The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS!
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.

and Deaths-Accidents and Crimos-Per-
sonal Pointers.
| A TIFF between newly-married cou-
pie eliminated in a terrible tragedy at
Casco, Kewaunee County, the particulars
of which are contained in the following
telegram from Kewaunee:
Alfred Lodermeyer was married week
| ago to Miss Mary Stecinhky, Polish girl
! who lived with her father on a farm adjoin-
| ing his. LOdermeyer and his wife were dig
| ging potatoes Monday last when he re-
marked that the potatoes were so small that
there would not be near enough for winter
| She replied that buShel would be enough
| for her during the winter and ought to be
| enough for him. He told her that she had
/ already eaten more than 4 bushel in the
week that they had been married. She said
| that if he thought that she ate toe much
| she would go home to her father. He told
! her to so ahead, and she did. 1t seems
that she returned to her husbands house
| and packed up her clothes preparatory
| to taking them away and that she ana
| Ledermeyer Quarreled. She ran out or the
| house and started for her fathers house,
| pursued by LOdermeyer with Winchester
| rife. She got about twenty rods from the
house when he fired, but missed her He
| Immediately fired again, the ball striking
her back of the ear and coming out OF her
| forehead, killing her instantly He then
returned to the house, and seating himself
| on the bed, touched the trigger with stick
and shot himself through the heart Inc
woman's father was blowing in an adJoln-
| ing field and saw the woman running ana
| heard her call to him for help. lie started
toward her when he heard the shot and
reached her to find her dead. In the room
| in which they were supposed to nave quar-
| relied were found q Winchester r1f1e shot
| gun, and revolver, LOdermeyer was S3
| years old and his wife Is years. lie had al
ways been quiet and steady. A coroners
| jury was impaneled and a verdict was
found in accordance with the facts.
THE resolution of Mrs. Albertin3
Galow, of Oshkosh, to obtain divorce
from her diSsolute husband cost her her
life. William Galow was German
labOrer whose Incorporate habits led
him into bad company and during the last
few months he had been a frequent priS-
0ner in the police court. His family
consisted Of q wife and eight children
| A few days ago his wife informed him
| that another spree would result III their
separation, as she would apply for a
! divorce. The warning failed to reform
| him, and Mrs Galow went to q lawyer
to make good her threat. The ensuing
day Galow called his wife to the door of
their house and as she opened the door
put bullet through her head. She fell
without cry and GalOw went into the
! back yard and blew out his brains
Four HUNDRED members of the An
cient Order Of United Workmen organ
lied the Northwestern Wisconsin AssO-
citation at Eau Claire last week by eecting
! NJ j. Argard, of Eau Claire, President.
THE dead and down pine on the Lac
Count GRIZZLIES, the Lac du Flambeau,
| and the Bad River Indian reservations
will be sold Nov. 10. This timber
amounts to about $4,000, 900 feet worth
to the Indians about $1.50 per 1000.
| The proceeds are to be applied to tho
relief of the needy Indians on the reser-
vations.
! Two SONS of ex-Mayor Davis, of Eau
| Claire, aged IL and 9, ran away the other
day. At night they secured boat,
stocked it for a long voyage, and started
down the Chippewa River, safely shoot
| ing the dangerous rapids below the city,
| but narrowly escaping death. Searching
| parties were sent out, and the boys were
brought ashore at Parkersville and sent
| home.
THE st. Louis and Superior Terminal
| Railway Company has applied to the
| Governor for a patent. The company
proposes to build from q point on tho
south shore of the st. Louis River OPP
posite the village of Fond du Lac, Mimi,
| along the course of said river on the
south side through the town site of st.
| Louis to a point on St Louis Bay, where
the main line of the Northern Pacific
Railway between Superior and Duluth
! intersects the bay, and also from some
| point on the line to South Superior, and
thence to point on the Bay Of Superior,
where the Newaygo River flows into tho
bay.
WHEN the case of Rev. Alfred NJ. De
Ford. the Methodist clergyman who con-
| fessed to passing raised Treasury notes,
was called before Judge Bum, at Mil
waukce, De Ford pleaded guilty, but one
| of his bOndsmen, Mr.. Robert Macmillan,
! of Oshkosh, explained that Mr.. De tord's
friends thought him insane. Judge
! Bum thereupon declined to sentence
| him, saying that if he were insane he
was guiltless, and ought not to be SEN
fenced. No counsel appeared for Mr.. De
! Ford. He has been given time to con-
| suit counsel to have the question of his
insanity adjudicated
OSCAR KLEINsTEUBER, Superintendent
! of the police alarm and telephone Sys-
| tenn in Milwaukee, is working on a new
| inversion by means Of which all mail
| matter is to be conveyed from one city
to another by electricity. The invention
works on the same principal as the over
head electric street car system, but tho
wires which will convey the mail will be
inclosed in pipes.
MILWAUKEE dispatch: The will OF
John Kries, which is to be contested by
| relatives in Chicago, has been filed for
probate. Kries died in the Milwaukee
County Poor-House several months ago.
His will recites that the testator was
very feeble man 80 years of age without
anybody to take care of him. In consid-
GRAFTON of the fact that George KieffeI
had taken care of him and promised to
continue to do so he left to him all OF
the property which he was likely to in
herit from his brother-in-law Louis
Higo, of Metz, Lorraine. The will was
dated Oct 3, 1889. Very soon after the
old gentleman died. Then the news
came that his relative had died before
him, leaving him property in Germany to
the amount of $4,000. Now the wife
and son of Kries, who live in. Chicago,
/ are contrasting the will on the ground OF