Wisconsin farmer attack poisons entire family
James Breland, a discharged farmhand, was arrested in Madison on charges of trying to poison George Bringer and his family with arsenic in coffee. The plan failed when the poison caused vomiting. the Bringer family of seven survived with medical aid, all recovering after treatment. Bail set at 3000 dollars. examination scheduled for next Thursday.
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Madison, Wis
George Bringer
James Breland
Bringer
Breland
Manitowoc High School Controversy Maintains Deadlock
Indications push toward no change in the North Side High dispute over Prof. H J Evans resignation and Prof. F S Hyer’s management. Hyer, who was to move to Manitowoc, postponed his visit amid local disagreements as a committee and the school board exchange letters and discuss the situation.
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Manitowoc
Wis
North Side High School
H. J. Evans
F. S. Hyer
Rhinelander
PF. S. Hyer
Hyer
Prof. Hyer
Hydraulic Plant Sold to Chapin Mining Firm at Iron Mountain
A deed recorded in Marinette Wisconsin on June 16 transfers all real and personal property of the Quinnesee Hydraulic Power Company to Chapin Mining Company of Iron Mountain for 50000 dollars. The hydraulics system at Quinnesee Falls supplies compressed air to Iron Mountain mines via high steel tubes. Mark Hanna is listed as president and also holds an interest in Chapin.
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Marinette
Wis
Quinnesee Hydraulic Power Company
Chapin Mining Company
Iron Mountain
Quinnesee Falls
Mark Hanna
Chapin Company
Universalists' Convention draws prominent figures to Augusta
Augusta Wisconsin hosts a Wisconsin Universalist convention with Rev. I. M. Atwood and Dr. C. E. Nash among speakers. An Educa tion address by Nash follows a pencned sermon by Rev. J. Alvin Clark. Officers elected include President W. H. Rogers and Rev. A. S. Ralph as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Wis
I. M. Atwood
D. D
C. E. Nash
Lombard College
G. L. Perrin
Boston
Cantwell
Chicago
J. Alvin Clark
Neenah
Mr. Nash
W. H. Rogers
Fort Atkinson
A. S. Ralph
Columbus
A. C. Gries
Racine
Delavan Lake Assembly Dates Set for August 1 12
Delavan Wisconsin announces the Delavan Lake assembly from August 1 to 12. Opening speaker Sam Jones will be followed by a lineup including Dr. Hil lis Rev. Robert McIntyre Dr. A A Willits Rev S Parkes Cadman and others. An effort aims to host Senator Spooner William Jennings Bryan and Governor Roosevelt on the same day.
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Delavan
Wis
Delavan Lake
Sam Jones
Hillis
Robert McIntyre
A. A. Willits
S. Parkes Cadman
D. W. Hinton White
Mate H. Tapping
Thomas H. Dinsmore
Medicine dance at Mauston draws Winnebago rally
Winnebago Indians in xalesville pull stakes and head to Mauston for a grand medicine dance on Sunday. Tom Roddy and Tom Thunder, contenders for tribal leadership, are absent at the request of the braves to maintain harmony at the exercises.
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Xalesville
Wis
Mauston
Tom Roddy
Tom Thunder
Elopement of Sherman Enos and Frances Barlow in Washington
The Seattle couple eloped after a family rift and a planned marriage opposed by Frances Barlow's father. Enos, son of attorney C. N. Enos, previously tried to enlist during the Spanish American War, wearing male attire, and was discharged after his San Francisco interception. They rode out of Seattle on horseback and married in an unknown Washington town.
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la Crosse
Wis
Seattle
Wash
Sherman Enos
C. N. Enos
Frances Barlow
Spain
Enos
United States Cavalry
San Francisco
Philippines
Washington
Saengerfest to Draw Milwaukee Singers to Green Bay
Milwaukee groups plan large delegations to Green Bay for the June Saengerfest June 22 to 24. Over 500 singers from about 25 to 30 societies will perform with a state orchestra and soprano Bessie Marie Mayham. Events include receptions, two concerts, a Sunday park procession and a park picnic with music, games and illumination.
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Green Bay
Wis
Milwaukee
Gerand
G. Kuestermann
Saenserfest Association
Bessie Marie Mayham
Fond du Lac
Water Shortage Hits Wisconsin Paper Mills Hard
Kaukauna June 16 Special report millmen at Kaukauna Union Bag and Paper Company Thilmany mills Outagamie Paper company and other pulp grinders face zero wheel turnover as Fox river water drops. Pulp prices stay high with little hope of change for four months and no June freshet likely until fall rains.
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Kaukauna
Wis
Locks
Kimberly
Fox River
Union Bag & Paper Company
Thilmany Mills
Outagamie Paper Company
Kewaunee Council Approves Railroad Debt Refunding Loan
The Kewaunee Wisconsin city council adopted a resolution authorizing the mayor and city clerk to apply to the commissioners of public lands for a $19,000 loan. The debt finances the city railroad obligation, repayable over twenty years in annual installments of $950 at 3 8 4 percent interest.
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Kewaunee
Wis
Commissioners of Public Lands
Congressman Minor urged to place cannon in Kewaunee square
In Kewaunee Wisconsin on June 16 a correspondent reports Congressman Minor is asked to use his influence to obtain a serviceable cannon from late wars for the court house square. The piece would be located near the Soldiers monument.
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Kewaunee
Wis
Minor
Judge Daniel H. Johnson Dies After Stroke
Milwaukee judge Daniel H. Johnson, a longtime circuit court jurist and pillar of the Milwaukee bar, died after a stroke followed by a second attack. He had shown declining health but no alarm was felt before his sudden illness.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Daniel H. Johnson
Nestor
Circuit Court
West Point Discharges Cadets From Wisconsin and Other States
West Point announces the discharge of several fourth class cadets after a recent examination. Ex E Burton and Cadet McKee of Wisconsin along with K D Gough Indiana L A Kimzig Pennsylvania M W Loomis Illinois M Smith Jr Maine CG H Snorf Maryland C A Sulzer New York G W Maddox Kentucky R L Robinson Nebraska are removed. John F E Doyle of Pennsylvania a third class cadet is also dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
N. Y
Military Academy
E. Burton
McKee
Wisconsin
K. D. Gough
Indiana
L. A. Kimzig
Pennsylvania
M. W. Loomis
Illinois
M. Smith, Jr
Maine
Cg, H. Snorf
Maryland
C. A. Sulzer
New York
G. F. Brensinger
New Jersey
G. W. Maddox
Kentucky
R.L. Robinson
Nebraska
John FE. Doyle
Ian
Lost in Oshkosh Aged Woman Taken In By Police
Mary Dewitt an elderly Fond du Lac resident who smokes tobacco was taken in by Oshkosh police at the Wisconsin Central depot after a man she recently met lured her with a promise of money to appear as a witness in an Oshkosh trial. She was sent home to Fond du Lac.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Mary Dewitt
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin Central Depot
Wires Down Halt Marinette Street Car Service
Wires on several principal streets in Marinette Wisconsin were torn down today as contractor George Danville moved a building. The streetcar system is crippled and traffic is blocked while a legal dispute over the wire damage appears likely.
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Marinette
Wis
George Danville
Famous blind composer to visit Winnebago park
Fond du Lac Wisconsin June 15 Special word arrives from J W Bischoff Washington DC renowned blind composer and organist will spend two months at Winnebago park on Lake Winnebago east shore arriving July 1 He will be entertained at the J C Fuhrman cottage and plans to devote time to new compositions He is brother of William Bischoff and Mrs J C Fuhrman both of Fond du Lac.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
J. W. Bischoff
Washington, D. C
Winnebago Park
Lake Winnebago
J. C. Fuhrman
Badger Boy Wounded in Philippines Action
George A. Thompson formerly of Portage now in the Twenty third United States Infantry was wounded May 26 near Lapaz Leyte and had a foot amputated above the ankle. He lies in a Tacloban hospital and expects return aboard the hospital ship Relief. Thompson, class of 1901, enlisted May 18, 1899 at age 19.
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Portage
Wis
George A. Thompson
Co. I. Twenty-third United States Infantry
Philippines
Tacloban
Young Thompson
Lapaz
Leyte
Relief
Wild court scene as escapee Benjamin sentenced in Wisconsin
George Benjamin pleaded guilty to a serious charge in La Crosse and was sentenced to one year at Waupun. After arrest in Fond du Lac and a flight to Minneapolis he was recaptured after a dramatic dash for liberty in court. He attacked his attorney A. N. Bleekman and his case’s conduct this morning.
Peeping Tom Arrest in Racine Disorderly Charge
Arthur Tollock, proprietor of Racine’s largest billiard rooms, was arrested for disorderly conduct after an unknown man had stalked into windows of prominent residents for three months. An officer captured Tollock near midnight at the muzzle of a gun after he fled a peering attempt.
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Racine, Wis
Arthur Tollock
Racine
Tollock
Will of Harvey Dickensen Leaves All to Longtime Servant
A judge in La Crosse Wisconsin saw the will of Harvey Dickensen filed. He bequeaths everything including a pipe to Ida Balch, a longtime servant in the Dickensen family. The widowed testator had no known relatives and charities and private individuals are anticipated to receive bequests.
Appleton Power House Burns in Major Fire
Appleton Wisconsin June 16 Special The powerhouse for the electric light local street car and Appleton Neenah electric railway systems burned last night with a loss of about 20000 dollars.
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Appleton, Wis
Appleton-Neenah
Clements Convicted Of Bank Wreck Charge In Preston
Joseph R. Clements of La Crosse is found guilty of grand larceny in the second degree for wrecking the Fillmore County bank in Preston Minnesota. He faces up to fifteen years and awaits sentencing July 19 after a stay to prepare a new-trial motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caledonia
Minn
Joseph R. Clements
la Crosse
Fillmore
Clements
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Minnesota
Cornerstone Laid for St. Croix County Courthouse
Hudson Wisconsin residents marked the cornerstone ceremony for the St. Croix county courthouse as 400 Masons led a countywide parade. Mayor J M Oliver gave the welcome, with addresses by Gen Moses E Clapp and W F McNally and other organizations participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson, Wis
St. Croix County
J. M. Oliver
Moses E. Clapp
W. F. McNally
Hold Up A Train Report From La Crosse
A Dubuque branch Milwaukee Road crew reports three masked men held up a freight train caboose at 3 am in La Crosse Wisconsin. The attackers took several watches and cash after the payoffs. Three suspects are under arrest.
Northwestern railway line eyed to boost Marshfield division status
Marshfield Wisconsin June 16 officials consider building a Princeton to Marshfield line to place the city on a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul air line and connect a Marshfield & Southwestern route with Nekoosa. A river line to Grand Rapids could aid the paper mill industry.
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Marshfield
Wis
North-Western Railway
Princeton
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Merrillan
Omaha
Marshfield & Southwestern
Nekoosa
Wisconsin River
Grand Rapids
Wanninger Pea Canning Factory to Open Near Kewaunee
In Kewaunee Wisconsin on June 16 special report that W Wanninger Pea Canning factory will start July 1. One hundred acres are sown to peas this year up from 900 last year. Last season output reached one million cans. this year expected 1.5 million cans. Peas priced from 50 cents to 1.65 per can. Hundreds of pea pickers are needed to clear land leased by Larsen Canning Company of Green Bay.
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Kewaunee
Wis
W. . Wanninger Pea-Canning Factory
Larsen Canning Company
Green Bay
City to Own Electric Light and Waterworks Plant
Two Rivers Wisconsin on June 16 reports the city council approved the electric light and waterworks ordinance and awarded the contract and franchise to C A Iglehardt of Chicago. The $66,000 plant cost is $5,000 due at completion and $61,000 to be paid in twenty years or twenty three installments of $4,500 each, with transfer to the city upon completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Two Rivers
Wis
Electric Light and Waterworks
C. A. Iglehardt
Chicago
Police halt sand taking from Racine beach
Racine Wisconsin June 16 police notify Milwaukee sand scow captains to stop drawing sand from the north side beach. Excessive removal has uncovered the intake pipe and officials fear it may be damaged by continued use.
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Racine, Wis
Milwaukee
Location of Charles I’s beheading axe found in Naples museum
The article traces the axe used to behead King Charles I from Giles Dekker to Parliament approval, then to the tavern of Dekker’s son, seized by James II, carried to France, passed to Louis XIV, then to the Regent Duke of Orleans, and finally deposited in the Museo Borbonico in Naples where it has rested for over six decades.
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Charles I
Museo Borbonico
Naples
Italy
British Museum
Charles
Giles Dekker
Lambeth
James II
France
St. Germain
Louis XIV
Duke of Orleans
Ferdinand
Matrimony Clause and Readers’ Interest in Authors
Jeannette L. Gilder argues in Harper's Bazaar that marriage can affect an author’s sales. She suggests Richard Harding Davis’s readership and Kipling’s audience react differently to weddings. The piece posits a playful idea of contracts conditioned on bachelor status.
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Benes
Paul Leicester Ford
Richard Harding Davis
Kipling
Jeannette L. Gilder
Harper’s Bazar
Spanish Surnames in Iberian Naming Traditions
The New York Herald explains that Spanish children carry three or four Christian names plus combined paternal and maternal surnames. When surnames are doubled or joined by y meaning and the first surname is primary and may stand alone as the paternal name, while the second is the maternal. Fathers and sons may share names but each uses the mother’s name as a distinction, as Pedro Diaz y Castello for the father and Pedro Diaz y Blanco for the son.
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Spain
Pedro Diaz Y Castello
Pedro Diaz Y Blanco
New York Herald
Early American pianos emerge after climate ruin prompt
The New York Tribune notes that London imported pianos by John Jacob Astor in 1784 could not endure the climate and were ruined. This spurred efforts to build pianos in America, with upright models appearing early in the current century.
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America
London
John Jacob Astor
New York Tribune
Personally Conducted Pupils and Old Versus New Education
Dean Briggs of Harvard in Cambridge argues against overindulgent teaching that makes school feel like play. He warns this “personally conducted” system erodes manliness and work ethic, calling for a balance between new methods and traditional discipline to form men of character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Briggs
Harvard
Cambridge
Sugar Beet Improvement Through Careful Breeding
The article notes that plant improvement through crossing and selection rivals animal breeding, citing the sugar beet as a prime example. It states modern beets contain about three times as much sugar as those a century ago, illustrating progress in cultivation.
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Philadelphia
What He Prayed For
A Chicago boy, while saying his prayers at night, blesses each family member and ends with a plea to bless Brother Jim and make him as good a boy as I am. The remark reveals a child’s affection and humorous humility in a simple household moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brother Jim
Crosby Transportation Co Route to Michigan and Canada
Crosby Transportation Co and Grand Trunk Bus system promote the Grand Haven Route as the shortest, cheapest, and most popular line to all points in Michigan, Canada and the East with nightly steamer departures from Milwaukee at 9 15 p m and ticket office at 400 East Water St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Trunk Bu
Grand Haven
Michigan
Canada
East
Milwaukee
East Water St
A Novel Electric Car in Berlin Service
A novel trolley car operates in Berlin on tracks with overhead contact outside the city. Upon entering the city limits extra trucks are lowered and the car becomes an electromobile omnibus powered by storage batteries beneath the side seats.
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Berlin
Promising Bonaparte Nominated General of Brigade
The Czar named Col. Prince Louis Napoleon to a general of brigade. He has led the Russian Imperial guard regiment known as the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s and is not yet 36. A Bonaparte prince with a commission full of possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaparte
Prince Louis Napoleon
Imperial Guard
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
London
Special Carnival Photo Studio Offers Inducements
During Carnival week Klein and Guttenstein invite visitors to their new central Milwaukee studio at No 79 Wisconsin st corner East Water for special inducements in artistic photographs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin St
Texas Revokes Nearly a Thousand Corporation Franchises
Tax authorities revoke the franchises of almost 1000 corporations in Texas for failure to remit state taxes. A separate note states no artwork is hung at the Louvre in Paris until ten years after the artist’s death.
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Texas
Louvre
Paris
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