The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-01-22
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARl-
Gus SOURCES.

clpaGlO0 from InfaluOn TO the ice dealer.
The harvest is big.
AUGUST Tam, of Milwaukee, accused
Frank PfSter of theft, and is now de-
PENDANT in a suit fer SANDER.
MINIATURES women have organized to
petition the Legislature for an appro-
priation to build refnrmatory for fe-
males.
NORTHERN lumbermen are hustling to
take advantage of the recent snowfall
AT Wausau, over $50 filings have been
made by people after water-reserve land.
AT Madison, John Youngman, Chip
pewa Indian, convicted of criminal as
sault on 5-year-old girl, was sentenced
to be hanged on April B.
THE shortage of Treasurer Serley at
Chippewa Falls has now reached
$4,000.
JOHN HEUSTY, of Milwaukee, asked
the court to annul a deed of property
made to his sons, because they now re-
fuse to care for him.
AN old man named Prebe, rich, but
living like DaUper, was found dead of
cold ana want in his hut in Bloomfield.
He had driven his children from him by
cruelty, and died unattended.
MEYER AsCH, a smart young man from
Omaha, went around the houses of the
demi-mOnde in Milwaukee pretending he
was city official soliciting aid for poor
family. He had gathered up 500 when
the police gathered him in.
In the Milwaukee County poor-house
are 223 inmates-nearly twice as many
as the building can decently accommo-
date A new one will be built, costing
$3.50, OOO
DIR. P. E WINCKLER, of Westfield,
near Berlin, was served with a paper,
signed by forty citizens, demanding
him to leave town for connecting his
name in scandalous manner with
respectable ladies. He left on the next
train.
THE Port Edwards, Centralia and
Northern Railroad will open up two
bodies of pine timber in Wood County
aggregating over 100, 900, 900 feet.
WHILE Bonnie Lott. lad of ID years,
was hunting rabbits near CadOtte, his
gun slipped and discharged the ball into
boys mouth, killing him instantly. The
shock has nearly crazed his mother.
AN Eau Claire paper is conducting
voting contest for the mosG popular
lady in the Chippewa Valley. Those in
the lead are Miss Mamie Richardson,
Chippewa Falls; Miss Mae Stocking,
Eau Claire: Miss Gertie Sterling, Ster-
ling; Miss Lulu johnson, Miss Ida Ran
dali, Mrs. Gen. George Ginty, Chippewa
Falls; Mrs. George B. Shaw, Eau Claire.
Mrs. MELVIN A WHITE, of Wheaton,
has been asleep for three weeks. All
efforts to awake her have proved fruit
less. 1t is believed she will soon die.
A COMPANY will be organized of lead
ing capitalists in Marinette and q paper
mill plant erected with a capacity Of
fifteen tons daily; capital $200,000, en-
ploying $50 hands. 1t will include
ground, wood, sulphite plants, and two
large paper machines, all of the most
approved plans, to be in running opera
tion early next fall.
MILWAUKEE is puzzled to dispose of
her garbage, and cOntemplates building .
an immense furnace to burn it.
THE Railroad Commissioners report
shows the corporate stock of Wisconsin
railroads to be SIP, 431, 1874. The debts
of these roads amount to $148, 216, 81.
The cost of these roads and equipments
was 1924, 052, 218, or $40, 868 per mile
The passenger earnings for the year was
So, O2O, 1872 and the freight earnings $780,
200, 679; number of fare-paying passen-
gers carried, 1858, 113; number of miles
ridden by passengers, 242, 988, 101. Dur
ing the year IA, III, 976 tons of freight
were carried an aggregate of 1850, 1885,.
525 miles. The average distance haul
per ton was 1915 miles.
Gov. PECK has appointed Gustav Pabst
and Thomas ?. Dever, of Milwaukee,
his aids-de-camp. Capt n. E. Morgan,
r. fnA Ac-
sistant Adiutant General and Inspector
of Militia.
CHAs. j. BROWN, of Marinette, Sc
cured 100 acres with 100000 feet Of
standing pine during the recent land sale
at WauSau.
SAMUEL WHITE was knocked down
and robbed of S170 and two notes of $3.50
each, at Prairie du Chen, within q
stones throw of the court house. He is
in precarious condition, his skull being
fractured. He was to have been mar
ried that night to Miss Hill, of La Cres-
cent, MINI.
THE Wisconsin Press Association will
hold it's winter meeting in Madison, Feb.
II to 49,
PROF. HENRY of the State University
has been offered the presidency of the
Iowa Agricultural college,.
GEN. BURCHARD thinks there ought to
be company of State militia formed in
the northwestern part of the State to look
after Ashland and Superior riots.
WISCONSIN is the fourth on the list Of
paper producing States-being out
ranked only by New York, Massachu-
sets and Pennsylvania. The principal
points for the manufacture of this prod,
uct are Appleton, Menasha, Neenah and
Kaukauna. Business is quiet, lack of snow
preventing handling of the wood used
for pulp. The price has been 1 cent per
pound, but has now risen to 1-6 and Il
cents, and is likely to go higher still.
JACKSON COUNTY farmers will organ
ize stock company to run 6,00O-pound
cheese factory.
LAST year Wisconsin raised of wheat
1906, 900 bushels, worth $40, $40, O0O,
from /, O73, AIS acres; of corn, 3,O61, 900
bushels, worth $14, 877, 297, from 1,1O2,-