The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-02
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
lions of Wisconsin

changed hands.
May 80 and 81 the Southern Wiscon-
sin Dental association will hold con-
vention in Racine.
| "A sixty-five pound catfish was
| speared near the lower Fox river dam
in Neenah The head was fourteen
inches long and eleven inches wide.
Company M of La Crosse of the
Third Wisconsin expects to have a
new armory in the near future if the
plans now under way can be carried
out.
Alex. Richardson, who claimed his
home was in Milwaukee, shot by the
Portage police Sunday night while re
sisting arrest, died on Tuesday of his
wounds.
The roundup farmers institute for
Dunn county, conducted by the fac
ulty of the County Agricultural col
1ege, closed on Saturday.
Miss Katherine Brearley, daughter
of Charles Brearley, of Racine, has
been married at Denver, Col, to Her.
bert Byers, of Ga1esburg, III.
A little son Of Otto Mich1er, of Fond
du Lac, was terribly bitten in the face
on Saturday by vicious dog, his
cheeks being SO 1acerated that the
wounds were sewed up by a physical.
Leo Schwartz, of Chicago, 10 years
old, who was visiting his sister, Mrs,
H. I. Brightman, at Crandon, was
struck by falling tree and instantly
killed in the woods near Crandon on
Saturday.
The mayor of Superior gives MOTTO
that hereafter the curfew law will be
more strictly enforced.
George w. Bunge, of Higbee &
Bunge, attorneys, was agreed upon
as the republican candidate for mayor
of La Crosse on Monday. He will be
nominated without opposition.
Preliminary steps have been taken
at Marinette to reorganize the D. c..
Prescott company. The capital will be
increased to $5OO,OOo, and the plant
will be doubled in size so as to per-
nit the inclusion of a steel works.
James Clark of Chippewa Falls has
applied to Gov. Johnson Of Minnesota
| for assistance to solve the myster u s
the disappearance of his son, Ed yls
| j. Clark, from Chisholm, Mimi. The
father thinks the boy has been muir
dered.
At masquerade ball of the Married
Peoples club, sNeenah, Mayor Chas.
Schultz was awarded the first prize
ever given "a Fox river valley city
mayor for the best comic costume.
York Buchanan, a we'll known
logger, was terribly wounded by a
circle sawsat Chippewa Falls. He
was witnessing its operation when the
saw left its fastenings and bore down
uponshim. It is not known whether
he will live.
The fumes of escaping coal gas
rendered the family Of Chris Nelson,
Neenah, consisting of father, mother,
and three children, unconscious. A
doctor succeeded in resuscitati ting the
family, but..they are not gyet out of
danger.
Gala Valerie Jahr1ing of Manila,
Philippine islands, has just entered
the state university to take up work
in the pharmacy course. There are
now twenty-seven foreign students at
the university, from fourteen different
countries
A run by creditors closed SyversQn
& Trasvig's mercantile establishment
at Chippewa Falls. The run is a re-
suit of the mysterious disappearance
Of C. o. Syverson on Dec. 10. No
trace of his whereabouts can be
found.
June is to be busy convention
week in La Crosse, these state con-
ventions being scheduled: The G. A.
| r., Spanish-American War Veterans,
| Independent Order of Foresters,
Catholic Order of Foresters, Univer-
sa1ists of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Letter
Carriers, and possibly the Wisconsin
postmasters.
| Powers of the Racine fire and police
commission are to be tested by 1itiga-
ton. Weeks ago the commission de-
cided that four members of the force
must step down and out for the good
Of the department, age being the
alleged cause. One of the men says
the commission has no power to dis
charge him.
DR.. Ba1thasar H. Meyer, professor
of political economy at the University
of Wisconsin, has been appointed
editor of the history of transportation
that is to form part of the "Econo-
mic History of the United States,
the compilation and publication OF
which has been undertaken by the
Carnegie institution.
COWEI,L BREAKS DOWN.
Kenosha Man Who is Awaiting Sen
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