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Helen Keller, famous blind and deaf woman will arrive in Milwaukee Thursday to spend several days in making a personal appeal for the support of the American Foundation for the Blind.
Miss Keller will be accompanied by her life-long teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy.
A battle over a pair of silk bloomers and the mistaking of a uniformed bus driver for a police officer may cost the life of Harriet Wallace, 24, a saleswoman, living at 605 Van Buren St.
The woman leaped from the third floor of apartment 25, 229 Van Buren St., Wednesday, 3:30 a. m., landing on a picket fence 30 feet below. Physicians in Emergency hospital stated she had suffered a fractured leg, a broken nose, numerous contusions and abrasions and possible internal injuries and pronounced her condition grave at noon Wednesday.
A report at police headquarters tells the following story:
Ruby Ochs, vivacious blonde who, the police claim, won the affections of Clarence F. Green, youthful aviator, salesman, alleged swindler and fugitive from justice, has been located in Toledo, O., and will be questioned by the police, the district attorney announced Wednesday.
In the meantime, the wife of the much-sought man left her home on Martha Washington court, Washington Highlands, Tuesday night, for the first time, and during a visit to the district attorney’s office announced that she was “through” with the husband who had retained her affections and support through a previous escapade in which he forged $20,000 worth of mortgages at Madison, four years ago. It was mainly due to her efforts that Green was released after serving but one year of the three-year sentence for that offense.
We understand that the business of the electro-magnetic telegraph between Washington and this city, since it became a branch of the Post Office Department, has far exceeded expectation. The correspondence between the merchants of the two cities, we are informed, is constantly carried on by means of this important invention; and we learn that it is frequently the case that orders, received here at 1 o’clock, P. M. from Washington, are filled and the goods placed in the freight train of cars at 3 o’-clock tho same afternoon, at which hour the reception of heavy goods ceases for the day. Orders for small packages, received at half-past 4, are attended to promptly, and the goods forwarded by the passengers train which leaves here at 5 o’clock, and reaches Washington at half past 7 o’clock.
Camp Sherman, near Jeffersonville, Ind., November 14, 1861.
Friend Lute :—I hasten to inform you that the “Bloody First” has, within the last half hour, received marching orders. We are ordered to strike out tents at 8 o’clock, A. M.; to march at nine.—Our destination is doubtless some point below, as we are to go on board a steamer. The alarm drum beat fifteen minutes before twelve, and in less than five minutes the regiment was in line. You may calculate that the boys “scadadled” out of their nests in a hurry.—Each man is to receive 30 rounds of cartriges and two day’s rations; so we are to move some distance.
Establishment by the city of a hospital for the treatment of persons who may be a menace to the public health because of acute infection was advocated Thursday by Health Commissioner G. C. Ruhland, as an effective means of combatting the activities of medical quacks.
“Milwaukee has taken some advanced steps to meet the problem of social diseases,” said Dr. Ruhland.
Fort Tillinghast Va., Oct. 10, 1861.
Editors Mineral Point Tribune :
It has rained most of the day, and as darkness slowly comes on, all wonder how the night will pass—whether we freeze, or be dampened and chilled by the cold blasts of the Old Dominion. Well may the gallant crew wonder ; for within the last two weeks we have experienced more or less of cool nights, and are anxious to know how Uncle Sam will manage with his grand army of children as winter approaches. The 2nd will return thanks to the aforesaid Uncle Samuel for the nice over-coats he has been pleased to distribute among us ; and if you would just walk into our quarters, you would readily observe the plenty of everything. The 2nd has been newly clothed throughout, and it is with pride they don them and appear upon dress parade, with eyes front, body erect, and a sober, benign countenance. We calculate the 2nd capable of “dressing up” to any of the volunteer regiments ; and, upon review, parade, or in the camp, their actions bespeak for them a well disciplined and sturdy set of “Badger boys,” capable of going through all manner of hardships.
A Harrisburgh, Penn., paper gives the following description of our Fifth Wisconsin Regiment (in which is our Manitowoc Company,) as it passed through that city:
Fifth Wisconsin Regiment,—This regiment from the far North West, is now in this city, encamped near Camp Curtin. Some things are reported of these men worthy of note. They are chiefly lumbermen, miners and met living upon their own resources. They have been well clothed and furnished by their State, the Legislature having appropriated liberally for such purpose. The following are the regimental officers: