The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-19
Wisconsin Items.

The Comptroller of Milwaukee raised a
breeze few days ago by refusing to audit
bills for $250,000, contracted last year for
payment from the appropriations for 1888, as
hegave due notice of the exhaustion of his
mney-drawer. l
Dominic Fox, railroad man, had his foot
calght in frog in the Northwestern yards
at milwaukee the other day, and was run
down and killed
The wife of Emil Duval, of Green Bay, died
suddenly at an early hour the other morning.
She had just returned from party, and while
sitting in a chair expired. Heart disease was
the cause assigned.
In B52 Josiah A. Noonan and John j. Or
ton, Of Milwaukee, went to law over some
triviaimatter. Both were rich and obstinate
and the lawyers said 'stibboyl'' The two
therefore continued the fight. instituting and
contesting over one hundred suits in twenty
nine ysars when, year ago, Noonan was
obliged to give it up as he had made himself
a pauper by the contest He went to the in
sane ssylum last summer, wrecked in body
and mind as well as in purse and died there
a few days ago.
0nthe 18th of December q man was killed
in sw-mill at Whitefsh Bay, Door County.
A boy named Willie Hayes witnessed the hor-
rible accident, and was frightened so badly by
thescene that he died few days ago from
theeffects of the shock to his nervous sys-
tenn.
M. j. Hanback,, prominent merchant OF
Green Bay, was recently arrested on the
charge of Sprague, Warner & Co., Chicago,
that lie embezzled.S 50, coo in funds intrusted to
him in the commission business.
The gun-shop of ]. G. Welles at Milwau-
kee was burglarized the other night The
thieves carried off number of revolYers and
knives, and some other property.
.icque Charles, of the town of Union, Door
Comfy, died suddenly while on his way home
from Green Bay the other day. He stopped
at public house in the Bay settlement to get
diner, and while eating leaned his head on
hishands and died. He was seventy-six years
old
She following appointments have been made
byMr. Carr Chief Clerk of the Assembly
Fist Assistant, J. W. Murphy, of Mar
quite; Second Assistant, j. L. O'Connor, of
Dine; Book Keeper c. L. Clark, of Rock
Ppof-Reader, G. W. Stone of Dane; Enroll
ing Clerk, E. Blumenfeldt, of jefferson
Expressing Clerk, G. Holden, of Juneau
Trmscribing Clerk, John Douglas, of Dodge
Enrolling room Attendant, Otto Lawrenz, OF
Marathon.
At Fond du Lac on the 18th Peter Pehl, a
cdbbler, in disturbance with his wife,
fab o6 ont 4
dtughter interfered, and, wild with rage he
seized her about the neck and strangled her,
fhm the effects of which she died within an
hDur. Pehl was arrested and placed in the
ldcll-up. He is believed to be insane.
Rev. Lucien G. Lance, D. D., Chaplain of
Hemper Hall, at Kenosha, died of typhoid
pneumonia on the morning of the 18th.
A Kansas City special announces the arrest
at that place of a man named Murray, alias
Holden, on suspicion of having abducted
Maggie Hennecke from Milwaukee last Octo-
Ter. ~
The city of Milwaukee is reported by the
Health Officer to be entirely free from diph
iberia.
Of the one hundred members of the Wis
'onsin Assembly forty are of foreign birth,
ind only eight are native Badgers.
Pembroke R. Proctor has been commits
stoned postmaster at DePere, Brown County
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St Paul Railway fer the first week in January
were $343,O0O, against $4,000 for the same
week last year.
James Yallup an old resident of Milwaukee,
was fatally injured by the cars few after
moons ago.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. ], nominal; No q,
s7@971lc; No. 8. S31I@S3slc; No. A. 691S@
$3.50 Corn-No. 2, 5415@55c Oats No. 2. 36t@
361zc. Rye-No. 1, 59I@6Oe. Barley-No.
2, Spring, 75@7511c.