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

Short Items of Interest From All Sec.
tions of Wisconsin
The Jewish people in the district
between Amigo and Appleton and
Oconto and Clintonvi11e are contem.
plating building temple in Clinton.
Vile.
! Mrs. John Church, of GAINESVILLE,
found sample capsules of butter col
oring at her door, and took both,
thinking they were castor oil. She
may recover.
Evan Fayre, aged II years, son OF
James Fayre, of GAINESVILLE, was pos
sib1y fatally shot while playing with
a 22-ca1iber rifle. The bullet entered
his eye and penetrated the brain.
S. d. Ta11man, Of GAINESVILLE, has
received unique confession from a
Chicago girl, who signs herself Au-
gusta Wieneke, who asks his forgive
ness for having stolen several apples
from his orchard some years ago.
Only ten out Of 100 applicants for
enlistment in the navy who were ex-
amined at Milwaukee were accepted
and the recruiting officers have left
the city.
A Milwaukee alderman has intro
duced an ordinance providing for the
issue of $100,00 bonds to establish a
municia1 coal yard.
Lauro Lopez Mendez, of Apam,
Hidalgo, Mex, has just entered the
college of engineering at the state
university. He is the third Mexican
student to take up the work at the
institution this year.
Arrangements have been made for a
course of lectures to be delivered at
the state university by Prof. George
P. Baker of Harvard. The subjects
will be Shakespearian in their nature.
GAINESVILLE has been made the divis-
ion end of the ''coal road'' of the Mil
waukee road and is now the distribut-
ing point for the coal supplies which
come into Wisconsin over the Rochelle
and Southern road. 1t will ultimately
mean new round house and switch
ing yards at GAINESVILLE.
FL. O. Osborn, manager of the Rock
County Sugar company, has sent out
circulars and personal letters to each
of the Wisconsin congressman and
senators asking them to work against
the passage of the clause in the Phil
ippine bill now pending before cong
ress, to place sugar and tobacco on
the free list.
L. c. Porter, of Be1oit, has been
given the Fogg scholarship, class of
1906, at the Yale divinity school, for
excellent work.
Three fires, all believed to be of in
cendiary origin. have cost John Sey-
mour, of Marinette, barn, cow and
load of hay IN front of his house.
I'll. L. Maxfe1d, Norman Carrie and
others at GAINESVILLE are organizing a
company to build a $4,000 foundry
for grey iron machine castings.
]. Olsen, his wife and six children,
of Dover, Racine county, awakened
by smoke, finding the house in flames,
were forced to leap through windows
into the bitter cold air, attired in
night clothes.
John Wilson and Tom Jones,
tramps, have been arrested at Mari
nette, accused of the robbery of the
American house and Cohen's confec-
tionery at Marinette Merchandise
believed to belong to an Oconto store
was also found on them.
The city officials Of Oshkosh have
all placed themselves on record as OPP
posed to the passage of the bill intro
duced by Senator Stevens providing
that the civil service law be revoked
as far as the heads of fire and police
departments are concerned.
c. c. Cuttings has been elected pres
ident of the new Lincoln club at Ra-
cine. On Feb. II, Lincoln S birthday,
banquet will be held. and Gov. La
Toilette will be guest of honor. Dis
trict Attorney McGovern, of Milwau-
kee, will be invited to speak.
Miss Sophia Stanley, of Manawa,
died on Wisconsin Central train on
Friday, just before reaching Fond du
Lac. She had taken the train at Chi
cago, accompanied by nurse. Dur
ing the trip she rapidly became worse
and died. The body was taken to
Weyauwega.
The Wisconsin State Poultry asso-
citation has elected the following Off
GERS: President, Walter E. Holmes,
Oshkosh; vice president, C. c. Boyce,
Waupaca; secretary, Frank W. Rad
ford, Oshkosh; show secretary, F. A.
Allen, Oshkosh; superintendent G.
M. Wells, Oshkosh.