The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-22
Wisconsin Items.


quotations: Wheat-No. /, nominal; No. 2,
$1.OS01.OS1s;! No. 8, nominal; No. 4, NOM
inal. Corn-No. 2, 560563zc. Oats-No.
2, 39k(040c. Rye-No. l, 60G060hc. Bar
ley-No. Spring, nominal.
Carl Schurz, chief editor of the New York
Eeening Post, will deliver the Fourth of
July grafton at Eau Claire.
There are 1920 miles of telegraph wires
in the State, with 395 stations and 204 opera
tives. -
The noted Bennett-Hogle murder case,
from Wausau, came to a close the other
afternoon in Lacrosse, with a verdict pro-
nouncing Bennett at the time of the MUIR
der insane. Bennett on the first trial two
srnr---sF 20 vas convicted of rn1r1'1e., n.-i
sentenced to life imprisonment. Strong
efforts were made for new trial, which
was granted, andresulted in the above YER
dict Bennett and Hogle were rival den
fists of WausaaI, and the murder was COM
mitted on the 10th of August, 1880, Bennett
deliberately shooting Hogle. @
The Common Council of Milwaukee has,
by making itself a Court of Appeals, taken
from the Mayor the right to revoke licenses
of saloon-keepers.
Thomas Farley, a rag and iron dealer of
La Crosse, attempted to kill his wife the
other night, and then poisoned himself,
from the effects of which he died. His wife
would recover from her injuries. Farley
had been drinking heavily, in consequence
of which he had been insane, and this, to-
gether with domestic and financial trou-
bles, resulted in his actions and death. Fl
Pantz & Denway's woolen-mills and Dob
bert's tannery, both situated near the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway
Depot, at Manitowoc, were destroyed by
fire at an early hour the other morning.
The fire was supposed to have originated
from spontaneous combustion in WOODEN
waste in the woolen-mills. The total loss
was estimated at $4,000.
James Hickox, one of the ablest and most
brilliant attorneys of Milwaukee, is in the
county Jail on charge of abandoning his
family. Hickox has been running down
hill very rapidly for some months past,
and has been drinking heavily. His condi-
ton finally became such that it was feared
he would become hopelessly insane, and to
afford him an opportunity to recover men,
tai and physical health he was arrested on
a formal charge, and would be kept locked
up to await developments.
According to Mr.. f. H. King, of the Wis.
consin State Survey, the bird population
of the State is 1866, 900, consuming an ag-
gregate of over 81 900 900 insects every
|, season. f.tf ,sz5s8fs ut -nsF =. ts.
Recent rains have increased the volume
| of water in the Rock River and its tribu.
| taries in Wisconsin, and log-driving has
been resumed. Should the food increase,
100,000,000 feet of logs, now ''hung up 2 in
that stream, would be started for the mills.
The "man hole" cap blew out of boiler
in Marshield (Wood County, spoke fac
tory the other day, filling the freman's pit
to the depth of eighteen inches with boiling
water. The engineer. and his assistant mar
rowly escaped a terrible death.
At Prairie du Chen, Crawford County
the other day workman at astone quarry
rolled huge stone down an embankment
| The stone struck Edward Menges, who was
at the foot of the hill at the time, breaking
one of his legs and mangling an arm.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of the State
has preferred charges against the late de
faulting Grand Secretary, John w. Wood.
! hull, and an investigation will be held in
June, 1884 E ~
/ Miss M. Mears, of Flambeau, has been
appointed County Superintendent OF
Schools of the new County of Sawyer, and
Miss Clara Stratton, of Rice Lake, County
= a +bo ,,.x,, r.o,,,,txr IF w. cI
burn. sIa5 t. q
Principal j. NJ. Raft, of Manitowoc, has
resigned. the position he held at that place
and has removed to Dawson, OAK, to en-
| gage in the real estate and loan business
i Mr.. Raft graduated at the Platteville Nor
NAL School in the class of 1869, and ha!
taught in the public schools of the Stat,
almost constantly since, holding many re
sponsible positions.
Larsen, Hansen. g. Co.'s contractors
building supplies factory at La Crosse wa
burned a few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
The thirty-frst annual session of thu
Wisconsin Teachers Association will b.
held at Sheboygan from July II to the 18th
The meeting, of the city and county Super
'ntendents will be held at Sheboygan july
j, and the institute conductors meeting
July 10.
The stock in the store of C. J. Hyde, a
Plattville, Grant County, was badly dam
aged by fire, smoke and water a few morn
lings ago. 1t was insured for 5000, which
would cover the loss. The fire was sup
posed to have caught from cigar or mattel
thrown under the counter,