The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-04-20
STATE NEWS IN BRIEy
Short'Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

pines.
The Madison prebytery of the Pres
byterian church has begun its spring
meeting in Beloit. Last night the
Rev. S. E. Wishard of Salt Lake city.
Utah, spoke on ''Mormonism.
Albert Fix, foreman of the car re-
pairers, was fatally injured by being
crushed between two cars in the Mil
waukee road yards at La Crosse on
Tuesday, dying from his injuries a
few hours later.
The Northern. Grain company e1e-
vator near the Wisconsin Central sta
ton IN Portage burned on Tuesday.
together with the car sheds of the
WisconsinlCentra1. There were 5000
bushe1s'of grainsin the elevator, also
several'hundred barrels of flour and
salt in neutrality-suspicious. which
was burned. The combined loss is
about $1,000.
AS compromise in the effort in
the state legislature to have a Munich
pal court establishedIat Beloit, the at
torneys of the Line city have agreed
to havesSenator Whitehead introduce
bill inIthe.s senate which will divide
the jurisdiction of the county and at
the sameltimei Judge Charles Fife1d,
present judge of the existing court,
is to dividesEhis time between James
vile andsBe1oit.
A creamery belonging to Thomp-
son & Racy, near Be1oit, was DESTROY
ed by fire on Monday. The loss was
So, 500.
Because of the death of his wife and
fancied financial complications, JOS
eph Friedericks, aged A, one of the
best known farmers of Caledonia,
became deranged and committed sui
eide by hanging himself.
State Factory Inspector August
Lenhoff, who has spent the last week
at GAINESVILLE, has found direct viola
ton of the state factory law in nearly
all of the tobacco warehouses, and has
warned the owners regarding it. He
has also inspected several buildings
and ordered changes made.
The GAINESVILLE Chautauqua has
been formally organized without cap
ita1, and will hold ten day Chautau-
qua for the next five years. It will
be held from July 20 to Aug. 6.
Among the prominent speakers al
ready engaged is Mrs. John A. Logan.
Parties from Chicago are in the vi
cinity of Jefferson looking up the old
air line right of way from Chicago to
Portage. They are interested in the
interurban from Chicago to Lake &C.
neva, which they propose extending
north on the old line survey.
When the case against the two
young Italians charged with assault
ing girl near Corliss came up before
Court Commissioner Wentworth at
Racine it developed that the name of
the girl was Miss Kristine Nielsen
and the man who committed the as
sau1t Frank Bruno. The examination
was adjourned to Wednesday, bonds
being placed at 5000.
Officers of the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light company and the
Racine police department are after
gang of boys who are destroying the
property of the corporation. Within
ten days they have wrecked sixty-five
street electric light globes in the sec
ond and third wards, and forty in other
parts of the town, besides breaking
%ho iron Of In
Two United States mail carriers
were stricken down at Racine today
while in the discharge of their duties.
Frank Hoffman, fell on a west side
street and was picked up unconscious
and removed to his home. An attack
of heart trouble was the cause. It is
expected that he will recover. An
drew Bull, a rural carrier, was taken
with appendicitis. It was necessary
to remove him to hospital, where an
operation will be performed.
The new Carnegie library at Wash
burn is completed and has been open
ed to the public. The building cost
$2O,O 900, of which Mr.. Carnegie do
mated SIS, 900.
Gotlieb Wooster, a farmer, was
rendered unconscious for an hour at
Racine on Saturday, being thrown
out of his wagon in runaway and
striking his head on stone pave
ment.
E. r. Hicks, M. H. Eaton, George
E. Tyrrel1, H. I. Weed, w. c. Cow
ling, F. H. Joss1yn, and John F. K1u-
win will present Oshkosh's claims for
the state capitol at Madison on We'd
nesday.
Matthew Lachat, Racine boy, who
served seven years in the United
States navy and took part in the
battle at Manzanil1o on board the
Helena, has received a handsome
medal for bravery from the navy de-
partment.
It is expected that Gov :. Toilette
will Issue his Arbor day proclamation
on Monday. It is generally believed
that he will designate Friday, April