The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-21
wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, nominal; No. 2,
961@96%c; No. 8, nominal; No. A, NOM
inal. Corn-No. 2, 50G050Ac. Oats-No.
2, 2S02SAc. Rye-No. /, 571z(05Sc. Bar
ley-No. 2 Spring, 63t064c.
Articles of association of the Canada,
La Crosse Sc Southwestern Railway, to run
from La Crosse to the Sault Ste Marie,
have been filed at Madison. The capital
stock is $l2,5O0,O0O.
Rev. Henry Koehler, Lutheran clergy
man from Chicago, was sentenced in the
Municipal Court at Milwaukee few days
ago to thirty days in the House of Correc-
ton for being drunk and disorderly.
At meeting at Milwaukee recently the
State Medical Society, believing that CON
sumption was an infectious disease, re.
solved that they would do their utmost tn
keep the phthisical members of families
isolated as much as possible from healthy
persons.
The efforts of the committee appointed
by the Milwaukee Cha nber Of Commerce
to obtain aid for the sufferers at Rochester,
Mimi, resulted in raising over two thou
sand dollars, which was forwarded.
y. s. Greene & Sons large imgE ,rs2g
were burned to the ground the other day.
Loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000.
A young man named Albert Klotz, Of
Whitefish Bay, Door County, was acct
dentallv wounded few days ago by
companion who was out hunting with him.
The charge of duck-shot entered Klo1z's
back just above the hip and made terri.
BILE wound. He was alive, but the physi.
clans said that he could not possibly re-.
cover.
In gale at Milwaukee the other even.
ing six hundred feet of the main track Of
the Northwestern Road was washed away
near the breakwater. sI#
The name of the post-off1ce at Hurricane
Grove, Grant County, has been changed to
Hurricane. A new Office has been estab.
lished at Arthur, Grant County.
Governor Rusk's little two.year.old
Granddaughter fell from a swing and
broke her leg two months ago. The bones
knit together badly, and the other day it
was necessary to break them apart and re-
set them. 33 ta e
At ST. Johns Catholic Church, Mil
waukee, the other morning mass was said
for the repose of the souls of three hum
dred persons lost on the steamer Lady
Elgin, which sunk in Lake Michigan
September s, 1860. 81 tlht
Horse-thieves and burglars operated sue
cessfully in the vicinity of Monroe, Green
County, the other night Two horses were
missing. The safes in Jacob Helftly's
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grocery were both rifed Of their cash con-
tents, $167 having been taken from the
former and $3.50 from the latter. OF the
last named sum S75 belonged to the Good
Templars. A reward of $500 was offered
for the detection of the criminals. II
Fl. L. Benjamin, carriage dealer of Mill
waukee, made an assignment recently, his
assets and liabilities being each about six
ty thousand dolars. " aH
Leading lawyers of Milwaukee have
been retained by Carl Honkwitz to defend
him in a suit in ejectment begun in the
United States Court at Madison for the
possession of lands in Wood County by
descendants and grantees of one Edwin
Poe, who obtained the Government title in
1856. Similar actions have been, COM
menced against other parties. The. total
number of acres involved is 700, excellent
timber and farming lands, located near
Marshfield, and valued at $4,000. Honk-
WITT claims titles by warranty-deed from
one William H. Upham, of Marshfeld,
and has thrown the defense upon his
grantor. ~vnFu0
Nicholas Rodeman, arrested at Milwau-
kee for the murder of Peter Kohlbeck, has
made confession that he committed the
| deed, and that it was done in self-defense.
Hop picking is in progress in various
portions of the State. Pickers are receiv-
ing from sixty-eights cents to one dollar
per bushel.
At point just outside Milwaukee early
few mornings ago an attempt was made
to wreck an express train by piling ties on
the track, but the engineer discovered the
obstruction in time to stop.
An inventory in the matter of the estate
of the late Governor William e. Smith was
fled in the Probate Court at Madison the
other afternoon. The property involved
was appraised at SAG, $50.
Mrs. E. H. Carney's building, in Wauke-
.sha, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing: Loss, $4,000. Canse, probably incen-
diary.
Robert Grange, the son of prominent
business man of Milwaukee, committed
suicide few days ago.
A prominent citizen Of Edison, Chippewa
County, named Myron Broomer, a few
days ago fell from scaffold which had
been erected for watching a deer-path,
breaking his neck, causing his death in
stantly.
AS man named Robert Marquardt was
| sitting fishing on the water-works pier at
| Milwaukee early a few mornings ago an
unknown man stumbled against him, pre-.
eipitating both to the water. The unknown
party was drowned, but Marquardt was
rescued by passers-by after being in the
water over an hour.