The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-13

in Kenosha Tuesday.
| p. c. Engle, of Racine, transacted
business here Tuesday.
The botany class of the high school
went Dotanizing Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. G. c. Ryan, of Chicago, is ex-
pected here Thursday as the guest of
Miss Grace Baldwin,
Mrs. Gilbert Simmons and daughter
and Mrs. Clarkson, of Chicago, are ex-
pected here to spend the summer with
Miss Ciarkson.
| On Tuesday morning Fred Richter
had occasion to leave his restaurant for
a short time, and thinking everything
was safe he neglected to lock the door.
But he did not reckon with a certain
party who writes poetry who happened
about at that time. This gentleman
slipped in and finding no one at home,
and being a good hearted felloE, i'm
mediately wrote large notice to the
effect that a free breakfast
would be served from 6 to 8
o'clock and set it in the win
dow. He then sat down and began
to devour whatever he could get hold
of. Little by little other persons no.
ticed the invitation in the window and
dropped in. Before long the place was
full and Mr.. Richter's larder was rapid
ly diminishing. Mr.. Richter was gone
longer that he expected TO be, but re-
turned just in time to save a cup of
coffee and sandwich.
1t was reported this morning that
there was a strike among the paper
carriers at the Union Tuesday evening.
The motive for the strike is not accu-
rately known. Some reports say the
boys were unequally paid, and that the
faction getting the less wages struck
for the wages of those who were get
ting more. Another report, which
seems the most likely, says they all
struck for raise. They struck any
way, and did it according to the most
approved pattern ever given them by
older hands. Those who showed
willingness to resume business at the
old rates were coerced if possible, and
some papers were wOntOnly destroyed.
If the reports as generally circulated
are true, they gave our neighbors con-
siderable trouble with no other motive
than an unreasonable desire to strike.
All those who go to Prof. tombstone
to have their palms read and their
fortunes told, should school themselves
to hear the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, and if their
future prospects are not as bright as
might be, they mus5 not lay it to the
professor, but quietly submit to the
inevitable. There are some, it is re-
ported, who, having had their future
photographed, are secretly waiting for
rich uncles to die and leave them a
wind fall, but to offset these there are
others who are combining themselves
most closely to the house and surround
ing themselves with every possible
security, all to prevent the catastrophe
which must inevitably come. 1t takes
everything to make a life, and those
who choose to hoodwink nature and
take peek into her mystic treasury,
must learn to take the bitter with the
sweet, for it is the duty of any con-
scientious seer to give one his moneys
worth, even if it compel the subject to
live through the next score of years in
certain knowledge of impending cal
amity.
A party who had attended the dance
given by the Eastern Star were return
ing to their homes about the time the
birds got up Wednesday morning when
their apprehensions were raised by the
appearance of suspicious looking in
dividual standing on the side Of the
walk just where the trees cast their
thickest shadows. He slipped stealthily
further into the darkness as they
passed and his features were indescrib- |
able. The party passed on and into
musings on certain desperate charac
tiers that are abroad as, the Waukesha
murderer, dangerous tramps and a
certain mad man who has been COM
hitting depredations very quietly
about here lately. All of these things
came up and what had been seen of
the suspicious character tailed |
strangely with fragments of newspaper
descriptions of the bad characters
recollected by different members of the
party. A little further on the man
appeared again and by some myster-
Gus moves confirmed the belief of the
carousers. They reached their homes
safely, but spent q sleepless night.
This morning it was found that the
stranger was only policeman.
Prof. Paul Alexander tombstone, the
celebrated reader of unmuttered
thought in speaking of Dr.. 7. NJ.
Walsh, the eminent Chicago specialist
who is stopping for few days at the