The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-23
Wisconsin Items,

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations; Wheat-No. /, 94AC695c; No.
2, 91092c; No. 3, nominal; No. 4, nominal.
Corn-No. 2, 51052c. Oats-No. 3, 2SH0
29c. Rye-No. L, 561l057c. Barley-No.
2 Spring, CO., C061c.
Richard Arthur, of Fort Atkinson, JEFF
ferson County, was recently held in Sc, 900
to answer the charge of cleaning Cancelled
postage-stamps with chemicals and selling
them.
Mrs. Ellen Long and L. S. Whittemore,
father of the boy whose body was found in
the river at Princeton, Green Lake County,
with its throat cut, were arrested a few
days ago and charged with the murder.
Bloody clothes and knives were found in
Mrs. Longs house, and from the well was
fished up club clothed with gore. The
body of the murdered boy was first found
by the father, out of which circumstance
came the present arrest.
Matthias Koch, living on farm eight
miles from Manitowoc, Manitowoc County,
was arrested the other day for Illicit dis
tilling, and confessed that for several
yeas he had manufactured whisky from
wild oats.
August Grothe, Milwaukee street-car
driver, was shot by highwaymen, who
made an unsuccessful attempt to steal the
cash-box at the Russell avenue turn-table
the other night. The plucky driver
whipped up his mules and drove a mile to
the barn, where he fell over the dash
board. His wounds were thought to be
fatal.
Mr.. Marvin H. Bovee, of this State, who
has considerable notoriety through his per
sistent efforts in many parts of the coun-
try toward the adjustment Of capital pun
ishment, intends to visit the Legislatures
of all Southern States during the conf &
winter, and discuss this question before
those bodies.
Captain Campbell, of Depere, Brown
County, owner of the schooner Morning
Star, fell into the bold of the schooner at
Menominee a few days ago and broke his
neck. He was seventy years of age.
1t is reported that the Chicago e. North
western Railway Company will extend
their line from NeillsviIle, Clark County,
to Wausau, Marathon County, next sum-
mer. The proper authorities notified the
city that if Wausau would grant the road
the right-of-way and depot grounds they
would come. A mass-meeting was held
and the proposition practically accepted.
The proposed extension is about venty-
five miles, and will pass through fine
country.
The Oneida Drown Cogp'y) Indians,
after protracted conference with Indian
Commissioner Parr and Agent Andrews,
have agreed upon allotment of the land
in severalty, to own and to hold them in
their individual right. This will give each
individual of the tribe (man, woman and
child, something little less than sixty
acres of land.
An elderly couple named Lindtke, living
in the northwest part of Milwaukee, were
discovered by neighbors the other morn
ing in partially asphyxiated condition
from coal-gas which had escaped from a
stove in the room. Mrs. Lindtke was re-
vived by prompt efforts on the part of the
physician summoned, but the old gentle
man was in dangerous condition.
Three men were recently jailed at Mil
waukee for vagrancy, one of them. being
grandson Of Solomon Juneau, the pioneer
settler. They had formerly been in rail-
road employ, and thought to get free
passage to the Pacific by ordering Super
intendent's stamp to use on their reques
for passes.
The Circuit Court of Buffalo County has
sentenced Albert Reick, who murdered Ed
Dunn at Beef Slough last July, to serve
eighteen months in State Prison, the first
day to be in solitary confinement.
A fire at Trempealeau the other day de-
stroyed the Utter House and several build
ings and store-houses on the levee. The
wind was blowing a hurricane at the time.
Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
Jacob L. Geller, a dry-goods dealer in
Milwaukee. took his own life a few days
ago because of serious stomach com
plant.
Major A. A. Meredith, of Madison,
veteran Of the Mexican war, died few
days ago.
The French Lumber Company's mill at
Eau Claire, with land adjoining, has been
purchased by the State Lumber Company
for $50, 900.
The funeral of Cyrus Sargent, the mill
ionaire farmer, took place few days ago
at Bloomington, Grant County, thirteen
days after his death. A niece with
broken limb was brought from Massachu-
sets in her bed. Sums of money ranging
from $50 to 81 900 were constantly being
discovered about his house and in the
fields, and an old Bible proved to bea mine
Of wealth.