The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-23
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
OUS SOURCES.

sonal Pointers.
JOHN MCWADE the baritone singer,
closed the peppers of a "peeping Tom" in
the Plankinton House at Milwaukee,
and with his one remaining arm put
preSumptuouS travelling man to disgrace.
Mr. McWade and his wife, whose stage
name is Ada SomcrS, are with the Hal
len and Hart Company. After their
evening performance, upon their return
return to the hotel, Mrs. McWade pro-
ceeded to retire. Shortly afterward she
looked upward and saw the face of man
glued to the transom above the door of
the next room. Calling porter She
summoned her husband, and, after hear
ing her story, the latter forced his way
into the next room, where he found Il
travelling man McWade did not stand on
ceremony and waded into the occupant
of the room. Twice with his one arm
did the indignant husband knock him
down. and then the fellow managed to
get out into the corridor, down which he
fed, calling for aid. After getting to tho
office he paid his bill and left.
THE Wisconsin State Young Mems
Christian Association convened at La
Crosse last week.
WHILE handling a loaded gun the O.
year-od son of Ferd. SpltSlaeser, of Rib
Falls, Marathon County, shot and killed
his 15-year-Old sister.
JAMES O'DoNNELL, a woOdsman, was
shot and killed by John c. Yawkey, of the
Yawkey & Lee Lumber Company, at q
dance in HazelhurSt. The shooting was
done in seIf-defcnSe.
FERD. SCHLEsINGER, of Milwaukee,
says the Schlesinger mining syndicate,
of which he is President, has contracted
to have built at the South Chicago ship
building yard four steel steamships to
cost an aggregate of $S00,00O.
REPORTS to the State Board of Super
vision show that there were 524 inmates
of the State hospital at the beginning of
September and 81 at the close, de-
crease of thirteen. In the Northern
hospital there were 612 at the beginning
of the month and GOA at the close, a de-
crease of eight. The Industrial School
for Boys had 425 inmates at the begin
ming of the month and 423 at the close.
The State Prison had 523 at the begin
ming and 532 at the close of the month.
Sept 1 the State Public School had 26S,
and after putting out twenty-One chill
dren in homes there remained, Sept. 30,
2S9 inmates, an increase of tWCnty-One.
Tie school for the deafhas ia inmates
and the school for the blind rs inmates.
MADISON dispatch: The Supreme Court
has rendered decision of interest to ac-
cident insurance companies and policy
holders. In the case of James SheaEOn
VS.. The Pacific Life Insurance Company
the plaintiff, q resident of Iowa County,
insured with the defendant company Tor
SO, 900, with an indemnity clause that III
SheanOn suffered "the loss of two entir3
feet" he should be paid the insurance.
In November, 1888, while SheanOn was
in a saloon in Idaho Territory, two per-
sons began to quarrel and to shoot at
each other AS SheanOn was attempting
to escape he received a ball in the back,
and as a result both his limbs and feet
are paralyzed. The company refused to
pay him on the ground that the policy
meant by GLOSS" of feet the complete sew
GRANGE of the feet from the body. But
the court holds that the language OF the
policy is to be it's ordinary popular sense,
and that a complete paralysis OF con
feet certainly is a loss.
MILWAUKEE dispatch: There has
never been time in Milwaukee when
1aborers and mechanics were as badly
leeded as they now are. In every trade
employers are calling for Workmen, and
none are satisfied. A thousand labOrerS
and as many more mechanics can get
steady employment for the winter in
Milwaukee, if they will come here. And
several thousand more can get work in
the lumber woods and on the railroads in
the State.
MADISON telegram: The Elliott-NU-
gent child-marriage scandal has been
revived by decision of the Supreme
Court. When the secret OF the marriage
of the 15-year-old son of the aristOcratc
Elliotts to young Miss Nugent leaked out
his parents at once sought the courts to
have the marriage annuled. The de-
PENDANT wife, through her guardian, de-
INJURED to the complaint on the ground
that the Superior Court of Milwaukee
did not have jurisdiction and on other
technicalities. The order Of the lower
court Overrulng the demurrer is affirmed
and the case goes back to Milwaukee for
trial on its merits.
A SOMEWHAT singular case is reported
from Kewaunee. An effort was made
in the County Court to probate the will
of man supposed to be dead, but
of whose demise there is no positive
proof. Some months ago a Well-tO-do
merchant Of that town named Ballcring
disappeared under peculiar circum-
SUHUCOS. I1C Ildu d SOOu OuolIACoo dllN ~
happy home, but with no word of eXpla-
nation he left everything, taking train
to Manitowoc, then boarding a Goodrich
Line boat en- route to Milwaukee and
Chicago. Here all trace of him was lost.
His friends think he was drowned
either committed suicide or fell over
board. On this ground they offered his
will for probate. The petition was de-
MED and the Judge refused to admit the
will. An appeal was taken.
ASHLAND dispatch: Meager reports
have reached here of a hideOus crime
said to have been committed by home
steader in the deep woods thirty miles
southwest of Republic, little mining
town on the Menominee iron range.
Alexander Bartteson squatted on claim
to which John Nellis claimed prior
right. Bartteson had with him son, Il
boy of II. Nellis is said to have often
threatened Barttesons life in case the
latter refused to leave his claim.
party of prospectors, coming by chance
upon Bartteson's cabin, found there the
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