The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-18
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.


| Charles Schoephoester, we'll
known farmer, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his granary, in
Sank Prairie.
Albert Crawford, of Evansville.
was killed by cavein at the gravel
pit of the North Western railroad
near Beloit on Tuesday.
The body of James Craig, an Inmate
of the La Crosse county poorhouse.
aged 68 years, was found in the Mis-
sissippi river on Monday. He disap-
peared May 4.
The new line of the North Western
railway between Milwaukee and Chi
cago will probably be built by non
union labor 50 far as the teaming is
concerned.
Mrs. Rose Marine, aged % years,
burned to death at Cumberland Fri
| day night. She was filing a lamp
when the kerosene spilled on her
clothing and caught fire.
Martin McDonough, of SWausaukee
has been arrested charged with in
cendiarism. The warrant was sworn
out by Henry Hendricks, whose saloon
was destroyed by fire on May 8.
Twenty feet of Jones street was
washed into the river, and two sec
tons of the bridge leading from the
mainland to Island park were carried
away by high water and rain at RAJ
cine Sunday night.
GeorgesR. Bull of Sun Prairie. has
leased theiNeillsville Times of L. B.
Ring. Editor Ring retires from bust
ness after twenty-six years service,
and will.devote his energies to other
matters.
Pearl Emmett of Neenah, was held
up and robbed near the Appleton post
Office at noon on Monday, his assail-
ant securing $40. Buch Miller has
been arrested and is charged With the
crime.
Otto Jaraneck, who is accused of
killing Otto Marsh, near Wabeno,
Forest county, has been arrested and
taken to Crandon, where he was ar
raigned before the Municipal court
AID pleaded not guilty.
Mary Mcneil of Wausau will repre-
sent the Stevens Point defamation
district at the Madison dec1amatory
contest. At the district contest on
Friday Miss Mcneil and Elsie Depre
were awarded first and second respec-
lively. bs
The Jefferson county declamatory
contest1at Fort Atkinson on Friday,
atawhich the high schools of Co1um-
bus, Fort Atkinson, WATERFOWL, and
Lake Mills were represented by two
or three speakers each, was won by
Clarence L. Hubbs of Lake Mills.
Heavy and steady rains of the last
week are raising Wisconsin and Min
nesota rivers to the danger point.
The Mississippi at La Crosse has
risen four feet in four days, and is go
ing up rapidly. Much damage along
the La Crosse and Black rivers is
feared.
b. 7. Howard, of Red Wing, Mimi,
a travelling representative of the
Union Stoneware company, was found
dead in bed at the Simon hotel at
Madison, death being caused by heart
failure. When he retired last night
he complained of feeling i'll, but re-
fused to have physician called.
A burglar with penchant for type-
writer's has been operating in Apple
ton the last few nights. Friday night
the Dimick Manufacturing company
was victimized. Nothing else in the
Office was touched, though there were
a number of articles of value avail
able.
The Burnett County Sentinel, of
Grantsburg, the oldest paper in the
county, has changed hands, ]. H.
Ah1strom, who has been one of the
publishers for the last six years, dis
posing of his interest to his partner,
A. ]. Myrland, and C. L. Fisher, who
has worked in the Office for some
time.
Ne1s Petersen and Mathew Siefen
have commenced suit against the fire
and police commissioners and the
city Of Racine to recover three
months pay as policemen and for re-
instatement on the police force. The
fire and police commission is said to
have removed them for ineficiency.
AT a conference of the Reformed
church at Cedar Grove at which della
gates from Waupun, Green1eafton,
Sheboygan, Gibbsvi11e, Oostburg,
and Milwaukee we're present, plans
were perfected for the organizatio
of the Young Peoples league of the
Reformed churches of Wisconsin.
Two hundreds stockholders of the
Racine Concentrating Mining and
Manufacturing company have decided
to have complete change in The man
ner in which the business of ithe COM
pany is conducted, and demanding
the resignation of all the present Off
GERS, committee was named to