The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-13
Wisconsin Items.


struck his desk with his gavel and declared
the Assembly adjourned sine die.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No 1, nominal; No. .,
$1.O4A(01.O5; No. 8, s4k67S5c; No. 4, 73a
7374c. Corn-No. 3, 5205296e. Oats-No.
2, +36434c. Rye-No. 1, 57(G57kc. Bar.
ley, No. 2 Spring, nominal.
A couple of doctors of Milwaukee re-
Gently performed very difficult surgical
operation on a six-year-old son of J. w.
Campbell, of that city. A large stone was
successfully removed from the little fell
lows bladder. A case of this kind in one
so young is very rare.
Two little boys, one twelve and the other
six years ofage, were dosed with liquor on
train near Eau Claire by facetious pas
senger until the elder became dead drunk
and the younger died outright.
Fire broke out on the afternoon of the I'd
| in shanty near Rideout's mill at Eland,
Shawano County, and burned over three
quarters of an acre, consuming four
million feet of lumber, worth 900. Bad
ger & Gould, of Oshkosh, lose $50, 900 worth /;
S. Bryant, $4,000 worth. The lumber was
the result of winters work. There was
| little or no insurance.
At Milwaukee the other night Minnie
| Willis, thirteen years of age, while lighting
fire at her home ON the South side, was
enveloped in flames by back puff from the
stove and fatally burned.
The friends of Paul Bechtner, one of Mil
Yankees business men, are gossiping in an
| elated manner concerning a noteworthy in
cident of his married life. Mr. Bechtner
has three children, two girls and one boy,
| all of whom were born on the 1st of April.
These children are not triplets. The age of
the eldest is ten years, the second one
year, and the third was born ten minutes
before the midnight hour on the 1st. The
| incident is considered remarkable one
| here. ~ F5.r -4.ats
| Thomas G. Martin, of Milwaukee, clerk
of the court of Waukesha County, was yes
| terday arrested for violation of the Pension
| law, and held to bail in the sum of $500 by
| Commissioner Bloodgood. Martin secured
apension of 1850 for one Gottfried Haver-
stein, living near Waukesha. For this serv-
ice he exacted a fee of $40, where the law
allows only $40, and afterwards demanded
81 additional. Haverstein declined to
! honor this last draft, and reported the case
| to the authorities in charge in Washington,
| who caused Martins arrest.
| The North Wisconsin Lumber Company,
with a capital of $4,000, is building a
fine mil at Hayward, with a capacity of
100000 feet of lumber a season.
| Perry H. Smith, of Chicago, has been
| placed in the State Insane Asylum at Mad
ison. as
| A petition in probate in the matter of the
property of Ex-Governor William F. Smith
was filed recently. 1t shows he was worth
| $40 ,000-owned no real estate-all personal
property. 1t was the request of the widow
| that Ira B. Smith be appointed admins
| traitor. rf......... .. ...
| George Rothsack, the Pole confined in
the county jail at Manitowoc to await
| trial for the murder of his wife last sum-
| mer, escaped few nights ago by means of
theyault,and no trace ofhim had been found
afioat as to the time and mapner in which
he escaped. Some are of the opinion that
he had accomplices from without and
others that he did the act unaided. The
Jailer contends that he was in his cell when
he locked it at night, but the probability
is that he is mistaken in this, or that Roth
| sack fixed his bed so as to appear that it was
occupied and then hid in the vault until
night, when he worked his way to the outer
world through the very insecure covering
to the vault. a..aar
State Treasurer McFetridge gives notice
that all State lands withdrawn from sale
by resolution of the Legislature early in
the session, are now again in the market at
the old price-$1.25 per acre. The Legisla-
ture did not raise the price of lands which
have been in the market-only on newly
selected lands. These newly-selected lands
will be offered at public sale for So per acre,
some future day, to be fixed by the Land
Commissioners.
AIr. Lewis, United States District Attor-
ney at Madison, has been directed to enter
a nolle prosequi in the case of Colonel
Thomas Reynolds, indicted for forging
pension papers, conditioned upon Reynolds
returning to the Government the amount
involved, $500. In his letter the Attorney
General said that he had been presented
with mammoth petition, accompanied by
averystrong and urgent letter from General
W. T. Sherman, for the qDashing of the in
dictment against Colonel Reynolds, and
that he would feel justified in needing the
prayer upon the letter of General Sherman
alone. The petition, however, was signed
by very large number of the most promi-
nent men of Wisconsin, including Supreme
Court Judges, State officers, all the men,
bers of the Wisconsin delegation in Wash
ington except one Representative who was
absent at the time the paper was being cir
culated, the Wisconsin State. officers, a
large proportion of the Legislature and al
most innumerable old soldiers.
+ At Milwaukee a few days ago Maria Rein
hardt was arraigned before United States
Commissioner for opening a letter that did
not belong to her and divulging its con-
tents. Maria was bound over for trial.
Nine thousand five hundred men were
engaged in Chippewa pineries during the
past winter.
Ex-Chief John Black, of the Milwaukee
Fire Department, has been offered the po-
sition of Chief of the st. Paul Depart
ment, with a salary of $780, This is the
position declined by Shay, of Chicago.
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