The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-12-21

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations; Wheat-No. 1, 960961zc; No.
2, 92093c; No. 3, nominal; No. 4, nominal.
Corn-No. 2, 56(05Sc. Oats-No. 2, 34K6
35c. Rye-No.1, 5678@571zc. Barley-No.
2 Spring, 61k@62&c.
Kate Kane, the female lawyer of Milwau-
kee, who became notorious by throwing a
glass of water in a Judges face, ha
dropped the legal profession and gone into
the newspaper correspondence business.
The sixteen-months-old daughter of
Farmer Keynes, of Shawano County, was
carried off by a bear few days ago from
the farm house. Neighbors were securing
the woods in the vicinity for traces of her.
Four boys, sons Of wealthy residents of
the Fourth Ward of Milwaukee, were ar
rested few days ago for setting the recent
incendiary fires. Forming " Buffalo Bill
organizations" they built pirates den"
in which they kept dime novels, pistols
and lassos, and occasionally raidad the
pantries of wealthy people, whose mystic
rious loss Of jellies and pies led to the lads
they started seventeen fires. They are all
uQQer 1IUeen years OIL age.
The clothing house of Emerson & Brecke.
of Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County,
failed recently. Liabilities, about $4,000;
assets, $4,000. General depression of bust
ness and an overplus of stock were the
cause The firm commenced business there
some ten months ago.
1t has turned out that all the boys who
recently confessed to setting numerous
fires in Milwaukee are sons of men of con-
siderable prominence in business and So
cia1 circles. Their names are as follows:
Bonnie West, son of Ex-Governor F. A.
West. well-known officer of the civil war,
at present prominent member of the
Chamber of Commerce, and one of the best
known citizens of Milwaukee; Ernest
Finch, son of an officer of the Chicago, Mil
waukee e. st. Paul Railway Company in
Iowa; Charles Millard son of leading
grocer; and Joseph Motif, Jr., son of the
proprie or of large marble yard.
Superintendent Nagle, of ManitowOc
County, has inaugurated a series of union
schools, similar to those held in other
places in the State during the last two
y
town gather for one or two days, some of
them bringing classes with them, with
which to exemplify work. A regular pro-
gramme is carried out, and essays, topics
and class exercises are presented and dis
cussed with much profit.
Articles of incorporation of the Milwau-
kee District Messenger Company were fled
~ - he Do of
days ago. The capital stock is 100000,
divided into 5000 shares of ten dollars
each. The incorporators are G. w. Peck,
R. w. Mcguire and S. w. Brown.
At the close of the recent convention of
the Good Templars of the Eau Claire Dis.
trict, the following resolution was unan.
imously adopted: :. AS Good Templars, we
will vote for no party that will not legis.
late for total prohibition of the traffic Of
alcoholic liquors, and viii separate from
all former party ties, and stand firmly by
principles of temperance and prohibit
ton"
The body of E. F. Kellogg, of Chicago,
who was drowned at Merrill, Lincoln
County, the other day, has been recovered
and forwarded to Chicago.
Miss Frances E. Willard will deliver an
address at the winter meeting of the Wis
consin Agricultural Society at Madison
next February, on Temperance and
ADJUSTMENTS at State Fairs" and Miss Ella
Wheeler will vead poem.
Incendiarism in Milwaukee has caused
the citizens to rush to the Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department for alarm-box
keys.
Rev. Mr.. Robinson and G. II. Evans, of
Pepin, Pepin County, were drowned near
Lake City while skating few days ago.
Fer some time complaints have been
made of petty thieving from vessels laid
up in Milwaukee for the winter. The other
night, under a stricter watch than usual,
five Polish boys were arrested while in the
act of working a vessel. The boys claimed
to belong to an organized band of young
bandits. The remainder of the gang would
be brought in, warrants being out for their
arrest.
A loss of So, 900 was occasioned at Eau
Claire few days ago by the burning of
mill and an elevator, The insurance GOV
cred the loss.