The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-14


Alaska Gold Mining company, was
held at Baraboo to arrange for devel
oping the property which has laid idle
for some time.
The man who blew out the gas at
the Wagner house in Racine and mar
rowly escaped death, was from Fox
Lake, and not Wilton Lloyd, of Ran
dolph.
The directors of the Citizens Nation
al bank at Stevens Point have declared
a semi annual dividend of 4 per cent,
the amount thus divided being $14, 900.
The county board of Jackson county
granted to a colony of Germans an op
ton on 1880 acres of county land, to be
used for farming purposes.
The members of the Marathon coun-
ty bar presented Hugo Peters, for
eighteen years clerk of the court, with
a handsome silver tea set.
Diphtheria is raging in Grand Rap
ids and Centralia. Four deaths have
been reported, and the schools are
closed.
G.. S. Marsh, of Depere, died at the
Northern hospital for the insane. Mr..
Marsh was one of the most widely
known characters in that part of the
state Hewent to Depere from Vermont
before the war and made fortune in
numbering and specializing. In 1872 he
was considered worth 800, 900. He was
one of the founders of the National
Furnace, which was operated at Depere
for many years. In 1873 he organized
the First National bank of Depere, of
which he was president. Later he lost
his fortune in speculation and few
years ago was sent to the asylum.
Bloodshed may be the result of a
misunderstanding between two Super
ior people. The parties are Col c. D.
Loud from Savannah, Ca, and w. j.
Holden, a Superior shipbuilder and
politician. Col. Loud is engaged in
encouraging migration to the fruit
growing sections of Georgia. Holden
was sent with the colonel
short time ago to Georgia by party of
shipyard men to look over the country.
While away Holden conceived the idea
of going into the business himself and
started rival business three miles
from Col. LIQUIDS lands near Mason.
Now there is talk of duel.
The county board of Jackson county
has been considering bills for inebriates
sent to the Kelley institute at the ex-
pense of the county. There has been
much opposition to these bills, which
amount to over $4,000 The question
was finally given to committee of SUI
pervisors with instructions to make
some arrangements for settling with
the institute.
Dan Collins and John Campbell, who
were held in $4,000 bail at Darlington
for the murder of Edwin Hale, have
been released. The preliminary exam
nation was held before Justice Joseph
Cleary, who held that there was no
probable cause. Hale was mortally
wounded at dance at Gratiot and
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head
Reports from r. Shipman, of Apple
ton, who was recently badly wounded
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while hunting in the woods near Oconto
Falls, are not hopeful, his condition
being still regarded as very critical.
Iron Walker, aged 81 years, fell on
the ice at Chetek and broke four ribs,
which resulted in his death. Super
visor Isaac Bull, aged so years, fell on
some ice at the same time and dislO-
Gated his shoulder.
The sale of the Chicago & Lake Su-
peror railroad property on December
26 to satisfy the liens of the workmen
closes another chapter in the attempts
to obtain railway connection by the
village of Cambridge. Cambridge peo-
pie now consider the future as bright
as the past has been somber, and be-
lieve that another year will see the
finished Cambridge & London railroad.