The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items OF Interest from all Parts OF This
Great State

Great State.
The largest sio known in the world
is being built on the McGeoch farm,
two miles east of Lake Mills, and its
dimensions are such as to make it a
real curiosity IN the silo business. The
silo is round, measures 60 feet in diam
eter and 81 feet in height, and has a
capacity of 1920 tons of corn ensilage.
Mfr. McGeOch has 40 acres OF corn
growing for ensilage, eighty acres OF it
of the ensilage variety, all of which will
be put into this monster silO for the use
Of the great dairy of 200 COWS the farm
is intended to support. Should it
prove that this farm, which has hith
eli 10 supported about seventy five COWS,
can by the use of ensIlage be made to
carry 200 and still retain for general
farming as much land as was thus used
before, it will be such prominent proof
OF the value OF eDsilage feeding that the
last living quibbler should surrender
w. Fl. Borham caught in the WeY-
auwega mill pond a German carp that
weighed fourteen pounds, and was
thirteen and one-half inches long, with
a body seven inches wide. AS none
were ever put in the pond, it is sup
posed to be one that escaped from the
pond at Waupaca when the dam went
out about eight years ago. Mr. BOr-
ham says they are quite plenty IN the
WeyauWega mill pond.
Albert Brooks and Jack Moon were
fortunate enough to find bee tree in
the vicinity of Rockville last week that
was loaded with delicious honey. The
tree had a hole in it nearly twenty feet
long and contained $50 pounds of honey
after it was strained.
Another son of Patrick Christie is
with his father and brother confined in
the Jail at Neillsville awaiting the out
come of the inquest now being held on
the body of Christ. Mlert, the man
found dead with his head foil of shot
recently. 1t is stated that both the
boys, who are 16 and Is years respect
iveIy. have made full statements Of the
matter, the eldest confessing to doing
the shooting About three weeks ago
Christie separated from his wife and
has since been living alone with his
two sons Milert and Christie cele-
brated the Fourth together, having
considerable to drink. The older son
says that in the evening when Milert
was drunk his father loaded gun
with buckshot and gave it to him tell
ing him to shoot Milert or he would
thrash him. The boy hesitated, but
finally did so, killing him instantly. A
neighbOr testified that in passing the
house at the time of the shooting he
heard some one exclaim, There the
has got it now" 1t is also stated
that Christie had accused Milert of be-
ing intimate with Mrs. Christie.
The Weyerhouser logging syndicate
is planning to build a railroad into
Superior the coming summer and a
mammoth sawmill will be built there.
The application of the Beophatic
Medical college of Wisconsin for Ii
cense to do business in the state has
been refused by the secretary of state.
A 14-year- son of James L. Vance
of Lafayette, Chippewa county, has
been so severely gored by a bull that it
is thought he will die.
The Racine Woodenware company
will remove from Racine to Escanaba.
Joseph Bennett, alias Bruce, the
Waupun prisoner who escaped some
time ago by hiding in a car filled with
shoes, has just been recaptured at
Sioux City.
While cutting grain on his farm near
Princeton, Mr.. JatkOwski cut his little
7-year-old daughter so badly that she
bled to death.
Joseph Stroffe, prosperous farmer
of Glenmore, has killed himself.
No license has gone into effect at
Cambria.
Miss Jennie Dixon sank while bath
ing in the river at Kilbourn, and two
men dived for her thirty minutes before
bringing her to the surface, after which
medical assistance was summoned and
she was restored to consciousness.
Burglars robbed the store of A. G.
Arthur at ElrOy of small amount Of
money.
Prof Van Hise and G. Z. Leith, of
Madison, have gone off on United
States Biological survey.
Tne Oshkosh school board is having
almost as nice time as has been re-
Gently enjoyed by the Milwaukee COM
missioners. The Oshkosh trouble be-
gan with the removal of Prof. T. W.
Reilly after thirteen years of service
wholly on religious and political
grounds, it is said. Then came the
dismissal of Philander c. Selden, who
has been janitor of the high school for