The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-03-19
From Thursdays Daily.

there.
Swift decision especially about
trifing matters, is one of the qualities
which distinguish a tip-top business
man.
ID. Conway Lloyd is out working
for the nomination for justice of the
peace on the democratic ticket, so it is
said.
Mr.. Mckinley is now in position
to enumerate his brood of chickens
without waiting for any mere Matching
process.
The March number Of the '96 Re-
porter has just been issued from this
office. It's full of news notes of inter-
est to the pupils.
= On account of the severe storm
Wednesday the public schools held
through until 1:30 p. N. and then
closed for the day.
The Union has christened the Ga
gette anew and now refers to it as the
Republcan-demo- poulist-anything- to-
catch-a-penny sheet.
The real horror of the campaign
will not be experienced until the con-
ventions begins to publish resolutions
denouncing various foreign powers.
-Brer. Killeen, of the Union doesn't
seem to favor Col. Strong as a candi-
date for mayor, and says he wouldn't
be popular with the laboring classes.
1t is guessed from the vast amount
Of adverse criticism unloaded upon
him, that Gen. Weyler is secretly con-
n6cted with a rival baking powder
| house.
Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet will go
down in history as the body which suf
fered most acutely and frequently from
attacks of those painful rumors of dis
sension.
AID. Yule went down to Wauke-
gan recently to show the people how to
play whist. They gave him a Whisk
broom as BOBBY prize to bring home.
The boys are giving him the big laugh.
Two of Kenosha's prominent bust
ness men who have always voted the
democratic ticket say they are repub-
licans from this time on. They have
had all they want Of free trade and
" dollar wheat
Following the $150,000 fire at the
Racine Hardware company plant at
Racine Junction, a $4,000 blaze oc-
cured at the Hurlbut company's shops
at $50 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. There
is an insurance Of $4,000 on the entire
plant, distributed in twenty-five COM
panies.
BY q new arrangement made in
Washington superintendent has been
appointed to attend to the distribution
of the public documents. The mall
list in the hands of this superintendent
now has the Kenosha library OF it and
all public documents will now come this
way without special application for
them. SO writes Senator Mitchell to
Col. Strong.
Tuesday night a special train drawn
by engine number 6, engineer Carl
Anderson, made the trip from Milwau
kee to Chicago, distance of Sc miles,
in l05 minutes, including stops at Ra-
cine, Kenosha and Waukegan. De-
ductiHg the time of the stops the trip
was made at an average speed of nearly
60 miles an hour. The engine was one
of the new giants recently put into
service on this division.
The general comment being made
on the article in our last issue from the
pen of District Attorney Buckmaster,
concerning the pardon matter in the
Barney Bloch case, meets with very
general approval. The citizens OF
this city and county do not favor any
such move as is being made, and the
statement being made that any state
official has made any promises, may be
put down as prime fiction.
-" / suppose politics has nothing to
do with it, said the man who didn't
want his name used, -" but I notice
that every spring about cwo or three
weeks before the election time that
there is wonderful activity in the way
of cleaning streets and that class OF
work given out by the city. Of course
the work must be done sometime but
it is noticeable that it is regularly done
just before elections. just bear this in
mind and see if it is not true" The
reporter having nothing else to do is
patiently waiting for the seasons
campaign of city house cleaning tC
see that the facts bear out the state
ment.
The police rounded up two Aus
trian thieves Wednesday night, They
are wanted by the sheriff at Joliet Ill.
for stealing three suits of clothes, three
watches and So in cash. The men
came here some two weeks ago. The
name of one is Joseph Gursang. He is
lS vaorc of aOn and has hann here IN