The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-12
REVIEW OF STATE NEWS.
A Short Sketch of the Doings of Some Of
Our Neighboring Cities.

WduKSSnd IOnQly INDUCES the nope
that Uncle Sam will build in the Spring
City public building worth $50,000-
Kenosha with a larger population,
postoffice business of greater value,
does not dare cherish such hopes at
present. Green Bay, with a popu1a-
ton of $4,000 was promised magnih-
cent public building several years ago,
but it has not yet materia1ized. May
Waukesha's bright dream prove real
and substantial.
March revenue receipts at the Mil
waukee Office show an increase over
the same month last year, and indi-
Gates a business approaching ten
thousand dollars for the calendar year
Milwaukee is slowly discarding swad-
ling bands and putting on trousers
What if it had been founded in 1884
like the ancient city at the mouth oe
the Fox?
According to examinations made by
expert newspaper accountants, en-
p1oyed by T. A. Chapman Co., of Mil
waukee, and to meet the expense OF
which the Milwaukee Journal made a
deposit of $500, the paid circulation of
that paper, exclusive of extras, adver~
tisers' papers, exchanges and sub
scribers one year in arrears, was, De-
cember, 1899, 531, 716; January, 1900.
500, IFS; February, 1900, 538, $50. This
monthly distribution gives a daily av-
erage of paid circulation of q, 270 i'm
December; q, 891 in January; ana
%, 453 in February. Thus the average
daily paid subscription for the three
months ending February 28th, 1900,
was q, 864. Good for the Milwaukee
Journal. We have a peculiar adnlira-
ton for that metropolitan sheet and
have had since its inaugural number
1t is brim full of good stuff, we do not
say stufing. The editors and SUBJ
editors, the whole staff proprietary an0
literary, is made up of right good fell
lows. And as for the plant, it is very
complete, extensive and up to date
But the Journal will pardon us if we
confess constitutional inability to-
digest and assimi1ate certain parts
of the political pabulum it offers the
American people for their health and
edifcation. Long life, health, peace
and prosperity just the same,
The good people of Racine are be-
ginning to feel the warm pulse of Ken
osha life. Waves of hot water from
the heating plant struck the wintry
atmosphere of Racine last winter and
made the inhabitants of that suburb
wish for some of the blessings that
Kenosha enjoys. At least in the near
future an application will be made to
the city council of Racine for fran
chise for a public heating plant. The
promoters will invest $500, 900 and offer,
to heat all public buildings free of
charge for the franchise. Cheer ups
Sons of Racine, may you never Freeze.
never feel cold shivers creeping up
and down your spinal columns; may
you bid adieu to coal bins, furnace
rattle and accommodating ash heaps.
Merrill has opened it's new and e1e-
giant hotel. It was begun in July 1899
1t is built of solid brick, is three stories
high, displays 200 electric lights, is
elegantly furnished, has a large lobby
and two magnificent par1ors. When
Kenosha wanderers visit Merrill they
will put up at the Lincoln.
The great train loaded with products
of the J. I. Case company, of Racine,
arrived at Kansas City at O'Clock last
Monday. The train was composed of
twenty-five fiat cars and loaded with
seventy-fve threshing machines and
twenty-five engines, the whole va1ued
at S150,OO0. Two powerful 1omocotives
each decorated with stars and stripes,
pulled the valuable flats into the city,
while thousands of people lined the
tracks astorished at the extensiveness
of the products of one of Racine's
factories.
In the northern part of Lincoln
county is a village fOurishing the bar
barous and bloody cognomen of
Tomahawk. The name scents of the
Indian, the warwhoop and the battle.
But in that town is lumber lord with
large ideals and possessed of money
enough to cause the ideal to materialize
Mr.. w. H. Bradley will dig numerous
canals and thus connect the several
little lakes and one larger one that
help make picturesque that locality.
They touch the village, they swell ont
in the midst of murmuring forests
and, by and by pleasure steamers and
gondolas will ply from group to gronp,
from city to wilderness, and move amid
scenery of every charming description.
On the most beautiful of these mirrors
in the woods pa1atia1 summer hotel
will be built; far exce11ing those at
Mitchell and E1mwoOd Trolley
cars will run between them. The
visitor will be able to vary his environ
ment according to his own sweet viii;
he may sleep at night on bed of hem
lock boughs among the whispering
pines; he may breakfast within sound
Of the cataract of Spirit Falls; he may
dine in a palace in the midst of pro-
gress and civilization; and may dance
with the pretty girls of Tomahawk in
he