The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-07
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few days in Burlington.
Miss Della Kingsland visited friends
in Racine Friday evening.
August Siefers, of Milwaukee, is the
guest OF friends in this city.
Chief Stemm is preparing for hunt
ing trip into Florence county.
Wool from the Stevens farm was sold
Friday at Is cents, 6 cents more than
last year.
The cement sidewalk being built
about the St. James church is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The band concert Friday evening
was up to the standard both in at
tendance and music.
Several hunting parties have made
all arrangements to spend few weeks
in the northern woods.
Mrs. M. Levinson, of Chicago, is
here on weeks visit to her husband,
who conducts the Chicago Cash store.
Robert A. Van WICK, the nominee of
the democrats for mayor of Greater
New York, is a cousin of Judge Van
Wyck.
A new boy arrived at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Martin Friday
night, and there is happiness in the
household.
Betting men are turning their atten-
ton to the Luetgert trial now, and bets
are being placed that Luetgert will be
freed by the jury.
The question of the electric road is
becoming as popular as it was last win
ter. tits quite earnestly and generally
discussed on the streets.
The +" Bohemian Cyclone" is the
champion bod carrier of Kenosha. He
can carry a half barrel filed with
brick up ladder forty feet high.
Next!
A gang of men in the employ of the
Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Electric
railway are going over the road re-
pairing it after the laying of the car
track.
Henry Halberstadt has about COM
pleted his double house on Chicago
street and will start on a row of flats
facing Park street this fall or early in
the spring. Henry is a hustler.
College of Commerce has over sew
enty pupils enrolled. This speaks
well for the manager and shows the
people appreciate the efforts made to
give Kenosha a first class business col
lege.
The Good >Templers' lodge which
has been in existence here the past
five months disbanded Friday evening,
because of the fact that the greater
portion of the members had left the
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Hoyt, Mrs. F. S.
Newell and Mrs. Edward Balm and
maid returned this noon from a few
weeks visit in Boston and other places
of interest throughout the east, stop
ping also at Niagara Falls.
Captain Schuettler, of the Chicago
police. when asked about the Salem
grave robbery case said that no agent.
of the Chicago police was connected in
any way with the ghoulish work re-
ported from that town.
Quiet, which usually enjoys undis-
puted supremacy in the vicinity of the
lake at the end of Market street, was
most violently disturbed this morning.
A splash was heard in the lake follow
ed by the excited barking of dog
which stood on the edge of the break
water. The cry of man overheard
came from the neighborhood of the pier
and in twinkling the drowsy denizens
of that community were hurrying for
the waters edge. Some, even in their
haste had been thoughtful enough to
take with them rope or board or
something which might assist in rescu-
ing drowning man. Within two min
utes the breakwater was crowded with
people. The only thing visible IN the
water which did not belong there by
nature was a rabbit which had been
pursued to its watery refuge by the
dog. The kind people helped the lit
tie thing out safely and then returned
to their homes.
A disastrous bicycle accident took
place on Market square about 8o'clock
Friday evening, The two bicyclists
were of course approaching from op-
posite directions when they got into
each others way and crash ensued.
Out of the melee one wheel and one
wheelman came without scar or scratch.
The other, however, was much less for
tunate. 'His wheel was a wreck. 1t
could be picked up and carried away
in bushel basket without any danger
of dropping any of the stray pieces on
tho road The rider was SO heart