The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-09-07
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

tons of Wisconsin.
The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Richards will be
celebrated on Monday at their farm
Porterfe1d, Marinette county.
Three hundred campers had taken
possession of the tents when the
Seventh Day Adventists opened their
annual campmeeting at GAINESVILLE on
Wednesday.
The Rev. Father Ward, pastor of
ST. Thomas Catholic church Be1oit,
has returned from a three months
trip in Europe and a conference with
the pope.
Coroner Hoy1e and the Racine po-
lice department are making an effort
to solve the mystery surrounding the
finding of the body of female child
floating in the Racine river.
E. G.. Stewart, found shot through
the head at Racine, will recover.
Stories are in circulation that he was
shot by some other person and denied
by Chief of Police Pfister.
George Mayer of Oshkosh, owner of
the steamer Evelyn, has met Fond du
Lac business men to talk of a steam
boat line between that city and Green
Bay. The line will start next year.
Authority has been granted for the
organization of the Ladysmith State
bank. w. S. Manning, E. A. Ripley,
f. E. Munroe, W. L. Stephenson, and
E. M. Warden are named at incor-
porators.
Nothing has been learned of the
whereabouts of Carl Biederitz, who
disappeared from his home at A1goma
Saturday night. 1t is feared that he
is dead. One slipper was found at the
lakeside.
Curtis Ha1stead of Be1oit has given
the Baptist Home Mission society,
with Offices in Chicago, $4,000. Mr..
Ha1stead is retired farmer, and the
gift represents the largest portion of
his wealth.
Erwin Young, of Be1oit, boy IS
years old, who confessed to having
stolen horse belonging to Max Som
mers, of Madison, has been sentenced
to two years in the state reformatory.
Young took the horse and drove to
Lodi.
Robert Mccullough, serving ten
years in Waupun on charge of as
saulting little girls in the North
Western railway tower house at Ra-
cine, has notified the officers that he
and his friends will make an app1ica-
ton for pardon.
A stock company, with a capital
stock of $4,000, has been organized in
Juneau to establish plant for the
manufacture of an automatic letter
carrier. The inventors lof the new
device are H c. Ryder and Albert
Doehring, of Waterloo. The plant
will be located in juneau.
Former City Marshal Jacob Baum
stark, of Racine, was nearly electro
cuted while handling a telephone wire
which crossed an electric light wire,
sending a current of 1000 volts
through his body. Both hands we're
blistered and burned nearly to the
bone. The shock held him rigid until
the wire was burned in two parts.
After an all nights hard work the
Marinette city and county police ofic-
ers are mad clear through. Acting
on the "tip" given by a Milwaukee
clairvoyant Sheriff Brown and Chief
Cook and others spent last night
dragging the river for the body of
Duncan McGregor, the sheriff injured
himself during the hunt. Nothing
was found.
Janesville's baby show opened on
Wednesday afternoon with registered
entries for the three classes number
ing seventy five. That Janesvil1e's
fame as producer of comedy maid
ems is in no immediate danger for the
next twenty years seems foregone
conclusion. The judges are Miss
Martin of Milwaukee, Mrs. Petticord
of Minneapolis, and Mr.. Gi11ihan of
Milwaukee.
The contempt proceedings against
Jacob Mueller, publisher of the May
vile Pioneer, will be decided at
Juneau next Monday, when Judge
Dick will hand down a written opin-
ion. Mueller, with Editor Spiering
of the Mayville News, was cited to p
pear for publishing articles which
the court held as amounting to con-
tempt. The proceedings against
Spiering were dismissed, but in the
Mueller case the decision was with
held.