The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-13
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.

and Deaths-Accidents and Cri1nes-Per-
sonai Pointers.
WHEN canoeing upon the headwaters
of the st. CroiX River, in August last.
says the Madison Journal, Secretary
Thwaites secured for the State Historical
Society'S museum a large French fur
trading bateau 1t is of the pattern
used by the French on the upper lakes
and the principal rivers of the North
west 100 years ago. and will hold eight
cen men, besides q considerable quantity
of goods The society aims to make
collection of craft used by Indians and
whites in the early development of Wis
consin. 1t has now an admirable birch
bark canoe. in addition to this French
bateau, and will soon receive q Winnie
bago dug-out. These specimens of prim-
tive boat architecture will serve as rare
obiect-lessons in Western history, and
cannot fail to be interesting to all.
AN indoor base ball club has been or
gained in Milwaukee.
A LARGE teer-vat full of beer in
Horns brewery exploded at Oshkosh.
Windows were broken, and the building
shaken up generally. The loss is about
| $500.
E. STAHLER hanged himself near the
Northern Hospital for the Insane at Osh-
kosh. He had recently been discharged
from the institution as cured.
MILWAUKEE correspondence of Chica-
go Times: Now that the echoes of the
election are dying away politicians are
turning their attention to the United
States SenatOrship. Spooners term will
expire March 4, 1891. Since Wisconsin
was admitted to the Union she has had
but nine men for United States Senators
and four of them are at present alive.
James r. DoOlittle and Angus Cameron
are still in active life, and Philetus Saw
yer and John C. Spooner arc Senators at
present. l. p. Walker, Henry Dodge,
Charles Durkee, T. 0. Howe, and Mat
thew III. Carpenter have passed to their
reward, leaving the impress of their
lives on the stirring historical events IN
which they participated. The contest
for the SenatOrship this winter may be
as interesting as any that have preceded.
The three names oftenest mentioned in
connection with the place are those Of
Col William Z. Villas, Gilbert M. Wood
ward, and Gen. E. S. Bragg. Then
come Judge Jenkins, ". H. Seaman of
Sheboygan, John johnson of this city,
and George w. Pratt of Oshkosh, As
semblyman-ele who is credited with
Senatorial ambitions.
The body of Mr.. George E. Fernold
was recently found floating in the Wis
consin River at Wausau. Mr.. Fernold
was an old resident of Wausau, and for
merly conducted an extensive mercan-
| tile establishment, but failed about
year ago. He then went into business
| at Ashland, which also proved unsuc-
| ceSSful since which time he has been
respondent, and recently he disappeared.
He served in the regular army during
| the war, and had but lately received a
| large pension, with back pay, which, it
! is alleged, he spent lavishly. Business
troubles are thought to have unbalanced
his mind, and he jumped into the river
with suicidal intent.
EDwAED KLoTzKA, a 4-year-old boy,
was run over and killed by q Wisconsin
Central train at Oshkosh. He had at
tempted to gain the other side OF the
track by crawling under a car which OBJ
structed travel on the street when the
train suddenly started. He was cut
completely in two.
HUNTERS claim that it has been many
years since there was so much game in
| northern Wisconsin as this fall. This is
| especially true of deer. Northern Wis
consin is still the hunters paradise
The reason given for the unusual num-
Der of deer is that last winter the snow
fall was comparatively light, and it was
therefore possible for deer to move about
the forest.with ease and avoid their mer-
CHESS enemies, the timber wolf. Little
method has to be resorted to by the
hunter to get deer this fall.
THE collection of Mexican relics pre-
sented to the State Historical Society by
ToI Of al
braces many rare curios, as the following
partial list will show:
An iron cannon which stood half buried
in a roadway in the City of Topic and
which tradition says was captured from the
Spaniards by the Aztecs in 1921 an old
Spanish hoe for pudding ore, found in the
shaft of deserted silver mine in Topic, and
a set of five old Aztec weights. Besides
these ancient relics there are large num-
Der of modern Mexican articles interesting
in the extreme. Among these is a clay por-
trait-statuette of M. LozadO, the greatest
bandit chief known to Mexican history.
He defed the Mexican Government
for thirty years, and was finally shot
by Gen. Romano about 1881. The
statuette is handmade and certainly the
work of an artist. Another statuette rep
resents ?. Diaz, present President of the
Mexican Government. Another represents
B. JuareZ the famous President who united
Mexico. A fourth statuette gives a likeness
of NJ. Hidalgo, the soldier priest who in
1910 drove the Spaniards from Mexico He
was called the George Washington of Mex
ico Bricks thought to be 700 years old are
brought from the Huihuicicilli mines. There
are two specimens of Chile dish for grind
ing peppers, of Aztec make, and an idol
found in the ruins of the old City of Topic,
near the west coast of Mexico 1t is said
by Gen. LeopoIdo Romano, military COM
mander of the Territory de Topic. to have
been made previous to the Spanish conquest
1919.
THE following patents have been
granted to citizens of Wisconsin: Jos.
Applebaker, Marshfeld, sleigh knee; H.
Baxter, Emerald, horse litcher; NJ
Burns, Milwaukee, water tower; G. T.
Ames, Racine, spirit pulley; r. J.
Fleischer Lake Mills, velocipede; J. T.
Pomeroy Edgerton, pneumatic mixer
B. Rowell, Badger Mills, scar coupling;
James Watson, Marinette, cant hook;
E. b. Williams, Beloit, making paper
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