The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-20
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETSl
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI1
Gus SOURCES.

sonal Pointers,
At Hayward, August Eckstrom, q
Scandinavian, was drowned. He was in
bathing.
ALoIs SEEBoLD was drowned while
bathing at Oshkosh.
AT OSHKOSH, Clinton Amereux and
John LAWYER were arrested on suspicion
of being the Neenah safe-b blowers, but
the operator at the Wisconsin Central
depot at Neenah failed to identify them.
Two GRANARIEs, barn and stable on
the farm Of Julius Lueck, near West
Bend were destroyed by fire. Five hum
dred bushels of grain, wagons, farming
implements, etc, and separator be-
longing to a neighbor we've lost. Tho
property WAS insured for $1,000
MARTIN CLEVELAND, one Of the olIest
residents Of WinEebago county, died at
the age Of &c.
c. PLANK, a Glenwood man, is myster-
iously missing.
SHEBoYGAN may build new bridge at
@ cost of SIS. 600.
AT Neenah, George Parker discover
ed three men in the act of trying to gain
| an entrance to his employers house,
He was set upon by the men, who
severely pounded him and robbed him of
his watch. J
AT Kaukauna, Frank Aufretor's
money drawer was relieved of $500 by
thieves. I
The Crawford County copper mines,
abandoned years ago, are again being
worked
DETECTIVE BYRNE, Lacrosse, arrested
Frank Carey charged with being an ac>
complete in the atrocious Wholesale
murder of the Drake family near
Viroqua
AT Eau Claire Joshua Burlington, aged
70, died. He was an old pioneer, cons
ing to Wisconsin in 1850.
SEVERAL Shawano boys, who seek to
emulate Jesse James, stole number of
horses at Keshena and started off on a.
long ride to parts unknown. They stole
a lot Of property besides.
PETER STEIN, of Neenah, died frcm
SunStroke.
The little girl of George Spatt, WE'LL
known manufacturer of Sheboygani
Falls, was drowned
I JULIUS HERTZ was dangerously
stabbed at Sheboygan by William Gabor-
osky. The weapon was file. :
Four Milwaukee young people lost
their lives by the sinking of pleasure
boat on Pewaukee Lake. The four
who were drowned were Albert and
Emma Barth, Martha Kindling and
Clara Siegler.
OLIVER GULLICKsON received a two
and half year sentence at Menominee,
! for an assault upon Bertha Erickson. ,
OF IO
is disgrace to the city. Drays canno6i
back down to load freight and the boats
cannot discharge d cargo exceDt at a.
risk and inconvenience.
| AT Milwaukee, United States Marshall
| WisWell has in his custody the keeper of
one of the Northern Wisconsin dives
which Kate Bushnell made famous by,
her attack upon them. The man is an
Notwithstanding little fellow, but onI
his examination it was shown that he.
kept a very bad place. He is Charles
Harding. During his examination he
admitted that he kept house of prOsti-
! tuition, in which he ran saloon as o.
sort Of annex He said his customers
were min 3rs and river men. He claims
to have paid his license, but the records /
of the in ternal-revenue office show that
he has not paid it. He said that there's
were seven or eight such houses within a
few miles of Florence, some of which
do business on a very extensive scale.
In one house, he said, twenty-five to,
thirty girls were kept.
THE Ashland Office of the WESTERN
Union does larger business than any
other Office in Wisconsin outside of Mil
waukee, handling an average of 1,50O'
messages day.
OSHKOSH lost one of it's most esteemed
citizens when VIM E. Hanson departed
this life
OSHKOSH fishermen have been asked
by the Chicago commission men TO boy
colt the Northwestern Road.
POLK is the only county in the State
which reports heavy yield of hay this
year. Though the hap crop is light
elsewhere, the quality is excellent
THE committee sent from Sturgeon
Bay to look at the fire steamer belonging
to the city of Marinette, with view of
purchasing it for that city, have the
opinion that 81, 200, the price asked for
it, is too high.
T. w. BRowER, who is wanted at Seat
tie, Wash, on the charge Of forgery,
dropped into Superior few weeks ago,
barrased by the state of his finances,
However, and bought a restaurant of j..
2. Pollen for Sc, 600 Now he is missing,'
and holders of worthless checks to the
extent of So, 900 want him badly.
w. L. WINsLow, who resides few
miles from Shiocton, had a narrow es-
cape from being killed by vicious bull
q few days ago =
A VERY valuable bed of shell mari has
been discovered near Kewaunee, and a
large Syracuse, N, Y, company has just
paid So, 900 for land containing the de-
post. 1t is said that the firm interested
in the deal employs 1,700 hands
THERE was a girls swimming race at
Sheboygan Falls recently The con-
testants were: Misses Julia Lebermann,
Paula Beyerstedt, Tonic and Melanie
Lohmann and Frida Riedel The first
prize, gold medal, was won by Tonic
Lohmann; the second. a gold ring, by
Julia Lebermann. The young ladies
swan from the island in the river to the
swimming bOuse near the railroad