The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-27
STATE NEWS TN BRIEF.
items of interest From all Parts of This
Great state.

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A bic real estate deal was consunl-
mated at Madison when 1000 acres of
Northern Wisconsin land was sold to
the Weeks Lumber company, OF
Stevens Point and Oliver Darwin, of
Black River Falls, by Pedro A. Merino,
of London. The land is in Taylor
county, near Medford, known as the
Browning tract. twas agricultural col
lege land and was purchased from the
state by L. T. Browning. of New York,
in 1870 for ST. % an acre. Browning
did not pay the state the full amount
of the purchase price and a patent to
the land was not issued. Soon after
ward he transferred the property to
others, and some time ago Pedro A.
Merino, of London, got possession of
the contracts of a foreclosure. The
said land commissioners have issued
patents for the land in the name of Mr..
Merino The latter sold to the Weeks
Lumber company, OF Stevens Point,
the pine and hemlock on the land, the
consideration being $40, 900.
Prospects are good for a fine crop of
tobacco this year in Dane county.
The harvest is now on, and reports
from the tobacco districts show a
heavy crop of extra fine quality.
There is no improvement in prices, but
there is less old stock in the farmers
hands, and they are stiffening their
holding prices somewhat.
Fred Umberhanny, an inmate of the
Chippewa county asylum, escaped
from that institution and has not yet
been captured. 1t is thought that he
is somewhere in the farming district in
the neighbOrhOod of the asylum.
-Ex-Atty. Gen. J. L. O'Connor, Of
Madison, received dispatch saying
his father was dying at his home in
Hartford, Waukesha county, and. he
left for that place. O'COnnor, ST., is
IS years of age.
The ministers of the Wisconsin di-
vision of the Missouri Lutheran synod
will hold conference IN the city Of
Oshkosh August "a, % and 26. Some
200 ministers are expected to be pres
ent.
Out of thirty-se candidates for
admission to the practice of pharmacy,
in the recent examinations at Stevens
Point, twenty seven passed.
Frank Dresser, of Oshkosh, was
jabbed in the eye with an umbrella in
the hands of another young man. He
may lose his sight.
The water is so low in the Mississip-
pi at La Crosse. that boats find great
difficulty in landing.
A number of new school houses are
to be built at the Indian reservation
near Ashland.
w. G.. Russell suffered stroke Of
paralysis at La Crosse. He is we'll
known there.
There will be no change in the plans
and specifications of the Racine public
building, and Racine contractors will
not be given the preference when the
bids are opened. Contractors and
others sent long petition to Washing
ton requesting that the exterior of the
building be changed from terra Gotta
to stone and that Racine contractors
be given the preference to construct
the builing.
John P. earle, an employe of the
Wisconsin Chair company, at Port
Washington, met with a serious acct
dent. He was at work loading stock
for the elevator in the third story of
their warehouse when he made a mis-
step and fell the entire distance down
the elevator shaft to the ground floor.
FIVE ribs were broken and he received
other wounds.
All of the papers necessary for the
proposed new electric street railway
between Milwaukee, Racine and Keno
sha, have been received and the man
agement state that 1000 men and
teams will be set to work grading on
the line. The line must be complete
before November Is and cars running.
In case the contractors fail there is
heavy penalty.
Little Leslie Halverson, 2 years of
age, while running about in the yard
at Deansville, Dane county, was stung
in frightful manner by bees. The
bees were furious aud chung to his head
and face with such tenacity that it was
impossible to drive them off,
Burglars entered the residence of
David johnson, at Evansville, taking
about Sc in cash and some provisions.
None of the inmates were disturbed
and knew nothing of their loss until
morning, when they found their cloth
ing misplaced and pocketbook out
on the sidewalk.
Robert Mcdonald and James O'Brien
were sentenced two years each in WAN