The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-04-13
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

IN his barn.
Louis May, lad of 10 years, lost
his right arm in the machinery at the
Britton Cooperage company's works
at Green Bay on Tuesday.
The next meeting of the Wisconsin
Bankers association will be held at
Ashland in June or July. One of the
features will be a boating trip on
Lake Superior among the Apostle
islands.
Orson Row1ands, aged 20 years, is
dead at Waukesha as a result of in
juries received while riding horse
back, his horse running under a low
tree, striking Row1ands on the head
and fracturing his skull.
The stockholders of the Resthaven
Sanitarium company, Waukesha, have
decided to increase the capital from
S150,000 to S25O,OOO. The work of COM
pleting the building will be com
menced at once.
Matt Kujawa, a farmer of Belmont.
was run over and killed near Plain
field by Wisconsin Central train,
He was So years old and leaves wife
and six children. He was going to
Stevens Point for the Kent murder
trial.
DR.. r. G.. Thwaites, of the State
Historical society, will do work in the
summer session of the University of
California this year. He will lecture
on continental exploration and especi-
ally on the history of Rocky mountain
exploration, emphasizing the Lewis
and Clark expedition. He will also
discuss the historylof newOFrance.
Hayes Brothers, GAINESVILLE con.
tractors, have been awarded the
contract for widening and deepening
the west branch of the Chicago river
for distance of one mile, extending
from the Mccormick harvester plant
to the bridewe11. The expense will be
$50, 600 and work will commence at
once.
On Nov. % last Mrs. August Matt
1ner, Miss Ada Sto1l and Carl Yoos
started across Two Mile bay, north of
Oshkosh, in a hunting skiff, the
women having followed Yoos to carry
him lunch he had forgotten. Not d
trace of the trio or the boat had been
discovered until Wednesday, when the
corpse of Mrs. Manner was found.
This proves the drowning of the
whole party.
The annual convention of the
Southern Wisconsin Teachers as
ISOLATION will be held in Waukegan
on Nov. and 4.
H. L. Goldberg, agent of the Miller
Brewing company, has purchased
Lincoln park, north!of Racine for the
company.
Chris Olson and Anton Berg of Irma
have been arrestedlasssuspects in the
attempted wrecking of a passenger
train near Irma last Thursday.
The Menomonee river fell rapidly
on Thursday, resulting in two
enormous log jams at Sixty Islands
and Holmes landing. Large crews
are working to start the logs.
John Condor, charged with the
killing of little George Griffin at
GAINESVILLE in March, 1904, and found
guilty of mans1aughter, has been
sentenced to the Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha.
Friends of Julius Rodensky at Ra-
cine, who has disappeared, fear he
has been drowned in the river. Two
weeks ago he was seen in saloon on
the west side and said he would kill
himself or go to Milwaukee.
George Schmid and other Neenah
and Menasha capitalists have bought
1,500 acres of land in the Pinar del
Rio, Cuba district and will operate a
tobacco plantation. It is the plan to
later establish Neenah colony.
Attorney Angie King, who repre-
sents Cecilia Goodman Meyer of
GAINESVILLE, the first wife of Ira Meyer,
who will be tried at Keokuk, Ia, on
April 10 for bigamy, states that she
mas received word that Meyers at
torne~~ = endeavor to disprove
Meyers marriage to Miss Goodman
last August.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cummings, residing
near Wyocena, was seriously wounded
in the legs by a stray shot which
passed through the wall of her home.
The Baptist church society of Edg-
erton and the heirs of the Culton
estate have given the city of Edger-
ton deed of the old Baptist church
for library purposes.
Peter Nelson, engineer for the Be-
lott Electric Light company, was
killed while at work Thursday night,
probably by being caught in a belt.
He went to Be1oit from Wausau.
Mineral compounds of antiph1ogis-
tic properties have been discovered
on the farm of DR.. F. c. Suffer, near
La Crosse. Representatives of two
chemical companies are negotiating
for the output.
Two small boys employed in the