The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-05

the home of her son in Somers, Tues
day, aged rs years. Her home was in
Milwaukee.
AT the republican caucus in Brigh-
ton held Monday afternoon, D. L.
Burgess, Walter McVicar, and Trying
Wheeler were chosen delegates to the
county convention.
Waukegan has done lots of blus-
tering the past year about her popula-
ton being over 5000 and growing over
Kenosha in consequence. Last spring
the state census of this city revealed a
population of s, 122, and that was prior
to the coming of the two new bicycle
factories which have added not less
than 500 more to Kenosha. Wauke-
gan's census just completed shows just
1874. When it comes to counting
noses Kenosha still stays in the ring.
One of the aldermen in telling the
reason tor voting down the redistrict-
ing ordinance says that there is a
scheme on foot to take in another slice
of the county on the northwest Of the
city and that it would simply be useless
expense to make one redistrictlng now
and have to make another as soon as the
new territory is annexed. This is. not
taken by any large class of citizens to
mean much. The killing of the ordi-
nance was simply Il democratic party
measure, pure and simple.
An excellent example has been set
by one of the Children's Aid Kinder.
gartens on Second avenue, New York.
City, which is worthy of adoption by
the young people of Kenosha! The re-
port of the principal says: We have
organized the Anti-Rubbish League, of
which every child is member, the aim
being to teach them to pick up waste
material, whether seen within the
school building or on the sidewalks as.
we'll as to prevent their scattering such
matter on the streets" Instruction
against throwing things on the side"
walk or into the street should be apart
of the training in every school, public,
private or charitable. The only way
we shall ever get Il generation OF men
and women who recognize the obiiga
ton thus to help in keeping the streets
clean is by teaching the lesson to- the
boys and girls. The Anti Rubbish
League" shows the most effective way
of educating public sentiment.
Mrs. f. S. Robinson, who lives
near Russell, ILL.,, but in this county
was in the city Monday and reports
that her 9-year- old daug ter, Nina, had !
a very narrow escape from drowning
last Thursday. There is no one living
on the place but Mrs, Robinson, her
little son and this daughter. Their |
cistern is in the pantry of the house.
Someone had the cover up and had !
drawn some water. During this time
Nina was outside the house. The els
tern was left open and the little girl
went rushing into the house and into
the pantry, falling straight into the
cistern. AS she fell she drew the cover
with her. Mrs. Robinson, in an adjoin-
ing room, heard the cover fall and went !
to the cistern. AS she reached it the /
child's hands suddenly appeared above |
the water. Frightened almost to death,
she screamed to the little boy to get
ladder. The boy ran to the barn and
got one. When he came back he got
IN the large end of the ladder first and
that would not 60 into the cistern open |
ing. He got it turned someway and
thrust the end through the aperture
Just as the little girl rose the second
time. Her hands struck the ladder and
she chung to it until she could be drawn
out. 1t is almost q miracle that the
girl was not drowned. The nervous
shock it gave to Mrs. Robinson almost |
Frustrated her and when seen Monday |
she was barely able to control
her nerves.
The ordinance redistricting the |
city from four to seven wards was
knocked out Monday evening by the
council, four democratic aldermen vot-
ing against the ordinance, and three
and one democrat voting
for it. This action of the council has |
created no end of talk and every one is
what on earth was the reas-
on for the turning down of an ordi-
nance, the adoption of which was for
the good of the city. Twoof the alder
men who voted against it were seen
this morning and asked for their reas
Ons for voting as they did. One said
that the lines upon which the wards
we're laid out would, in at least two of
the voting districts, turn the affairs
over to men (democrats) who would be
dangerous to trust with city business
in other words, they would control the |
in these districts, and SO it
would be better to wait awhile until !
the purifying process could be applied
to the neighborhood SO that decent I
men would stand some show of repre-
senting the ward. Another alder