The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-21
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Brief Points from Various Sections of the
Great Badger State.

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The liabilities include SIT 900 deposits.
This was the only bank at Superior
and will probably be recognized.
At the last meeting of the Racine
county board of supervisors the bills of
Justice Wentworth were cut $514; JUS
tice Morey over 800, and City Marshal
Henderson and ex-Marshal Easson
about $780, Notices of appeal have
been fled.
John Gross, Jr., of Little Suamico,
was taken before Justice O'Keefe, of
Oconto, by Special Game Warden Bis
singer, of Green Bay, on a charge of
killing deer out of season. He pleaded
guilty and paid fine of $50 and costs.
C. j. Noel, of Marinette, has COM
pleted a deal which is unique mas
much as he gets control of an entire
village. He has leased the town of
Granite Bluff. Mich, consisting of a
sawmill and single mill and twenty
cottages.
Eagle River must be a paradise for
the hobo. The Rhinelander Herald
says z the sheriff of Villas county is to
receive 81 800 a year for the board of
tramps, and $3.50 per week for all
prisoners awaiting trial in circuit
court"
Well diggers who were putting in a
we'll at the county workhouse near
Superior, accidentally ran upon vein
of copper and have taken several fine
specimens from the we'll. The we'll was
sunk on the old copper range.
The White House" department
store owned by j. c. Lance and r. L.
Dickins was closed at La Crosse under
chattel mortgage for $4,000 in favor of
Ell. B. Claflin, of New York, the largest
creditor.
The shop of Sam Collins, an Eau
Claire blacksmith, was seized on a
chattel mortgage. He broke into the
shop, it is alleged, and took away some
of his tools. He was arrested on
charge of larceny.
1t is alleged that John Schneider and
Tony Aller, young men of Honey
Creek, Sank county, held up an Ara
bian peddler and relieved him of all his
cash. They were arrested and bound
over.
John MUDonough, very eccentric
man, who for years conducted dry
goods store at New London, and who
was said to be quite wealthy, committed
suicide by shooting himself.
The Waupun prison has adopted new
rules governing the prison visitors. No
women or children will be admitted,
and gentlemen desiring to visit the
prison will be taxed % cents each.
Thomas Kingston, of Madison, will
celebrate his Tooth birthday on Janu-
aly 20. He was born in Cork, Ireland,
January IL, 1897, and came to this
country in 1882.
A few days ago Henry Van Mill,
living six miles south of Amigo, lost
span of horses by breaking through the
ice while crossing small stream in
Forest county.
Louis Odette, of Minneapolis, fell
from the top of the elevator at Mani
towoc and was instantly killed. The
remains were taken to Minneapolis.
Burglars raided the general store at
Avon, Rock county, and stole consider
able property.
John Prindiyille was sent up from
Racine county for one year for bur-
glary.
There are 687 prisoners at Waupun,
16 of whom are females.
Otto Walters, Wausau saloonkeep-
er, has disappeared.
William Telschof, of Menominee,
was killed in camp near Rice Lake
while at work for Knapp, Stout & Co.
He was loading logs when the hind
runners Of the sled broke through the
ice and threw him from the load.
The board of education has asked
the city council to build new school in
the Fifth ward at Racine and additions
to the Second and Third wards, but
the councilman hesitate about granting
the request.
Mrs. Julia LAUGH, of Marinette, was
declared insane and committed to the
Oshkosh asylum. Her insanity was
due, in the opinion of the doctors, to
the suicide of her son, which occurred
about year ago.
The farmhouse owned and occupied
by Pole named Touloski at Palmyra
caught fire from a defective chimney,
and, with it's contents, burned to the
ground. The loss is $500; no insur-
ance.
A man giving bis name as Richard
Roehler was arrested at Mansion on a
charge of the larceny of $1,000 from a
widow at Detroit, Mich. He will be
taken there for trial
Chris. Thomas, while skating on the