The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-17
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
UTE RE STING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Our NeighbOrS Are Doing Matters
General and Local Interest of Marriages
and Deaths Accidents ana Crimes-Per-
sOy,al Pointers.
-Pa'ents Ia We been issued to the fol-
lowing Wisconsin inventors:
"A J. Bayley, Milwaukee, cover for catch hasins
furnace CRATE s. TC. Cobb Janesville cultivators
NJ. G. Craig, Boyd. rack for wagon-bed; l.. Do
Forbes, Beloit, abrading cylinder G. J. KilianJ
Milwaukee support for electric railway con-
5uctor; R. A. Lang Eau Claire, gate for water
way; F. H. Lahgsdon, S.. Francis shutter
fastener; f. J. Main Madison, sash fastener
F. J. Palica, Racine, trunk l. f. Tebei, Mil
waukee, elevator lock; 7. B. Ward, Prairie dn
CHEN, clothes drier.
Major Brown (colored), aged so, who
served during the war in Comp ny F.
United States Colored Heavy Artillery,
was found dead in barn at Eau Claire.
He had long been dependent on charity
for the necessa aries of life His remains
were inferred by members of the G. A. r.
William G raham, of Superior, has
been appointed Lumber Inspector by
Tov. Hoard.
The Beckw it'll Block at Oshk osh has
been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss OF
$50, 900; fully insured.
Andrew Spar, passenger on the
Lake Shore train, was drowned the other
night at Manitowoc The train had
stopped at railroad bridge TO take
water. Spar being unacquainted, and III
being dark outside so that he could not
see, supposed the train had reached the
depot and left the car, falling over the
bridge into the water.
AT Medford, Taylor County, the
residence of Clinton Textor, a we'll
known attorney and Judge of the County
Court, was the scene of bloody tragedy.
Miss Maggie Pritchard. niece of Mrs
Text or, was shp t dead, and her murdereh
Immediately Sc Mt bullet into his own
body, inficting fatal wound. The khlb
ing was done by man named Williams
better known BY the nickname of Crazy
Kelly" Villa ms went to Judge Textor's
residence and entered the house. He
walked over to Miss Pritchard, an 7, look
ing her squarely in the face, asked: Are
YOU Maggie Pritchard?" Yes" replied
Miss Pritchard, not suspecting the muir
derous motive of the visit Then you
must die" said Williams. At the same
instant he whipped out revolver and
fired point blank at the young woman.
The aim was true, and Miss Pritchard
fell dead Williams then turned the weR-
pom on himself and inflicted a wound
which proved fatal on the following day.
The cause of the tragedy is not known
except that it lis due to insanity. Will
Jams question, addressed to Miss Pritch+
ard as she enter ed the house, shows that
he had no acquaintance with her.
Tho Wisconsin Millers' Associations
held it's annual meeting at Milwaukee
last week and elected officers for the enc
| suing year, IS follows: President, e. u
Lachmann, of Neenah Secretary and
Ire rs urer, L. r. Hurd, of Milwaukee,
Vice President, John f. Kern, OF Mil
waukee; Executive Committee, j. B. AZ
Kern and Charles A. Manegold, Of Mil
waukee, and Au gust May, Of Watertown4
William Sanderson, of Milwaukee. WAS
elected the Wisconsin member of thR
Executive Committee of the Millers' Asso.
citation.
The Supreme Court, in the case OF
The State ex rel Henry B. Sanderson,
appellant, VS.. John E. Mann, has decided
the law unconstitutional which provides
that in counties having 10000 popula4
ton the administrator of estates is re-
quired to pay into the county treasury a
e1m equal to one-half of l per cent. of
the appraised value of the estate, but il
the estate is appraised for moro than
$500, 900 then one-tenth of per ce1t. on
the excess is to be paid, in addition
to one-h Alf of l per cent. on the
$685. 600. Estates under So, coo ara
exempt. The case came up in
Milwaukee out of the settlement of
Ed Sanderson's estate of $63l, $40, On
which the above tax would amount to
1882. The administrators refused 20
pay the tax and the Supreme Court gus
tains them on these grounds: /. That
the exaction is no probate fee. 2. Thai
it can not be maintained as a tax. 3.
That the validity of the act cannot be
maintained under the general taxing
powers of the State, as the Constitu ion
/
requires that taxes be uniform. a. That
the act applies only to Milwaukee ConR--
ty, and the Constitution forbids making
any special laws for assessments or coll
lection of taxes.
John Costley, clerk of La Crosse
County, entered suit against the La
Crosse Republican, and Leader for S10,-
600 damages. The paper charged him
with dishonesty and malfeaslnce in his.
official position.
The general store and postofice kepE
by M. G. Harrington at Dakota, Waushara
County, was entered by burglars the other
night, and money, checks, and postage
stamps, in all ST, 800, stolen by the rob-
bers, who blew the safe open.
"A Madison paper states that setile~
ment has been effected in the PittsbuTg