The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
WISCONSIN, items.

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The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. /, nominal; No. 2,
97%098c; No. 8, nominal; No. 4, NOM
inal. Corn-No. 2, 4915G0494c. Oats-No.
2, 35C033]Sc. Rye-No. 1, 52t052Kc. Bar
ley-No. Spring, 47(04S. Ag a a9l
The receipts of the Milwaukee Post-office
for the fiscal year ended June so aggre-
gated $3.50, 900, an increase of $50, 900 over
the business of the previous year.
The startling fact was made public at
Madison few days ago that the City
School fund was entirely exhausted and
that the corporation, having indebtedness
of $229, 500,which is slightly over the con-
stitutional limit of five per cent. of the
valuation of the taxable property of the
city, could not borrow any more. Enough
money was on hand to close out the schools
this term, but there seemed to be no alter
native but to close the schools during the
fall. The banks offered to make an indivi-
dual loan of $4,000 to the officers Of the
Board of Education, but the latter declined
taking the personal responsibility. The
cause of the shortage in all the city funds
is the great expense of the water-works
system, now being put in by the city an
liberties. es, -,9te., j.
| The old Hammond mill, at Depere, Brown
| County, tumbled down, a mass of ruins, a
/ few afternoons ago, occasioned by the I'M
dermining Of the water. One boy, named
Nell Sutherland, was buried in the ruins
and killed. t, safI e.fF ..t.., f..e Els.
/ The wife of John Morrison shot four
| times at Sheriff James Redmond, of Flor
ence County, the other afternoon, and was
/ in turn shot in the breast and the leg at
/ the ankle by him. Morrison is a hard case,
and his wife is just as bad. He was ar
rested by Redmond for small INSIDE
meanor, and she tried to kill the officer in
revenge. The woman was seriously
wounded, but would recover. Morrison
| keeps saloon. ...f
Henry Barney, a carpenter, aged about
| forty, entered saloon on Washington
street, Green Bay,a short time ago, and
| proceeded to a room upstairs and laid
! down. In the evening an iemploye of the
I place went up TO the room to arouse him
| and discovered that he was dead. The
cause of his death was not known.
| A young man named Frank Emery has
been forging and uttering due-bills, rang
/ ing from sixty dollars to ninety dollars, at
points along the North Wisconsin Railway,
in st. Croix County. He victimized parties
| at Willow River, Deer Park, Hudson and
New Richmond. The last seen Of him was
at Roberts, Station. The rogue's home is
in Saltwater, MINI. IL.
| Elroy Duncan County, young ladies
have organized a broom brigade. .4ss
/ Since last August when the Milwaukee
& Northern Railway passed into the hands
of the present management there has been
a steady Improvement in rolling-stock,
equipment, road-bed, etc. About sixty
miles of new road in the form of extern
sions have been built, and the contract let
for constructing an additional stretch Ct
sixty-five miles. Shortly after assuming
control of the road the new company
placed an order for seventeen new loco
motives, fifteen of which by the coming
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placed in regular service, in. addition to
those in use at the time the road was
taken.
Chris Schmitt's team, attached to a farm
er's wagon, ran away on Forest Home
avenue, Milwaukee, few mornings
ago frightened by band of music in
a procession of children from the
Eleventh District School, and dashed
through the ranks of the little girls, land
ing amidst spectators on the sidewalk.
They broke loose at this point, and
trampled people under their hoofs in every
direction. One schoolgirl named Horlake
was killed, Schnnitt received fatal injuries,
and Mrs. Engle, who saved the lives Of two
little ones bypushing them aside, was her
self severely kicked about the hips. The
list of seriously wounded included daugh-
tiers of Peter Weiss, Mr.. Hennings, William
Luebke and two infant daughters of VAL
enta Siberia. Most of the injured were
spectators. 1t was estimated that over a
dozen were cut, more or less, by the horses
hoofs. 5fA # s
| The boiler in Ives & Hale's saw-inil1, at
Whittlesey, exploded a few days ago, kill
ing Donald Garrish, the engineer, John
Stoner, a laborer,- and John Spencer, a
negro fireman. aetlt 9liHP 8N
A terrible cyclone visited the village of
Durand, Pepin County, few mornings
ago before daybreak, blowing the roofs
from prominent buildings and prostrating
crops. The loss was considerable.
James Reilly, a farmer living in the
town of Washington, Eau Claire County,
was struck and killed by lightning during
heavy thunderstorm the other afternoon.
Reilly was one of the Supervisors Of the
town he lived in, and was welltodo and
much-respected citizen. He leaves small
family to mourn the loss.
There remained balance in the State
Treasury, July 1, of 1921, ISL. s
Arrangements are making for about two
hundred Milwaukeeans to attend the
musical convention at Buffalo, N. Y, July
is. The party will leave at noon Sunday,
July 10, by special cars, arriving at Buff
falo in the afternoon of the day following
In the concerts during the convention the
Milwaukee Society will take part in all the
grand choruses. The party will be bsent
about a week, visiting Niagara Falls and a
number of other interesting points before
returning.
The Revenue Collector decapitated at Des
Moines is brother of General Sherman,
who has held the position fifteen year.
About six O'Clock a few evenings ago a
well-dressed woman called at the Clayton
House, Milwaukee, and asked for and was
assigned to room. She arose the next
morning at five O'Clock and hastily depart.