The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-24
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items,of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

Short Items OF Interest From All Sec.
tions of Wisconsin.
Fond du Lac county has popu1a-
ton of 50,835, according to the census
report completed by the county clerk,
a gain of 6,747 since the census in 1890.
The family of c. D. Clark of Depere
were made seriously i'll by eating what
was supposed were mushrooms, but
which proved to be poisonous toad
stools.
Henry B. Lobb of North Fond du
Lac, jeweler is making arrangements
to fast for ten days. Mr.. Lobb started
a ten day fast two years ago but gave
up at the end Of the seventh day.
The Racine Business Mems associa-
ton has decided to hold Chautau-
qua again next year and also to pur-
chase the Kinzie Heights grounds,
where the Chautauqua has been held.
By a vote of more than two to one
Greenwood on Friday decided to is
sue bonds in the sum of SIS, ZOO for a
water power electric light system.
Black river is to be damned and will
furnish several hundred horsepower.
The assessed valuation of personal
property in Racine is $4, $50, 900,
against So, 194, 93O last year, gain of
1885, 100.
Fond du Lac has a population Of
1925, according to the report of City
Clerk F. A. Bartlett, gain of 2,175
over thes1900 census.
According to reports of the enumer-
ators, there are in the county of Ra-
cine II, 022 persons between the ages
of IS and p years, liable to military
duty.
The 3-year-o1d daughter of o. A.
Oestreich, Democratic politician of
GAINESVILLE, was badly scalded by
pail of boiling water which she upset
on Thursday.
Janesvi1le' S valuation, according to
the assessors, lis SO, 047, 1884, an increase
of $87, 489 over that of last year. The
tax levy for all city purposes is
SIP, 441.49
The year old child of William
Schil1ing, of the town of Tabor, Ra-
cine county, was killed Wednesday
evening when wagon in which the
family was riding was overturned.
Housewives of Racine have been
weighing pound packages Of butter
and claim that every pound fails
short several ounces. It is said that
the butter is made in Racine county
and there are threats of arrest.
State Dairy and Food Commits
sioner Emery has caused the arrest
of Fred Chermak and William Schulz,
meat market proprietors of Madison,
on the charge of violating the pure
food law by selling hamburger steak
adu1terated with preservatives.
Felix Arias, a midget connected
with show company, was found
dead in bed at the Be1oit fair grounds.
He is said to have been known in
show circles as etiquette American,
whose home is at Queretaro, Mexico.
The authorities gave him burial.
Union Grove farmers fear mad
dog has been among their stock and
bitten a number of horses. The
horse Of Joseph Whitley, con-
tractor, was suddenly attacked with
hydrophobia and will have to be
killed. Two other horses show signs
of the rabies.
Ono L,1ud~od eu~x,;1,o+s of 41,o Tt,;~
teenth Wisconsin Volunteer infantry
held their forty-fourth reunion at
GAINESVILLE on Wednesday. It was dis
closed that Ira Dutton, formerly of
GAINESVILLE, and member of the regi-
ment, is now Trappist monk minis
tering to the 1eper colony under the
name of Brother Joseph at Kalawao,
Hawaii.
Mrs. c. Thompson, of Racine,
mother of Willis E. Thompson, the
young man who left with Albert Gun
derson, murdered at Cheyenne Wells,
Colo, has received letter from her
son. 1t is dated in Kansas and tells
of how Albert Gunderson left his Job
and started for Denver. This shows
that Thompson was not fellow vic
tim of Gunderson.
George Miller, young watch
maker, who escaped from the Dane
county jail on Monday, where he was
serving six months sentence for
larceny, was recaptured by Chief OF
Police Baker in the boiler room of the
Schlitz hotel, Madison. Miller es-
capped from the jail by breaking lock
on a basement door with an ak which
he was using in splitting wood.