no pay. Many farmers signed
notes for 500, $125, and $3.50, but the
doctor disappeared All the banks have
been notified to be on the lookout The
victimized farmers are alarmed over the
affair
Two NON-UNlON ASuldHQ UdTD0rS WOT0
arrested for violating the Sunday law.
LOCAL capitalists of Eau Claire in
tend building a new hotel to cost $780,,
BOO.
THE Omaha Railroad Company has
secured the necessary right of way at
Superior.
CHARLIE OBERsT, who n away from
home with Garfield Payton, of Ashland,
cannot be found.
WITHIN two months Mr.. and Mrs.
James Lawless, of Rhinelander, have
buried four children.
CHARLES MCMAHON, a lad II years of
age, was sent up for sixty days for bur-
glary at West Superior.
SUPERINTENDENT RICHIE. of Outa-
game County, finds it impossible to Sc
cure competent teachers for his schools.
AT Oshkosh David Chapman died of
general debility. His wife, Mrs. Mercy
Chapman, expired very suddenly OF
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