The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11
NEWS OF WISCONSIN
A RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK.
TeIegraphic Brevities Received Up to
Time of Going to Press-Political,
Religious, Social and miscellaneous
Happenings of the Week.

Clark county crops promise exceeding
ly well.
There were twenty-nine graduates
from the Racine high school.
Fred Webster of Baraboo was fatally
hurt by falling beneath a moving train.
Burglars at New Lisbon blew open
the safes in two stores but did not
secure a great deal.
Bishop Grafton Of Fond du Lac went
to the Oneida reservation last week to
ordain an Indian to the priesthood
D. A. Foltz of Minneapolis, who was
struck by lightning Friday while visit
ing a brother at New Sassel, is slowly
| recovering.
The drought has affected the Cam
| bridge water power so seriously that
the owners of the mill contemplate put
ting in an engine.
The friends of F. F. c. BinninGer OF
KenoSha are alarmed over his protract-
ed absence from home and fear he has
met with some mishap.
The display Of fireworks at Devils
| lake will be made from the cliffs 500
feet above the city and a unique feat
ure will be feet Of fire IN which all
the steamboats, and rowboats on the
river will unite.
F. c., Binninger of Kenosha is miss
ing. He left home Wednesday night
with some threats that he would do
away with himself and has not been
seen since. The police have been mott
| fed, but no trace has yet been found
Chippewa county has rival agricul-
tural societies. A county agricultural
society was recently organized at Chip
pewa Falls and now it is announced
| that there Is similar society in exist
| ence at Cadott, having been organized
| In 1894.
Water has been struck at a depth Of
120 feet in the artesian well being
| drilled at the new fair grounds and
| driving park at Appleton. The river
was tapped at a depth of twenty feet
in the rock and the supply will be
abundant
The trustees Of the Congregational
| church Of Green Bay had a meeting to
decide whether they should accept the
resignation of the Rev. A. Keene. The
| result was decided by a unanimous
vote to the contrary. Mr.. Keene will
stay and his salary will be raised.
B. Olsen, a Madison merchant, has
sworn out a warrant for the arrest OF
John Holm, a teacher in the Norwegian
parochial school, charging him with
whipping his 11-year-old son, who was
associated with other boys in pelt1ng
the windows with missiles from the out
side.
The PeninsuIar Veterans association
has closed it's reunion at Kewaunee. 1t
will meet in Ahnapee next year. I. w.
Of hn elected
president. In the parade yesterday
there were $50 veterans in line and 1000
persons attended the picnic in the after
noon. @4a
George Quade, a 7-year-old boy of
GAINESVILLE, dropped a Lighted firecracker
inside his shirt waist. 1t set fire to his
clothing and the boy was terribly
burned before the flames were extin-
Rlished. The attending physician says
he has known less extensive burns to
cause death, but he does not expect any
serious result in this case.
The city of Eau Claire undertook to
raise the blockade Of Barstow street,
the bridge and the street railway caused
by the abandonment of an old build
ing which Capt Tinker was moving
for Phillip Bureau and will haul it off
to one side of the river bank. The con-
tractor claimed that he could not move
the house over the bridge and that he
was liable to fine if he moved it in any
other direction. Accordingly the city
took possession of it.
The committee from the Business
Mems association of Green Bay will re-
port in favor of purchasing twenty
one acre site on the bay shore for the
purpose of making a summer resort.
The committee will recommend that
eighteen acres be plated and placed on
the market if enough lots are sold by
Sept. 1. The association is to purchase
the tract, the remainder of the lands to
be sold entire to some responsible party
| who will agree to erect a summer hotel
thereon.
The whole north side of La Crosse
was reused to frenzy by the report that
a policeman had killed a man with his
club and buried the body in the ditch
along the railroad track, the absurd
story having grown out Of the fact
that the day before in dislodging two
| tramps an officer was obliged to use
force on one, though the man was not
even knocked down. A crowd, number
ing nearly 1000 persons, gathered at one
Of the school houses Of the city the
other night clamoring for the officer
but at the suggestion of Chief Byrne
O. committee was appointed to investi-
gate the whole affair and the matter
went over.
Miss Laura Schriner of Lancaster, a
| daughter of David Schriner of that city,
was married last week to George Hiram
| Baxter, a son ofsState Senator Baxter
| Other notable weddings in the state
during the week were those of Miss Ida
Hatherell to William Ferrin of James
vile; Miss Georgia G. Shaver to Mr.
Charles Jaeger at Portage; Miss Flora
N. Brackenwagen to Mr.. Ernest Cor
ham Of Monroe: Miss Alice Kranz Of
Racine to Mr.. Henry Tyrell of Mil
waukee, at Racine; Miss Katharine
Brazner to F. B. Wilson at Green Bay;
Miss Lillian Long Of townsville prin-
cipal of the Emerald public school, to
Henry V. Fleming of the latter place;
Miss Ida Cunning of Friendship to John
w. Purves of River Falls; Mrs Fan