The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-23

known as Green Bay Satisfaction No. /.
". C. Silverthorn, in an interview at
Wausau, says he is positively not a can
didate for governor, and has no inten
ton whatever of becoming one. This
seems TO be the understanding of his
friends.
The army worm is doing great dam
age to grain at West Salem and in La
Crosse county. Many fields will not
be cut Farmers fear they will not
save enough for their own use.
On motion of Dist. Atty, A. W. An
derson the case against George Bernard,
charged with catching minnows with
a seine, was dismissed by Judge Dono-
van at Madison
The Eau Claire Light guard will not
disband but keep up an organization in
the hope of again becoming a member
of the National guard.
The residences of Peter Platten and
Joseph Leveille were entered by burg
lars at Green Bay. From the former
place SIC was stolen.
Edward Joyce fell from the top OF a
tower, fifty feet, to the ground at Rock
land, Brown county. He will probably
recover.
John Garfoot's house at Cross Plains,
Dane county, burned with a loss of
1900.
An unknown man employed on a
farm near Marinette killed himself with
knife.
The Marinette council decided to
erect two new ward schools at the
cost of $4,000.
Mrs William Peppa was bitten by a
dog at Chippewa Falls and severely in
jured.
John Deveny's barn near Reeseville
was fired by lightning and destroyed.
Owners of timber whose interests lie
along the Nemadji river will join in the
construction of an immense dam some
where near the mouth of that stream.
At the present time the Nemadji Boom
company of West Superior, which han
dies the logs for the various boom COM
panies, claims that there is in the neigh
borhood of so, 000,0 900 feet of timber tied
| up by reason of receding water and
they cannot get it without rise of the
stream. 1t is thought that the dam
will be constructed at once by r. A.
Lang of Eau Claire and that it will be
about eight miles from the Eastern
Minnesota bridge near the site of the
old one which was washed away by
spring freShets. The new structure
will be permanent in every particular.
Prof. Peter o. Oyen of Christiania,
| Norway, member of the Wellman
Arctric expedition and an eminent
geologist, is visiting his brother, Odin
j. Oyen of La Crosse, for a few days.
| Speaking of DR.. Nansen, he said that
no alarm need be occasioned over his
continued absence. He has been gone
for three years, but is provisioned for
seven years. Prof. Oyen is confident
that Nansen will come out all right,
and that he will be heard on the Green
land side of the pole.
The management ofthe Monona Lake
! assembly has secured Senator John M.
Thurston of Nebraska to deliver re-
publican political speech on the last day
of the encampment, July 81. A strong
effort is being made to have W. j.
| Bryan speak for the democratic side
the same day. There is a good pros
pect of securing Bryan, as he would
probably have a chance to speak to
about 10000 people.
The vacancy in the faculty of Law
renee university caused by the resigna-
ton Of Prof. G. NJ. Merriman Of the de-
partment of mathematics and astrono-
my, was filed by the selection of F. E.
Mills, Phi. D., of Cornell university.
Prof Mills was chosen from among
some thirty applicants for the position.
Reports from the farming districts
throughout Chippewa county are very
encouraging and q large crop may be
looked for. The weather conditions
have been all that could be desired and
the farmers are correspondingly happy.
W. E. Sweck, claiming to be from
Tomafua, Pa was picked up on the rail-
road track three miles west of Cambria
with his right foot badly crushed. Ne
says he fell from gravel train. The
foot was amputated.
Marquis Irving an employe of the
Ringing Bros, was seriously injured
at Fond du Lac while unloading circus
wagons at the st. Paul depot. He was
removed to st. Agnes convent and his
condition is critical.
William Fleming, farmer living
five miles southeast of Lake Geneva,
died from dose of rough on rats. He
had been an inmate of the state hopital
for the insane at Mendoza and was