The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
INTE RE STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

INTE RE STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters
of General and Local Interest Mar
riages and Observation-Disclosures and Crimes
Personal Pointers.
"A postoffice has been established at
Armstrong Greek, Forest County, with
VIM. S. Cook as postmaster.
"A. Jones, of Wausau, has been granted
500 by the Government for the difference
IN salary of private and lieutenant he
having served during the war in the latter
position and receiving pay as private.
H. F. WEIGH, under bonds at Eau
Claire on the charge of adultery, is missing
Chippewa Falls parties are on his bond
for 5000.
Peter Peterson, charged with murder
ing Swedish companion in the woods
near Superior, has been arrested.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paur
Railway Company has opened its new
passenger depot at B eloit
John Elder, Jr, has been arrested
near Eau Claire for firing several shots at
James LETTERS. Elder was attempting to
rob Jeffers' apiary, and when discovered
by the proprietor shot Mr.. LETTERS.
Grant Randalls, school teacher, has
been arrested at Black River Falls.
charged with assaulting Mary Heath,
aged Is. He thought her conduct was
such in school that she merited thrash
ing, and gave her one. The jury acquitted
him.
Ben Miller, of Browntown, is i'll jail
at Monroe, charged with having forged a
note for $780,
Burglars cracked the safe in the
store of George Parr, at Barron, secur--
ing Sc or 81. The explosion broke the
windows in the front of the building and
damaged the stock of goods somewhat.
w. W. Ebert, of Mason, Ashland
County, was accidentally shot in the face,
while hunting, the bullet entering the jaw
and inficting dangerous wound. He is.
in hospital at Ashland.
The mystery concerning the stranger
who victimized the Merchants and Me-
chanics Bank at GAINESVILLE by forged
check for S373.25 is as deep as ever. The
check purported to be from Baines, He'd
dies q Co., tobacco dealers, drawn to H.
B. Davis, and was presented nearly three
months ago, but fraud was not discovered
until recently, the firm having running
account. The maker of the check, it.
seems, gained possession of a genuine
check, the initials and figures on which
were the same as on the forged one, the
peculiarities in signature and handwriting
having been closely initiated
Sheriff Dunn, Of Eau Claire, has sue
ceeded in experimenting Henry Rivers,
who has been wanted since 1885 for steal
ing a yoke of oxen from William Morrison
He was found in logging camp on the
Eau Claire River.
The Matthes Chemical Company has
been formed at Marshfeld with q capital
SIOUX OI 9IC,UUU.
Quartz found near Wausau assaTs
37-l00 silver to the ton, and q trace Of
gold.
Bradley Station, on the Sault Ste.
Marie Railway, is to be abandoned and a.
depot erected at Heafford junction, five
miles north of Tomahawk The officials
of this line give it out authoritatively that
their line will be built from Heafford
Junction to Tomahawk and on through
the coming spring.
Capt. John Mass, formerly employed
in the Internal Revenue Department as a
gauger, attempted a wholesale slaughter
of his family at Milwaukee. A year ago
Mrs. Mass secured q divorce, and the
four children and the property were given
to her. Soon after Mass secured the,
youngest boy and took him to Portland,
Ore, where he left him, returning him
self to Milwaukee. The boy wrote to his.
mother, and she sent him money to come
home. Soon after his arrival, and as Mrs.
Mass and her daughter Flora were sitting
in the kitchen, Capt. Mass entered, -four
ishing revolver. He aimed at his wife,.
but the daughter knocked the revolver
from his hand. Mrs. Mass escaped by a
side door, and Miss Mass ran upstairs.
Mass had fired shot up through the cell
ing with the insane idea of hitting the,
women. He then went to drug store,
where his son John, aged %, is employed.
He leveled the pistol at him, but his arm
was seized by bystander. Mass escaped.
Mr.. and Mrs J. D. Northroo, Of
Clinton Junction, were suffocatcd by coal
gas, Mrs. Northrop being dead when
found, and Mr.. Northrop nearly so.
Loose brick had fallen and closed the
chimney fue.
Robert Sampson was bound over at
Chippewa alls to the Circuit Court for
stabbing Herman Stay in a row. His
brother, who was implicate ed, was dis
charged.
George A. Ford, aged 81 and Mrs
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