The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-09
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS
INTE RE STING ITEMS ALTERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters
General and Local Interest-of Marriages
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Cyimes-Per--
sonal Pointers.
The report of the Grand Lodge, A.
0. U. W., of this State, shows there are
1875 lodges in the STATE, with a znemher-
ship of $3.50. There has been expended
for sick benefits $4,000; running sx-
penses, S6,369.46; balance In general
| fund, 1926, 800, and in beneficiary fund.
1910.
Percy Cochrane, of Eau Claire, who
destroyed one of W. F. Bailey's eyes by
firing q blank cartridge at him, was fined
| $40 and costs. The evidence went to
show that there was no purpose on the
part of the defendant to work the injury
to the plaintiff.
"A Milwaukee German makes a bust,
ness of fatting dogs, killing them, and
trying out the fat for medicinal purposes
He says it is very goot for consumption
Albert Hoefke, who is in custody al
Lacrosse for till-tapping, Is wanted as,
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, for burglary.
Mrs. Ford, an aged GAINESVILLE lady.
while passing through cow pasture near
her home, caught her foot in the rcre
halter attached to a COW. The COW was
FESTIVE, and Mrs. Ford was thrown TO The
ground with such force as to break ahe
bone of her thigh
While VIM. Reese, of Evansville, wns-
out shooting in company with has son!
the gun was accidentally discharged, fhB
load taking effect in the boys head, sev-
eral Of the shot penetrating the brada.
The boy will die.
George Green. IA years OF age, re
siding with his parents in Crawford
County, nearly opposite Boscobel, while
hunting, attempted to kill q snake with
the butt of his gun, when the lock caught
in his trousers and sent the charge
through the palm of his left hand, blow
ing hole completely through it.
j. H. Walker, until recently station.
agent for the Wisconsin Central Railroad
Company, at White River, has been, SO a.
is alleged, detected in scheme by which
he was Tobbing that company. Before
leaving the employ of the company
Walker, it is charged, took a large nuna-i
| Der of tickets and filled out the stubs
White River to Ashland. He turned ia
the stubs to the company, and settled for
all at the rate of A cents per ticket, the,
regular fare from White River to Ash
land. Walker then filed out the tickets
for various points along the Line, pr1nGs-a
pally to Chicago. These tickets he sold
and the fare to the several points being
several dollars, he reaped quite harvest
It is supposed that the extent OF the sw51a-
die will amount into the hundreds.
A disastrous fire has taken piace aE
I he Aurora Mine, on the Gogebie Range
j. V. Dunn, foreman of the Emr
Claire Free Press office, accidentally shot
himself in the abdomen With q revolver
and may die.
1T is reported from the iron range fhas
the Pabst Mine is in the best of condition
for the seasons work. The north shaft
is the largest working shaft on the range
and has capacity Of 1000 tons a day
Another shaft is being sunk south Of the
north shaft and is already down over loo,
feet.
Recently an elderly gentleman called
at Henry Sherry's office, in Neenah, and
handed him roll of money, saying
About twenty years ago I beat you out of
$45-on hay-and now propose to ret@ITs'
10 you that amount with interest. WHICH,
amounts to $751;" Upon being thanled8
for the money the old gentleman said
You must not thank me, but thank the
Lord"
The Methodist church ut Marineette
has raised $500 above it's debt of 81 Geo.
The Christian Scientists of that place.
twenty one in number, have organized as
q church.
William Forbes, of Oshkosh, son OF
Moses Forbes, the liveryman, left horae,
with $50 of his fathers money. but was,
captured just as he was taking the traiza,
for Milwaukee.
The body of Max Pisky was foun4
on the farm of Mrs. Brown, near Med
ford, shot through the head, with re-
volyer near him. The body had been.
there since December
Burglars took $500 from the safe oE
Kimberly Bros, at Highbridge.
In the Carter school district, near
Fond du Lac, an epidemic of eye trouble
is reported. If one member of a family
becomes afflicted with the disease, aIgF
the rest soon take it, and from house To-
house it is gradually widening its terri
tory. The disease consists of infamea
and watery eyes, and in the most severe
cases there is great dimness of SIGHT
No permanently serious results, how
ever, have SO far accrued
The rich tannery firm of Shaw BROTH.
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