The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-03
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of interest From all Parts of This
Great State.

| Great State.
Unless the section of country around
Superior is visited with heavy rain
i fall soon, the residents of the small
towns along the lines of railroads lead
| ing to the head of the lake will be in con-
slant fear of the safety of their proper
ty and their lives. A repetition of the
terrible scenes of 1894, when many To-
calities were devastated by flames and
many people lost their lives and others
lost all their property, is now feared,
and the fears are we'll founded, for no
rain of any consequence has fallen in
many weeks, and the timbered regions
are as dry as finder. The principal
danger at present seems to be along
the lines of the Northern Pacific and
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic roads,
south Of Superior. Several small fires
have broken out within the past few
days.
John II. Sullivan, known Razor
jack" from the fact that he was quite
an expert with razor in fight, COM
mitted suicide at GAINESVILLE in sensa-
tional manner. He went into a local
drug store and purchased three ounces
of laudanum. From there he went to
barber shop, took a bath and swal-
lowed the drug in the presence of the
employees of the place.
Trempealeau is the head Of naViga-
ton on the Mississippi river at present
The sandbar at Telegraph island
makes it impossible for large packets
to pass. The Diamond 10 steamer
Quincy was obliged to transfer passen-
gers to the Burlington railroad, and
adondon it's trip to St. Paul.
Master Willie Spiegelhoff, of Lyons,
Walworth county, while playing in a
neighbours barn one day last week, fell
into a hay chute, coming out at the
other end, a distance of over twenty
feet, and landing on the barn floor,
where he was found in an insensible
condition. He will recover. HjdG
The sheriff7s sale of the late Prof.
David Swings property on the south
shore of Lake Geneva was concluded
last week. The place was purchased
by Mrs Wallace, the Chicago woman
who is putting up the Idaho Worlds
fair building here, the consideration
being $4,000.
An eagle, that the fond parents of
Lafayette were afraid would carry off
all their children, was shot by Fred
Janke the other day, when it was found
to be no screaming liberty bird at all
but big owl that measured nearly four
feet from tip to tip of wings.
Annie EIlingson, daughter of Ole
Ellingson, of the town of Dunn, in
Dane county, was badly burned, her
dress catching fire from a cook stove.
The entire surface of her body was
scared by the .blaze, and her recovery
is doubtful.
George Watertown of the town of
Washburn, Clark county, has been ar
rested on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder Solomon Todd. The
examination was adjourned till Sep
TENDER to await the result of Todd's
wound.
Henry Miller, the man whom E. r.
Hile, Of Blooming Grove, Icaught run
ming with another from his farmhouse
on returning from town, was held for
trial at the preliminary examination on
a charge of burglary at Madison.
Mrs. F. J. Durbin, of La Crosse, and
her father, John Parks, of New Lisbon,
were injured in a runaway accident,
being thrown from the buggy. Mrs.
Durbin's shoulder was broken and the
latter was injured internally.
Sparks from a threshing engine ig-
nited the strawstack of Herman
Yaeker, of Wayside, while threshing,
and from that it was communicated to
his large barn, filed with hay and
grain. Every building on the place
was destroyed, including his residence
and granary, with over 200 bushels of
grain. The loss is $4,000, with small
insurance.
1t is likely that Gov. Upham will ap-
point a successor to the late Hans B.
Warner on the state board of control
next week. There are nearly fifty ap-
plicants. 1t is said that the appoint
ment will probably be given to Nor
wegian, and that j. B. Jensen, county
clerk of Pierce county, is the most
likely man.
Thousands of bushels of wild black
berries will go to waste in various parts
of Door county on account Of the great
crop and inability of the people to pick
them as fast as they ripen.
Potatoes are being marketed in small
quantities at Hancock, the price being
from 10 to Ii cents per bushel. They
are yielding from twenty-five to
seventy five bushels per acre.