The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-27
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETSj
INTE e STING ITEMS GATH Erred
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.


| sopsl Pointers.
The twenty-four annual encamp-l
ment of the Wisconsin Grand Army of
he Republic met at Milwaukee last week.
The address of Captain Leauder Fergu%
son, the retiring Commander, was a care-l
fully written review of the work done
Turing the last year and full OF su gesI
lions submitted for future guidance
The membership of the order Dee 81
asst was 1924, gain for the year OF
1871 Eighteen new posts had been es-
tablished during 1889 and two since JAM
|, 1899, making an increase of twenty
posts since the last encampment One
Of these was composed ent rely of In
dams, who had served with credit to
| themselves aud to the honor OF the old
flag during the late unpeasantness. A
resolution indorsing the service pension
bill and ignoring the dependent pension
bill now pending before Congress was
tabled by large majority after
an animated discussion. The following
officers were chosen for the ensuing year:
Department Commander, Col. b. F. Bry-
ant; Senior Vice Commander, John Nee
han, of Darlington; Junior Vice Conn
mander, J. K. P. Coon, of Merrill; Med
ical Director, DR.. O. w. Carlson, Of
Milwaukee,; Chaplain, j. I'll. Whitney, of
Baraboo The Womans Relief Corps
elected Mrs. Helena Holmes Charlton, OF
Brodhead, Department President; Mrs.
Libbie c. Baer, Senior Vice President;
and Mrs. Hanover, of Merrill, Junior
Vice President.
The city of Jefferson favors raising
$50, 900 for the construction of the pro-
posed Chicago, Lake Geneva and Pacific
Railroad.
Eight new blooms have been licensed
at Fomahawk, making the number in the
city thirty-one.
"A disastrous fire occurred in the Ger
mania mine, near Hurley, few nights
ago, by which FIVE men lost their lives.
The fire originated between the third and
fourth levels probably from the stub of
candle. All efforts to extinguish the
flames by water be ng unsucceS sfnl, the
shaft was covered up. The loss will reach
far into the thousands, and it's extent can
only be known when the mine is re-
opened. At the time the fire broke out
there were 200 men OF work in the mine,
but FORUM ately all but five escaped. The
damage will be upward of 500, $50.
AT Ashland, the jury in the Perrin
case was discharged after being out forty
eight hours. District Attorney Rossman
clused something of o sensation by
charging that at least two of the jurors
were bribed the first night after they were
chosen. Rossman had asked the Court
to have a bailitf appointed to take charge
of the jury on the same day the jurors
were chosen. The Court appointed BailiR
Boyd. A superior officer urged Boyd not
to lock the jury mp that night, but to let
them go loose, and Boyd did SO. That
night Rossman says at least two jurors
were bribed by the defense. The District
! Attorney proposes to push thorough in~
vestigation, and says that he will impli-
cate a number of prominent persons.
Madison Dispatch Judge Bennett,
of the Rock County Circuit Court some
time ago decided a case brou hit Mt Ed
gerton that the reading Of the bic in
public schools was sectarian AID conse-
quently unconstitutional Judge Lyon,
of the Supreme Court. delivered al opin-
ion sustaining Judge Bennett He holds
| that merely realing the Bible IN schools
is instruction within the limits Of the COM
stituton and consequently unconstitu-
tional; that part of thu Bible which inn
plies a belief in divine being was not
sectarian, but TINT part teaching of he
divinity of Jesus Christ, the trinity and
sacrament was not universally believed
and consequently seotarian.
The Oleson case at Whitehall is one
of the saddest in the criminal history Of
Wisconsin. Besides the murder of OLE
son, the lynching resulted in the death
Of one of the lynchers, who hanged him.
self. Four persons go to the peniten-
tiary for life, thirty pay fines and costs
for ricting, while nineteen children are
left without support. letter from
Whitehall thus 3esclib the closing
scenes of the trial of four of the lynch
| ers:
The jury, after being out four and one-hali
hours. returned verdict of murder in tie first
! degree against the three defendants, Ole Sletto
Ole J. Olesop, and Bertha Oleson. They, with
| Charles Johnson, who pleaded guilty, were
| brought into cOuf Judge Ne @n IA asksI them
to rise and say if they could give any reason
| why sentence should not lie pen ounced
| Charles johnson answered in low but
clear voice, II have rome sle;to and
| Hansen shook their heads, wnie Mrs.
Oleson made an attempt to answer, but
was affected that sp3ech was impossible:
| She would have fallen TO the floor had
she not been supported by an officer Judge
| Newman then stntenced the prisoners to inn
| prisonment in the state Prison fer the term o.
| their natural lives, three days of each Yaartc
be spent in solitary confinement The mi SON
| ers received their sentence wjth bowed heads
| Johnson seemed to show no TO ling, nor did the
| boy Ole Hanson. Sletto md Mrs.iOlegon seemed
to realize what awaited them. Thti, counte.
| nanc9s were of ashen color and they g2sped
for breath while being le back to the jail. Upon
aI1i boro call he ga "