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STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Fifty million trout fry from the Madison fish hatchery were planted off Racine, Fire destroyed a large portion of the plant of the Union Lime Company at Grimms, with a loss of $50,000. At Oshkosh, George Burkley pleaded guilty to burglary and was sentenced to two years in the State reformatory. Fire at Winneconne destroyed nine business buildings on Main street, entailing a loss of $20,000; partly covered by insurance. Members of the Improved Order of Red Men from different parts of the State came to Kenosha to assist in the institution of a new tribe. The Illinois Central has completed a survey from Exeter Crossing to New Glarus for a spur track, and a depot site has also been selected. At Green Bay robbers gained entrance to William Clough's house and secured $75, $25 of the Methodist Church funds and also jewelry valued at $150. Gustav Wellman, one of the oldest pioneer German residents of Kenosha, attempted suicide by hanging himself to & lattice in the rear of his home. While Mrs. Catherine Kamps was at special church Easter services in Appleton a thief picked the lock of the front door of her home and stole $300 in money, Fire, caused by lightning, destroyed the barn. twenty head of cattle, several horses, hogs, grain and hay owned by Mike Carroll, eight miles north of Brodhead. Sparta is figuring on owning and operating its own electric light plant, to be operated on the gas producer system, in conjunction with the municipal water station. At Janesville several valuable dogs have been poisoned within the last few days and a reward of $25 has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the poisoner. Mrs. K. Patterson, aged S0 years, a pioneer resident of Bear Creek, succumbed to heart failure while on a train coming to Eau Claire to receive medical treatment. The Juda Evangelical Church is being torn down to make room for a brick veneered building, 50x50 feet in size, embodying every modern idea in church architecture. Rev. L. A. Brenner. pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Sparta, was fined $4.95 for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. The Modern Woodmen raised the amount. The recent fall of snow near Mellen was one of the heaviest of the season. the ground being covered with new snow to a depth of from twenty inches to two feet on the level. The Menomonie Woman's Club had a tag day on election day, netting $120 to the civic improvement committee, most of which will be turned over to the Menomonie Improvement Association. In Sheboygan the first steps looking toward a city hall have been taken by the introduction of a resolution in the Council providing for including in next year's tax levy an appropriation for such a building. Attorney General Gilbert has ruled in answer to an inquiry from State Insurance Commissioner Beedle that the Germantown Insurance Company must distribute its surplus of $234,822 among its policy holders. Miss Lizzie Van Beck of the town of Preble may lose her sight because of an accidental shot fired by her brother when he was practicing with the gun and the girl stepped in front of him. the bullet entering her eye. Mrs. John Honeyager, aged 60 years, living three miles from Waukesha. was run down by a Milwaukee road passenger train while she was driving to church. She was severely injured, her scalp being torn open for several inches. Harry E. Slattery of Wankesha. a private in Company C, First Marine Battalion. U. S. A., has been killed at Camp Elliott, Panama, where his battalion is stationed. The details are not known but it is believed he was murdered by natives. According to State Superintendent Cary's biennial repot, just published. Kaukauna is paying the highest average salary to its women teachers of any city of its size in the State. Kaukauna pays $58.08: Wanwatosa, $56.40: Marsh $56.29: Oconomo: rec. $56.17. and so on down the list through tw Qty others to Portage, which pays the lowest, $40.48. After waiting six years, creditors of the defunct Kenosha State Bank and Kenosha Trust Company received checks in settlement of their claims from the Chicago bonding company which had taken over the business after Frank B. Komp, a Chicago banker who organized the institutions which were closed by the State, had been sent to prison for perjury. About two-thirds of the claims were paid. John Baumgard, a smallpox patient at the Racine isolation hospital, escaped and for hours was sought by the police. He was found mingling among people at Lakeside, who became alarmed and threatened Baumgard's life when they learned that he had smallpox.