The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-24
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items OF Interest From all Parts of This
Great State

Great State
The crudest sawmill in the Northwest
is at Wagner on the Wisconsin q Mich
gan railway, near Marinette. 1t is
owned by Frank Adams, a farmer
The mill is back of the house. 1t con-
sists of circular saw, carriage and a
small engine to run the saw. The logs
are hauled onto the carriage by horses
and the horses are used to run the car
riage back and forth. The mill is built
right in the open air and the machinery
is set on blocks. Adams saws lumber
for the farmers in that vicinity.
Mrs. Lucretia Baker Chadwick, rel
let of John Chadwick and lacking
only nine months and one day of being
100 years old, died at Fort Atkinson.
She was born June 16, 1897, at Nor
wich, Conn. When a child her par
ents moved to Madison county, N. Y,
and in the town of Madison she was
married, January 16, 1919, to John
Chadwick. They came to Wisconsin
in 1848 and settled about three miles
east of Lake Koshkonong, where her
husband died ten years later.
An attempt at incendiarism that
might have proved serious is reported
from Babcock. A bag of kerosene
soaked paper was placed under the
stoop of saloon and set fire to, but
was discovered in time and the flames
put out. BabcOck has no fire service
and as there was a strong wind blow
ing, it is lucky the fire was seen in
time.
Herman Bregerman, charged with
stabbing Frank Jessmier couple of
weeks ago, as the result of an alterca-
ton with some of the light infantry
boys at Appleton, was arraigned ..for
preliminary hearing before justice
and held in $500 bonds to the NOvem
Der term Of the circuit court.
The trial of Henry Morrell, the man
charged with stealing a purse from a
woman at Chippewa Falls, occupied
most of the day in the municipal court
The defendant tried to prove an alibi
but was held for the circuit court.
1t is not a crime to play Sunday ball
in Oshkosh. 1t took a jury just four
minutes and a half to decide that and
thus the Sunday baseball cases insti-
tuted by the Oshkosh Sabbath associa-
tion came to an ignominious end.
The Norwegian church in Cooksville,
Rock county, was struck by lightning
and destroyed. There was an insur-
ance of $4,000. It will be rebuilt.
Frank Hepburn, former resident of
Madison, was killed during quarrel
at Van Buren,, Ark.
Plucky Miss Laurish, nurse at
the Rivers hospital, in Wausau,
saved the life of Victor Johnson, a pa
tient, at the risk of losing her own
johnson was brought to the hospital
from Hazelhurst, crazy with typhoid
fever. Twice during the night he
tried to get out Of the room, and Miss
Laurish, in attempting to make him
90 back to the bed was knocked down
by blows on the head. The man then
tried to climb out of small window
twentv-eight feet from the ground, but
the nurse reached him just in time to
grab his foot, to which she held in
spite of his kicks until another woman
nurse arrived. The two took frmer
hold of the foot, and when the doctor
arrived the TYPHOID fever patient was
hanging head first out Of the window.
Miss Laurish has a badly bruised face,
for which Johnson will probably be
sorry when he comes out of his delir-
ium.
Ex-senator Sawyer stated that the
result i'll Maine did not surprise him,
and that it Indicated without doubt
the election of Mckinley, which he pre-
dicLed early in the canvass. Bryan
will be buried completely" said the
senator. Mr. Sawyer received letter
from Matt Quay which inquiries about
Wisconsin. 81 told him, said Senator
Sawyer, that Wisconsin can be count
ed on for $4,000, and that if it did not
go $4,000 l would be disappointed"
Burglars forced the front door of the
postofice at Eagle with an iron bar
that they stole from the blacksmith
shop of McKoem & Tuohy, and with
drills and other tools taken from the
same place drilled hole in the town
safe that stood in the room back of the
postoffice They broke the lock but
found no booty. They then stole a
horse belonging to George Cummings
and buggy belonging to Nate Whit
tam and left town.
Miss Fredia Moessmer, a domestic in
the employ of a family at Eau Claire,
was severely burned while dressing her
hair before retiring. Her clothes caught
fire, but the flames were smothered by
members of the family, who heard he1