The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

OSSONAoIAOA Will AAOA0 AIS dAAA0A PAOAA
in Beloit on Aug. 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Ha11stead, o
Beloit, on Tuesday celebrated thei
fifty-eighth wedding anniversary.
The Oconomowoc Poultry and Pc
Stock association was organized Fri
day evening, with r. H. Pastor a
president,
The La Crosse Stone company i
the successful bidder for the paving
Of Villa street, Racine, with brick, a
$1.45A a square yard.
Thousands Of quail are said to bt
starving in Wisconsin, farmers neal
Readstown reporting them as going
to the granaries for food.
A test of the child labor law prob
ably will be made in the supreme
court by the Cartwright & Mattson
Glove company Of Manitowoc.
Ophia Daniels of the town of Good
rich has pleaded guilty at Medford to
the charge Of stealing a horse on
Jan. 13 from the Cannon brothers,
near Chead1evi1le.
Fire Chief Collins of Marinette
saved four children from burning
Friday night by breaking down the
door of blazing house. The parents
had gone to church and locked them
in.
Coroner Hoy1e of Racine held an in
quest over the 8 months old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlisle ]. Hilton of Cal
edonia township, on Saturday, the
parents being believers in the Church
Of God refused medical aid.
Suit has been commenced in the
circuit court at Racine against the
Racine Wooden Mills company by the
father of Charles Hafner, a boy IA
years old, for $1,000 damages, it being
alleged that the boys hand was cut
off while he was employed in running
one Of the company's machines.
The McMynn school at Racine,
was broken into by sneak thieves on
Monday, Boxes containing pennies
dropped in by children to pay for
tablets wereslooted.
Thousands of bushels Of potatoes
are going to rot ssthis spring because
the price is so low that farmers who
are holding them in store can not
afford tosmarket them.
John Ka1lin, living in the town of
Oshkosh, was found dead in the shed
of vacant house Sunday afternoon.
He was shot through the head and
all indicationsspoint to suicide. He
was % years old.
Fire destroyed the high school
building at New Richmond.> A num-
Der of children were in the building
at the time, but they were all gotten
out safely, no one being injured. The
building cost $4,000 and the insur-
ance was $4,000,
Dispositions are being heard at Ra-
cine in thescase Of. Benjamin M. Steel
against James Harrison. The dispute
is over patent grain weigher for
thrashing machines. The value of
the patent is estimated at between
500, 900 and $4,000.
During his illness of two years, c.
A. Burrows of Pine Grove has secret
~ prepared a list of six neighbors
who are to act as pa1lbeareres at his
funeral. q Now he is rapidly improv-
ing andssbids fair to live several years.
He keeps theN list, nevertheless, but
will not give out the names.
Paper manufa cturers Of the Fox
river valley, whose mills were in
vo1ved in the three months strike last
summer, will meet in Chicago to per
feet the informal organization formed
at meeting held recently at Neenah.
The harbor and refuge on Lake
Pepin, in course of construction three
years, will be completed this year
under an appropriation of $4,000, au-
thorized by congress. The announce
ment is gratifying to rivermen on the
upper Mississippi.
At Neenah on Tuesday morning
Eugene Lane, Milwaukee man
charged with forgery and passing
worthless checks, entered plea of
not guilty, and his hearing was adj
iourned to March q to permit him to
secure counsel from Milwaukee.
The Chippewa county Republican
convention Tuesday afternoon nonin-
ated H. C. Verbeck for county super
intendent. Verbeck gained notoriety
by beating the worlds charivari rec
ord last fall, refusing to recognize his
serenade till after nearly month of
charivaris.
Fred Livingstone, who robbed the
ti11s at the Spei1bauer hotel and SAM
pie room at Neenah of $500, was
located on farm near Homestead,
Wis, and arrested. Livingstone es-
capped from the Marquette, Mich,
prison two years ago, and there is a
proba bility that the authorities there
will demand his return. 81
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