The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-05
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
NTE r e STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

ana observation-disclosures and CrimeS-Per-'
sonal Pointers.
The following Wisconsin pensions have,
| been granted:
| Original invalid-A1pheus N Mcdonald Bee
| town; Augustus Martin Eastman ole a. Prest-
man, Taylor Station; Clinton Whaley, Rome;
Henry Z. Post Sawyer John r. Dubois SEN.
tinel; Lewis Grassman, Richland Center; VIM.
Penree, Suamlco; Amos Plummer, Baraboos
Patrick Mcmahon, Douglas Center; Edward G.
Kneeland, Monroe James A. THOMPSON Down
ing; Charles e. Whitney, Oconto Ira Barker,
Jr, Stevens Point; Augustus f. Persons, Sun!
Prairie; James Mathews Mineral Point; Louis
Huessemann Milwaukee; Jacob Click, Silvan;
Alexander Mcpherson, Dickeyville Frederick
Wolf; Christian Hamack, Watertown; Thos.
Stewart Ashland; Edwin N. Palmer, Harrison
Increase-Charles Corbin, Chippewa Falls:'
VIM. D. Rounce, Beldenville John Grey, Eden
Chas. Todd, Wilton Jas. Pierce, Plover GUS
tav, Mueller, Manitowoc; Albert w. Stickney,
Nat. Mil Home; Ebenezer Bowker, Nat. Mil.
Home; John Shoemaker, Clifton; Isaac P.
Drake Rib Lake navy; John Lansing, Merri-
mack VIM. III. Palmer, GAINESVILLE; Squire A.
Hail. Sparta Everington Van Wornoer T,vnx,
vile; Lyman Cook. Boscobel; Lewis Frov, Rox-
bury; Evan G. Owens, Wild Rose; VIM. Anglum,
Powell, Ogema; Alexander Mccoy, Appleton;
Thomas Wallace, Port Andrew; Geo. But
ael Boyne, Watertown; Samuel Redet-
IKE, Stetton; Edward Vunk, Cedar Creek;
VIM. E. Southland, Lone Rock; Jackson
Lewis, Gresham Calvin Hull, Milton Junction
Jesse NJ Powell, Sparta James A. Dockham,
Baraboo; Samuel Irvine, Hager City; Edward
S. Drake, Logansville Milton B. Rowland, Ber-
lin; John Newton, New Lisbon.
Reissue-Wm. Conner, Stevens Point; Geo. G..
Wilday Delavan.
Original Widows-Ralph father of Marcus Il.
G; Copper, Rising Sun Anna, widow of Louis
Monsching, Milwaukee; Lucy A, widow of Jos.
Beaudette Chippewa Falls.
WATERFOWL is now lighted by cleo
tricity.
-MarshfeId's new high school build
ing will cost $4,000.
The Chippewa County Agricultural
Society is in distress.
The total lumber cut of the Peshtigo
mills was 81, 30S, $50 feet.
Spencer is forming joint stock COM
pany to establish battery of ten charcoal
kilns.
The Oshkosh mills cut $4,000, coo feet
of pine lumber the past year.
st. Joseph's Catholic church, at APP
pleton, lately much enlarged and remod-
eled, was dedicated by Bishop Katzer in
the presence of 1000 people.
The jewelry store of W. H. Blnn. at
Amigo, was burglarized and about 81, 900
worth of watches and chains were taken.
"A Norwegian factory employe at Beloit
was arrested by a Pinkerton detective.
who thought he had found Tascott.
w. S. Mofitt, of Eau Claire, has re-
ceived information that he is one of the
heirs to the great Mofitt estate in Ire
land. The original Mofitt family lived,
n England. All the English members.
are dead. The whole estate, valued at
$46, 900, 900, goes to five families in this
country. Moffitt has a letter from an at
torney Of Urbana, Ohio, who has been
employed by the other heirs, inclosing a.
power of attorney to be signed by Mr.
Mofitt. The letter states that the attor-i
ney intends to leave for England in the
spring, and insthe meantime evidence will
be collected. A meeting of the heirs Will
be held in Chicago before the attorney
leaves for England.
AT Madison, last week, after long
and exciting trial Durley NJ. Flowers, a
sophomore in the State University from,
Oconomowoc, was found guilty of hazing.l
This is the first conviction of the kind
ever secured at Madison, though hazing
scraps have been frequent. Flowers and
others, in order to haze a freshman,
broke into his house. Others are under
arrest and one case has been carried to
the Supreme Court. A policeman and
not the victim was the complaining wit.
ness. The freshman was an unwilling.
witness against Flowers. r. B. Olson, a.
sophomore from Eom bard, ILL.,, had BEEN
sobpanaed by the State, but fed the city.
"A factory for the manufacture of
chair backs, oom-handles and hoops is
to be established at Hatley, Marathon
County.
The lynching of Hans Olson at Pres
ton, Trcmpealeau County, was cold
blooded apd unprovoked. Olson was
considered a general nuisance in the COM,
munity where he lived, and this appears
to be the only cause for the lynching.
That he was generally detested among
his neighbors is evident from the fact
that over 100 men and boys took part in
the lynching. Olson was taken from his
home at night by a mob, many
of whom were masked, and hanged
to a tree. There is little doubt
but that Olson was demented. He was
well-to- do at one time, but lost much of
his property through litigation, which,
judging from his subsequent acts, had
affected his mind. In 1887 he was con-
victed of charging grubs with gunpowder,
nearly destroying family at Blair.
During the summer he was jailed at
Whitehall for threats against some neigh
bors, and was recently discharged. On
his return home he was ordered to leave
the county, which he refused to do, and
the lynching was the result. Olson was
so years of age.
"A public hospital, to cost 100000,
is to be built in Milwaukee.
A we'll digger was killed in Milwau-