The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-23
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Essms of Interest From all Parts of This
Great State.

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stock and surrounding buildings.
About one half of the stock was saved.
The postofice, J. Herberts store and
Alexander Feragin's general store
were scorched and glass fronts broken.
The loss is estimated at about $4,000,
with an insurance of $4,000 on stock and
Building.
Lightning struck E. d. McGowan's
home in GAINESVILLE. 1t demolished a
chimney, scattered bricks about the
parlOr and knocked down Mrs. j. S.
MeGowan Others in the neighbor-
hood also felt the shock. A peculiar
circumstance commented on by many
was the lightning came from clear
sky and was not accompanied by a
fond clap of thunder.
The case of Washburn county against
Al. G.. ProberL's bondsmen was closed at
Washburn, the court taking it under
2dvisement. Judge Vinje presided.
The bondsmen are P. j. Henderson,
Washburn; r. d. Pike, Bayfield,; Dr..
ns W. 1dIIIOOu CIDU M W ~
Ashland; c.. G. Thompson, Chicago.
Charles Drake, a prominent farmer
of Plainfed, has just harvested the
largest crop of tame hay eyer known in
shat part of the state, the yield being
over three tons of timothy hay to the
acre. This cannot be taken for gen.
8ral yield as there is not another piece
I'm the county that will go half as much
this season.
Three children Of Michael Barenke,
laborer employed in the stone quarry
at High Cliff, disappeared and efforts
30 find them have so far proved fruit
less. Their names are Arnold, Otto
and Ad0lph, and their ages 10, 9 and
z. The presumption is that they have
been drowned in Lake Winnebago.
Albert Thurban, q young Partisan
Rrenchman, was fatally hurt in French
town at Marinette. He fell from a
wagon of the Menominee River Brew
ing company, going under the wheels.
They passed over his chest and he died
so half an hour.
Joseph Barber and his son William
of Marinette and two men, names un-
known, are missing, and it is presumed
shat they were drowned in Green bay.
They we're running a small scow by sail
from Marinette to Peshtigo harbor for
cedar timber.
Charles Hunt and John Greenwood,
two of the Golfer gang, pleaded guilty
ut Marinette before Justice Humphre-
vile to larceny. They were given light
Fail sentences because they will be used
I'm the circuit court as witnesses.
James McKenna, who was convicted
of stealing a typewriter from the office
of the W. T. Randall Paper company
of Beloit, was sentenced to two and
0ne-half years in the state prison.
John Kuklinski, the 15-year old boy
who was arrested some days ago for
begging at Wausau has been committed
30 the industrial school for boys at
Waukesha until he is of age.
M. Hickey, an employe of the
Stearns Lumber company, was drowned
at Odanah. Two brothers live in
Washburn and his parents in Minneso-
"a.
Gov. Upham has pardoned George L.
Cooper, of Baraboo, who is serving a
six months sentence in the Sank coun-
sy Jail for larceny.
The Northwestern Electric Telephone
company has been granted franchise
30 put in system at Racine.
Mrs. John Franzen. aged so years,
committed suicide at La Crosse by
hanging herself in a barn.
While on his way to the camping
grounds at the Escanaba river beyond
the Saginaw location Fred P. Tillson
Of Marinette, ran over porcupine and
punctured one of the tires of his bicycle
So badly that it took almost yard of
repairing rubber to mend it. The por-
zion of the tire which came in contact
with the porcupine was literally filled
with quilts. Fred saw the porcupine
ahead of him as he came along the road
and thought he would run over it just
for the fun of the thing. The sport
cost Fred walk of couple of miles
after his bike was disabled.
Prospectors employed by l. W. Bur-
hans and Stephen Mcneil, who own
several tracts of land near Brule station,
about twenty f7e miles east of Superior,
report the discovery of a rich deposit
of iron ore on section 15-48-10, which
IS located short distance from Brule.
Other discoveries have been made dur
ing the past few months, but the last is
claimed to be the greatest yet brought
30 light. Tests have been made of the
vein, which resulted in the conclusion
chat the ore exceeds in quality and
quantity any of the deposits of the Yer
million or Mesaba ranges.