The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-19
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VART-
Gus SOURCES.


THE Eau Claire Gas Company is being
sued for $4,000 by Dick Pitts, for in
juries received in the late gas explosion.
THE old La Crosse County Jail build
ing, which was erected in the year 1853
at cost of $4,000, was sold at auction
the other day, and was knocked down to
a contractor for 500. The stone alone
would cost $780,
LUCIEN BUDYsZ received So, 900 in gold
at Manitowoc the other day. from the
Lake Shore road, for injuries sustained
a year ago. Suit had been brought, but
the company offered to settle for So, 600,
the case being strong one.
GLEN Phillips, a 12-year-old lad who
ran away from Red Wing, Mimi. some
time ago, was found at Chippewa Falls
and returned home.
THE body of Gavin M. Steel, the vic
tim of Bill F'rench's murderous aim, was
taken from Ashland to Tracy, Mimi, for
burial.
ASHLAND now has six wards instead
of five.
NORTHERN lumber camps are break
ing UP.
THE Rev. De Ford is doing tonsorial
work at the Waupun prison.
PENSIONS issued Original - James
Malcomson, Frederick Becker, Jacob
Vogt, Joel P. Quimby, John Osborn.
AdditiOnal-SamuelG G. Price, Thos. Bar
low. Increase-Norman Shaver, Isaac
o. Stevens, Simon Shelley, Seth ID.
Steele, Peter Peterson, John Lorentz.
Reissue-Stephen Fitzgerald. Reissue
and increase = George J. Goldthorp.
Original window-Lucinda c., widow of
VIM. L. Blakely.
AssEMBLYMAN JOHN EDWARDS, of
Wood County. died at Madison from an
attack Of la grippe. Deceased was born
in England Sept Is, 1881, and came to
Wisconsin in 1882. He was a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention
in st. Louis in 1888, and to the Demo
cratic State Convention in 1890. He was
elected member of Assembly at the re-
cent election by majority Of 297 over
James w. Cameron, Republican. He
was lumberman of large means
PETER ZEv1EwZKI, the Whitehall wife
murderer, was found guilty of man
slaughter in the fourth degree and sem
fenced to pay a fine of $500 and costs or
six months in Jail. He is now in Jail,
apparently unable to pay the fine.
BOYS playing in an old shed, in Osh-
kosh, discovered a pile of old bones,
which are believed to have once consti-
tuted human frame. How they came
there is unknown.
SECTION men, at Trempeaeau, discov-
cred the valuable papers and a large
amount of postage stamps that were
stolen from the postoftce at Dakalo.
The $500 in cash stolen at the same time
was not there.
ANALYSIS of the stomach of Mrs.
Mitchell, of Richland Center, who died
two years ago, revealed enough strych-
nine to have killed horse. Rose FOL
doski was her servant when she died,
and was infatuated by Mr.. Mitchell.
She will be held for the crime of poison
ing
AT Manitowoc, box was received
from Chicago, which contained the corpse
of child. The box was afterward
found in the river, and pieces Of the
corpse were strewn about.
MILWAUKEE has III eases of diph-
liberia and % of scarlet fever
THE dead body of Mic Mensing, aged
"a years, was found in the snow near the
village of Oak Creek. An empty whisky
bottle was found in his pocket, and it is
thought he died from drink and eX-
posture.
A HEAVY fall of snow amounting to q
blizzard, at Ashland, blockaded all
trains. 1t was the worst storm of the
season. There is rumor that two
homesteaders near that city have per-
iShed.
PRESIDENT T. T. REEVE, of the Com
mercial Bank at Oshkosh, died. aged
about 80 years. He had been suffering
from la grippe.
THE grist mill situated on the creek
about six miles in the country from
Dodge was consumed by fire, together
with large supply of grain. The loss
is 81, 500.
AT Marshland the store of Thomas
Brooks was burglarized. A large guam
tity of clothing and footwear were taken,
and $97 in money.
A LIBEL suit was commenced against
the Appleton Crescent for publishing an
article alleging that the Kaukauna pO-
lice were in the habit of giving tramps
whisky and tobacco
AT Oshkosh, James Sullivan, who
married Emma Daniels the other night,
is now trying to get divorce. Sullivan
asserts that he was drunk at the time OF
the ceremony.
AT Menasha, George E. Scott, Of
Neenah, was arrested, charged with en-
bezzlement.
AT Black River Falls, John Hopkins,
of La Crosse, had his leg broken and re-
ceived other internal injuries while load
ing logs.
AT Milwaukee, George Woodward was
fatally injured by pile driver.
AT Oshkosh, a plate glass company
with capital of $4,000 has been or
gained.
AT Ashland. w. G. French shot and
instantly killed Gavin B. Steele, drug
gist. The cause of the shooting, French
claims, is that Steele had made a con-
fdante of his wife and induced heS to
turn over money to him, claiming that
French was not capable OF taking care
of his own affairs. French went to the
drug store of Steele's and demanded the
return of the money, and upon the re-