The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-30

open competition. The reports of this pool
came to the ears of the Commissioners,
and they made an investigation and found
that the pool had bought the lands at
minimum price, having held the auction
among themselves, and resold at large
advance on the Price, it is said from $4,000
to 100000 above the price realized to the
State The Commissioners, after hear.
ing, were convinced that fraudulent COM
bination was made, and have set aside the
sales. The lands belong to the educational
and drainage funds of the State.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations; Wheat-No. /, 50 6096c; No.
2, 92(a93c; No. 8, nominal; No. 4, nominal.
Corn-No. 2, 491aG150c. Oats-No. 2, 2S16(0
29c. Rye-No. 1, 562l057c. Barley-No.
2 Spring, 592406Oc.
A weak minded fellow named Byron H.
Loucks took possession recently of horse
and dray hitched upon the street in Apple
ton, and started countryward, but was
overtaken by an officer and brought back.
He was considered insane, and application
had been made for his admission to the
Northern Hospital. -es
George Grimshaw, who will be one hum
bred and four years old the 22d of April,
1884, is now resident of thetown of Polar,
Langdale County. He was born in the
town of Harville, Coos County, N. H., and
his home at present is with his grandson.
Last spring, at the age of one hundred and
three, he cleared the timber from an acre
al o,,
attended to and raised one hundred and
fifty bushels of potatoes and other vege-
tables, but the old man acknowledged with
a sigh that he felt 'quite young then" He
is still able to tramp from seven to ten
miles through the woods, cut and split
wood for the house, and do other work.
The shipments of iron ore from the
Northern Wisconsin mining regions con-
tinue to show a decided falling off. AS
compared with last year the decrease so
far is 562, 913 tons.
Two Milwaukee lads of the class who
read dime novels, have confessed to the
recent shooting of a car-driver in the at
tempt to steal his cash-box. Their victim
was still alive.
L. B. Day. well-known in mercantile
circles in Milwaukee, died of apoplexy
few days ago.
1t has been ascertained that Allie Sea-
bright, whose hymns are found in every
gospel hymn book, is the nom de plume of
Miss Ellen Young, Milwaukee young lady.
Considerable amusement was occasioned
in some sections of the State on election
day, from the fact that many people were
laboring under the idea that Wisconsin, as
well as Massachusetts, New York and
some other States was holding election.
In the North, men came out of the woods
into the country villages to vote, and it is
chronicled that a young school-mistress
near Sturgeon Bay dismissed her school,
thinking that the school-house would be
used as a polling place as usual.
Mrs. Libbie Strong, young woman who
had been a resident of Appleton, Outa-
game County, recently walked from that
city to Milwaukee, carrying a sixteen
months-old child in her arms. 1t appeared
that her husband deserted her some time
since, and she was in destitute circum-
stances, and Therefore attemp ed to walk
to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she has rela-
tives. On arriving in Milwaukee she was
forwarded the rest of the journey by the
Associated Charities.
Emma Larsen, of Green Lake County,
who left her home April 25 for San Fran
cisco and made an overland trip on horse
back unattended by any one, has reached
her destination none the worse for wear or
tear. She intends to return home in tdle
same manner the early part of next spring.
The body of William T. Jones, a resident
of Ixonia, Jefferson County, was found
near his home few days ago suspen led by
rope from tree. Deceased had been
missing for some time, and search re-
suited in the discovery. Jones was sixty
years old, and leaves wife but no children.
Three dirty boys, aged respectively ten,
thirteen and fourteen years, were dug out
from under the stairs back of an old build
ing in Milwaukee the other night, where
they had private den to which they
brought the proceeds of their petty steal
ings, and melted themselves to deeds of
darkness by reading dime novels in their
retreat.
One of the largest transfers of real estate
ever made in st. Croix County was made
& Robinson's extensive property to Chan
mel & Hayward, leading real-estate men of
Minneapolis. The transfer includes mills,
pine lands, warehouses and all other prop
erty, except Mr.. Bartlett's residence and
farm. The consideration is $4,000.
The State Treasurer had $751;, 100 on hand
at the close of last month.
A general braw1 occurred at a ball given
by the carpenters and masons at Sheboy-
gan the other night, and number of the
principals are now jailed. Three men
were seriously cut by young man, who
claimed he acted in self-defense.
The widows appear to be playing hob
with young men of excitable temporal
ments and minus a regulator. A Mani
towoc man, one Davis, 1anguishes in Jail
because he wanted to shoot a widow who
loved him not.
The State Board of Charities and Reform
report 499 chronic insane patients in the
county asylums in the State.
The Light House Board recommends the
creation of the Seventeenth District from
Lake Michigan, with headquarters at Mil,
waukee. A new light station at the latter
city, where the lake is encroaching on the
old one, demands an appropriation Of
$15. 900.
The Coroner's Jury which investigated
the capitol disaster at Madison has found
Contractor Nowlan guilty of grave error in
improperly repairing a second-story pier,
and censured Architects Jones and Koch
for designing the interior without due re-
gard for its safety.