The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-07
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
INTE r E STING ITEMS GATH Erred
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Our Ne1ghborS Are Doing Matters
General and Local mterest-of- Marriages
and Deaths-Accitients and Crimes-Per-i
sonal Pointers.
-Adjutant General Burchard has is
sued general order showing the result
of the inspection of the Nat onal Guard
of Wisconsin by Colonel Charles King.
The company which stood the highest was
the Lincoln Guard, of Milwaukee. it
scoring 1873 cut of a possible 200. The
Fourth Battalion also stands the best as
a regiment, its average being 1863 out of
possible 200. The Light Horse Squad
ron of Milwaukee scored 1881, and the.
Light Battery 1903. The Third Regiment
Infantry stands second as a regiment. its
average being 159 $500. The Second
Regiment stands third, with a score of
$50 49, 100. The lowest is the First Regi-
ment, which stands l4l 35-l00.
--Almon Atwood, an old resident and
large land of the town of Wau-
pun, and quite prominent in dairy mat
tiers, while temporarily insane from ill
health, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor.
John AIDES, the Marquette sportsman,
shot 204 ducks in two days recently at
the Lake Puckaway hunting grounds.
Genuine pearls are reported to have
been found in Lake Winneconne.
The people of Sturgeon Bay are
somewhat alarmed over an influx OF bur
glars and footpads.
Miss Gertrude McCusker, of Osh-,
kosh, is suffering great pain in conse-
quence of having accidentally swallowed
a pin while she was having a dress fitted.
Frank H. Clark, Superintendent of
two pulp mills of the Atlas Paper Com
pany, in Appleton, and of the pulp mill
of the Kimberly & Clark Company, at
Kimberly, was killed by the bursting of
the stone of a pulp grinder. The acct
dent was identical with the one whereby
Burt Lee lost his life in the same mill,
which occurred a few days previous.
AT Baldwin, ST. Croix County, the
house Of A. M. Odell was destroyed by
! fire.
H. G. Forsyth, the attorney who
pleaded guilty to forgery at Viroqua,
was sentenced to three years at Waupun.
The new church of the Methodists at
Stevens Point will cost $4,000
IN. L. White. who figured in a divorce
suit in Waupaca, in June, was recently
married to Clara Knutson, his former
|
| divorce.
g. w. Elliott, of Ahnapee, Kewau-
nee County, has the record Of q lifetime
Justice of the Peace. His term of Office
dates from 1923, when he was elected to
the office in Lewis County, New York.
At the beginning of his third term he
resigned his Office and came west to
Michigan, and was again chosen Justice
and served two years, when he moved to
| Wisconsin. He was scarcely settled IL
Fond du Lac County when the honor Was
again conferred upon him, and he con-
| tinued in Office until 1885, in which year
ne moved to Kewaunee County, where
he was again elected, and performed the
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to rob the farm house of Jas. McCourt,
near Palmyra. He had just sold his
farm, and was supposed to have the
money in tbs house.
The graders on the branch of the
Omaha road between Woodville and Her
| sey have struck for $175 a day. They
were getting $3.50.
The brick building at Amigo occu-
pied by j. M. Kuehle as a bakery was
| Quilted by fire. Total loss, a. 500; July
insured
Mrs. Avery Olds, aged 81 years, an
early settler of Jefferson County, is dead
Burt Lee, of Appleton, was almost
instantly killed at Kimberley by the
bursting of pulp grinder.
"A recent letter from Milwaukee says:
Among the foolish things done by the
! Wisconsin Legislature last winter, one
refers to the Probate Court of Milwau-
kee County. A law was passed making
| the probate fees a certain percentage
the law went into effect several large es-
tates have been probated aggregating
many millions of dollars. The stipu-
lated fee is l per cent. of the value of
the estate up to 100000, and one-tenth
of per cent. above that amount The
heirs of the Sanderson estate will con-
test the constitutionality of the law"
AT Wausau last week, Fl. Stubbings,
! of Chicago. made a sale of 10000, 900
feet of standing pine located on the
Presque Isle River; consideration, $751;
| 500. This is the last of the many tracts
of pine lands formerly owned by Mr..
Stubbings in that section.
Barker & Stewards steam sawmill at
Wausau, which had just been completed
and was to have been started up 10 few
weeks, was burned last week. The loss