The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-05
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| sonaI Pointers.
| AT Ashland, terrific gas explosion
/ demolished two-Story brick building,
and William Penny Hecker and his wife
were thrown nearly fifty feet into the
street Both were seriously injured and
the woman perhaps fatally.
| AT Oshkosh, judgments have been en-
| tered in favor of 141 claimants who sued
the Government for damages because of
the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers overflow
! The amounts range from about 800 to
$4,000.
JAMES OWENS, of Milwaukee, q tray
| cling salesman for New York cigar
! firm, was found dead in his room in the
| latter city.
| BARNEY TIERNEY, an old settler, Of
Redwood, died, aged rs years
! AT Ashland, the committee of the
| County Board of Supervisors appointed
to adjust the accounts of ex-COunty
Clerk M. j. Hart, made report show
ing that he owes the county $1,000.
Mrs. PAPKA, Milwaukee widow, died
from criminal operation.
WHEN the window at the Land Office
at Ashland was thrown up, Albert Vim
cent, who had been glued to the window
113 consecutive hours, got his papers,
and cheer after cheer went up from the
| crowd, which numbered about 5000 peO-
pie. One after another the men emerged
from the crowd, and judging from their
faces they thought they were well paid
for the hardship undergone. When Miss
Knickellsing held aIoft her papers she
was cheered again and again. When
asked if she had got what she wanted
she said 'You bet I've got a claim the
pine on which is worth IS, 000." The total
number of applications accepted by the
! land officials was 116, although upward
of $50 were received by mail aud other
wise. The number of mail applicants
accepted was Sc.
! ATTORNEY-G GENERAL O'CoNNOR has be-
gun suit against eX-State Treasurer Nc
Fetridge and bOndsmen to recover $S4,-
900 interest alleged to be due the State.
Suits will also be begun against ex-
Treasurers Harshaw, Guenther and
| Keuhn.
AT Milwaukee, Judge Mann refused
| to probate the alleged will of Francis
Holzinger, because of his belief, that
undue influence had been exercised. By
this document the entire estate, valued at
$38, 900, was left the widow of the de-
ceased, while seven children by a former
wife were cut off without cent.
THE loss by the late fire in the book
store of the I'll. II. West Company, Mil
waukee, has been settled by the insur-
ance companies paying 1926, 600.
DURING the last year the Milwaukee
| department responded to 571 alarms.
The losses from fire were $217, 633. 30.
! The greatest single loss was 1913, 988.
OF the Fireboat Cataract Chief Foley
says: cit is the most practical piece Of
/ III 6pn9rf-
ment. At present the department con-
sists of fourteen steam fire engines, four
teen hose carriages and wagons, one
| boat, one water tower, five hook and
ladder trucks, and four chemical engines,
with force of PIT officers and men.
Jos. REMINGTON was captured at La
Crosse and confessed to the murder of
| T. j. Fleet at Arthur, N. D., and the
stealing of $3.50.
OFFICIALS of the Illinois steel company
say they will erect 100000 plant at
Milwaukee employing 500 men.
GEORGE w. FRANCE has begun suit
for S., 900 against his former landlord,
Gustav Jordans, at Milwaukee. He
claims that he and his children became
sick on account of bad plumbing in the
dwelling he had rented of Jordans
FRED EIMERMANN, the respectfully
connected young man who was arrested
at Milwaukee for burglary, pleaded
| guilty and was sentenced to one years
imprisonment.
ALFRED BELsING, a Milwaukee sew
! ing machine agent, suicided after writ
ing note generating his wife from
| the charge of theft which he had circu-
lated.
S. WARNER CHASE, a Milwaukee COM
mission man, fled a petition in bank
ruptcy, and asked to be released from
his debts. Liabilities, $4,000; assets.
| Sal.
THE Peoples Theater of Milwaukee
will be reOpened by the Blatz Brewing
Company.
AT Marinette, the Rev. J. Stafford,
pastor of the Baptist church, has re-
signed. He will go to Germany to take
postgraduate course in the University
of Berlin.
AT Ashland the rush for position at
| the land Office to secure some of the new
tract just opened was tremendous Hun
dreds Of people were in line three days
before entries began. and stayed there
night and day, through sleet, snow. and
rain storms The suffering from ex-
posture was pitiable in many cases One
woman, Hattie Knickelbine, of IRON
wood, had seventh place. and by unani-
nous consent of the crowd she was
allowed to go to the hotel to
eat and sleep, and her place
reserved for her. The land opened
comprises 40 OO0 and much of it is very
valuable. The man first in position was
offered $1,000 for his chance, but re-
fused. Squatters are upon nearly every
valuable claim, and there is prospect Of
violence when an attempt is made to en-
force the legal entries. Attorneys M.
3. Collum and G. S. Rohrer, prominent
land experts, who represented the set
tiers of the Wisconsin Central lands at
Washington last winter, were inter
viewed in regard to the lands. ave
come here now as the official representa-
tives of the settlersn said they "There