The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-06-08
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

All cid OduuSuUSIS ana Matte
Reimer, Sheboygan children, were
poisoned by rat biscuits with almost
fatal effects.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Almond Olsen of Mount Pleasant,
Racine county, was found drowned in
a cistern.
John Vetsnek of South Milwaukee,
was sentenced to forty-fve days in
jail at Baraboo for stealing brass from
the North Western road.
Burton E. Nelson has.been re-e1ect-
ed superintendent of the Racine
schools, his salary being increased
from $1,000 to So, 400 per annum.
Lightning struck the flag pole of
Jackets school, Be1oit, while school
was in session Wednesday. Scholars
and teachers were terror stricken for
a time.
Rudolph A. Karges of Burlington,
has been elected to theIAthenea joint
debate team at the state university in
place of Harry Apple, Milwaukee, re-
signed.
Twenty-eight young people we're
graduated from the Grand 1Rapids
High school Friday, the largest class
ever graduated from the schools of
that city.
Lot ownersin Mound cemetery, Ra-
cine, charged that Tuesday athree
men with their cats off were playing
leap log oy jumping over the monu-
ments and performingIother acrobatic
feats.
Burglars broke into the Hedd1es
Lumber company's Office at'Mukwon-
ago, and secured about $85. They
also went through:'the money drawer
at the Wisconsin Capitalization and
got few pennies.
The troupe of Japanesel with the
Forepaugh-Se1ls circus, aftersreceiv-
ing telegram 'front.' apanese friends
announcing the victory ofaTogo, pre-
pared banquet andsas,invited guests
the Wo1osky troupe of'Russians help
ed celebrate the victory.
The boiler in the heading and stave
mill exploded Tuesday night, badly
injuring Walter Stowe11sEand Oscar
Peterson. 1t is thought,Iboth:wil1 re-
cover. The boiler went straight up
about 400 feetland comp1ete1yswrecked
the entire room.
State Banking Commissioner Berga
has approved articles Incorporating a
new state bank at Glen Haven, Grant
county. The capital of the bank is
$4,000 and its incorporates are Mar
tin l. Seippel, Marlow!lIidd, VIII. Jor-
dan, J. S. Kidd.and John Lambin.
Arthur M. C1app, formerly advertis-
ing manager of the GAINESVILLE Gazette
and later servinglin the same capacity
on the La Crossel Chronicle, has as
sumed the businessfmanagership of
the New Castle, Pa, Herald, having
purchased an interest in thatIconcern.
Chief Baker of, the Madison police
department was injured:in a runaway
accident at CampsRanda11 just before
the university baseball sgame. A
horse became heightened and ran into
the chief rig. The chief.was,thrown
to the groundNandI his left shoulder
was dis1ocated.
Mrs. John Hoffman"of Racine, is
looking for her missingsshusband.
She told thelpo1ice that lessnthan a
year ago Hoffman sent to Germany
and invited her toI comeIto America
and be his wife, andsshe.: did, SO. A
few days ago, shessdeclares, heitold her
he was tired of. her andSdisappeared
DR.. Jonas, alias DR.. Hyde, and per-
haps several otheria1iases,s whose pro-
fession is that of a chiropodist, was
arrested Mondayiafternoon inlMarin-
cite on a charge of having sswindled
a travelling man named Brown in In
diana last winter outIof 500. Jonas
settled rather THANH beutaken back to
Indiana.
Fred Rankie, an insanellpatient at
the Rock county asylum tfrom Marin
cite county, has escaped. This is his
third dash for liberty. Once he trav-
e1ed to Delavaniclad inIan:undershirt.
He is so hairy that hislface resembles
that Of wild auima1. He issnot dan
gerous, but the asylum authorities
fear that he will frightenIpeople.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
SouthernaWisconsin Dental:iassocia-
ton, IN session at Racine, chose Mil
waukee as the next place of meeting,
and officers were elected as follows:
President, ]. ]. Wright, :Mi1w aukee;
first vice president, c. F. Rodo1f,
Muscoda, Wis; second vice president,
Dr. T. Heidbrink, Union Grove; sec
rotary, O. w. Col1ver, HClinton, Wis.
and treasurer, w. G. Hales, Mineral
Point.