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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
III. B. Robinson Succeeds
&c. Simmons as President
of Police and Fire Com
mission.
RHODE ELECTED SECRETARY

Henry B. Robinson, president Of the
Merchants and Savings bank,was elect
ed to succeed z. G. Simmons as presi-
dent of the police and fire commission
at the re- organization meeting of the
board held on Friday evening. Mr..
Simmons who has served as head of the
commission for the past five years, in
sisted that It would be impossible for
him to accept reelection as he would
be forced to be away from the city so
much that he could not give the per
sonal attention to the work that the
Office demanded.
John Priddis, wLo has been secretary
of the commission since its organiza-
tion, asked that he be relieved from
the rather onerous duties of this Office
and Joseph g. Rhode was named as
secretary, Mr.. Priddis was named as
vice president Of the commission.
The members Of the commission
spent considerable time discussing the
demands Of the police department.
They held that it would be necessary
in the very near future for Kenosha
to have a new police station and city
jail to provide room for the vast NUM-
Der of defendants which are being
picked up. 1t was held that the very
large number of arrests for intoxica-
tion was largely due to the floating
population Of the city. The commits
sion issued orders that all saloon keep
ers be given a new warning against
selling liquor to intoxicated persons.
It was held that this rule of the COM
mission has been violated by many of
the saloon men and the chief of police
was directed to cause the arrest of
any saloon man violating this rule in
Kenosha.
Better regulation of special police
officers in Kenosha is to be provided
for. In the future companies securing
permits to employ special police officers
will be called upon to give a bond to
the city to prevent the city being
brought into suits as result Of the
operations Of these officers. In addi-
ton to this if the men are placed in
uniforms the uniforms must be sub
stantially different from those worn by
the regular police officers of the city.
Under the order of the commission
the street commissioners of the city
were named as special police officers
without permission to carry arms. The
appointment of these men as police Of
feers is made with a view Of aiding in
maintaining the street work.
A number of candidates for places
on the police and fire department. were
examined and one man was certified to
the eligible list.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
NEW PLANS FOR INTERURBAN
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Reorganization Told to
Judge Lands.

The reorganization plan of the Chi
cago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Company has been reconsidered in part,
according to the announcement of mem
bers of the committee, made before Fed
eral Judge Lands in Chicago in the
hearing over the matter of attorneys
fee.s
The proposal at present, it was said.
provides for the issuance of $4,000 00
of 5 per cent bonds, to be secured by
the entire property. In addition there
will be 100000 of stock and partieipa
ton certificates, without par value, is
sued against part of the securities now
outstanding. Part Of the bond issue
will be used in retiring present under.
lying liens.
Judge Lands was told that arrange
ments had been made for the sale Of the
bond issue Cat not less than 90 nd
probably more. The committee mem
bers said they hoped for an early con
firmation of the recent master s sale Of
the properties, inasmuch as arrange
ments must be completed to retire the
present underlying liens by June 1, and
the new bonds must be in the hands Of
the bankers by July /.
I'm not going. to delay this con.
firmation, = Judge Lands said
All I want is that this orphan who
was abandoned on my judicial doorstep
on wintry night in January, 1908, and
over which I have SO long exercised q
paternal custody, shall leave me with
its name untarnished I want every.
thing made matter of court record. ;:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
BANK DIRECTOR SUES.
Eugenio Lamacchia Trying to Force
Nine Members of the Board
to Reinstate Him.

The nine directors of the italian
Mutual Savings bank of Milwaukee,
which is the recognized banking insti-
tuition of nearly ali the italians in Mil
waukee, are made defendant in an ac-
ton started by Eugenio Lamacchia in
the circuit court branch in Milwaukee,
presided over by Judge Gregory. A
writ of mandamus has been issued up
on the petition of Lamacchia and an
order has been signed compelling the
directors to appear in court today and
show cause why Lamacchia should not
be reinstated as director. In his pc
tition Lamacchia AYERS he has been a
director since the bank was incorpor-
ated in 1908 and that he was reelected
for one year on January IL, 1916. He
says that on April !, 1916, his office
was declared vacant and he was GUST
ed from the directorate. He recites
various steps taken to obtain rein
statement. Little ITALY, in Milwau-
kee was in turmoil when Lamacchia IS
action became known. Arminio Conte,
italian consular agent, who will return
shortly from Europe, was a director.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
R0b't Burns Arrested When
He Attempts to Sell Horse
at Low Price to Pleasant
Prairie Farmer.
WANTS TRIAL ON CHARGES

Robert Burns, probably a direct de-
scendant of the great Scotch poet is
in cell at the county jail awaiting a
hearing on charges of horsestealing
Burns claims to have a home in New
York City but he had been in Kenosha
for the past ten days and life just natu-
rally got so quiet for him that he was
forced to start something. He was ar
rested at the farm of John J.. Mahoney,
in the town of Pleasant Prairie, Just
after five O'Clock Friday afternoon
after he had sought to sell Mahoney a
horse belonging to the Kimball Il
Kraii livery stable at decidedly low
price. Burns Offered Mahoney the
horse and wagon and the contents of
the wagon for $685. Mahoney believed
that the horse must have been stolen
and while his son kept Burns busy talk
ing a horse trade he called the sheriff.
Stahl reached the Mahoney farm within
few minutes after the call was sent in
and Burns made no effort to get away.
Burns had worked for week with
the Hill Steamboat Company but after
he tired of this employment he took
up stand on the street near the Main
street bridge. Burt Wiseman, Junk
dealer, came along and hired him to
help him load junk. Wiseman had hired
the horse and wagon from the kim
ball & Kraii livery barn and late in
the afternoon he ordered Burns to take
the horse back to the barn. He gave
him the money to pay for the hire of
the horse. Burns drove away but never
went near the barn. He drove out into
the town Of Pleasant Prairie and the
next heard of him he was negotiating
the sale of the horse.
Burns seemed to be little disgusted
over the turn affairs had taken after
he reached the jail. At first he de-
clared a willingness to plead equity"
but later he announced that he would
stand trial. The hearing of the case
is being held open to give the police a
chance to investigate into the record Of
Burns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
LIVED LONG WITH BROKEN NECK
Hans Hansen, Formerly of Pleasant
Prairie, Dies in Chicago Hospital
Early Today.

Hans Hansen, aged so years, form
erly a farm hand employed on the farm
of Frank Gleason in the town of Pleas
ant Prairie died at the Alexian Brothers
hospital in Chicago this morning as a
result of a broken neck Hansen had
lived with broken neck for more than
six months and his surviving for SO
long time has been a puzzle to sur
geons in Chicago. Hansen was well
known in this county. On December
18th of last year he fell from Dad of
hay at the Gleason farm and his neck
was broken N the fall. He was taken
to the hospital and he had been a pa
tient there since. For months Hansen
had been suffering from creeping par
alysis. He has seven sisters and one
brother in Denmark. 1t is probable that
the remains viii be buried in Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
DIES LATER AT HOSPITAL
Treacherous Screen Gives Way as Child
Plays About window of Pantry of
Upper Flat-Parents Frustrated as
Result of the Sad Accident.

Frances LaVhon Borland, aged four
years, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John E. Borland, died at the Kenosha
hospital just after eleven O'Clock on
Wednesday evening as a result of in
juries suffered just after five O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon when she plung-
ed head first from a second story win
dow at the Borland home, S11 Edward
street, to cement sidewalk below
The little girls skull was fractured
and sha also had boil arms broken and
was terribly bruised.
The Borland family occupies the up
per apartment in the building and the
little girl was playing in the pantry
Of the fiat. The mother was busy pre-
pairing supper for the family and the
father had just returned from his work
minute before the accident He was
talking with the mother in the dining
room adjoining the pantry when he
heard something fall on the walk at
the back of the house. He carelessly
looked out of the window and saw the
battered form of the little girl on the
walk He rushed to her aid and car
ried her to the house. The child was
partially conscious, but was evidently
in great pain. An ambulance was
summed and she was taken to the Ke-
nosha hospital and DR.. Hastings called
to attend her. An examination show
ed that the child had a fracture of the
skull which extended along the right
side from the base of the brain to the
forehead DR.. Jorgensen was called in
consultation and the fractured arms of
the little girl were set and the bone
lifted from the brain, but it was
impossible to save the life of the
little girl. She died in convulsions
late in the evening.
The little girl had found the pantry
a favorite place for her play and as
the window leading from it had been
screened the mother and father had
not thought that there was the posi-
bility of danger. The screen appeared
to be fitted tight in the window and
the little girl had played about the room
without any idea of possible danger.
It is thought that on Wednesday after
noon she had craWled up on the win
dow sill and that the weight Of the
body against the screen had been suf-
fcient to make it give way and the
child plunged head first, to the pave
ment below There was no one in the
pantry at the time of the accident and
the little child never recovered con-
seriousness sufficiently to tell just how
she had happened to fall.
The little girl was born at Zion City
November 5th, 1912, but she had spent
most Of her life in this city. She was
bright happy natured child and
great favorite0 in the neighborhood.
Her tragic death has cast a pail over
all of that section Of the southwest
side of the city. The funeral will be
held from the Hansen chapel at half
past two o'clock Saturday afternoon
with interment at the Green Ridge
cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

Licenses have been issued for the
marriage of Theodore Charles Steinway
and Miss Leona Belle Woodsen, Keno
ssa; Fred G. Hannahs, Jr. and Miss
Natalie Elizabeth Theirs, Kenosha;
Sergius Pohstsehutscherro and Miss
Francisco Hoikowich, Kenosha; Harry
]. Wade and Miss Christine Robsel,
Kenosha. A license has been issued by
the Waukegan marriage license clerk
for the wedding in that city of Nikola
Vedakovich of Racine and Miss Eliza
beth Koscak of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
FACTORY men FAVOR PLAN
Urge Young Men of City to Take Up
Military Service Under State Guard
Plan-Adj't General Hopeful That
Company Be Formed in Kenosha

Immediate steps are to be taken to
secure the location in Kenosha Of a
company of the Wisconsin National
Guard. Kenosha expects to have one
of the eight new companies for Wis
consin to be organized under the new
federal law relating to the state
troops. 1t is expected that the cities
in which the new companies will be
located will be selected within the
next two months.
Fred III. J. Baum, in the credit de-
partment Of the Simmons Manufacture
ing company, has taken the lead in the
organization of a company for Keno
sha. Mr.. Baum knows just what he is
talking about as he has seen seven
years service in the Wisconsin Nation.
al Guard. He was member of Com
pany Nc. at Lacrosse and Company A.
at Niesville and has been in charge of
other rife ranges at several Of the en-
campments of the Wisconsin National
Guard. Baum has taken the matter up
with the adjutant general and has
been advised that the officials of the
Wisconsin guard would be very pleas
ed to aid in the organization Of COM
pany in Kenosha. In order to organize
company there must be sixty-seYen
volunteers and the officers. 1t would
be easy to get the men for company
in any one of the factories Of the city.
Mr.. Baum believes that the Wisconsin
National Guard work will prove very
attractive to the young men of Keno
sha if he can just get a company or
gained and in action once. IF Keno
sha wants to get into the state guard
now is the time to get in as the new
company being organized is going to
bring big revival of the interest in
military service throughout the state.
Advancing the idea of organizing a
company in Kenosha, Mr.. Baum has
taken the matter up with several of
the leading manufacturers of the city.
All Of these men are strongly in favor
of the organizing of military company
IN Kenosha. IL is probable that they
would aid materially in furnishing what
little financial support is necessary.
Mr.. Baum hopes ito be able to send
out call within a short time and this
call will give all the information
i'm regard to the organization of the
proposed company.
It is probable that a public meeting
will be called to see just how many
young men can be secured. Tn other
cities these meetings have resulted in
double the number needed for com
pany offering their services.
At the last meeting held for the or
ganization of military company in
Kenosha some twenty signed the roll.
Now it is thought that there will be a
much larger number Many men are
working in Kenosha factories who have
served in the National Guards Of this
and other states and an effort will be
made to get these men together and
interest them in the further organiza-
ton.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

One thousand babies were placed
under careful observation last summer
by the Bureau Of Public Health and
Hygiene, A. I. G. P. and the Depart
ment of Health.
.sIn the dirty homes twice as many
babies had diarrhea as in the clean
homes.
Among the unscreened babies
twice as many babies had diarrhea as
among the screened babies.
"Twenty-nine hundred and fifty
seven babies died of diarrhea in New
York city last year. Dirt and flies
played their part in this slaughter. A
well used broom and mop and yard Of
netting may save your baby's life. !"
These statements prove to all think
ing people that one baby is not safe
from disease while any one in the COM
munity has breeding place for flies.
For although a mother may carefully
screen her child from flies, she cannot
be certain that the food which she
feeds it has not been infected before
it was brought to her by some fly that
had settled upon it after having been
in some disease producing germs some
where else.
Everyone in Kenosha is asked to
enter into the campaign to kill flies
and the more money that the city can
pay out for flies between now and the
end of the campaign, the better pleas
ed the city will be, for it is keenly
alive to the fact that every fly killed
early in the season may destroy the
potentiality of hundreds of thousands
more before the frosts of the fall put
an end to the fly for the season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
DEATH OF MRS. cHAs. RADATz.
Well Known Woman of the City Died
on Friday Evening After a
Long Illness.

Mrs. Minnie Christine Fredrieka
Radatz, aged 4S years, wife Of Charles
Radatz, and widely known in Kenosha
died at the family residence, No. 81 Ell
ison Avenue late Friday evening after
a long illness from complication of
diseases. Mrs. Radatz was born in 71e-
nosha February %, 1873, and had spent
her entire life in this city She is
survived by her husband and five chill
dren.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
APPLICATIONS NEXT WEEK
t Is Expected That the Full Number OF
Saloon Licenses Will Be Issued by
Council and Brewing Companies
Study Population Statistics Now.

City Clerk Harrington is sending out
today the annual notice to the saloon
men to get in their applications for Ii
cense. The formal notice is signed by
Mayor Charles H. Pfennig and it gives
the saloon men some pretty interest
ing information as to what they may
do and what they may not do in con-
nection with the operation of their
business. The little four page folder,
which was drawn up by the city attor
ney, gives the saloon men an abstract
of all the laws of the state governing
the retail liquor traffic and they are
informed that the city Of Kenosha
will expect them to live up to these
laws to the letter
The new saloon licenses will be issu-
ed by the council so that they will be
effective on July LIST. Early next week
the saloon men must secure their fed
eral licenses. Tt is expected that there
will be more than a hundred applica-
tions for retail liquor dealer s licenses
in Kenosha and some of the brewing
company agents arc carefully studying
population statistics with a view Of Sc
curing an addition to the number of
licenses issued in the city. It is highly
improbable that there will be any
change in the number of licenses this
year as the members Of the council
have gone on record as being favorable
to the reduction rather tnan to the
increase in the number Of saloon IL
censes. Alderman Herbert Thomey is
chairman of the license committee this
year and he has been in pretty close
touch with the conduct of saloon men,
in the city since the re-organizaion Of
the council.
It is probable that every man who
applies for a license will have a chance
to appear before the committee and
show his fitness to secure a license 1t
is certain that some men who now hold
licenses will not be continued on the
list with the beginning Of the new IL
cense year. There is considerable
speculation as to just what will happen
in regard to several places. IT is ex-
pected that there will be an applica-
ton for license at Edelweiss park,
but it is not thought that there is the
slightest chance of such a license be-
ing granted. Alderman Thomey was
one of the members Of the council that
assisted in putting this park out of
business some years ago and it is not
thought that he has changed his mind
any in regard to it. 1t is expected that
a new effort will be made to secure a.
license for the Krisor property on
North Milwaukee avenue. This will
be bitterly contested by some property
owners in the neighborhood. These
people will be ready to prove that
the license right for this saloon has
been lost
The old question as to the issuance
of wholesale" and "retail' LIQUOR
dealers license is to come up this year
and it is possible that an effort will be
made to regulate sales under whole
| sale II licenses to case or barrel goods.
Several places in the city are now do
ing both a wholesale and retail
business under the same license.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

Failure Of Ethel spurgeo- Darne1l,
Avon, H., to produce certificate for
her alleged marriage to James Morri-
son Darnell, now serving three-year
sentence in Leavenworth penitentiary
for violating the Mann act, has pre-
vented her divorce from Darnell, petit
ton for which was filed May 10. Judge
Robert Grier said he would deny the
petition. The alleged wife claims to
have been married to Darnell in Chica-
go and went with him to live at OWa-
tonna, Mimi, where he was pastor of a
church.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
PoLICEMAN's RELATIVE KILLED.
Henry Feldschau Nephew of Henry
Feldschau, Killed in the Fight
inc Before Verdun.

Police Officer Henry Feldschau, this
morning receive, a letter from Germany
notifying him that his nephew, Henry
Feldschau had been killed in the fight
ing about Verdun. Young Feldschau
was 81 years of age and he was in the
German army. The letter contains no
statement as to the details of his death.
The police officer has more than
twenty relatives now fighting for Ger
many on the French front.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
DEPARTMENT PAID OUT S15.17
This Small sum Is All That It Has
Cost to Dispose of Flies That
Had Potentially of Millions
of Offspring.

Kenosha' IS health department is pay
ing ten cents per hundred for flies and
will continue to do so up to June !
when o new schedule, to be decided up
on by the health board, will be
announced.
So fartthis year, beginning with the
April schedule of two flies for a cent
up to yesterday, the department had
paid out $15.17 and received 4,248 flies.
Some off these were paid for at the
two-for.a-cent rate, some at the
ten-for-a-cent
Scientists state that the average
number ofyeggs for a female fly to lay
is $50. AS it is safe to assume that at
least one-half the flies bought and de-
stroyed were female flies, that would
make 2,124 mother fies.~ This number
multiplied Sby $50 gives 318,600 flies
which wouAd have been the next gen
Grafton. This multiplied by $50 again
and that resultant amount by $50 once
moro and the number of flies that Ke-
nosha will he short along in July can
be estimated, for the time Of incuba-
tion is but al matter of few days.
The best sfy hunter in Kenosha is
not hunters at all, but huntress. 1T
is Miss Edrh Lentz with record Of
666 flies for (which she was paid in all
1,39 who has won the title of Diana
Of the fly chase. The next hunter
who comes anywhere near her record
is Chester Gaetschman with 800 flies
bought at $1a03 by the health depart
ment. The list of the youngsters who
have sold flies to the department
fellows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

The Durkee School Parent Teacher
association has elected Mrs. Otis Ire
nary president; Miss Mary Langan,
vice president; Miss Emily Bond, Jr.,
secretary; Mrs. H. NJ Weinstock, treas
urer; program committee, the Mines.
Horace johnson, E. G. Seward, S. G.
Newman and the Misses Belle Cable
and Emily Robinson; social chairman,
Mrs. John Burns
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
BORN IN KENosHA,

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. William Stone,
Superior street, today, an eight pound
daughter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

But in spite of all the heroic little
fly fighters that have enlisted in this
campaign, Kenosha will not be kept
clean of flies unless every citizen does
his share to keep filth and garbage
carefully covered until it can be final
" rendered harmless by burning or
burying.
In a recent campaign to save the
babies, a bulletin written by i. H.
Baker, author Of Swat the Ety. is
entitled, 'fBabies VS.. Flies and Dirt y
In it are such bits of Information
rs fol-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

Want ads bring results.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
FOR SALE

We offer bargain in a 5-room bungalow in Earle Place; house cost $16O0 to build, lot cost $600; level lot, house in good condition; offered for $1750.
 s. P. STURGEON & co.
 No. 217 N. Fist. St. Phone "A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
ONE CENT A WQRD
FOR SALE

RATES---One cent n word a day; no ad.
 taken for IesS than 25c for first inser- ton. Cnah mmst accomnany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

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