The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-18
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Brief Points from Various sections of the
Great BADGER State.

| of jail breaking, is free. The case came
up at juneau The attorneys held a
consultation and an agreement was
reached whereby the district attorney
consented to withdraw the charge of
i Jail breaking and substitute therefor
the charge Of malicious mischief. When
this was done Zelner entered a plea of
guilty, and Judge Lewis fined him $50
and costs, which he agreed to pay. IF
convicted of the charge of breaking Jail
the lightest punishment would have
been two years in the state prison
Zelner left for his home in Watertown
after settling with the court.
The funeral Of Mrs. Nellie Ross, who
was killed at Kaukauna by her hus-
band, Peter Ross, took place at Depere
from the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Duprey. A demand was
made on the city authorities to assume
the expenses of the funeral, but it was
refused On the ground that the dead
woman was not a resident of the city.
She was buried in a pauper's grave.
With the re-enaetment of an ade-
quate tariff ON lumber the mill men Of
Northern Wisconsin look for a revival
of activity in that industry, and are
| preparing already for an increased de-
mand at better prices. Mills will begin
saving as soon as the weather is more
favorable
r. A. Swanke, who conducts meat
market at Peshtigo, had a fine collection
Of 10 cent pieces stolen from his shop.
The collection comprised about seventy
pieces, some of which bore dates as far
back as 1900 and were considered very
valuable
The action of the Oconto city council
/ in passing an ordinance disc0ntinuing
the fire department until funds from
the saloon licenses had been received,
which would be in July, has been
vetoed by the mayor and the employees
have gone back to work
Conductor MCGOWAN, Engineer Helm
| lin and Fireman Manley of Wisconsin
Central freight train jumped from the
engine at a point near ManitoWoc, ex-
ipecting a collision with a switch engine.
They were all severely bruised.
A. A. Cook, resident of Valley
Junction, while walking on the railroad
track east of Tomah, was struck by No.
3 passenger train and thrown from the
track. He lies in the Tomah hospital
in a critical condition.
John Costello, living about three
miles south of Tomah, while in the
woods chopping, was struck by falling
tree, sustaining a compound fracture OF
the thigh.
There is no longer any hope that the
receipts of the Oshkosh postofice for
| the present fiscal year will amount to
$40, 900, the figure which must be
reached before the office will be pro
moted to the first class.
Candidates for public Offices are
scarce at Green Bay this spring.
Hunters returning to Superior from
the woods where they have been in
quest of small game report that large
numbers of rabbits, small game and
partridges are being killed this winter
by the unusual number of owls. The
| presence of owls in Northern Wisconsin
has always attracted attention, but this
winter they are exceedingly numerous.
Lou Thompson of East Superior, who
has just come in, says that the owls are
| becoming a pest. he states that on
account of the hard crust on the snow
the rabbits and other small game are
unable to escape by burroWing and are
thus an easy prey. The traps are also
despoiled of their catch by the owl
tribe. Partridges are killed in a similar
manner by them. Reports have been
received of the owls carrying off house
cats Of the settlers. Some very large
ones have been killed this winter, one
unusually large white owl flying into
the city and lighting on the Omaha
depot where it was killed by Capt.
Newton. The magnificent bird was
stuffed and presented to Mayor Pattison.
st. Paul railway detectives arrived in
Racine with six boys who are alleged
To have broken into freight cars and
stolen hundreds of dollars worth of
property between Western Union juno
ton and Chicago. Two of the boys
gave their names as Fritz Brink and
Orrin Thomas, and the rest withheld
their names. They are all supposed to
/ live in Chicago, in which city they were
| arrested. 1t is claimed the bows have
been working a scheme for more than a
year by which they are alleged to have
robbed the St. Paul road of a consider
able amount Of property. Their ex-
animation will be held March %.
The paying Of a So bounty on wild
cats has been stopped by Brown county,
a resolution to that effect having been
adopted by the county board. 1t is
claimed that the dead animals were
being imported from neighboring coun-
i ties where no b0untv is Maid