The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-07
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.
What our Nsighbors Are Doing-Matters
of General and Local Observation-Disclosures
and neutrality-suspicious. and Crimes-Pere
PoinfarS.

Wisconsin patents: Gusta Arons,
Milwaukee, window fire escape; Max
Cohen, Milwaukee, typewriting machine;
Hermann Heine, Milwaukee, tufted fab
ric and forming the same; John /. Her
rick, Mansion, hand-propelled vehicle;
Everett J. Heule and d. Cameron, Me-
nasha, woodworking machine; Charles
E. Parks and c. Mollart, Watertown,
loom for weaving slat and wire fabrics
Henry A. Pitcher, Neillsville, magazine
gun; Charles d. Powers, Jr., Milwaukee,
attachment for lawn mower; Joseph
Salick, Watertown, watchmaker's tool;
John Spranger, Kaukakana, musical
clock; Peter j. and r. Hohnback, Jr.,
Milwaukee, rocking meat cutter; Jean
and A. Zehr, Paris, France, assignors to
n. Koch, Milwaukee, valve and cutoff
for steam, water and other pipes.
Joe Mccain, charged with the MUIR
der of A. t. Owens near Neillsville, has
surrendered to the authorities at Eau
Claire.
La Crosse dispatch: La Crosse folks
feel a triie better by receipt of informa-
ton from Supt. Lindermann to the eff
feet. that revised figures give this city a
population Of 5,121. A mistake was
made in the appointment Of special
enumeration whose report was not previ-
0usly Incorporated in the official returns.
All the sawmills at Washburn started
up last week, the trouble with the strik-
ers being settled on the same basis as in
Ashland.
DIR. Thomas Hatchard and his wife,
who were convicted of manslaughter in
performing fatal criminal operation on
Minnie Beafdsley, have each been SEN
fenced at Milwaukee to four years i'm
prisonment in the States Prison.
Milwaukee dispatch: Frank Collier,
the eccentric Chicago lawyer, amused
the court, instructed the jury and aston
ished the court habitues with defense
of his case of assault. The jury found
him guilty upon his own admission.
While they were out he INDUCED in ex-
pressive legal maXims, and when asked
if there was any reason why Judgment
should not be pronounced, answered the
the court: "Put on the black cap and do
the duty that the law requires of YOU"
He was fined one dollar and costs. Coll
Ter had assaulted telephone boy.
Sept. 9, 10, II and 70, are the dates
for holding the Brown County Fair this
year. Preparations are now in progress,
and it is the calculation of the associa-
ton to surpass the exhibit and attrac-
tions of last year.
The Gem City Lumber Company,
with capital of 100000 has been or
gained in Lacrosse. The incorporators
are the Hon. G. c. Hixon, A. w. Petit
bore, and George H. Ray, of Lacrosse,
and the Delaney Bros. of Hannibal, Mo.
The following Wisconsin pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid-Joseph Bowman, Fairchild:
II. Douglass, HortonvilIe.
Increase = Dennis Enright, Seneca; Lewis
Reno, Warren Mills; Casper Moser, Plum
City; Balthasar Brown, Prairie du Sac Oscar
Rector Ken%osha Thomas West West
Brown, Wilton; James W. Clements, Platts-
xillei VIM. Wilt Grand Rapids Jasper
81. Powell Sugar Grove; VIM Eubank,
Columbus; Tt. Frank Cooley, Plover; Thomas
W. M. Macauly, DunnviIle; Franklin G. Wy
man, Argyle; John D. G. Gaylord, Kilbourn
City; james Darling Genoa Junction; Preston
II. Moody, Brodhead; Daniel M. Nichols, Della
van; John d. Beebe, Augusta; Jonathan
Bishop, Rock Falls; Isaac Gilbert, Boyceville;
Henry D. Huntington, Flintville; John Polae,
La Crosse; Neil Gilespy GAINESVILLE; George
Brinkerhoff, Allenville; Charles E. Eldred,
Argyle Ole P. Kastrue, Westby; Daniel G.
Bailey Centralia George Lawsha, Reedsburg;
Reissue-Alexander Wanner, La Crosse.
Original Widows. Etc.-Sophie NJ, widow OF
E11I0I i0 Q1iah 1ui6n al
Green Mayfeld, Orion.
Madison Journal: The Good Tenn
plars of the State are preparing new
plan for the education Of workers in the
cause Articles of association have been
filed in the Secretary of States office by
the Good Templars' Training School, to
be located at MUlwonago, Waulzesha
County. The originators of the scheme
intend to establish summer school for
temperance workers on the shore of
Crooked Lake, near Mukwonago. They
will build cottages and make a resort
Tor members Of the order and others.
Plans of work, methods and means, are
to be discussed there, and an effort made
to devise how greater interest in the
Good Templar order may be aroused.
Eau Claire dispatch: For fifteen
years Mrs Clara Morton has acted as
housekeeper for Alexander Watson, a
wealthy widower of this city, and has
taken care of Mr. Watson's motherless
children and brought them to mans and
woman's estate. Recently Mr.. Watson
was taken seriously I'LL, and his old
friend, George A. Burlington, a very
wealthy lumberman, took legal measures
30 GUST Mrs. Morton from his house,
fearing that she would exert undue in
fuence over him in the disposition of his
property. Mrs Morton has now begun
a suit for $4,000 damages inflicted by
her election from the Watson residence
against Mr.. Burlington, Deputy Sheriff
Connors, and George E. Watson, son of
Alexander. She brings the suit as the
wife of Alexander, saying that in 1875 a
contract Of marriage was entered into,
and that she and Mr.. Watson have sus-
tanned the relation of husband and wife
ever since. No suspicion of such rela-