The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-22
ALL OVER THE STATE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BAD
GERDOM.
Beat the Sheriff in Law Suit-Denied
a Decree of DivOrce-A Term In State
PrisOn-The Banker AbscOnded-BO-
gus Vinegar.
Guilty of Murder.

Ar Chiffon, . jury brought in veY-
diet finding Anton HRrsch guilty OF
| murder in the first degree. HGrseo shit
and killed Frank KHhn Aug. IL last
HeIsch, who is a terror to the eOmmu-
nifty il which he lives, was beating his
children, as he had often done before, in
a most brutal manner. KPhn, who was
his nearest neighbour, went over to talk
| to Hafsch and try and cool his temper.
Witnesses stated that Kehn was talking
| to the father in most friendly manner
and giving him advice, when he became
enraged and shot K9hn through the
| heart H9rsch escaped through corn
| field, but was captured at StOckbridge,
| about eight miles north of the city.
THE Waverly House at Appleton was
robbed. the burglars securing only
$3.50.
| IT is proposed at Black River Falls to
| purchase the present postoffice building
and convert it into city hall
| THE X. Schreir Brewing Company, Of
| Sheboygan, is a heavy buyer of barley.
| The average daily receipts are 5000
| bushels
A NEENAH carpenter named Merier
| fell from the roof of the Wisconsin Cen
| trail depot and received serious injuries
He may die.
AsHIAND's marine shipments for the
season SO far have been 1000, 210 tons
The Lake Shore Railroad handled 663, AGA
tons, and the Wisconsin, Central ARG, 7S0
| additional.
w. M. LITTLE, of Sheboygan, planted
so re black walnuts on the old home
stead in the town of Sheboygan Falls
| forty years ago, and last week he picked
| some nuts from one of the trees.
WHILE returning from town intOxi-
Gated, Ole Moen, farmer living about
| three miles east of Amherst was
thrown or fell from his wagon and
dragged some distance. He will die
THE Sc, 900, in part payment for the
court house block, to be used as site
for public building, has been paid over
| tC Ashland County by the Governments
| agents. Work will commence at once.
FRANK STEIrEL, who escaped from
the Northern Hospital for the Insane in
| June last. has turned up in the person
of the "wild man of the woods" near
Medford. He has been returned to the
! hospital.
| AT Sheboygan, in the case of Keller
VS.. Keller. suit for di .orce, verdict
was returned for the defendant The
husband, who is S5 years old, was plain
tiff. The wife is about % Keller is
worth 100000.
In the Circuit Court at Bayfield,, Louis
Roi was convicted on the charge of as
sauting Policeman Cassidy at Wash
| burn last spring, with intent to Kill.
| His sentence will be from ten to fifteen
years in the State prison. One other
man implicated escaped.
In the case of John Radke against tho
Sheriff of Sheboygan County, a verdict
was returned in favor Of the plaintiff,
awarding him the disputed goods and
interest on 5000 at per cent The
costs fall on Martin Whipple, at whose
instance the goods were held.
HENRY SHERRY, Henry Wildhagen,
and George Danielson, of Ashland, have
filed with County Clerk Fennelly bond
of So, 500 for the rebuilding and operating
| of the old pulp mill on White River The
mill must be in operation by June ], 1892
| Otherwise, the bonds will be forfeited to
the county.
THE Dairy and Food Commissioner has
received numerous samples of vinegar,
| for analysis from various parts of the
| State which is pure imitation stuff. 1t
| seems that considerable quantities Of
| this fraudulent vinegar have come
within the confines Of the State, and the,
people are warned against it.
Mrs. SARAH SPENCER, of West Su-
perior, has taken out q warrant for the
arrest of her brother-in-law, Fred Spen-
| Ger, on charge of embezZlement. She
says she gave him $4,000 year ago to
| invest for her, but instead, she alleges,
| he used the money for his own personal
benefit He is at present in Duluth.
FIVE men at Ashland sat down to O.
| poker table, few evenings ago, and
| put up $40 apiece to start the game. A
man by the name of Mclean, who was
banker, excused himself to get cigar.
| After waiting an hour, the others in
vestigated his absence and discovered
that he had left on the omaha train with
| their money.
A PIONEER Wisconsin preacher, in the
| person of the Rev. David B. Brooks,
| died recently at Red Wing, Mimi, aged
80 years. Mr.. Brooks, who was an
Englishman by birth, came to America
in 1912, and settled at Kenosha. Later
| he went to the Rock River District In
| 1845 the Wisconsin Conference was or.
| ganized and he was transferred to it. In
| 1853 Bishop Scott gave him charge OF
| elder, and for four years he covered ap-
| pointments from the south boundary Of
! the State to the lakes, 1900 square
miles Of Wisconsin being in the district.
| In June, 1855, in a canoe, with
| single guide, he made his way to
| Superior Bay, where he delivered
| the first Protestant sermon ever
heard there, and secured site for u
church About this time he secured a
charter for and named Hamline Univer-
| sity For two years Mr.. Brooks was pre-
siding elder of the Lake Superior Dis
trict. and then presiding elder four years
of the Minneapolis District. The two
years succeeding he was in charge OF
the Monticello Gre lit, and, after serving
a year as agent of Hamline University,
acted as agent for the American Bible
Society for five years In 1871 he was
made presiding elder of the Sank Gem
ter District, and in 1877 resumed work
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