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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

Grave Fears Felt for the Safety Of
Miss Kate SChaffer, of This City,
Who is In China.
BOXERS ATTACK HAINAN.
Miss Schaffer is a Presbyterian Missionary
in the Little Island, Where Nine wo-
men and Children Were Killed.

Grave fears are entertained IN this
city today for the safety of Miss Kate
Schaffer, of Somers, who is now acting
as missionary at Hoi How, on the ISL
and of Hai-Nan. The government to-
day received the most serious reports
from the little island, and from the
tenure of these reports it is possible
that Miss Schaffer has fallen as a sac
rifce to heather barbarism. The NEWS
received a special this afternoon from
New York stating that the Journal and
Advertiser had received the following
cab1egram from Hong Kong:
Consul General Wi1dman has been
informed that the Chinese governor of
the island of Hainan has served notice
on the consu1s that he is unable to pro-
tect the foreigners any longer,
FThe American missions have ap-
pea1ed to Consul Wi1dman to send a
warship to Hollow to bring away the
foreigners.
cit is believed that three men, three
women and three children belonging
to the American Presbyterian Boards
ul1SSlO1 DIT NOOOd3 11d4LduS nav OSSA
murdered by Chinese imperial troops.
'The last news from there was dated
July II, at which time they repealed
the attack of the boxers.
"Hong Kong is full of refugees. An
outbreak is expected on the West
river
All sorts of efforts have been made
to obtain list of the killed, but they
have resulted in nothing. 1t is still
hoped that Miss Schaffer has not met
with the fate of the other missionaries,
but the worst is feared. Miss Schaf-
fer had been in Hainan for several
years, having been sent to the island
as a representative of the Presby
church at Somers. She was located at
Hoi How, but it is thought that with
the outbreak of hosti1ities between the
foreigners and the Boxers all the mis-
sionaries would have been called to the
headquarters for the society in the
island, which is at Nodoa.
No one in Henosha has heard from
Miss Schaffer in many months, and
as her relatives live some distance in
the country it was impossible to find
anything about her this afternoon.
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That He Couldn't Manage.

II hear that your daughter is en-
gagged, Mr.. De Courcy. May con-
graduate your
Thanks, but-er-I'm afraid it
won't come off. You see-I promised
TO give her thou by way of dowry
and ahem-rm not ready with it
just now"
''My dear Mr.. De Courcy, you can
easily get over that difficulty. Give
her, say f2OO down, and promise the
$500 in three months time"
Yes-um-that's very good. OF
course the $500 in three months 1 can
promise easily enough, but-er-its
the f200 down that l can't manage"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

Divine Healer Is Considering a Propo-
sition to Come Closer to Kenosha
With His ''HoIy City,
TO LOCATE AT WINTHROP.
1t Is Reported That He Is Now Negotiating
With the Land syndicate to Purchase
the Village of winthrop Harbor.

Benton1tes are intensely aroused by
the report that Zion City is to desert
them. Within the past few weeks GER
tam things have arisen which have re-
suited in the report being generally
circulated that instead of Building
zion City on the property he has pur-
chased and has options on in the yicin-
1ty OF Benton station, the promoters
are to change their site and will build
the city in Winthrop Harbor.
Though at first the residents were
10th to welcome Dowie, now that they
have got used to him and his followers
they are as 10th to give him up.
The report is so general and such
credencelis given it that the locality is
more stirred than when the bic project
was first announced.
Thre are various causes for the re-
port to gain credence. In the first
place the fact that Dowie did not carry
through the deal with Mrs. Durkin and
the manner in which it was called off
aroused the suspicious of the residents.
Then another thing, Saturday last
Or. Dowie and some of his officers
visited Winthrop Harbor and spent the
DAY looking over the site laid out by
the Van Vlissingen syndicate.
This move, preceded by the an
nouncement that number of holders
of disadvantages in Winthrop Harbor
had been compelled to take lots in
payment for interest on their invest
ment, added strength to the rurnors.
In fact the impression is prevalent in
Benton that the Winthrop Harbor
boom has fallen through, and on this
account Dowie,Ehas been asked to 90
there.
1t is said that the Van V1issinpen
company approached the general over
seer with the proposition to buy all of
his company's land, and as it would 90
IN it's entirety for a very nominal
amount as compared to what he is to
pay for all he desires in Benton. the
propositions was very favorab1y re-
ce1ved and the result was that Dowie
visited there Saturday last. The re-
suit of the visit and its purpose if it
were not with that end in view is not
known.
Another thing which has strength
ened the Winthrop Harbor story is
remark made by Agent Judd a day or
two ago.
He is quoted as saying in response to
a query: ''Why, you people up here in
Benton needn't fear that DR.. Dowie is
out OF money. Only recently he was
approached with proposition which
would demand great many times
more money than he has put into Ben
ton so far. He hesitated because of
the enornity of the plan, but several
prominent bankers in Chicago told him
to go ahead, they would back him for
$4,000, OO0."
1t is believed that Mr.. Judd had ref
erence to the Winthrop Harbor propo-
sition when making the remark.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

KAISER WILHELM is on the war path
in grim earnest. In his speech at
Bremerhaven, on the occasion of the
departure of German troops for China,
he exhorted his soldiers to give no
quarter and take no prisoners, but to
use their weapons for vengeance and
Christianity. eff you close with the
enemy said the Emperor, "you know
no quarter will be given and no prison
ers taken. Use your weapons so that
for ], 900 years no Chinaman will dare
to beard a German. Pave the way for
civilization now and evermore." Fur
Their on in his speech the Emperor
says: ''The task before you is a great
one. That a people like the Chinese
rights 1000 years old and treat with
scorn the sanctity of an ambassador
and the rights of hospitality in man
ner so horrible is unprecedented in the
history of the world. Every civi1iza-
ton not founded IN Christianity is
sure to be brought to naught."
Whenever Kaiser William appears
on an occasion of this kind something
sensational must be expected. 1t is
Williams nature. When he made the
speech he no doubt felt anxious to an
initiate the whole Chinese people, but
it is to be feared that his zeal will
spend ard waste itself on air before the
strenuous moment arrives. Never
the1ess, from the Emperor's view
point, his action is justifa bic and his
sensational speech may be regarded as
something besides empty tneatricals.
If, as even the Washington officials
are now coming to believe, the for
eigners in Pekin have been murdered,
there is call, as the Emperor says, for
such a chastisement of the Chinese as
shall 1inger in their memory for 1000
years. It is violation of rights and
treaties unprecedented in the history
of the civilized world. It must not be
repeated in the history of civilization
yet to be written. 7 o prevent it just
such action as Emperor William urges
upon his troops may be necessary.
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G. N. FROST RESIGNS.
superintendent of the Chicago Brass
works Sewers Connection With Plant.

Works Sewers Connection With Plant.
Wednesday afternoon c. N. Frost,
who for the last fourteen years has
been the uperintendent of the Chicago
Brass Works, rendered his resignation
to the managers of the plant and he
will retire at once from active
work in the mills. The action of Mr..
Frost has been under consideration for
some time, and his final decision to re-
tire will not come as great surprise to
his friends and the workmen at the
mill. Life at the brass mill will be ex-
ceeding1y peculiar without the well
known figure of Mr.. Frost. When the
mill located here in 1886 Mr.. Frost
came to kenosha from Waterbury,
Conn, to take the office of superin-
tendent of the rolling mill, and since
that time he has been closely connected
with the development of the great in
dustry and business of the mills. Mr..
Frost was one of Mr.. Avery's (now
deceased) principal advisors, and his
great business ability assisted not
little in making the Chicago Brass
works SO great success. Mr.. Frost
will probably retire from active bust
ness for a time at least and take
much needed rest.
The place made vacant by the retire
ment of Mr.. Frost will be filled by ].
A. Fletcher, who has come to Kenosha
from New York to take up the work.
Mr.. Fletcher has had long experience
in this line of work and there is no
doubt but that the mills, under his di-
rection, will have another era of pros
perity even greater than during the
first decade of its history.
Mr.. Fletcher has been at work at the
mills for a month and has things in
good shape to take charge today. He
is practical man and will put into the
plant few modern Improvements, ard
will probably see that a few new faces
are seen about the office. No other
changes in the force have been reported
at present.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
Notice Of Republican caucuses.

Notice is5hereby given that caucuses Of the
Republican party for the several wards of the
city of Kenosha will be held on Wednesday
evening. August 1st, 1900, at o'clock, for the
purpose of electing delegates to the Repub-
Iican County Convention tO-be held at Keno
sha on August 9TH, 1900. Each ward in the
city of Kenosha will be entitled to three dele
gates in the county convention. The caucuses
will be held open for one hour and will be held
at the following named places respectively:
First Ward-Central Engine House
Second Ward-Durkee School Building
Third Ward-Deming School Building
Fourth Ward Central School Building
Fifth Ward-Maurice Store Building, 707
Grand Ave
Sixth Ward-M. ThiRn's Store Building,
North Main St
Seventh Ward-NOrth Side Engine House
Eighth Ward-Gillett School Building
By order of the Republican County Com.
A. E. BUCKMASTER, Chairman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

Vigo Peterson, a young man en-
p1oyed in the planning mill of the Keno
sha Sash and Door company, met with
very serious accident Friday after
noon. He was operating a joiner
when his right hand got caught in the
knives and the first three fingers had
been cut off before the machine could
be stopped. The injured man was
taken to the office of DR.. Jorgensen
where the wounds were dressed. He
will be maimed for life, and laid up
for several months.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
HAD A HAND SEVERED.
John Anderson, q Workman at the Pow
dermills Meets a Bad Accident.

John Anderson, a workman en-
p1oyed at the Powder Mills in Pleasant
Prairie, and residing at P1attevil1e,
Wis, met with a very serious accident
shortly after the mills opened for
work this morning, which resulted in
his left hand being almost severed
from the arm.
Anderson was employed in what is
known as the Corning mill" where
the powder is broken up, allowing it
to be crushed between two great brass
rollers. He had just started to work
operating one of the large rollers this
morning, when in some manner the
powder caught between the roller and
stopped the machine. He seized a
stick and attempted to push the pow
der from between the rollers, and broke
the stick, part of which went into the
machine. Anderson reached out to
seize the part of the stick and his left
hand was caught between the great
rollers. He recognized his peril and
shouted for he1p, and his fellow work
men fastened to reverse the rollers.
Before this could be done, however,
the entire lower portion of his arm
had been crushed almost to pulp.
DR.. Eastman was at once called to
attend the injured man, and he was
placed in a carriage and brought to
this city where DR.. Farr, assisted by
Drs. Eastman and Kimba11, ampu-
tated the hand just above the wrist.
The young man stood the operation
well and will recover.
Anderson is about twenty-five years
of age, and has been working at the
Powder mills for some time. He is
unmarried and general favorite with
the men at the mills, and his serious
injury is greatly regretted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
LA TOILETTE TO SPEAK HERE
Republican Candidate for Governor to Be
Principal Speaker at Woodmen Picnic.

Robert M. La Toilette, the Repub-
1ican candidate for the nomination for
Governor of Wisconsin, will be in
Kenosha on Aug. 10, and will be the
main speaker at the great gathering Of
the Modern Woodmen of Racine and
Kenosha counties on Washington
Island on that day.
The gathering of the Woodmen will
be one of the greatest events of the
year in Kenosha. All arrangements
for the picnic have now been completed
and the committee in charge of the
picnic expects to entertain fully 5000
visitors. Woodmen camps from all
parts of the state will come in a body,
and many of the distinguished officers
of the lodge will be in attend
ance. The gathering will have
considerable political interest on &C
count of the fact that Mr.. La Toilette
will deliver the principal GRAFTON of the
day. Hon. C. E. Whe1an, of Madison,
will also make an address, and several
local orators from Racine and Kenosha
counties are expected to speak.
All sorts of games will be provided
for the amusement of the large crowd
and dancing will be the program for
the entire day. The celebration will
wind up with grand ball at Simmons
hall in the evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
Lake Geneva.

A strictly frst-c1ass, personally con-
Quoted excursion to this beautiful re-
sort Saturday, August 4. Round trip
only 75c. Leave Kenosha 8:55 a.. M,
stop at Pleasant Prairie, Woodwork,
Bristol and Salem, arrive at Lake &C.
neva 1915 a. M: Williams Bay 1880.
Returning, leave Williams Bay $50 p.
M. Lake Geneva p. m. Wallace
circus at Lake Geneva Saturday, Aug.
a. For tickets and information apply
to agents C. & N. W.R'y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
Truth ard News.

The Daily Gazette has a strange
idea of truth and news. Here are a
couple of samples from last nights
paper:
''Mrs. Mary Alley Hale, of Ashland
avenue, has comm enced injunction
proceedings against the promoters of
the street railway"
"The street railway bonds we're
filed with the city clerk this afternoon
and the company are ready to make
big fight for their rights"
In the classic words of our old friend
"More d-n rot"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
An ENDEMIC of Diarrhoea

Mr.. A. Sanders, writing from Cocoa
nut Grove, Fla, says there has been
quite an epidemic of diarrhoea there.
He had severe attack and was cured
by four doses of Chamber1ain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
saws he also recommended it to others
and they say it is the best medicine
they ever used. For sale by Stark
weather & Co., Druggists, dwj31
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
MORE FAMILY TROUBLES.
I'd skotsk1 Takes wonderful Pipe of 3. B.
Robinson's and Is Arrested.

The troubles of H. B. Robinson, the
Main street sa1oonkeeper, which have
been an interesting bit of gossip for
the neighbors of the man for several
weeks have finally reached the dignity
of the court of law, for last evening
Ed Skotski, a brother-in-1aw of the
saloon man, was arrested on a charge
of grand 1arcency, and he is accused of
stealing pipe belonging to Robinson.
Skotski was arrested last night by
Chief of Police O'Hare and was re-
leased on his own recognizance. For
some time the troubles of Robinson and
his wife and her family have been
common property. It seems that the
couple were not altogether a congenia1
pair and on this account the course
of married life did not run smooth. A
short time ago the father of the woman
was assaulted by Robinson, and this
was the beginning of the end. The
following day Mrs. Robinson left her
home and went to live with her parents
and the next day Robinson moved
the household goods out of the home
on South Exchange street and stored
them in the rear of his Main street
saloon. When the wife heard of this
she sent her brother, Ed Skotski, to
the house to get several things she
had LETT behind hidden away in radi-
ator. Among the things was a pair of
opera glasses and a wonderful pipe,
and on the pipe hangs the tale of the
arrest of Skotski.
The pipe is something of wonder.
Like the famous brand Exca1ibur of
the days of King Arthur, it is mystic
wonderful, and is doubtful if such
pipe ever reposed in the drawer of the
desk at the police station. The pipe,
which is about foot long, is made of
the finest quality of merschaum. Over
the bowl is carved wonderful figures,
recalling the days of the Arabian
Nights and stories of good Haroun
Al Rachid. 1t is like the pipe that is
always smoked b. the old man at the
head of the table when the game runs
high and fortune favors the house.
But the pipe, the envied of all, is the
result of the arrest of Skctski. 1t is
alleged in the complaint that the pipe
is worth fabulous sums of money and
that it's history would make a volume
as long as the moral law, but none of
these things seem to be able to settle
the matter of larceny in which Skotski
is the victim. The police authorities
say there is no doubt but that the man
had no wrong intention, and yet it is
feared that he is technically guilty of
the crime with which he is charged.
Robinson wanted the brother-in-1aw
locked up in jail, but the police refused
to lock Skotski up and he is waiting
for trial in the police office.
The case will indeed be an interest
ing one, and it is hoped that the out
come of it will in some way settle the
family row, which the pipe and the at
tending circumstances has engendered,
and that peace will again reign ST.
prene over the home on South Elk
change street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
The Ultimatum.

All things come to. an end. The
clock-work of the universe is running
down. Some day the pendulum will
stop, and Time itself fly away. The
Kenosha Electric Railway, the Great
ure of thousand hopes and schemes
and conflicts, which was constructed
the other day on paper in the munich
pal chamber, and despite the protest
and veto of His Honor, the Mayor, so
that the citizens in fancy saw the blue
spark flash from wheel and wire, and
in imagination rode thereon to Chica-
go and Milwaukee, has suddenly come
to.an end, having been thrown out of
existence by the mere negative of a
Hibernian barber.
The tonsoria1 artist transcends
the wea1thiest man of Kenosha, the
great syndicate which secured the
franchise, the members of the Com
mon Council, and the desires of twelve
thousand citizens. He stands forth
like pyramid on the plain. The eyes
of City and County and State and
Chicago metropolis are on him. And
perhaps his Honor will not be abashed
by the prominence and conspicuous
ness of his position.
But is the Mayor justified in turning
ing down the Railway Ordinance by
failing to approve of the bond secured
by the signature of citizen z. G. Sim
mons? This writer thinks yes. The
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

A FARMER in Nebraska says he
bought 1000 Cleveland sheep at $2.25
head and sold them as Mckinley sheep
at $4.35 head, realizing a profit of
$4, 200. Thus the Nebraska farmer is
enabled to pull the wool, so to speak,
over Mr.. Bryan's eyes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
TO DECLARE HIM DEAD.
Judge slosson Will Act in the case of
Mathias Werve-Disappeared Years Ago.

Judge slosson Will Act in the case of
Matthias Werve-Disappeared Years Ago
Matthias Werve, who left Kenosha in
1855 and who has not been heard of
since, will soon be dead SO far as the
courts of the county and state are con-
cerned, as Judge S1osson is preparing
a Judgment which will declare the man
officially dead.
The Werve case is indeed a strange
one. The man whom the courts will
prepare for the undertaken or the coro-
ner was formerly a resident of this
city and a son of Servatrius Werve,
now deceased. In 1855, a short time
before the death of his father, Matthias
Werve disappeared. He left kenosha
and started west and up to the present
time no trace of the man has ever been
found All sorts of schemes have been
tried to locate him, or any of his heirs,
but without success, and it is supposed
that he enlisted in that army of west
ern pioneers who left their bones to
whiten on the western prairies and
plains without their friends ever hear
ing of their fate.
The brothers have waited forty-6ve
years for the return of the wanderer,
and as they can not find him they have
decided to settle the estate left at the
death Of the father in 1857. Most of the
heirs have assigned their interests in
the estate to Theodore Werve and the
court will take the matter in hand and
clear the title to the property by de-
c1aring the missing man officially
dead.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

IT is reported that one hundred emf
grants on an ocean liner fought the
captain and crew with knives because
they were offered meat instead of fish.
It goes without saying that the story
has fshy flavor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
Very Low Excursion Rates to Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

Via Chicago, Union Pacific and North
Western Line on June 10, 20, July 3, 9,
II and August 1, z and p, good return
ing until October 81, also very low rates
on same, dates to G1enwood Springs,
Salt Lake City, Ogden, Deadwood and
Hot Springs. Quickest time. Best
service. Apply to agents Chicago &
North Western R'y. WIZ
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

JUST now it is not Governor Roose-
ve1t's strenuous ideas of life that the
powers would have incu1cated into the
minds of the children of the Orient,
though the presence of few thousand
Rough Riders might help the situation
somewhat.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
A fine Picture of mckinley.

Every reader of the NEWS and
TELEGRAPH-CoUR is entitled to one
of the New York Judge" pictures of
Mckinley, size ii % in co1ors, for
10 cents. The Judge has just sent
rs a large number to sell for them at
10 cts. You can buy one at this
Office. dwtf
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

PERSONALLY we are of the opinion
that the situation in the Orient offers
more opportunity for full and free
expression of feeling than the State
political campaign at the present
moment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

A TREATISE on 'Renegades and Sc
cessionists" by some eminent author
ity, such as the E1khorn Independent,
would be apropos as well as interest
ing and instructive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02
Notice of Republican County Convention.

Notice of Republican County Conventlon.
The County Convention of the Republican
party of Kenosha County will be held at the
Court House in the city of Kenosha, on Satur-
day, the 4th day of August, A. D. 1900, at two
o'clock p. m, for the purpose of elecUing
eleven delegates to the State Republican Con-
ventiOn to be held at Milwaukee on the 8th day
of August, 1900, to place in nomination eandi-
dates for the several State ofdces.s Each town
in the county and each WARD in the city of Ke-
nosha will be entitled to three delegates in the
county convention.
BY Order of the Republican County Com.
A. E. BUCKMASTER, Chairman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-02

MCKINLEY is ''Major" Mckinley,
and Roosevelt is "Co1. Teddy" In
order to give the military flavor in the
state campaign it will probably have
to be "Litt1e Robs."