The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-14
WISCONSIN Items.


The following are the Milwaukee grain
VACATIONS; Wheat-No. 1, 9415CG954c; No.
2, 92idSSaG No. 5, nominal; No. 4, nominal
Corn-No. 2, 547zGa 553Sc. Oats-No. ,, 29]I0
soc. Rye-No. 1, 56&057c. Barley-No.
2 Spring, 62C662&c.
A tar-and-feather. party visited Truman
]. Smiths house at Watertown, jefferson
County, the other night, but he fired on
them, wounding one seriously. Smith re-
Gently savagely assaulted his wife, break.
ing her leg, because their children were all
females.
man by the name of Kelly, who
claimed to be a deserter from the Soldiers
Home at Milwaukee, was arrested at Ash
land, Ashland County, few nights ago as
vagrant. In the morning when the jan
itor went to give him his breakfast he
found him dead in his bed. He was about
seventy years of age.
A young man named Sauter, who was
arrested last spring for tampering with
letters while in the mail service, has been
brought back to La Crosse to answer the
@harge. He had jumped his bail and was
living IN Houston County, MINI. On the
way to La Crosse, while manacled, he
jumped from the cars but was recaptured.
A cyclone in Crawford County the other
night blew down three residences near
Bridgeport. A lady named Mary Marvin,
who lived alone, was buried in the ruins of
her house. When her remains were found
the next morning her skull was split open
and her body frozen.
John Christians, a Swede, twenty five
years old and employed as a clerk in
Ravens & Co.'s jewelry store at Spencer,
Marathon County, was arrested few days
ago, charged with stealing jewelry and
musical instruments from the firm amount
ing to about $1,000. A search of his trunk
brought to light nearly all the stolen
goods. Christians entered plea of guilty
before Justice Richardson, who bound him
over in the sum of $4,000.
E. j. Bennett and wife, who hold lease
of double building in Milwaukee, were
recently arrested for incendiarism, kero-
sene having been ignited in five different
places about the premises.
Mrs. John Fitzpatrick walked off an
abutment at the approach of bridge in
Green Bay, Brown County, the other night,
and was in a critical condition. The fall
was fifteen feet on to a rocky bottom.
Hiram Blair, an old resident of Augusta,
Eau Claire County, took an overdose of
morphine by mistake few days ago, and
died.
M. J. Mendelsohn, proprietor of the
United States clothing store at Milwaukee,
made an assignment recently for $10,0 900.
The State Farmers Convention, under
the auspices of the State Agricultural So
ciety, will meet in Madison the first week
in February. An unusually interesting
session is anticipated. Miss Frances E.
Willard is invited to deliver an address on
temperance and amusementS at State and
county fairs. Miss Ella Wheeler will con-
tribute poem, and Prof. E. G. Morrow, of
Chicago, will deliver lecture on the fat
stock show and its lessons.
John B. Dent, of Spencer, Marathon
County, prominent farmer, was accident
ally shot the other morning. Himself and
a son, aged about fourteen years, were out
hunting, when the boy stumbled and his
gun was discharged, the charge of buck
shot striking his father in the hip. Hedied
soon after.
A mill-dam at Jefferson, Jefferson Coun-
ty, has been purchased by the farmers in
it's vicinity for $4,000, in the expectation
that its removal will reclaim twenty thou
sand acres of overfowed land.
A new post-ofice has been established at
Worthwhile, Marathon County. The office
at Main, Marathon County, has been dis
continued.
Nineteen stalwart fellows who had been
hanging about Milwaukee for two or three
days and sleeping at night at the police
stations were booked for vagrancy few
days ago. When arraigned in the Munich
pal Court Judge Mallory gave them each
ninety days at hard labor and ten days.
solitary confinement. This demoralized
them. Three of the men attempted to es-
cape, but were caught.
Sister M. Alberta, for twenty-one years
past religieuse of the order of Saint
Dominica at Sinsinawa Mound, Grant
County, died at the convent of that place
few days ago. She was one of five sis
tiers who became members of Catholic or
ders, one of them being at the present
time Superioress of the Dominican Con.
vent at Washington, D. G. Sister Alberta
was an accomplished musician, and had
one of the finest contralto voices in the
country.
Mr.. E. F. Kellogg, of Chicago, travelling
salesman for firm of lumber-dealers of
Merrill, Lincoln County, was drowned at
that place few days ago. His body had
been recovered.
The annual financial meeting of the Wis
consin State Agricultural Society was
held in the State House at Madison few
days ago. Thereport of the Treasurer for
the fiscal year showed receipts of $25, 10
and disbursements of $22, 1853. This showing
would doubtless result in the permanent
location of the State Fair at Madison.
Jacob G. Bronsky, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa
County, has failed. His liabilities and as
sets were placed at $4,000.
The medical fraternity of the Chippewa
Valley met in session at Eau Claire few
days ago and organized a permanent So
ciety, to be known as the Chippewa Valley
Medical and Surgical Society.
A few days ago an old lady arrived in
Buckeye at $3.50 p. M, and before nine
O'Clock was married to a resident of the
town. She was fifty years of age and the
groom twenty.
DIR. John Favill, while giving testimony
in courtroom at Madison the other day
was stricken with paralysis.
Mrs. Bennett, wife of j. R. Bennett, who
was arrested few days ago for setting
fire to their dwelling at Milwaukee, has
made confession, saying that her hus-
band engaged in the act to secure the in
surance, and detailing the manner of the
rhine. Bennett asserted that his wife's
story was falsehood.
At four O'Clock the other morning the
sash, door and blind factory and lumber
yard owned by a. H. johnson, at Menomi-
nee, Dunn County, were destroyed by fire.
The loss was estimated at S16,QQ0g in.
sur nee, $1,000,