The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-09
wisconsin Items.


The following are the Milwaukee grain quo
tations: Wheat--No. l, nominal; No. 2.
s$LO4@LO411(; No. 8, S7@8Sc; No. 4, 72@73c
9Corn-No. 2, 55@5514c Oats-No. 2, 1890
,3711Sc. Rye-No. 1, 6o@6O11c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 75@751Ic. 8 5
The permanent Understanding school
fund of Wisconsin is 81, SO5,272, bearing an
income of $l97,333. Eighty-seNen per cent.
of the children of school age (seven to
efifteen) attended school last year, which is
much larger percentage than that of most of
the Western and Eastern States.
5 Henry Lefevre, alias John Blue, who has
made himself notorious at Sturgeon Bay.
& Door County by his frequent escapes from
the authorities, by whom he was held on the
charge of stealing, is again in the hands of
the officers, and this time he has been placed
behind the iron bars of the new county JAIL
which is just about completed. 9er
! d. W. Eaton, of Milwaukee, a well-known
commission man, was found dead in bed in
his room at the Plankington House few
mornings ago The deceased, in company
with his wife, had been out riding the even
ing previous, returning to the hotel about
eleven O'Clock, seeming in the very best of
health and spirits. Shortly after retiring he
complained of feeling unwell, and was in such
a restless condition that Mrs. Eaton removed
from the bed to a couch in an adjoining
room. She slept soundly until a few minutes
before eight, hearing no noise from her hus-
band during the night. About nine O'Clock
she went to the bed to arouse him, calling
him by name several times. Failing to
awaken him, she took hold of his shoulder
and then discovered that he was dead. The
deceased was native. of Connecticut, and
was in the thirty fourth year of his age.
W. L. Benedict living four miles from
.Marshfeld, Wood County, was seriously in
iured the other day by an ak which came off
the handle Tin the hands of another person
chopping near him) striking him in the side of
the head, completely severing the ear, and
making cash three inches long and one and
one-fourth of an inch deep.
A lew afternoons ago three prisoners
Frederick Monroe, under sentence for bur-
glary, and Charles s. Williams and Andrew
Dolan, awaiting trial for the same offease-
were discovered in an attempt to escape from
the county jail at Milwaukee by digging a
hole through the brick wall of the structure
Tools for the purpose had been improyised
out of the iron bedsteads of their cells.
There is said to be condition of affairs at
the Waukesha County Jail that would seem
to justify an immediate investigation. The
complete sleeping outfit aggregates sixteen
places-beds and cots combined, and there
were about forty prisoners confined:
Governor Rusk has appointed Leopold
" oI1o - r..
Crosse County, vice Esaias Legler, deceased.
The inventory and appraisal of the Wash
burn estate in Wisconsin, recently filed in
the probate office at La Crosse, shows the fol-
lowing lands in Wisconsin. Other than pine
lands, s., S24; personal property, $95, 263.70,
pine lands in Clark and Wood Counties, $751;
1880; pine lands in Taylor County, $40, 200;
pine lands in Polk County, $7,07732; pine
lands in Barron County, 5000. 80; total,
1926, 42804.
The new West Side Turner Hall in Milwau-
kee has recently been completed and dedi-
Gated. The hall is said to be the largest
owned by any Turner Society west of Berlin,
Germany, and cost 100000.
M.F. Carney, the veteran editor of the
New Lisbon Argus, died few days ago. He
was we'll known as the editor of the Argus,
of which he had had control for twenty-five
years. He served several times as County
Commissioner of Juneau County; had been
County Superintendent of Schools, and at the
time of his death was Village Treasurer.
At the seventeenth annual encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic of Wiscon-
sin, held recently at Portage, the following
officers were elected: Department Command
er, Phil Cheek, Jr.; Senior Vice-Commander,
R. j. Flint; Junior Vice-Commander, c. w.
Steele; Chaplain, A. c. Terry; Medical Di-
rector DR.. ]. G. Bolton; Trustees, j. j. Cup.
Ply, E. Ferguson, G. NJ. Woodland.
A few evenings ago man named Otto Lud-
wig arrived at the Exchange Hotel in Mil
waukee, in apparently feeble condition, and,
after tea started out to visit some doctor,
since which time he had not been seen. His
valise and overcoat were ct the hotel Lud-
wig is described as rsoher tall, with sandy
complexion and brown hair and whiskers, and
about thirty-fve years of age.
Charges of malfeasance in office have been
preferred against j. J. McGi1lis, Sheriff of
Marinette County, and Governor Rusk has
appointed ]. B. Fairchild, Of Marinette, to
take evidence in the matter and render a re-
port
Walter P. Flanders, one Of the Oldest resi-
dents of Milwaukee and wealthy citizen, died
recently, aged seventy-seVen years.
A Waukesha family afflicted with smallpox
were also the possessors of a shaggy canine.
The dog was pet, and was in and out Of the
house at all, times of the day. Instead of
being killed or chained up during the exist
enee of the disease in the family, this four
legged carrier of contagion has circulated
throughout nearly every quarter of the vii
lage. AS soon as the facts became known to-
the authorities the dog was ordered shot.
Christ Paulzen, sled-tender, was killed at
Marshield, Wood County, the other day, by
having his head crushed between two logs in
Sherry's logging camp