The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS,
NTE r e STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURC%S.

sonal Pointers.
William Gill, poor but industrious
mechanic, employed in furniture facto-
y at Eau Claire, was called to Grand
Rapids, Mich, by a telegram saying he
aas fallen heir to 100000.
The hair of Mrs. Lucy, mother OF
Officer Lucy, of Oshkosh, is coming in
black under the locks of white. The lady
is 10 years of age and remarkably we'll
preserved.
The Marinette Eagle says: From
The fact that one firm on the Menominee
River owns about 500 900 900 feet of
standing pine, a sufficient quantity to
keep the mill going for twelve or fifteen
years, it does not appear as if there was
any immediate prospect of the pine upon +,
his river and its tributaries giving out
vt present and the mills standing idle for
want of logs"
The 3-year- old son of Gus Labs, of
Menomonie, was found in deep, seclud-
ed gully, lying upon his face, uncon-
scious, and had evidently fallen dis
;ance of fifteen feet. The preservation
IF the child from death is remarkable.
Only three years old. bare headed and
1one too warmly clothed, fifty hol
without food, exposed to the frosts and
chilling blasts of two March nights, apd
suffering from the fall, there was icy q
expectation when found that life
,ered, but the little chap has about
gained his wonted health
"A boiler in the sawmill at "
Pierce County, exploded, demo
The mill and instantly killing the
ator, Philip Blakely, and VIC
named John Wilkins.
N. Boyington & Co.'s sawm
the town of Sharon, Portage C
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50
surance, $4,000.
Ashland is fostering anothe-
estate boom.
The people of Appleton talk
erecting monument to the memory
the late Judge Hartman.
There is in the neighborhood
100000 acres of Government land in IL
Wausau district yet to be disposed of.
DIR. Miller, of Fond du Lac, W.
convicted Of putting sticks loaded wi
powder in his divorced wife's woodpi
and paid fine and costs in the sum
$44.65.
The balance in the State Treas
April was ST 1856, 144.6O.
The Scandinavian young lat
Eau Claire are raising money to-
bell to Madagascar.
. Two burglars who had rohl
carpenter at Stanley were ARE
Chippewa Falls. Eighteen tools
ferent descriptions were fount
cealed on their persons.
One day the Ashland Iron am IL
Company's furnace made 100 tons Of pi;
iron, beating the worlds record of
charcoal furnace for 81 single days work
by twenty-five tons.
-Four prisoners confined in the co
ty Jail at Appleton escaped. They save
three iron bars out of window. TIL
were not confined for felonies.
1T has been discovered that certa
papers in the suit of Anderton
Broughton in the Circuit Court at Mi
waukee have been tempered with.
constable is charged with having alter
his returns. It is said that the paper.
other cases are known to have
changed after having been filed, all
some sensational developments al,
looked for.
Probably one of the queerest COZ
tracts in the lumber line was made
Goodwillie & Goodwillie, of Chicae
who recently bought the S. G. 81
planning mill at Wausau, says the
Crosse Republican. The contract
for getting out lot of stuff for max
the great craze, the pigs in the clio
puzzle. It is evident from this item
the puzzle will remain to be the Gel
for the rest Of this year.
"A bold attempt was made to 70
mail carrier between Pulcifer and
wood. The affair occurred about
teen miles from Shawano The
carrier was proceeding to Linwoc
team, as is customary. He was
ing along a lonely part of the road
a masked man jumped from pl
concealment by the roadside. A de
to hand over the mail sack was ign
and the robber opened fire, shooting one
of the carriers horses dead. The mail
carrier showed fight, whereupon the high
wayman took to the woods. Efforts to
arrest him have been unsuccessful.
The mill at Dundee, Fond du Lei
County, has been sold to Jacob Arimon
Of that place, and John Bowser,
Mitchell, who will at once remodel
establishment.
Vernon County is organizing leac
Of baseball players, each town to eqn.
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