The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-11-27

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Chicago.
Measles are on the increase in Keno
sha again.
Mrs. Rowland, of Chicago, is the
guest of Mrs. Fred Hannahs.
Ted Stahl was up from Chicago
Sunday for a visit with his father,
William T. Marx and James Telfar
spent Sunday with friends in Milwau-
kee.
Charles Torrey was home from Chi
cago to spend Sunday with his par
ents.
Register of Deeds P. c. Torrey is
suffering from an attack of rheuma-
tisms
Rev. A. Manaton, of Racine, spent
Sunday afternoon with friends IN ke-
nosha,
M, Fl. Osborn, L. Hilton and 6. W..
Williamson, of Racine, spent Sunday
with Kenosha friends.
Several of the Kenosha factories pre-
scented their employees with turkeys to
day as a remembrance of the Thanks
giving season.
Superintendent r. D. Whitehead, of
the Wisconsin Humane society, has in
his possession in Milwaukee a girl
baby born last Sunday (which he IS
prepared TO give away for adoption to
any worthy family.
Those officially interested in the
Wisconsin exhibit at the ST. Louis fair
suggest that photographs of the
famous summer resorts of Wisconsin
and the many beauty spots OF the state
should be one of the principal features
of the state exhibit.
The North side hose cart was a little
off Saturday evening. When the fire
alarm sounded, although the fire was
close to the North Side Engine house,
the hose cart ran clear QUITO the West
end of Prairie avenue. Some one
ought to send the North-siders fire
alarm card.
1t is said on good authority that the
engineers on all railroads west Of Chi
.cago, through the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, will soon pre-.
sent to the railroad .'managers de-
mand for an increase in wages. Act
ing upon the consent 5of large ma
jority of the engineers of the various
railroads, secured by a referendum
vote, the grand chief engineer will call
the general chairmen of each road to
meet him in ST. Louis Dec. /.
Western railroads are to- return to
the freight tariffs of year ago. These
rates were discontinued when the in
functions forced sthe roads to do away
with the secret rebates and made the
cut rates given to the favored few the
public rate. Now that the wage qnes-
tion has reached an acute stage the
rates will be advanced, the traffic man
ayers say, without the secret rebates
and the classifcations will be rear
ranged SO as toinclude increased rates
on several articles by advancing their
classes.
Lawrence Han1on, Milwaukee fire.
man, has been awarded a special YER
dict of $4,000 damages from the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
Company. Han1on received injuries
in collision between hose cart, on
which he was going to fire, and a
Vliet street car Oct. II, 1901, and asked
for $4,000 damages. The jury found
that the car was going too fast and
that the hose cart was not and that FL
the blame lay with the railway coml
pany. In his charge to the jury the
court in timated that the hose cart had
the right of way.
Retail business houses of the city
are making more than the ordinary
preparations for the general holiday
ard winter trade because of a general
feeling of unusual prosperity in this
city. 1t is said that with very few
exceptions the manufacturing estab-
lishments are now running to their
full capacity and some of them night
and day in order to keep up with all of
their orders. Merchants ia conse-
quence of these happy conditions are
laying in larger and better stocks of
goods of every kind than heretofore
and they say they are fully warranted
in SO doing.
The State superintendent of public
instruction at Madison has completed
the apportionment of the 100000 fund
for State aid to free high schools. The
schools get $97 ,927.27 which is the re
mainder after deducting the salary and
expenses of the State free high school
inspector, w. u. Parker. His salary
is 81, 300 per year. The apportionmenf
goes to 161 high schools of the ordi-
nary class and nine free township hig h
schools, these receiving half the
amount they pay for instruction.
Among those mentioned in the four
year course are the high schools Of
Uuion Grove, Walworth and Kenosha.
Racine is not on the list this year,
Iax,t,,.r MIND yayrr1 Sy1 order IN set her