The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-14
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.


of General and Local Marriages
and Deaths-Accidentsa and Crimes-Per-
sonaI Pointers.
Martin Ohyus has been running at
large in the woods near Mt. Horeb, Dane
County, entirely nude. He has fright
ened the people into the belief that a
wild man was at large, and this belief
was we'll founded, for Ohyus was as wild
as savage. He went into the door
yard of neighbor and jumping over the
fence Into the cattle pen sat down in the
straw and remained there. He was
finally overpowered by large number
Of men, summoned by the thoroughly
alarmed nelghbor, and was dressed. He
is hopelessly insane and inherits a ten
ency to an unbalanced mental condition.
His grandfather, father andmother were
insane. Ohyus was taken to the State
Hospital for the Insane, where he is now
under treatment.
Gov. Hoard has appointed as Wiscon-
| sin delegates to the Farmers Congress,
to convene in Council Bluffs, Aug. 90,
! the following named persons: DR.. L. A.
| Squfres, Poynette; j. S. Bugh, Wauto-
ma; r. S. Kingman, Sparta; DR.. Q. v.
| Porter, Viroqua; George Martin, Hud-
son; Hon. j. W. Whelan, Mondovi, Col.
w. P. Bartlett, Eagle Point; Hon. Thos.
E. Marsh, Centralia: Hon. Elihu Enos,
Waukesha; J. a. Decker, Fond dQ Lac;
Byron Snyder, Clinton; Col. C. E. War
ner, Windsor; Hon. Matt. Anderson,
Pine Bluff; o. D. Rosenkrans, Milwau-
kee; ]. M. Smith, Green Bay; Hon. Rein
hardt Rahr, Manitowoc; Hon. John
Whittet Busseyville.
Charles lube, saloonkeeper, and a
farmer named Dave Holler, are in jail at
Milwaukee. For some time city par
chasers of hay had found their supply
suddenly short, Notwithstanding that the
sellers produced weighers' certificates.
A test on the city scales showed a short
age of over a thousand pounds on a sin
gle load, and an investigation brought
out confession from lube that he had
issued certificates to farmers in advance
of the scale figures in consideration of
their trade.
Outstanding bills to the amount of
about $6,OOO with no money in sight to
pay them, is the final Q tcOme Of the
clave in Milwaukee. A shortage was
anticipated after the lax management
was revealed, but it was expected that it
would not exceed $4,000.
Charles Ensle, a Langlade County
farmer, has been bound over in the
% ncI
fusing to answer the questions of a
census enumeration. His reason for dis
obeying the law was that the Bible
taught that taking a census is wrong
and he referred to II. Samuel, xiv.
where it is stated that pestilence and
famine visited the tribes of Israel and
Judah on account of an enumeration
ordered by King David.
The following Wisconsin pensions
have been issued:
Original Invalid-Chester B. Chamberlin
Trimbelle; Charles Howe, ShawanO; Stephen
M. Crossman, Fall River; Nelson P Cham
bers, WHITEHALL; Henry G. Bardwell, Shar-
on; Job II. Coon, Rhinelander; Henry An
holt, Black Earth; VIM. Hope, Waupaca;
John Cross, Jr., Allenville; Hugh JONES'
Dodgeville Martin Delaney, Racine; John
H. Boch Spring Green; Joseph A. Mordin,
Jr., Sebastopol Odilon Benoit, National
Military Home; Henry Habersaat, Alma;
James W. Redman, Hurricane.
Increase-William B. Kingman, Baraboo;
William H. Kimmerly, Kendall; Charles N.
Whipple, Menasha; Stephen r. Sherwfn,
Waupaca; John M. Brown. Elkhorn; Charles
II. Marshall, Racine; Joseph 2. Bowen, Eau
Gale; Sidney Flood, Tomah; BENJAMIN
Bullen, Cataract; William Ourless, Boaz;
T 1OSonh
ger, Valley Junction; Joseph W. Hall,
Mauston; George s. Houghtaling, Cedar
Falls; Herschel p Merriam, Berlin; Paul
Heugstler, Chippewa Falls; Elias " Grimes,
Emerald; John G.. Markham, Ironton;
Englebert Haas, Ployer; Kasper Cop
fert, Ellsworth; George W. shafer,
Beloit; Alex. T. McDougal, Warren's
Mills; Chester Perkins, Wilton; Andrew
Larson, Galesville; Joseph Bowen, Han
cock; George COppins, Fort Atkinson; AL
bert Cebell, Lake Mills; Francis x. Jackie,
Spooner; VIM. St. John, IrOnton; John w.
Haney, Boscobel; Marcus J. Phillips, Wau-
Sau.
Original Widows, Etc.-Alburtus L., father
Of Charles J. Neff, Neillsville; minors OF
Edward Wright, Pardeeville.
Aurelia, mother of Charles f. Hunting
ton, New Richmond: minors of Jacob M.
Hickok, Hillsborough; Cornelia Hickok,
former widow of Jacob M Hickok, Hills
boro
Mexican Survivor-(R eissue)-Joseph Il.
| Anderson, Merrill.
William Gray, who recently stole a
package containing $4,000 from the
American Express Company at Hurley,
has been arrested at Donalds, B. G..
Attorney General Estabrook says he
does not believe the population of the
State will be over !, $50, 900, as shown by
| the census of 80.
Wisconsin has thirty-four cities with
a population of 1000 or more each, and
fourteen having 10000 or more each.
| The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates that
the cities having 5000 or more inhab-
ftants each have gained 225, 900 in the
last ten years. The ten largest cities in
the State with their gains over 1880 are
as follows: