The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
INTER e STING ITEM S GATH Erred
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

General and Local Interest of Marriages
and observation-disclosures and Crimes-Per-
soTaaI Pointers.
The Lutheran convention, which met
at Milwaukee last week. adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
We, citizens OF Wisconsin, in convention as
sembled, in order to protest against the So
called Bennett law, consider 1T necessary, in the
first place, TO defend ourselves against false
representa- ions, calculated to prejudice our
cause, and do, therefore, declare:
/. We are not enemies of the English lan-
guage on the contrary, we endeavor to furni sh
O. We consider public schools necessary, but
also maintain that parents have the right to
establish and select for themselves schools for
their children.
3. We claim no part of the public school fund
for the use Of parochiaI other private schools.
a. We are not opposed to the law prohibiting
the employment of children in factories, nor to
an enactment providing for reasonable compul-
sorry attendance at school, nor do we object to
an interference by the State with schools con-
Quoted contrary to the public order and
morality.
But we protest against the so-called Bennett
law, because it unnecessarily and uniust1y cur
tails ouricivil and religious liberty; for it
J. Offers the school board an opportunity of
determining arbitrarily that child, during the
period OF enforced attendance, must attend a
school in the city, town, or district in which it
resides, thus depriving parents of the right to
send their childr II to a better and more suitable
school outside the district.
q 1t cOmpelS parOchial and other private
schools to observe the time or times of attend
ance fixed by school boards without regard to
the rights and customs OF churches or their
schools.
g. 1t prescribes- certain studies, as also the
medium OF instruction therein; furthermore
its wording is such as to afford school boards
ample opportunity to usurp powers not given
them although the State and it's officers have
no right to interfere with the management OF
parochial and other private schools.
TIH1.of o1o,sO {11n4, 11Acc .NfE
mer party affiliations, we shall vote for such
candidates only as pledge themselves to work
for the repeal Of the Bennett law.
AS patriotic citizens, maintaining human
rights both civil and religious, advocating some
principles of education, and with no enmity to.
ward the English language, opposed, however,
to all measures tending to Cypress the immi-
grated citizens, or to suppress their native
tongue call upon all those who cherish
liberty, regardless of party and nationality, to
join us in the effort to have this unnecessary,
unjust and discord-breeding measure repealed.
In the famous Hurley Bank robbery
case at Ashland, committee of attor-
neys reported that District Attorney Ross
mann had received brides from public
offenders to discontinue their cases, and
had wrongtuliy charged collection fees
for moneys coming into his hands by
virtue of his Office. Mr.. Rossmann makes
denial of all the charges.
The attempt at Sunday closing in
Ashland has ended in a victory for the
saloon men. The city court decided in
test case that an open barber shop was
necessity, and saloon men were allowed
to remain open Sunday, as a means OF
purchasing peace.
The embezzlement case against
Phelps Perrin. the ex-cashier of the Hur-
ley Bank, has been set for hearing at the
September term of court, Perrin is out
on bail.
1t has been decided to hold the La
Crosse interstate fair Sept. to 6.
New Wisconsin patents: w. NJ. Bun
sen, Gatesville, blow gun; G. M. Conrad
son, Milwaukee, pulley; S. & M. Free
man, Racine, feed cutter; G. E. KAN
meyer. Eau Claire, fuse box; S. Loe, La
Crosse, device for closing doors; T. G..
Mandt, Stoughton, clevis and thill coup
ling; H. G.. Mitchell, Racine, wagon
axle; A. Rosa, Milwaukee, sad-iron; F.
J. Sheppard &c H. Forncrook, Concord,
railway signal; G.. Widule, Milwaukee,
sample record.
Governor Hoard and the State Board
of Supervision have ordered the Warden
of the State Prison to release from GUS
tody on parole at the expiration of the
minimum period of their terms three
~ 49, &
not less than the minimum nor more
than the maximum number Of years pro-
vided for the punishment of their crimes.
The men ordered released we're William
j. Lynch, convicted of larceny in Wash
burn County; William Wallace, con-
victed of larceny in Jefferson County;
and Burt j Johnson, convicted of burglary
in Chippewa County: These are the first
releases on parole under the new law
of 1889.
Mr.. A. G. Brown, the we'll known
millionaire banker of Marinette, commit
ted suicide by taking poison. Mr.. Brown
had been i'll for several months and it is
believed that he took his life while suf-
fering from temporary insanity.
The following Wisconsin pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid-George Lindner, Waukesha;
John n. Webster, Ami erst; William H McKroy
Knapp Benjamin Ainsworth, National Military
Home; John w. Manning, GAINESVILLE; Daniel
Kennedy, q National Soldiers Home; James E.
Andrews, Plymouth; Halgrim Olsen, Oxford
vile; William Rice, North Freedom; George
Barton, Oregon; Torkel Osulson. Manitowoc;
Henry A. Stone, Delavan Peter Starke Wauke-
sha.
Increase-Joseph Nagrean, Black Creek; Fred
erick Stade, Fond du Lac; Wallace B. Kenyon,
Appleton Philander Burns, Appleton; Calvin
E. Breed, Whitehall Constantine He'll, Stevens
Point; Richard Purday, stinnett; Moses Plum
Eler, Gratiot; VIM. Triggs, Unionville; Hiram
Getman, Tomah Alfred II. Rogers, Osseo; d.
Schemp ton, Madison Jesse Irwin. Ontario; VIM.
+. Wade, Richland Center; Ole Olson, Masinee;
VIM. Salmon. Readstown H. Berlick, Waupaca
VIM. Fl. Miller, Richland Center; James Greg
DRY, Linden; H. H. Carter. Be.oit; Wesley
Ienox, Soldiers Grove; VIM. G. Clark, Bara-
boo; Jos. McEwen. Wausau; VIM. J. Hagen,
Eland; Frank A. Weiblen, Cumberland Jas.
Smith, Centerville; Frank Tusker, Eau Claire;
Ernest Kahle Viroqua; John Schneider, Wau-
sau Alfred B. Finch, Racine; George r. Jones,
Waukesha; VIM. I. King, Grand Rapids Marion