The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-18
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-'
Gus SOURCES.

Milwaukee and Northern Railroad:
1sS9-9O 1SSs-S9. Increase.
Gross earnings. 81 426,943 $1,131 442 $295, 800
and taxes....,.. 981.o96 76s11s 16s,88s
Net earnings. $494946 s868,s29 s126,617
Fixed charges. $50. 32S,906 523,223 1858
Surplus. s166.o40 s44.1O3 S121935
HARRY VAN SLYKE, aged 90 years,
committed suicide at Wausau by jump
ing into Big Bull Falls.
THE Wood Harvester Company will es-
tablish branch plant in Milwaukee
which will represent an investment of
81, 100000
SOME fshy tales come from MenaSha
about a mysterious encampment of men
opposite that town on the shores of Lake
Winnebago. Visitors are said to be
driven away with revolver, and the cen
clusion is drawn by the frolicsome CORE
Spondent that it is a gang of robbers and
cutthroats. The police haven't investi-
gated yet.
ASHLAND lumbermen complain that
they cannot find men to engage to go
into the woods the coming winter.
THE jury after being out two days, in
the case of Lowell A. Winn, charged
with murder at Amigo, brought in ver-
dict of mot guilty" Last October Winn
got into row and killed Thomas Coats
HERMAN FRANK, of Milwaukee, dur
ing tour through Egypt some months
since, purchased two mummies and
shipped them home, intending to place
them in the public museum at MilWau-
kee. The people OF Cleopatra's country
could not stand the rigorous climate Of
Wisconsin, and when the case was
opened it was discovered that one mum
my had returned to dust according to the
divine laws. The mummies cost $500
each.
MILWAUKEE dispatch: George Gard
ner, aged Is years. Of Ludington, Mich,
armed himself with small rifle and,
boarding lake steamer, came to Mil
waukee to shoot Indians. A telegram
reached here first, and the embryo from
tiersman was returned to his home.
M. j. CANTwELL has brought suit
against the city of Madison for $4,000
damages for injuries to his shoulder last
winter. While riding in a cutter, in
turning street corner the cutter struck
a large stone in the street and was over
turned. CantWell struck upon his
shoulder and suffered a bad fracture Of
the clavicle. He has asked damages Of
the Common Council and it has not seen
fit to award them, hence he brings suit
against the city to compel the payment
of damages to him.
New WISCONSIN patents: R. Bradley,
Ashland, force pump; B. E. Burger,
Merrill dental fOrceps; E P. Ferris,
Stevens Point, planter; A. t. Fox Keno
sha, Whiffletree hook; w. D. Gray, Mil
waukee, roller grinding machine; A. +.
Jones, Milwaukee, steam boiler furnace;
A. Kieckhefer, Milwaukee, valve for hy-
draulic elevators; G. A. Paddock, Beaver
Dam, harness buckle; G. W. ROwell,
MOnOmOnee Falls, hay tedder fork; Caro-
line SlOcum, Milwaukee, tack puller; IL.
e. Stager, Milwaukee, steam radiator
attachment.
E. COOLIDGE, a Waupaca banker, has
made an assignment. Liabilities, $27,-
| 900; nominal assets, $4,000. Mr.. Cool
| idge was member Of the last Legisla-
ture and is at present Postmaster at
| Waupaca.
FREDERICK WEYERHAUsER's bank
stock at Eau Claire has been attached on
| behalf of plaintiffs in the big suit for
damages caused by the Chippewa River
flood of 1884 His bank stock at Chip
pewa Falls and 10000 acres of pine land
| have also been attached.
THE following Wisconsin pensions
have been granted
Original. Invalid-John ]. Smith, Arkan-
saw; VIM. Marvin, Hurley; Charles A.
Green, Whitewater; John Walter, Almond;
Hiram Peaslee, Oshkosh; Justis o. GrOut4
Superior; Milton Andrews, OcOnOmOwOc;
Samuel f. Ferguson, Woodstock; Frederick
Ziemendorff, Meeker; Lawrence Corners,
| National Milwaukee Home; Orrin B. Hutch
inscn, Neenah; Weston Bailey, West SUI
perior; William E. Kent, chinatown;
| Bird Fields Soldiers Grove; Joseph d.
| ROBBIE, Superior; Lewis J. Walsh CantOns
Henry H. Hendricks, Florence; EricI Erick7
son, Waterford.
Original Widows etc-sarah A. Tuck,
mother of Elfphalet Sanford. Sturgeon Bay;
Rachel widow of Elisha r. Bennett, Arena;
Emaline, widow Of Pete. Kelly, Chippewa
Fal s: Margaret, widow of Michael }. Nc
Omber, Sparta: Susan NJ, widow CT HenIy
p. Irish, Racine; Deborah A., widow Of VIM.
JunIman, Ellsworth; Anna, widow OF Chas.
Gu>tavus, New Hope.
REUBEN MAY, the Union Labor nom
inee for Governor, is a well-tO-do farmer
near Viroqua. He was colonel in the
Union army during the war, and was
candidate for Governor in 1879 on the
Greenback-Labor ticket. n. E. AuCn,
| the candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
is also farmer and eX-UniOn soldier.
He was the Labor candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor two years ago. He lives
near Beaver Dam, Dodge County.
w. NJ. Lockwood, nominee for Secre-
tary of State, is a photographer by
trade. His home is at Ripon. He was
the labor candidate for the same office
two years ago. Alfred Manheimer, Of
ManitOwoc, candidate for State Treas
urer, is a cigar manufacturer He was
a candidate for Treasurer on the labor
ticket two years ago. j. w. Stewart,
nominee for Superintendent of Public
Instruction, is retired farmer living at
Brodhead. He, too, has been renomi-
mated for the same office for the second
time B. S. Bishop, the candidate for
Railroad Commissioner, is a lumber
dealer at Big Wausaukee, Marinette
County. Chas. Hatch, the nominee for
Insurance Commissioner, is Chairman of
the Town Board at Stockbridge, Calumet
County.
THE Dawson Opera House at Milwau-
kee has been completed 1t cost $780,
OOO ond iC ono of tho GDnCt tbo9taPc i'm