The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

Henrietta Schorse aud Mary Bower The island
View Hotel Company, of Bayfield,; capital, Ss2,-
600; incorporators, Isaac II. Wing Robinson ID.
Pike, Currie g. Bell, Fred. Fischer, and Erwin
Leahy.
The following Wisconsin pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid Edward Johnson Seymour;
John B. Thea1 National Milwaukee HomeS
John Oeldrich, alias John Holdsig, CentrevilleS
Ellis Ellis Viola David McIain Menominee.
Lawrence Miller, Waupaca.
Restoration and Increase-Dwight D. Eighme.
Briggsville.
Increase-HoraceR Reeve Hartford ;Jno. Lynch.
Madison; James n. Figg, Beetown; Lewis s.
Williams, Fish Creek Ephraim Alderman
Boaz; Orange G. Starin, Walworth; Fritz Bar
lon, Black Hawk; Hiram Green, WaupacaS
Daniel Doyle, Cartwright; Clement RoseruS,
Lena; Christian Kruse. Milwaukee; Willian
Gerber, Milwaukee, Edward p. Weise, Green
Bay; Jacob Van Vleet, Dodge; Seymour c. Gal
hgan, Armstrong;; Reuben Lee, Plainfields
john O. Riley, National Milwaukee Home Ira
T. Humiston, Monticello; James S. Stew art
Palmyra Carl Bernhardt, Waupaca Hugh
Flanagan, Fond du Lac; Richard McGrath, Ma
Inns; Anthony Chesner. Chiffon; James r..
West, Evansville; Robert j. Young, National
Milwaukee Home Michael Aman, SyTnco.
A dispatch from Waupun. speaking
of the way in which Hartley Clifford re-
ceived the news that his application for
pardon was denied, says:
The prisoner had all along be on led to believe
that his days in prison were numbered, anna
that executive sclemency was certain. When
told that Governor Hoard had denied the Rp--
plicatiOn Clifford seemed parSlyzed. 1t
sweeping blow. The prisoners face turned pale.
his lips quivered and tears came to his eyes
He was too much affected to express any opin-
ion on the Governors course. He turned ON
hearing the news and went TO bis work. older by
years than when he stood up to hear the decIs-
ion of the Governor. By the prison associates
of Clifford it is known that, as much as he longs
for his liberty it is his mother that he thinks
of more than himself. Recently, in speaking to
a friend of the application for pardon, he re-
ferred in feeling terms to his poor old mother
and the fact that she is left without protector.
Port Washington telegram to Mil
waukee Sentinel:
A terrible and peculiar drowning accident oc~
Cured Wednesday by which mother and her
three children were drowned at Saukville on
the Milwaukee River. 6-yearOld son or
Claude Augustin went TO the river bank and
ventured out ON the ice. 1t suddenly broke and
he fell into the water His mother heard his
cries and rushed to his rescue Franticallp
throwing herself into the icy water she endeAy-
ored to save her drowning boy. In q few mo-
ments she was beyond her depth and drowning.
herself Her T-year-old daughter, Augusta,
heard the cries and hastened to the spot. Seeing:
her mother in the water she rushed to her
rescue The ice broke with her and she was ,
thrown into the chilling torrent, mother and
daughter locked themselves together in a
death struggle and sunk beneath the water and
ice. They were just disappearing when a 4-yeaf-
the sister, toddled out on the ice. With plain
tive cries of Mamma, mamma, want YOU" he
ran over the ice until he reached the hole i'm
which his mother, his sister and his brother
were buried. The little fellow saw his mother
and sister sink and threw himself, as he sup
posed into his mothers arms In an instant he.
carried beneath the ice. A man named
Christian Niessen saw the tragedy but was
pOwerless to render any aid. He was on rotten
ice and broke in several times before he reached
the spot where the family had been wiped out
When he finally got there they had disappeared
Inc BODY OF Mrs. Augustln was recovered, buf
the bodies of the children cannot be found
Frank McDonough, President of the
NcDonough Manufacturing Company,
of Eau Claire, was knocked down by a
piece of iron flying from a machine in
the factory. The fragment struck him in
the stomach, seriously injuring him.
AT the annual meeting of the Wis
consin Association of Trotting Horse
Breeders, held last week at Milwaukee,.
John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, was.
elected President; J. I. Case, of RIA sine,
First Vice President; and H. D. McKin--
ney, of GAINESVILLE, Second Vice President.
General David Atwood, proprietor of
the Wisconsin State Journal, died Of
heart failure at Madison last week. Gem.
Atwood was the Oldest newspaper man in
the State, and the pioneer of Wisconsin,
journalism. He was born in Bedford, NJ
H., in 1915. He began work at printers.
case when only Is years old. He came to,
Wisconsin in 1847, and became connected
with the Madison Erpress, Wing paper.
He was editor and manager of this paper
until 1852, when he founded the D@6lag
State journal, with which he was after
ward connected until the day of his DEATH.
Gen. Atwood served one term in Congress-.
being elected in February, 1870, fill the
vacancy caused by the death OF the Hon.
B. F. Hopkins.
The railway reward of $4,000 for the
capture of Reimund Holzhay, the muir
derous train robber of Northern Wiscon-
sin, will be divided as follows: Marshal
John Glode, so per cent; Justice E. E.,
Weiser, % per cent; Constable Pat
Whelan, 10 per cent; Landlord Thomas
O'Brien, Is per cent. O'Brien gave GIode
the information which led to the arreseI
G1ode and Weiser grabbed Holiday, and
Whelan hit him on the head when he
sought to escape from them. Glode and
O'Brien will pool their IS per cent, and
each take 323 per cent, as Glode believes
the landlord is entitled to as mach as
any one for giving the all-important tip
that Black Bart" was in his hotel.
M. Gard, of Ashland, was jealous of
his wife, and while drunk attempted to-
shoot her. He fell down stairs and the
pistol was discharged, the ball passing
through his head. He will die.
The City Council of Merrill has voted
= franchise for an electric street rail-
way.
While three men were eating dinner
q shanty at Mauston & Co.'s quarry at
clifton, on Lake Winnebago, one of sew,
raj dynamite cartridges that lay under.
he stove thawing out caught FIRE and