The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-01
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest From all Parts of This
Great State

Great State.
An injunctional order has been is
sued upon the application of Charles
Crogster, of Ashland, enjoining the
county treasurer and Bayfield, county
itself, and the Washburn, Bayfield, q
Iron River railroad, and the Milwaukee
Trust company, from the delivery or
payment of the railroad bonds granted
by the county to aid the Washburn,
Bayfield, & iron River railroad. Messrs.
Tomkins and Merrill are the attorneys
for the plaintiff, and they allege that
the bonds are fraudulent and illegal.
It is understood that Mr.. Crogster rep
resents several lumber companies in
the litigation.
The case against Martin Bran, Jr.,
pending in the circuit court at Madison,
will be dropped on motion of District
Attorney Anderson. Blam is farmer
in the town of Springfield. A few
months ago when the army worm was
ravaging the fields, Bran worked on
Sunday to save his crop. He was ar
rested on complaint of neighbor, Am
brose Nultner, and fined ST. and costs.
He appealed to the circuit court.
The through passenger train on the
Prairie du Chen division of the st. Paul
road ran off the track at Waukesha just
as it was passing the west end of the
depot platform. All but two cars left
the rails. The passengers were trans
ferred to the Waukesha train and only
few minutes delay resulted, but sew
eral hours were required to get the de-
rallied locomotive and cars back.
P. thinner, a farmer living near
Farmhill, Pepin county, was burned
out, losing all his crops, barn, out
buildings and farm machinery, besides
crib of corn from last years crop.
There had been DO fire on the place,
not even in the house, and the fire is
believed to have been incendiary. The
loss is only partly covered by insur-
ance.
Willie, son of William Mitchell, of
Mineral Point, received a terrible gun
shot wound in the right arm, necessi-
tating amputation near the shoulder.
The accident came through the lads
using a shotgun, held by the muzzle, co
remove some hay that had become at,
tached to wire fence.
Charles Schultz was sentenced to
three years and Fred Shea to three
years and six months at Waupun, in
the municipal court at OcOnomowoc,
for burglary committed in June, and
for which they were convicted.
John Kerns, an employe of the
Holmes Logging railroad of Marinette,
was crushed to death near Pembine
He was in car loading logs when one
of them fell from the chains and passed
over him.
Z The depot Of the St. Paul company
at Stiles was completely destroyed by
fire, involving a loss of about ST 900
Lightning struck the building during a
storm and the fire started from this.
Chris. johnson, of Urine, near Mon
dow, aged 80 years, was overcome by
foul gas in a we'll which he was clean
ing there for a neighbor and died be-
fore he could be rescued from the well.
Ted Bersie, lad about IA years old,
fell into the river from the elevator
dock at Green Bay and was saved from
drowning only by the heroic act of
George Grif1s, boy 16 years old.
Robert Smith, a resident of Oshkosh,
was arraigned in municipal court,
charged with an assault with intent to
do great bodily harm upon the person
of his wife, Amanda Smith.
Frank Hammon's barn on the
Schaub place in Spring Prairie, was
struck by lightning and burned to the
grounds The lightning rod had been
neglected.
Lake Beulah station was struck by
lightning and the wires and instruments
damaged so that they were unfit for
use, doing no serious damage to the
building.
A little son of William Watson, of
La Grange, Walworth county, was
kicked by horse, receiving injuries
that it is feared will prove fatal.
A number of the COWS of Nelse Mar
tins dairy got into his cornfeld at Lake
Geneva the other night, and as con-
sequence, two are dead.
James P. Brat, of Poplar station, on
the Northern Pacific road, near Super
ior, lost his cabin in the woods eight
miles east of here with all effects and a
dozen head of cattle by forest fires.
James Flaherty, a settler in Brule
township, also came and reported that
he had lost his shack and several other
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