The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-02-09
STATE NEWS I'm BRIEF
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tons of Wisconsin

Sabin Johnson of Maiden Rock, was
killed by load of logs, which fell on
him.
The Beaver Dam company Of the
National guard will erect $25,O 900 ar
mory in the spring.
Seventy members of the Michigan
Legislature are inspecting the upper
Michigan mines and shelters.
John Suh1and of the town of Frank
lin was crushed to death by the over
turning of steam engine.
The floor of the Rock Elm Metho-
dist church took fire during service,
but the blaze was extinguished with
out panic.
District schoo1house No. 4, at Cor
1iss, was destroyed by fire on Friday.
| Ninety children are without school.
The loss is $1,000, with insurance of
$3.50. A new building will be erected.
Nicholas Kehoe and Frank Young
shot Z. twenty-five pound Canadian
lynx few miles north of GAINESVILLE,
after chasing it four miles across
the country. It is the first animal of
it's kind ever shot in Rock county
since white people have settled here.
The Western Granite Supply COM
pany of Chicago has purchased the
stone quarries at Red Granite, owned
| by William Bannerman, of Berlin.
Excellent stone is produced and it is
considered one of the largest quarries
in Wisconsin. The purchasing con-
Germ is thought to be competing with
the stone trust.
For two weeks Donald Rarda11s, of
Waukesha, argued with the clerk of
the municipal court before he would
consent to swear that he had 5000
worth of property, although he is sup
posed to be worth thousands, enabling
him lawfully to sign the bond for
$500 bail for Lloyd Cowie, aged II
years, who was charged with a petty
robbery.
Robert Guenther, a Chiffon wagon
maker, was killed while crossing the
Milwaukee road tracks near his home.
i A tramp in attempting to board a
moving freight train at Minnesota
Junction was thrown under the wheels
and killed.
Simon J. Murphy of Detroit, father
of Albert M. and. Frank E. Murphy
of Green Bay, is dead, aged 80 years.
Mrs. Johanna Hanson, wife of the
Rev. Martin Olaf Hanson, Norweg-
ian Lutheran minister of La Crosse,
was granted divorce on the ground
of desertion and nonsupport.
| While on his way home from La
Crosse, Scott Purday, farmer, was
run down by Milwaukee train about
two miles from that city, and cut to
i pieces. His brother, who was riding
with him, escaped without scratch.
| Friends of st. Francis seminary will
be asked to assist in the erection of a
new library building as memorial
for the golden jubilee of the seminary
to be celebrated in June 1906.
l
best known railroad men in the coun-
try, and prominent citizen of Mil
waukee, died Thursday morning at
Miami, Florida.
The state board of normal regents
has asked for an appropriation of
$25O,00O with which to replace the
normal school building at Milwaukee
which was recently condemned by
the building and fire departments of
that city.
Fire destroyed the barn Of Irving
Hand, in the eastern part of Be1oit.
The loss is 1900, insurance, 81, 900.
AS the result of a fight between
John Powers and James Hurley OF
Green Bay, Hurley is minus thumb,
which was bitten off; and Powers is
under arrest.
Church people at Sheboygan have
informed Mayor Born that unless he
closes all gambling places in the city
at once they will have warrants is
sued themselves, and have the town
closed tight. AS result Mayor Born
has ordered the police to close all
gambling places.
I Business men will organize mer-
chants and manufa cturers' associa-
ton in Manitowoc, to locate and Sc
cure factory plants. Milwaukee pro.
moters, headed by Joseph Scheuer,
who was instrumental in securing the
new large piano factory, will choose
certain lands and will present the
city park of forty acres, WORTH
$40, 900, in exchange for which bond
issue of 100000, issto be made and
the money placed in trust fund tc
be used to promote the we1ware of the
city.