The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-29
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tons of Wisconsin

Municipal ownership of lighting
plant and water works is being agi-
tated by some Racine people.
The La Crosse board of education
has ordered that all school children be
vaccinated before the opening of
school on Jan. 8.
J. F. Bergen, city clerk of Mineral
Point, narrowly escaped death
through blood poisoning in a finger
which was cut by glass.
! The directors of the Ma11eab1e Iron
Range company, of Beaver Dam, will
build spacious warehouse two sto-
ries high, 6Ox1O0 feet, connected with
main buildings by a runway.
Forest Harvey, negro, is in jail at
Oshkosh for insulting and assau1ting
number of women on the street at
night, his main offense being striking
Miss Clara Center and breaking her
nose.
ordered judgment to clear the title of
Mrs. Ida Cease, of the town of Meto-
men, from the cloud Of forged deed
by which stranger, calling himself
John ]. Riley, some time ago robbed
George Hobbs, a rich farmer of the
town of Byron, out of $4,000.
-Four leading English protestant
churches of Appleton have opened a
campaign against vio1ators of the
Sunday state laws and city ordi-
nances, by sending Mayor F. w. Har-
riman a communication demanding
that the Sunday law providing for the
closing of saloons be enforced at
once.
A mysterious robbery has occurred
on mail car on the Southern Mime
sofa division of the Milwaukee road,
between La Crosse and Austin, MINI.
A mail pouch was found ripped open
and number of registered letters
were taken. One packet of letters,
found in the smoking car, is supposed
to indicate that some one on the train
may have committed the robbery.
Frederick Simmonson, who is serv-
| ing jail sentence at Racine for as
sau1ting a woman, has become insane.
The cheese factory atSpencer, own
ed by A. F. Borchardt burned on We'd
nesday, with loss of $1,000 and in
surance of $1,000.
Mice are believed to have started a
fire which threatened to wipe out the
Appleton Chair Company and which
caused loss of $1,000.
Ralph Jones, night clerk at the EN-
der house, Portage, accused of alb
sconding yesterday with $62 from the
hotel cash drawer, was arrested at La
Crosse and taken, back for trial.
Elizabeth Hopkins of Footvi11e,
Rock county, Ia, RECEIVERS $4,000 dam
ages for injuries sustained by a fall
alleged to have been caused by the
sudden starting of a Milwaukee train
at Delevan last spring.
Forty citizens of Racine county went
to GAINESVILLE on Wednesday to invest
igate the large sugar beet factory at
that place before deciding upon cu1-
tivating lands for raising beets and
taking stock in new company organ
lied in Caledonia.
! The Menominee River Sugar comp
any has awakened an enthusiasm
among Winnebago county farmers
that promises record breaking crop
of sugar beets for next year. By off
ering fat rate of $4,75 per ton at
Green Bay, paying freight charges
from the shipping points and giving
free eighteen pounds of seed for every
acre contracted for. The company has
already secured enough contracts to
assure an acreage of over 80 per cent
more than last year.
The art association has Just opened
it's second free exhibition designed
especially for the students of the
University of Wisconsin, in the art
gallery of the Historical Library. The
collection consists of original paint
ings by well known French, Swedish,
Dutch, Italian and American artists.
Among the paintings are E1ihu We'd
doris "Questioner of the Sphinx, y
and William Morris Hunts "The
Bather," both Of which attracted con-
siderable attention in the loan co11ec-
ton at the recent ST. Louis EXPOSE
ton.
The Haresfoot Dramatic club of the
University of Wisconsin has decided
to give the proceeds of It's annual
play to the Wisconsin Social Settle
ment of Milwaukee, of which Rev. HI.
H. Jacobs, 80 is warden. The club
will present play especially written
for the occasion by Thomas Fl. Dick
inson, member of the faculty Of the
English department, who is the
author of number of plays which
are being successfully presented on
the professional stage. The play,
the title of which is ''Hermione, has
considerable local color of college
life, and every effort is being made to
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