The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-17
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest From all Parts Of This
Great State.

Great State.
Edward Engelskircher, a six-year-
old Watertown boy, was drowned Mon
day and his body was recovered yester-
day.
All bids for Milwaukee Improvement
bonds were rejected until after election.
Free silver agitation has kept pre-
miums at a low figure.
Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota,
will make several campaign speeches
in this state Dates were fixed and
places assigned by the republican state
central committee.
Congressman and Mrs. Griffin, OF
Eau Claire, celebrated the twenty fifth
anniversary of their marriage Monday
evening.
The golden wedding anniversary of
ex-senator Lyman Morgan and wife
was celebrated at Port Washington
yesterday. Mr.. Morgan is 81 and his
wife rs years old.
Burglars broke into the store of A.
Braun & Co., at Jackson, and got away
with about $170. Most of it was in
stamps which they secured from the
pOstOffice.
The first gun of the campaign was
fired last evening at Watertown, where
T. P. Keator, of Illinois, addressed
large and enthusiastic meeting under
the auspices of the Mckinley and Ho
bart Climb.
The drug store of W. W. Albers, at
Wausau, was destroyed by fire yester-
day morning, involving loss on stock
of ABOUT $4,000. The building was
damaged to the extent of So 1000. The
fire was caused by the explosion of a
barrel of turpentine in the basement.
Pensions were granted for Wisconsin
are as follows: Increase-William 81.
Kimmerly, Kendall, Monroe county;
John W. Richards, Norwalk, Monroe
county. Reissue and increase: Fred
erick Koerner, Milwaukee, Original
Widows, etc. -Margarathe Mack
(mother), Kewaskum, Washington
county; Eliza A. Griswold, Valley juno
ton, Monroe county.
Nearly 1000 Chippewa Indians were
in Ashland in full war paint and feath-
ers to greet their old enemies the Sioux;
who are with Buffalo Bills wild west
show. The event is one of historical
Importance as they met near the scenes
of some of the most noted battles in
Indian warfare. At the Brule river in
1912, over 100 Sioux were slain in their
repulse, after attacking the Chippewas.
just below the island where the river
branches Chief Buffalo lured the Sioux
into the stream. The pitched battle
was opposite Taylor's Falls On the
Chippewa river on the Wisconsin
boundary. One of the bloodiest con-
flicts was the great naval battle be-
tween the Madeline and Bass islands;
and main shore just north of Bayfield,.
The Chippewas originally moved into
the Apostle islands to keep their fam
lilies safe from the Sioux.
The board of education will close the
schools one day of fair week at Osh
kosh, Notwithstanding the protest and
opposing petitions of the various relig
ious societies of the city and county.
j. H. Jenkins, president of the board,
declares that the action was taken in
accordance with custom that has been
vogue a number of years, and before
any suggestion was made in opposition
to such action.
Officers are guarding the exchange
of the Dane County Telephone COM
pany in Madison. Several attempts
recently have been made by persons
unknown to break into the building.
Il is thought that the marauders are
DESTROYS of damaging the company's
switchboard The officers of the COM
pany and the police have fixed their
suspicion upon certain persons who are
being watched.
Shipments of lumber have been very
active this week at Marinette and the
river has once more assumed its old
state of activity. Vessels are crowded
into the mill slips and tugs are NOV
ing around in the river. The ship
ments this week including the clear
ances last week will amount to nearly
$4,000, 900 feet.
Gen. E. S. Bragg will go to Racine
and enter his young grandson, Master
Edmund B. Sherman, in Racine col
lege Master Sherman is now in his
thirteenth year and after three-year
course of study at Racine he will pre-
pare himself at the naval academy at
Annapolis for the United States navy.
October 20 has been fixed at the date
upon which the new building now being
erected by the sisters of the Good Shep-
herd, at Green Bay will be formally
blessed. The ceremony will be presid-