The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-07
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No l, nominal; No. 2,
$1.O1A 81.011z; No. s, nominal; No. 4, nom
inal. Corn-No. 2, 5O1SCa502lc. Oats-No.
2, 2675G027c. Rye-No. /, 56t056zc. Bar
ley-No. aspiring, 65Ca66c.
Prof. Henry, of the State University,
says corn in Wisconsin this year will be
very poor, not more than four-ffths Of last
years yield, and that was poor for Wis
consin. If frost should appear by Septem-
Der 10, which he thinks not improbable,
there will be virtually no crop at all.
Another discouraging fact, he alleges, is
the importation of seed from Nebraska,
which will require two or three weeks
more time to mature than native seed.
Win Crassen, eight years old, was
drowned in Lake Monona, at Madison, a
few days ago, while fishing from the rail-
road bridge.
A boy, fifteen years of age, named
George Silverthorn, was drowned while
attempting to swim across the Wisconsin
River at Wausaw, Marathon County, few
days ago. The body was recovered soon
afterward. Deceased was a nephew of
Senator w. c. Silverthorn.
MILFORD Wilfred Vicaux, of Muskego
Center, Waukesha County, only five years
and two months old, is the coming musical
prodigy. He knows three hundred airs by
ear, has composed duet and march, and
is an accomplished performer on the
violin.
The ice-house and store-sheds of the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad,
at Manitowoe, were burned few days ago.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The
cause of the fire was unknown. Three
new engines, an engine-tender, baggage
car and considerable timber were burned.
A high wind was blowing, and two build
ings across the river caught fire from
sparks, but were saved.
Articles Of association were few DAYS
ago filed with the Secretary of State as
follows: Edgerton Tobacco Manufacture
ing Company, designing to make up and
deal in Wisconsin tobacco; capital stock,
$4,000. Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber
Company; capital stock, 100000.
Dan White, Of Eau Claire, loaned a
horse and buggy to wayfarer few days
ago, and recovered his property at La
Crosse, where it had been abandoned by
the individual who borrowed it.
Peter Malloy, a member of the firm of j.
Malloy & Brother, dealers in dry-goods
and groceries, and one of the most promi-
nent business men of Watertown, Jeffer-
son County, died at his home the other
night, of dropsy, aged forty three years.
Deceased came to Watertown with his par
ents from Hogansburg, NY, nearly forty
years ago, and, with the exception of a
few years, had ever since lived in that
place. Mr.. Malloy leaves wife, three
sons and two daughters.
An eagle, after flying recently about the
city of Madison for some time, finally
made itself voluntary captive in a room
of bathing establishment.
A very peculiar case was settled in a
Milwaukee Justice Court recently. Ac-
cording to the evidence of the plaintiff, a
raven, belonging to Conrad Mehler, few
off with the plaintiffs gold ring, which
was laying on bench where the plaintiff
was washing. The ring was never seen
again, and the plaintiff, highly exasper-
ated at the thievish inclinations of the
raven, proceeded to hold the owner re-
sponsible, and commenced suit for the
value of the ring. The owner of the bird,
after considerable wrangling, Paid the
peculiarly-robbed woman the price of the
ring, besides settling the costs of the ac-
ton.
A girl named Bertha Hatfeldt, about
twenty years old, was taken to Appleton,
Outagamie County, a few days ago, from
near New London, and lodged in jail,
where she had to be bound to keep from
injuring herself. She came over from Ger
many some time ago and on the voyage
mast fell and killed five persons, she being
on the deck at the time. Since then she
has been growing gradually insane, till at
present she is perfectly mad.
Grace Courtland, of Chicago, has brought
suit in the County Court, at Milwaukee, to
compel her late husband, Davis, to pay
$1,000 alimony, alleged to have been
awarded her some time since but never
paid. Mrs. CORTLAND came into notoriety
lately by cowhiding a young man on the
public street. She has at times dabbled in
New York stocks, being known in that city
as the (Which of Wall street.
Charles S. Fuller has been reappointed
County Judge Of Crawford County.
The following delegates have been APP
pointed by Governor Rusk to represent
Wisconsin at the National Conference of
Charities and Reforms, which is called to
oE n.
Prof. G. HI. Haskins and AIRS. d. H. John
son, OF Milwaukee; Miss Ella A Giles, of
Madison; William Ellwell, OF Sheboygan;
Mrs. D. A. Olin, OF Racine;. John Mather,
of La Crosse, and DIR. J. G. Hall, Of Mon
roe.
It is said that stamp-mil1 is to be put
up in Navarino, Shawano County, for the
purpose of crushing the gold and silver
bearing rock found in that town and
Lessor. Some of TIE rock found near the
site of Mr.. Vang's new mill in Lessor, it is
claimed, viii assay sixty dollars to the
ton, gold and silver.
John johnson and John Swenson, drunk,
returning to their home few days ago, at
Clay Banks, Door County, quarreled with
Jd0S dO4uSOu, anu OOlH Johnson was
struck by Jams on the skull and fatally in
jured.
The Oconto, a propellermade atthe Man
itowoc port in 1872, was sold to gentle
man from Jacksonville, Mich, for SIS, 1000.
Edward Haynes, of Green Bay, Brown
County, who claimed he was only twenty
one years old, was surprised to find
the other day through the help of an
old lady who had known him since he was
baby, that he was twenty-four years old,
and could in no way account for the mis-
take, as it is the same way with the age Of
his brothers.
Members Of the Colby family authorize
denial of the story that Mr.. Charles L.
Colby, son of the late Gardner Colby, has
given s., 100000 to found a university in
Wisconsin,