The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-12

Jackson. IL, 1917 W alWOrth...... ~, sou
Jefferson. 1880 Washburn -. 926
Juneau. 1921 Washington 2,751
Kenosha. 800, 1851 Waukesha 800. 1920
Kewaunee. 16,l59 Wsupaca. 26,794
La Crosse 3S, 500 Waushara $50. l3.507
Lafayette 20,255 Winnebago. 50O9T
Langlade. 9,465i Wood. .......... l27
Lincoln. ....... 12,00S
Manitowoc 49, 1881 It'll for State. /, $50 $50
ADoLPH SCHUMANN and Anton Erban
worked together at Woodruff, and
they were rivals for the daughter of
their employer, Miss Kuhler. Erban
3onfded to the girl the fact that he had
an inheritance coming from Austria,
and she told Schumann of it. There
was no postoffice at Woodruff, and the
mail had to go to MinOcqua, a few miles
distant. Schumann offered to carry
Erban's letters for him, and after
while became sort of regular carrier.
On the way over to MinOcQua he would
open Erbans letters and then write sub
stituteS to suit his ends. initiating Err
bans writing with an accuracy that
showed him to possess considerable skill.
In this way he discovered that Erbans
father was to send him the money from
| Obertaugen, Austria, upon the receipt of
password previously agreed upon. That
password he found and the date Of Erban'S
birth, July 9, 1910. He gave the requir-
ed password, and in due time the money
orders arrived in Milwaukee. Schumann
came to Milwaukee, obtained the orders,
and had Mr.. Reuter-, agent OF the Ger
man Aid Society, identify him at the
postoffice. AS Postmaster NOVEL; did
not have sufficient money on hand he
gave a check for $3.50 05, which Schu-
mann cashed at The National Exchange
Bank. Schumann disappeared and has
never since been heard from. Then the
question arose as to who should stand
| the loss, and as test case suit was
| brought against the bank on the ground
| that Schumann's Endorsement of Erban's
name on the pOStmaSter'S check was
! forgery. Judge Jenkins holds that the
bank was not responsible, and now the
Government will bring suit against
Reuter- and the German Aid Society.
| AT Marshfeld Robert Robinson's
house burned in way to suggest in
cendiarism, and he received letter
signed "White-CapS," ordering him to
leave town within eight days on penalty
Of being whipped, tarred, and feathered.
WHEN, in October, two boys named
Hanson disappeared from Neenah,
| the boat being found on its side in Lake
Winnebago, it was supposed they had
been accidentally downed. Late devel-
ments show that the boys were probably
shot by angry fishermen while meddling
with nets laid by the latter, and were
buried some place along the shore of the
| axe.
The Wisconsin supreme court has de-
eided that accident insurance begins at
The moment the first premium is paid,
regardless of the time the application is
received at the office of the COM
pany.
AT La Crosse, Rev. Emery Stanford,
a Methodist minister, organizer of the
Good Templars, and an active worker
! in the missionary cause, was arrested on
the charge of attempting to assault
Miss Tull, the 17-year-old daugher of the
pastor of the Second Methodist church.
The young lady is feeble-minded and in
very poor health. Stanford was lately
married to young lady in La Crosse.
He is from independence, Trempealeau
County, where the children of his first
wife live.
AT La Crosse Frank Becker, dealer
in dry goods, assigned
The works of the National Distilling
Company at Milwaukee suffered a loss
by fire of $4,000
JoRGEN NELSON, farmer living ten
miles from Whitehall, killed his stepson.
His son was playing with some other
boys about his father while he was chop
ping wood and dashed in front of the
latter, receiving blow on the head,
killing him instantly.
ELMER E. GRAHAM, we'll known So
cially at Eau Claire, was brought to
that place from Superior on complaint Of
his wife, who charged him with desert
ing her and her children. Later his wife
went to the Municipal Judge and de-
clared that her brother had instigated
the arrest. Graham vas discharged
AT Ashland, Joseph Venora, charged
with the murder of John Mccarthy at
Gile last July, was acquitted.
JOHN ToMAsCH, of Hurley, was killed
while cleaning a saw. The saw cut his
| head open.
AT Milwaukee William Bodentofer, a
butcher, was killed by train
AN unknown woman from Pittsburg
On route to Red Wing, Mimi, gave birth
! to a child on a train going forty miles
per hour on the c., M. & ST p. Road,
near Milwaukee. When she arrived in
the city she was promptly treated in the
train by physicians, but refused to be
removed to a hospital. All comfort pos
sible was provided for her, and when the
train pulled out she was doing well.
FRANCIS S. BLoDGETT and DR.. Henry
Faville, pioneers of Milwaukee, died
suddenly
THE Carpenter Contractors Associa-
ton of the West Side, Milwaukee, has
! decided to grant the demand of journey
men carpenters for continuation of
| the eight-hour day without reduction
Of wages, but also passed resolutions de-
| clining to treat with the carpenters
union as an official body
THE E. P. Allis Company, of Milwau-
| kee, has secured contract for the COM
plete reconstruction of the east side of
/ the Washburn GA" -four mill at Mime.
| apolis, and for increasing its capacity
| from 1, 800 to 2, 500 barrels. 1t involves
the expenditure of about $685. 900.