The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
Wisconsin Items.


The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 1, nominal; No. 2,
$1.1101.115s; No. 3, S909Oc; No. 4, 760
764c. Corn-No. 2, 56A G056Ic. Oats-No.
2, 41G841Hc. Rye-No. 1, 621EC063%c. Bar
ley-No. q Spring, 7OC971c.
John w. Woodruff, Grand Secretary of
the Masonic fraternity in this State, says
that there is not the slightest ground for
the report that he is defaulter. He says
that he has requested the trustees of the
GRAND Lodge to meet and examine his ac-
counts. The request has been complied
with. Mr.. Woodruff says that the Trus-
tees inmediately after examining the ac-
counts and the 1unus ----------=4
statement which will prove that the charges
against him are baseless.
Kate Kane, of Milwaukee, the female
lawyer, who threw water in Judge Max
lory's face in the Criminal Court, was a
few days ago released from the County
Jail, where she had been confined for thirty
days for contempt of court. She shook
hands with the Sheriff's employees, except
Meyers, who was the one who seized her
arm in court at the time she threw the
water. Lady friends took her away in a
hack and presented her with purse of
money.
Miss Margaret Parsons, of Eagle, Wauke-
sha County, formerly of Enfield, Conn.,,
has made quilt with five hundred and
sixty blocks, each block containing thirty
six pieces, which makes an aggregate of
sixteen thousand five hundred pieces.
Josephine Mutter, the wife of George
Mutter, of Milwaukee, was visiting with
friends in the district over which the cy-
clone recently passed, and witnessed at a
distance the terrible tornado. So great
was her fright that her mind became
affected, and she returned to her home i'm
sane. She has been adjudged insane and
sent to the County Insane Asylum: She
leaves husband and four little children,
the oldest but eleven years old.
Mrs. Cynthia Francis, of Madison, cele-
brated her one hundredth birthday a few
days ago. She was born in Hancock, Mass,
and was married in 1899, when sixteen
years old. Mrs. Francis retains her mem
tai faculties to remarkable extent, and
converses freely and intelligently on pub
lie events which occurred ninety years ago.
She is physically rugged still, does general
homework for her daughter, and walks a
half-mile with ease. Up to a few months
ago she read without glasses.
Mrs. Thomas Rose was found dead in
Schutzen Park, at Princeton, Green Lake
County, few days since. An empty
whisky jug by the side of the body evil
denced the fact that she had died from ex-
posure while in drunken stupor. She
was addicted to periodical spreeing.
The iron-workers of Bay View, near Mil
waukee, have, it is said, decided to strike
on June 1. 1t was probable that all the
iron mills in the place would shut down
on that day. This would throw 1900 or
1900 men out of work.
A man named Lundy was caught by a.
shaft in a paper-mill at Eau Claire the
other day and had two ribs, the bone of his
nose and jaw broken, his left ear torn out
by the roots and his clothes stripped off,.
1t was thought he might recover.
A recent fire in Milwaukee DESTROYED a
new ice-house and barn belonging to Hell
ers Brothers. The loss on ice-house was
s., 900, ON stock, $1,000, on barn, 81 300, and
on contents, 500; total, $1,000; covered by
insurance.
The schooner Lille E., of Manistee,
Mich, laden with 10000 feet of lumber,
went ashore at late hour the other night
one mile south of the Life Saving Station,
near Milwaukee. Her crew of seven men,
Captain Charles Brooks, of Chicago, were
rescued by the Life Saving Station. At an
early hour the next morning another large
unknown vessel went ashore five miles
south of the Lille E.
A dog, while scratching the dirt under
sidewalk at Green Bay, Brown County,
the other day, unearthed the remains of
full-grown male infant. Nothing could be
learned of its murderer.
1t has been decided to hold the next State
Fair at Madison the second week in Sep
tember.
A brilliant farewell reception took place
few evenings ago at the home of Deputy
United States Marshal Burke, in Milwau-
kee, in honor of Superintendent McGarigle,
Of the Postal Service. McGarigle, who is
the father of the late Chief-of-Police at Chi
cago, is one of the most popular citizens of
Milwaukee, and has gone on three
months trip to Europe, during which he
will visit his birthplace in Ireland.
William Breummer, of West Kewaunee,
Kewaunee County, committed suicide by
hanging himself few days ago, He leaves
q family,