The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-25
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: sWheat-No. 1, nominal; No. 3,
$1.10C01.1S14; No. 8, SS(0S9c; No. A, 750
T5Kc Crn-No. 2, 5614 f0567Sc. Oats-No.
2, 41fa4115c. Rye-No. 1, 631zC0634c. Bar
ley-No, .. Spring, 70t071c.
Colonel Thomas Reynolds paid Sc, 761. %
at Madison few days ago to United States
District Attorney Lewis, being the amount
stolen by him from the Government by
means of forged certificates. In considera-
ton Of this payment and the personal APP
peal of General Sherman and others of his
old war comrades, criminal prosecution
against him was formally dismissed.
The Colonel is now seventy years of age,
and one Of the most gallant veterans sent
out from Wisconsin. He has greatly aged
in the last few months, and is now ply
steal wreck. He has but little property
left, and says he now only wishes to hide
himself and wait for death.
A spark from a passing locomotive set
fire to the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Conpany's woodpile at Augusta
few days ago, and 300 cords of woodwere
consumed.
A white oak tree was cut down few
days ago on tie farm belonging to Mrs.
Sarah Battle, seven miles south of Lam
caster, Grant County, which was twelve
and half fee in circumference, and con-
tanned two hundred and twenty three year
rings.
The Bass Bland Stone Quarry opposite
Bayfield,, Bayfield, County, is to be worked
to its utmost capacity this season. Large
deliveries IF the stone will be Iuade at
Milwaukeeand Chicago.
A. A. Brooks, of Eau Claire, has patented
railroadguard wheel intended to prevent
cars from being ditched when thrown from
a rail by spreading or otherwise. The
model will be on exhibition the National
Railway Exhibition in Chicago, which will
be opened May24.
Governor Rdsk has appointed General
James Bintlif a member of the State Board
of Supervisor, to succeed himself, for
the term Of five years from the first Mon
day in MAJ. Samuel G. johnson, NJ D., of
Hudson, St. Croix County, has been APP
pointed member of the State Board of
Health aid Vital Statistics for the residue
of the term ending upon the first Monday
in February, 1887, vice James Bintliff, re-
signed. Erslil Wallber, of Milwaukee, has
been appointed a member of the Board of
Normal School Regents for the residue of
the term ending upon the first Monday in
February, 1885, vice James McAllister, of
Milwaukee, resigned.
Another lumber-mill, with capacity of
$4,000 let per day, has resumed operation,
at Eau Claire. The new mill of Wyman &
Wilson, in course of erection on Hay
Creek, al important tributary of the Red
Cedar, will be ready for service soon. A
great del of lumber has been forwarded
by raft % the Mississippi. Sand-bars are
showingthemselves in the Chippewa, but
raft pilfs report good channel to the
mouth Of the river, and millions of feet of
logs arescattered between Eau Claire and
the Beet Slough Works. Three hundred
men are now engaged at the works, turn
ing out 100000 feet per day.
Allen Kennedy, Of Ashland, Ashland
County son of D. A. Kennedy, Superin-
dent of khe Superior Lumber Company,
accidentally killed himself the other day
while oU duck-hunting on Fish Creek
slough. He drew his gun out of boat,
when the hammer caught, discharging the
piece, and sending full load of shot
through the back of his head. He died al
most instantly.
A fire tpke out few mornings ago in
the southern portion Of the immense lum-
Der yards at Auburndale, Wood County,
station On the Wisconsin Central Rail-
road, consuming about S0,000,000 feet of
lumber, MOSTLY pine, and five cars belong
ing to the Wisconsin Central Railroad,
which had been set in to load. A heavy
wind blew from the south at the time.
The loss vas estimated at 100000.
Judge Newman decided at La Crosse "a
few days ago on the Washburn will con-
test, arriving at the same conclusions re-
Gently realhed by Judge Veland at Mime
apolis. The estate will net 100000, of
which the widow gets 100000, and parties
IN Minneapolis and La Crosse 1896, 900, |
leaving mqe than 100000 to be applied in
the mannet set forth in the will, and is sup
posed to beample to cover all requests.
There are only nine female prisoners in
the State pIison.
The boilsr in Merricks & Gibbs saw
mill at Green Bay, Brown County, ex-
ploded faw days ago, and young man |
employed about the mill was severely but |
not fatally injured by the escaping steam.
A new pst-ofice in Door County has |
been named Hedgehog.
A corps Of surveyors. has commenced |
laying out the route of the new railroad to
be built between Chippewa Falls and Eau
Claire, known as the Chippewa Falls & |
Southern Railway. The road will follow
the Chippewa as nearly as practicable, and
will touch at various mills between the two
places. The new road is being built by the
Omaha Company. Grading is to be COM
pleted and the road-bed ready for the ties
by the 25th If June.
The Switchboard of Supervision reports
that during April last the average number
of inmates in the principal State institu-
tions was as follows: State Insane Hos
pital at M.dison, 475; Northern Insane
Hospital at Oshkosh, 574; State Prison at
Waupun, 355, Industrial School for Bows
at Waukesha, 2S2; Deaf and Dumb Insti.
tute at Delavln, 1888; and Blind Institution
at Janesvf1le,59.
John LapiAsky, aged fourteen years, an
employee in conway's planing-mill, at Mil
waukee, was instantaneously killed the
other afternoon by descending elevator
while peeringdown the shaft.
A man named Martin Kencit blew out
the gas in his room at Milwaukee few
nights ago and was suffocated.
Marvin Fenler, who killed his friend,
John Kessler, for pair of mules, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment a few days
ago at Grand Rapids, Wood County, four
days of each year to be spent in solitary
confinement.
A gang of hoodlums which infest Milwau-
kee, and amuse themselves by cutting har-
ness up into threads and hurting stones
through windows of cars are about to go
through process of law, as warrants for
The arrest of two Of the youthful pirates
+I,o Lot,