The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-04
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI-
Gus SOURCES.

and DeathS-ACC100nCS ana CranOs-ESr-
sonai Pointers.
OF general interest is the fact that
en- agent OF the Louisiana lottery has
been brought to Justice in Milwaukee.
| Technicalities have been the modes Of
shielding a large number of offenders
against the new Federal law, but in this
case they did not suffice. and tool es-
| capped while the real offenders pay the
penalty. In the United States District
Court Judge jenkins passed sentence on
Joseph Neubouer, who has long been an
agent of the big Southern swindle. He
| moved in tolerably good society and had
| a business standing, although it was
we'll known that he represented the big
| lottery. Among his customers were
deacons and pillars of the church,
whose names are even now in possession
of the Federal authorizes. In this case
they could be shielded, because
Uncle Sam did not know them. His
representative, Judge Jenkins, fined
Neubouer $500 on six different counts,
making total of So, 600.
AT Eau Claire, j. B. Scott, fashy
sport from ST. Paul, robbed Matthew
Murphy of gold watch while the latter
was asleep at early morning in a restau-
rant after the two had been out on %
spree together. Scott was sentenced to d
year in the State prison.
FRANK CHALLoNER, who with other
regents of the State University went
East to inspect the law and gymnasium
buildings of other colleges, has return
ed and says that it is the intention of
the regents to hold a meeting at Madi--
son in June and decide on plans for the
new law and gymnasium buildings for
the State University which, when built,
will be the finest in the United States,
with no exceptions.
| p. 2. FECK, who was taken into custo-.
| dy at Madison while suffering from de-
| lerium tremens, will be taken to the State
Hospital for the insane. Peck is brother
of Mayor Peck of Sioux Falls, OAK, was
an Assistant United States Treasurer
during Arthur's administration, and was
a mineralOgist in the employ of the Gov
| eminent at QUE time
| HUGH Ross, son of a prominent real
estate man and broker Of Ashland, took
morphine with suicidal intent and will
probably die. He is only 16 years old.
He had been respondent for some time,
but his remarks about taking his life
were not needed. He is one of the heirs
of the Bigelow estate of Kalamazoo,
Mich, being the favorite grandson of w.
| F. Bigelow of that place.
| EDWARD Melton, farmer of Poygan,
met with a serious and probably fatal
accident. While working at his fathers
| grave in the Poygan Cemetery a heavy
urn fell over, striking him on the head,
| crushing him to the ground, where he
was found unconscious.
| CHAPMAN will probably escape with
very light sentence for the killing of
| Pelis, at Erin, May %. The evidence
| makes the killing purely accidental. In
the fight they ciinched, Pelis throwing
/ Chapman down Chapman wound his
| legs around Pelis' neck, and the latter,
in endeavoring to release himself, broke
his neck,
THOMAS THOMAS, aged 76, was fined
| $40 and costs at Oshkosh for assaulting
Frank Pugh, aged II.
MADGE MORSE, a 9-year- old Princeton,
miss, was awarded a prize by the Boston
School Educational Journal for an origi--
nal story.
SENATOR PRATT, of Oshkosh is recOv--
ering the use of his weak eye. He is
under treatment at New York.
A LITTLE son of Joe Allender, of Mat
teson, lately found an Indian tomabGwk,
1
1t is about seven inches in length, and
| from two to three inches wide and
| half an inch in thickness It was found
| on the old Girard farm in the town Of
| Matteson, on the bank of the Wolf
River.
| FRANK P. MALoNEY, a bright and
| popular young man of Portage, died the;
other day at tWenty-three years.
Mrs. HARRIET C. BAKER, formerly aG
Beaver Dam, presented Mrs. Harrison,
during the stop of the President and his
rarity at Pueblo, COL, with an oil. paint
| ing of cactus in full bloom, painted by
Mrs. Baker.
| AsHLAND's extensive water works
| plant, which has heretofore been owned
| by company of Mt Holly, n. j., cap
| italists, was recently sold to a syndicate
| of Bostonese, headed by one Wheeler
and one Packs. AS the company Isl
bonded for $l50,00O, and stocked for
500, 900, the purchase price was about
$500, 900, being above par.
SUIT was begun at Milwaukee by the
City Attorney against the estate of A..
| FL. Shattenberg to recover $40, 268, the;
amount of the defalcation by the late
Secretary Of the School Board during a.
service of eight years. The estate is not
large and the action is supposed to be-
preliminary to others against the ex-Cityi
| Treasures whose carelesSneSs madeI
| Shattenberg's populations possible.
AN intimate frier of School Commis7
sioner HI. V. Kuhlmann, OF Milwaukee,
| who disappeared ten days ago, has re-
ceived letter from him, in which Mr.
Kuhmann said that for long time past
| he had desired to go to Alaska and was
now on 1is way there. He begged his
friend to take charge of his financial af-
| fairs and look after his family.
THE examination of McNally, the
Wisconsin Central night operator at
Abbotsford, has ended and the defend
ant held to trial on the charge of robbing
the Northern Pacific Express Company's
safe of $4,000. The defense put in no
evidence and the court bound McNally
over to the Circuit Court, fixing bail at
IS, 900, in default of which he was taken
to the county Jail at NeillSville. Me-