The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14
WISCONSIN NEWS.


who was in the habit of taking his valuables
robbers, had the basket and all it's contents.
valued at upward of $1,000, stolen from his
house,
TIE Chief of Police of Madison is prose-
cutting saloon-keepers for selling liquor to
minors.
Personal.
A PETITION has been signed by all of the
State officers, Judge Hopkins, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney McKenner and others, asking
President Grant to pardon Mueller, who was
sentenced to pay 81, 900 fine in the Middleton
distillery case.
THE Monroe Sentinel publishes some statis-
tics of cheese-making in Green county, from
which it appears that scme $4,000 pounds of
Swiss and Limberger, and $4,000 pounds of
American or regular cheese, amounting in all
to 1858, 900 pounds. and valued at $211 ,625,
has been manufactured during the year 1874.
The stock of grain in Milwaukee on the LIST
inst. embraced 1,426,826 bushels of wheat :;
24233 bushels of corn; 82,323 bushels of
oats; 1870 bushels of rye, and 1877, 579
bushels of barley.
Casualties.
CARL BoEoK, an employe of Killers dis
tilery, Milwaukee, was instantly killed last
week by being caught in revolving shaft.
FRANK ECKERT, Ripon boy, playfully
pointed loaded gun at his little brother, and
shot him dead. Will these fatal boy capers
never cease
! A FIRE in Oconto, on the 10th inst, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The State Grange.
The State Grange Patrons of Husbandry
met in the Senate Chamber at Madison on the
9Th inst, with John Cochrane, Master, pre-
siding. One hundred and fifty regular dele
gates were present. The total attendance
was about two hundred including o good
many ladies. A Committee on Credentials
was appointed, and the balance of the seq
sion was spent in exemplifcation of the Sc
cret work Of the order. Master Cochrane, in
his address, stated that there are now in the
State 2, OO8 oranges, against 3O4 a year since.
The Master stoutly maintains that politics
must be rigidly excluded from the order.
| THE second days proceedings of the State
Grange were unimportant. A large number of
resolutions on transportation, railroads. labor
and capital, agricultural machinery, and
variety of subjects Of interest to the indus
trial classes, particularly farmers, were offered
and referred to committees for consideration.
An addrt SO was delivered by J. II. Osborn,
Railroad Commissioner subject: lis the
Grangera Mudsill ?"-devoted largely to pro-
testing against the encroachments of capital
and monopolies on the producing classes.
THE State Grange closed it's session on the
9Th inst. The meeting is represented to
have been a harmonious and satisfactory one.
The following in regard to it's action, not be.
fore reported, has transpired. To the Execu
tive Committee-of which Master John Coch-
rane and Secretary E. Huxler are ex-officio
members, and FL. d. Hit, Of Fond du Lac s
a member, holding over for another year,.
Fl. Osborn, of Oshkosh, was reelected for
three years, and e. w. Dwight, of Dane,
chosen for two years. L. G.. Knifin, of Mon
roe, was elected Purchasing Agent Mrs.
Elihu Hall, of Winnebago county, Pomona, in
place of Mrs. j, Brainard. resigned. The
years. The Grange refused to indorse the
recommendation of Master Cochrane in his
address, that the Master of State Grange
should be rendered constitutionally ineligible
to political Office while holding that posi-
ton. The constitution prepared by the Ex-
ecutive Committee has been revised and
adopted, and action taken on the constitu-
tional amendments submitted by the National
Grange, some of which were non concurred in.
The State Grange adopted the following
resolutions, at the same time expressing the
hope that in legislating for the regulation of
railroads the present winter such action
would be taken as would secure the great ad-
vantages already gained, and promote cheap
transportation, while still affording adequate
security and compensation for all actual CAPT.
tai employed in railroad enterprises
Resolved That the thanks of the industrial classes
of this State due to the last Legislature for en-
| bodying in the form of law the sentiments ex-
pressed in certain resolutions passed at the last an.
nual session of the State Grange upon the subject
| of railroad legislation.
Res0lUed, That it is a of just pride to us
that Wisconsin has taken leading part in the in
auguration Of remedial measures to correct abuses
| by incorporated monopolies, and indicated it's
| position by judicial decisions in the highest
! tribunal in the State.
-ResOIved, That, standing on the solid ground of
ascertained law, upholding the sovereignty of the
people to the control of their own internal af-
fairs, it should be the policy of the State, by firm
but carefully considered legislation, to carry out
| the work it has commenced, with prudence and
| justice, with single purpose to the preservation
of public credit and the protection of individual
rights from the demands of extortion and rapacity
Resolved, That we take this occasion to manifest
our qualification at the results of the judicial con-
| troversy between the railroads and the State: to
express our thanks to the State officials for the
energetic manner in which the suits were pressed
forward, and to the courts for the marked ability
and exhaustive researches with which their decis-