The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-04
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest From all Parts of This
Great State

Excavation on the site OF the Home
for the Feeble Minded at Chippewa
Falls is not yet completed, though the
building must be completed by Dec. /.
Martin Heise, of Plymouth, was
struck by train and killed.
The case of the C. M. Foote atlas
case against sixteen residents of Viola,
Richland county, has been settled, the
defendants paying the costs. The &C
ton was brought by the company be-
cause it's agent was dragged from a
hotel at Viola and roughly handled by
men who claim that they had been
cheated by him. The case was taken
to Grant county on change OF venue.
S. E. Letellier, of Battle Greek,
Mich, who was injured by the explos-
ion at the Wauzeka round house re-
Gently, died from his injuries.
The State Horticultural society will
hold it's summer meeting at Waupaca
June Is and IL.
A delegation of Gods American Vol
unteers has appeared in Racine and
opened barracks.
Aid. Douglas, of the West Superior
common council, has applied to the
district attorney for warrant for the
arrest of Agent Bennett, of st. Paul
Hose company, claiming that Bennett
bribed the council in order to secure a
contract, he, Douglas, having himself
been approached in the matter. Doug
las has asked the mayor to withhold his
approval of the contract until the mat
ter is investigated. Bennett denies the
charges.
Clark Tuttle, the Baraboo nursery
man, has failed.
Gov. Upham has pardoned and re-
stored to citizenship the following in
mates of Waupun prison: Charles Will
sen, Waukesha county, burglary, one
year; William P. Mappes, Green CO" nty,
larceny, one year; Thomas Nichols,
Sawyer county, adultery, one year.
Oconomowoc will buy an $4,000 site
and borrow $4,000 to put up school
building on it.
Herman Erickson, of Reedstown, was
fined $50 for receiving cigars on which
no government tax had been paid.
| The Beloit Iron works has secured
the contract for the new paper mill to
be built at Port Edwards.
Burglars stole $40 from the residence
of Alfred Lindholm at PeshtigO.
Ten feet of the breakwater at Lake.
side park, Fond du Lac, was washed
away in Wednesday nights storm and
the driveway has been damaged.
The stomach of Mrs. Katherine
O'Donnell, of Eau Claire, has been
placed in the hands of Chicago chem
list to determine whether her death was
caused by poison. Her husband is in
jail awaiting hearing in September
on charge of the crime.
S. d. Lisbon, alias Walter Rumins,
who was arrested recently at Duluth,
is said to have victimized fifty men of
West Superior by claiming that he was
the agent for a directory company and
selling advertising space at good rates.
He secured the signatures of many re-
sponsible men, and a search of his
rooms is said to have revealed the fact
that the signed contracts had been
skillfully turned into negotiable notes
for large amounts.
| While watching the Decoration day
crowd pass along North Jackson street
at GAINESVILLE, Thomas Boyce was sud-
denly stricken by heart disease and be-
fore help could arrive he fell from his
chair-dead.
Prof. T. W. Reilly, who for thirteen
years has been connected with the Osh
kosh schools, stands in danger of'losing
his position. His friends claim tnat he
is victim of the A. P. A., but those
opposing him say that they are doing
so simply because he is not qualified.
The matter has created division in
two wards of the city, the children of
which attend his school.
A a result of the statements made by
Attorney Hood in a lawsuit brought by
D. j. Cameron, of La Crescent, against
OOOl ODOdI, OCLlI1O1OA anu LILO OOA bU-
tackled Hood on the street at La Crosse,
but no great damage was done. The
son paid a fine in court. but the father
pleaded not guilty and will be tried
today.
Abner Brooks, known as Dan O'Brien
at Lacrosse, was arrested in that city
Saturday for bigamy. He came to the
city last summer, got work in mill
and after short acquaintance married
Myrtle Warrington. Once week he
went to Onalaska for mail and this
made his mother-in-law suspicious.
She searched his pockets and finally
found a letter addressed to Abner
Brooks from woman in Milwaukee,
apparently his wife. The complaint
alleges that Brooks married Anna
Slapitz at Centralia and that she is
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