The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-27
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.

OF General and Local Observation-Disclosures
and Deaths-Accidents and Crimes-Per-
sonaI Pointers
THE Lumbermen and Manufacturers
Fire Insurance Company and the Mutual
Fire Association of Eau Claire, organ
lied five years ago, have been placed IN
the hands Of receiver. The business
of the companies was confined mostly to
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois.
Their affairs are in good shape and the
creditors are safe. The assets are $780,
900, and are largely in excess OF the LA
bilities. The suspension was occasioned
| by the suspension of eight other mutual
companies in various parts of the coun-
try during the last six months, causing
the withdrawal of insurance.
THE Sash, Door, and Blind Company
of Eau Claire has received $780, 600
order from Chicago
| CHIPPEWA FALLS was startled the
other day by the announcement that
| County Treasurer Sever Serley had been
| found nearly $4,000 short in his &C
counts. Before the news had been re-
ceived by half hundred people Treas
urer Serley confirmed the report by
transferring all his property to his bonds
men and appointing special deputy.
winter, and this fact no doubt accounts
| for the shortage. Some of the bonds
men feel assured that the embarfass~
ment will be but temporary.
ASHLAND is to have a patent medicine
| factory.
EASTERN capitalists are talking of
erecting a paper mill at Mineral Point
THE First National Bank of App letou
| began business twenty years ago with 81
capital of $4,000. 1t now has q capital
| of $500, 900.
| ATTORNEY M. E. LENNON of Hurley
says he has not given up hopes of getting
| Phelps Perrin out of State Prison.
THE Patton Paper Company of Apple
| ton has sent out q large crew of men to
the northern woods to get out pulp.
timber.
PROF. HENRY, of the Agricultural Ex-
detrimental Station at Madison, has an
alyzed several samples of sugar-beet
raised at Menominee Falls, and says
that the liquid portion contains 14.35
per cent. of sugar. Other samples have
been forwarded for analysis, and if
results prove satisfactory sugar factory
will be established
Gov. HOARD, says the Madison Journal,
| leaves for the East on dairy lecturing
tour that will be about three months in
| duration, as soon as Gov Peck is in
augurated. He has engagements in
| New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Ohio,
| Canada and other parts of The country.
| His work in this line which was dropped
! when he went into the executive office,
will be taken up again almost where it
was laid down. Gov. Hoard says the
Il r oaAi 4I1of
restraining official cares, and the return
to his lifework with the dairymen OF
| America is great. pleasure. The news
| of his defeat had scarcely been sent over
| the wires eastward before demands upon
| him began to come back, until the work
before him promises to be amending.
| There is no probability that he will be
| through with his engagements in time to
| participate in the farmers Institutes Of
| Wisconsin.
A SPECIAL election will be held in Eau
| Claire County, Dec. o, to elect Sheriff
+! in place of the late Isadore Cook, Demo-
| cratic Sheriff-elect, who died the day
, after election,
! FoR some time man owning property
| on the PenOkee range, near Mellon, has
noticed that numbers Of deer have been
attracted to stream or his premises,
| and also seemed to eat the dirt on his
land A few days ago he picked up d
| quantity of the dirt and submitted it to
! L. e. Durham, chemist of the Ashland
! Iron and Steel Company, for analysis. In
| course of analysis discovery was made
| that the dirt contained at least 30 per
! cent. of saltpeter. If large deposit is
secured, untold wealth awaits the owner
| The dirt as it lies on the ground is valued
at $50 to $40 ton.
| PROF. FEHLANDT, principal of one Of
| the Oshkosh schools, demonstrated with
| the wife of the janitOr because Of
| the dusty condition Of the school, when
| the woman attacked him with a broom
| and gave him black eye. Fehlandt is
a suave young man who stands high in
| German society circles, and the affair is
| the talk of the OshkoShans.
BANDERoF & CHASE, furniture manu-
! facturers at Oshkosh, are considering the
| inducements that the city of Superior is
holding out to them. They may remove
| their factory.
EMMA MEssERsMITH, of Fitchburg,
obtained verdict of So, 500 in her SLAM
der suit against Henry West. The plain
| tiff charged West with circulating re-
ports regarding her character which led
to the breaking of her engagement to
William Haak, of Madison.
JAY TBUMBULL keeps q drug store
in Merrillon, Jackson County. The
other night, as he entered his bedroom
in the rear of his store after closing upy.
he faced brace of revolvers in the
hands of two determined men. They
greeted him with a command to throw
up his. hands and keep still. He was
then compelled to open his safey after
which he was bound and gagged and
thrown on the bed. Mr.. Trumbun lay
in this condition for about an hour,
when DR.. Mcmillan, who also rooms in
the store, came in and released him.
The burglars, in the meantime, had
taken everything oct of the safe and
departed by back door, Through
which, it is supposed, they first gained