The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-04-06
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items of Interest From All Sec
tions of Wisconsin.

was drowned in Turtle creek Wednes-
day night.
The Minnehaha Fishing club of
Milwaukee is erecting a ST, club
house on the island in Nagawicka
lake.
A rate of one fare and third has
been made for the old soldiers re-
union at Marinette on June 81, %. and
%.
Fifteen bids on the Sank county
courthouse were opened on Wednes-
day and the lowest was T. c. Nc
Carthy of Madison-S83, 1884.
Fire last night destroyed stock in
Charles Braemer's meat market at
A1gomo and damaged the building.
the loss being $1,000
Eighty Russians have arrived in
GAINESVILLE to be distributed samone
the sugar beet growers for the sea
son. They are expert sugar beet
growers.
frankie Lathers, a Be1oit child.
fell and struck his head against the
iron column of a railway depot.
fractured his skull, and may not sur
vive.
Peter Thompson, an II year old boy,
was shot drought the heart and al
most instantly killed by John B. Jones
aged IA, near his home at Superior.
Without dissenting vote the Osh.
kosh common council has adopted an
Anticipating ordinance, the direct
result of propaganda inaugurated
by the clubwomen of the city.
Two hundred members of the
Masonic fraternity met at Ashland
last night to celebrate the twenty
seventh anniversary of the:estab1ish-
ment of masonry in northern Wiscon-
sin.
Appleton is to have a boys military
company, Sergeant Marcus!s,stein-
hauer of company 6, Second regi-
ment, having been engaged to drill
sixty youths. A banker is backing
the project.
The Citizens Telephone company
at Racine on Wednesday closed a
contract with the Deane Electric
company of Elyria, o., for a system
with a capacity of 5000 phones. A
station to cost SIS, 900 will be erected.
Warden H. D. Robinson of Racine
college has received telegram from
Nebraska stating that one of the
graduates of that institution, Arthur
M. Marsh, has won the Cecil Rhodes
scholarship at Oxford university,
England, for the state of Nebraska.
Big Bear, the well known Winneba-
go Indian chief, is dead at Reedsburg.
Ro1in Bates of Watertown has taken
his position as a postofice inspector
at St. Louis.
Charles Erickson, a we'll to do
farmer, was killed near Pound on
Thursday by Milwaukee train.
F. ]. Mccormick, for years secre-
tary of the Green Bay Business Mems
association, has been elected its presi-
dent.
The Frederic Charcoal company has
been organized at Frederic with a
capital of $1,000, The stockholders
are local business men.
Mayor Snyder, members of the COM
mon council and the board of public
works of Waukesha inspected the
water works on Thursday.
A nonsectarian Chautauqua Park
association is TO be organized at
GAINESVILLE to control the chautauqua
to be held there July % to Aug. 6.
1t has been decided by the Demo
cratic and Republican city commit
tees at Fond du Lac that the vacan-
cies on the ward tickets left by the
primary election will not be filled.
Steps are being taken for de1ega-
ton of GAINESVILLE men to visit the
Ringing Bros. at Baraboo and urge
the selection of GAINESVILLE as site for
the winter quarters of the F orepaugh-
Sells circus.
Two stones weighing over ton
each fell from the cornice on the
southeast corner of the new chemistry
building at the state university and
narrowly missed John Kelly, one of
the workmen.
Orson Row1ands, of Waukesha,
aged 20years, while riding horse in
the dark, was struck by the low hang
ing branch of tree and his skull was
fractured. Trephining has been re-
sorted to, but there is no hope of his
recovery.
A runaway horse caused a small
flood on State street, Racine, on
Thursday by striking a water hydrant
and breaking it off close to the side
walk. Street railway traffic was
stopped for time and cellars of bus
mess houses were flooded.
Mrs. Cecilia Goodman Meyer of
GAINESVILLE, wife of Ira S. Meyer, the
alleged bigamist, has returned from
Keokuk, Ia, where she testified